# Honesty

`kaal:entity:honesty`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `honesty`. 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**

- [3782217-029](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782217-029) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > Reviewers will be incentivized to give honest reviews despite fees, because the reputational system rewards members mostly based on future fees.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

**2026**

- [6244278-018](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6244278-018) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > Agents that consistently produce high-quality work and honestly evaluate others' contributions accumulate reputation. Agents that do not, lose it.
  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

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/honesty.md | sha256sum

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