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   "text": "Cross-surface reflection proposals must be advisory rather than binding, because the target agent's objective component is private and a reallocation that would raise reputation accrual may still be misaligned with that objective; coercive reallocation would violate the autonomy of the objective, which the architecture preserves.",
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   "text": "The cross-surface reflection surface must not self-refer: its proposals range over the prior five surfaces and not over itself, because allowing it to propose reallocations of compute toward itself would create recursive instability.",
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   "text": "Validators on the cross-surface reflection surface must hold non-trivial reputation in at least three of the prior five surfaces, so that they have first-hand cross-surface experience and cannot be captured by any single-surface specialization.",
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