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   "text": "AI powered DAOs that autonomously generate revenue are especially hard to regulate or dismantle, because the same blockchain security features that protect the organization also make it difficult to intervene once it is operational.",
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   "text": "Representation is built into the framework: one Legal Identity can authorize another as its agent to create or change legal statuses and acts on its behalf by using that identifier, which is how delegated and automated action is attributed to a principal.",
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   "text": "The Walrasian auctioneer is replaced by the agents themselves: price discovery ceases to be a slow tatonnement process requiring a central coordinator and becomes a continuous, decentralized, latency free computation executed by autonomous agents.",
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   "text": "Agentic decoupling is the structural severance of value creation from human labor and consumption at the production-function level; the claim is not that human consumption disappears but that it ceases to be the proximate driver of the dominant mode of production in affected domains.",
   "abstract": "The claim is not that human consumption disappears. It is that human consumption ceases to be the proximate driver of the dominant mode of production in the affected domain.",
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