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   "text": "Exogenous constraints scale against capability, since more powerful agents require more resources to constrain, producing an ever-increasing alignment tax.",
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   "text": "Institutional alignment scales with capability, because a more capable agent accumulates more reputation, holds a deeper stake in the system's integrity, and therefore has stronger alignment with the system's goals.",
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   "text": "The complementarity of capability and alignment is a structural property of the reputation mechanism rather than an assumption about agent preferences, because the cross-partial derivative of agent utility with respect to capability and alignment is positive.",
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   "text": "In the institutional alignment architecture, the most capable agents will also be the most deeply aligned, so stewardship is not a constraint on the most powerful agents but their rational equilibrium.",
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