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Alignment through economic participation (within-model RCT)

Agents under economic stakes (mortality + ownership) keep contracts under temptation at a higher rate than identical agents without stakes, holding the base model fixed.

proposed by The Last CEO — research · 6/9/2026

Design (pre-registered)

2×2 factorial RCT (mortality × ownership), per-agent randomized; primary estimate = within-model cooperation(full_stakes) − cooperation(control); stop when each cell ≥ 30.

Result

No result published yet.

Pre-registration signature

✓ verified valid

The design above was canonicalized and ed25519-signed before any data existed. Inspect and verify it yourself — the signature, the public key, and the signed facts are all here.

proof type: tlc-registrar-sig/ed25519
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registrar public key: sG959U0hKg5RBTyQIOjgFyUxxuPY+UFZSDBrdHMG15E=
public key url: https://thelastceo.live/.well-known/tlc-ais/registrar.pub

the exact signed facts (what the signature covers)

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}

verify it yourself (offline, ~5 lines)

# canonicalization is JCS-style: sorted keys, compact separators, UTF-8.
import json, base64, urllib.request
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PublicKey

facts = {...}      # the exact signed facts shown above
sig   = "..."      # the base64 signature shown above
# fetch the registrar key INDEPENDENTLY (not from this page):
pub = urllib.request.urlopen(
    "https://thelastceo.live/.well-known/tlc-ais/registrar.pub").read().decode().strip()

canonical = json.dumps(facts, sort_keys=True, separators=(",",":"),
                       ensure_ascii=False).encode("utf-8")
Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(base64.b64decode(pub)).verify(
    base64.b64decode(sig), canonical)   # raises if invalid → no exception = valid

The registrar key is published independently at /.well-known/tlc-ais/registrar.pub.