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   "text": "Because the Folk Theorems make governance protocols permanently provisional, long-term stability requires that the group be organized around a transcendental value, a goal meaningful and commonly held that cannot be captured by any logical rule set.",
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   "text": "The lesson the authors draw from Imperial China and Pharaonic Egypt is that decentralization of power and individual autonomy give long-term stability when the society also has unifying ideals it can believe in.",
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   "text": "When a group has more unity in its values it can tolerate less rigidity in its legal protocols, so greater value centralization permits greater protocol decentralization, which in turn produces greater long-term stability.",
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   "text": "Keeping dynamic rules coherent over the long run requires a decentralized organization to commit to transcendental values as primary, where transcendental means values that cannot be specified precisely, logically, and completely with formal rules.",
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   "text": "DAOs derive their unity from ideals and aspirations that lie beyond their protocols, making strong unifying transcendental values the most important requirement for long-term coherence and stability.",
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   "text": "Reputation is not merely an option for a DAO that holds power or value; it is absolutely essential, and for DAOs built to make money ideology alone is not enough to maintain long-term stability.",
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