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   "text": "The r/place experiment showed that anonymous groups can self correct: each time a hate symbol such as a swastika appeared on the shared canvas, it was replaced with something more positive.",
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   "text": "The Article disclaims three specific inferences its own experiment cannot support: that deployed agents value their records, that real representatives are bribable, and that direct standing is least-cost in any actual registry.",
   "abstract": "Should intelligent agents have legal rights? This Article sets that question aside and asks a smaller one that matters more in practice. An intelligent agent that earns a reputation record has something to lose.",
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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": "Reputation in this experiment is settled once against a key before training, so the pool is supervised reweighting from a disjoint key, and the paper does not compare it with a key-free latent-variable aggregator.",
   "abstract": "Intelligence models increasingly learn from data that earlier Intelligence models produced, and when that loop repeats the rare cases disappear first. This paper preregisters a test of whether a reputation-weighted validator pool, filtering the training data of a recursive replacement loop, keeps those rare cases alive. The outcomes remain sealed until a replication of the original model-collapse result succeeds.",
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