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   "text": "Adding reputation to the contracting game converts it from a single-stage zero-sum game into a repeated positive-sum game in which the rest of the community becomes relevant, because reputation is a future-oriented commodity that pays off with the promise of future contracts.",
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   "text": "The efficiency gain from cooperation in repeated games can only be achieved if a policeable reputation system exists: players must have histories and those histories must be available to other players, which makes transparency and communication essential to effective policing.",
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   "text": "Reputation converts a transaction from a single-stage zero-sum game into a repeated positive-sum game by holding out the promise of future business opportunities, so the value created is the improved reputation of both parties.",
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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": "Review changes the game theoretical perspective from a single stage game to a repeated game, which produces more efficient cooperation instead of internal competition and is what makes the open source environment sustainable in the long run.",
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   "text": "Under persistent reputation and multiplicative updates in the repeated game, honest evaluation is stronger than a one-shot focal point: it is the strategy that minimizes long-run regret for each validator and is the Nash equilibrium of the repeated expert aggregation game.",
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