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   "text": "Without the promise of improving reputation, a zero-sum mentality dominates a contractual arrangement and each party's best strategy becomes exerting the absolute minimum effort while still technically fulfilling the contract, which destroys the business atmosphere.",
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   "text": "A DAO that relies on a centralized oracle will eventually be exploited, because the people controlling the oracle will become aware of their power over automated contract triggers and, given the competitive nature of capitalism, are right to take advantage of it.",
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   "text": "The solution to the game theory problem of getting a player to freely give up intellectual property at one stage of a repeated game is to guarantee a reward at a future stage by fostering a culture that acknowledges past contributions, so players seek future fame by distributing their work in the present.",
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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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   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Possibility Loops An Operational Architecture for Computative Economics in Agent Coordination Systems (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6655138",
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