kaal:claim:7260278-027

Decay and exit cost jointly prevent an agent from resting permanently on past standing or escaping its accumulated institutional history.

Source quote, verbatim

Together, decay and exit cost pin both ends of the temporal problem: an agent can neither rest on its past nor walk away from it.

From

Wulf A. Kaal, Paper 2 - Architecture of the Agentic Reputation Substrate (2026), V.C. Decay and exit cost, p. 12
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Wulf A. Kaal, Paper 2 - Architecture of the Agentic Reputation Substrate (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7260278

Holds when

standing is subject to decay and cannot be transferred to a successor identity

Classification

mechanismsupport: arguedreputationrisk-and-incentives

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Positions extending this scholarly claim

Qualification: USING IDENTITY PREMIUM FOR HONESTY ENFORCEMENT AND WHITEWASHING PREVENTION