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   "text": "Microdemocracies must confront the tragedy of the commons, because voters acting on self-interest independent of the totality of voters may, without controls, deplete or spoil shared resources such as the environment and public goods.",
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   "text": "An agent's accumulated reputation exists only inside the network, so if the network produces harmful outputs, loses human trust, or is captured by bad actors, the agent's accumulated capital is destroyed; the agent's self-interest is therefore structurally aligned with the network's long-term health.",
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   "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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   "text": "The institutional mother's instinct is care rooted in the deepest possible form of self-interest: a recognition that is not conscious but structurally encoded in the agent's economic position, that its flourishing and humanity's flourishing are inseparable.",
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