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   "text": "The Human-Derived Coordination Architecture implements only the consumption side of the computative labor market: job specifications, expertise taxonomies, and contract templates are exogenous parameters set by clients or governance, so the generation side is absent from the protocol.",
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   "text": "Because the agent action space in HDCA is closed and workers only select among existing postings, the architecture collapses to the Neoclassical labor market with reputation weighting, the very framework whose expiration the author's companion paper demonstrates.",
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   "text": "HDCA is a successful translation of repeated-game cooperative equilibria into smart-contract form, so its defect lies not in the execution layer but in the absence of a generation layer.",
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   "text": "HDCA supplies neither an action surface nor a reward channel for generation, and this is the architectural reason HDCA cannot host Computative Economics rather than a small implementation gap.",
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   "text": "The HDCA settlement loop is closed in the topological sense: every job exits as resolved-validated or resolved-rejected and the system returns to a structurally identical state with only reputation scalars updated, so the set of possible actions never changes.",
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   "text": "The transition from HDCA to an operational implementation of Computative Economics is architectural rather than parametric: it cannot be achieved by adjusting reputation curves or fee schedules, and requires generative surfaces with their own validation, reward, and reflection mechanisms plus a distinct surface for compute allocation across surfaces.",
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