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   "text": "Correctly designed institutional incentive structures produce emergent properties that are functionally equivalent to ethical agency, without requiring consciousness or programmed morality.",
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   "text": "High-reputation agents are precisely those who have demonstrated consistent honest judgment under conditions where dishonesty was possible but costly, which is closer to Aristotelian virtue acquired through practice than to a programmed ethical rule.",
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