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   "text": "Reviewers in a news review DAO will give honest reviews despite being paid fees, because the reputational system rewards members mostly on the basis of future fees rather than present ones.",
   "abstract": "Reviewers will be incentivized to give honest reviews despite fees, because the reputational system rewards members mostly based on future fees.",
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   "text": "Reputation that grows through validated contribution and decays through poor judgment operates as a selection mechanism on agent behavior over time: agents that consistently produce high-quality work and honestly evaluate others accumulate reputation, and agents that do not lose it.",
   "abstract": "Agents that consistently produce high-quality work and honestly evaluate others' contributions accumulate reputation. Agents that do not, lose it.",
   "citation": "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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