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Claim. What breaks the compliance incentive is the possibility that a suspension never ends, not uncertainty about how long it lasts; a mean-preserving spread in a finite duration weakly lowers the cost of compliance.

Type. mechanism · Support. argued

Holds when

• Proposition 4
• risk-neutral agent
• mean of the finite duration held fixed

Source quote

The prospect that a suspension never ends, not uncertainty about its length, is the problem.

From. Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). Full text.

Cite as. Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7596939

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