kaal:claim:7314479-044

Reputation is meaningful only where identity is expensive to replace, which does not require legal identity but only that accumulated standing be more valuable than the cost of starting again, a condition a system can create rather than inherit.

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Reputation is meaningful only where identity is expensive to replace. This does not require legal identity, and the confusion of the two has retarded the field considerably. It requires only that the accumulated standing be more valuable than the cost of starting again, which is a condition a system can create rather than inherit.
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Wulf A. Kaal, Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes (2026), IX. Why Reputation Carries the Load, and Why It Must Be Engineered, p. 22
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Wulf A. Kaal, Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7314479

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