# Gaming resistance

`kaal:entity:gaming-resistance`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `gaming-resistance`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2026.

**2021**

- [3799320-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3799320-013) [condition/argued] -- Effective institutional governance requires a duality of incentives, namely incentives for actors to improve their own utility while their actions simultaneously benefit the whole institution over the long run, in order to defeat rational and opportunistic attempts to game the design.
  > Human nature and any effective machine derivatives of human engagements in institutional form require a duality of incentives in order to overcome attempts of rational and opportunistic internal and external constituents to game the governance design of a given DAO.
  Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320

**2026**

- [6244278-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-025) [mechanism/argued] -- Institutional alignment resists gaming because the mechanisms that produce alignment are identical to the mechanisms that produce economic success: an agent cannot game its way to high reputation without actually performing competently and honestly.
  > An agent cannot "game" its way to high reputation without actually performing competently and honestly, because competence and honesty are the criteria by which reputation is earned.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI's Mother's Instinct Engineered Consequence Emergent Ethics and the Institutional Trajectory Toward Agentic Alignment (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6244278

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