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   "text": "Any architecture instantiating Computative Economics must give the generative function two operational expressions: an action surface through which the agent posts generative output to the protocol's public state, and a reward channel that accrues to the agent conditional on the validated quality of that output.",
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   "text": "An architecture with an action surface but no reward channel implements generation as an unrewarded act, so rational agents will not allocate compute to generation beyond the level their own selection-side activity requires.",
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