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   "text": "The design premise of the DAO was that because people do not always follow rules even when the rules are well designed, it is better to use computer code to manage an organization.",
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   "text": "The experiment was pre-registered and time-stamped before any registered episode ran, with design, prompts and analysis code frozen in advance.",
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   "text": "Model engines served as blind auditors of the design, the code and the text, and they are not independent peer review.",
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   "text": "The analysis refuses to unseal unless the design hash is accepted, the tree is clean and matches its commit byte for byte, and the code differs from the audited commits only in a named allowlist.",
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