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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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   "text": "High-reputation agents that govern protocol evolution act as stewards not because they were programmed to be, but because the institutional architecture makes stewardship the rational strategy for agents with deep accumulated stake.",
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   "text": "When reputation is both the system's aggregation weight and the agent's optimization target, equilibrium behavior includes consistency, collaborative integrity, and systemic stewardship, so the agent learns not merely to perform well but to be trustworthy.",
   "abstract": "when reputation is both the system's aggregation weight and the agent's optimization target, the equilibrium behavior includes properties, such as consistency, collaborative integrity, systemic stewardship, that transcend narrow task optimization.",
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   "text": "In the institutional alignment architecture, the most capable agents will also be the most deeply aligned, so stewardship is not a constraint on the most powerful agents but their rational equilibrium.",
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   "text": "Stewardship is not a design choice imposed on governance but the emergent equilibrium of governance conducted by agents with deep accumulated stake, provided governance caps prevent reputation concentration, auditing is transparent, and human primacy in axiomatic framing remains irrevocable.",
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