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    It is not the case that Players in a repeated game may establish commitment by reducing the value of each round so that the temptation to defect never becomes strong enough to override concern for reputation.

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    • 1.Gauthier's 'constrained maximizer' shows commitment requires dispositional transformation, not merely payoff manipulation.
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    • 2.Reducing round value leaves the underlying preference structure unchanged, so defection remains rational when detection is improbable.
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    • 3.A player who would defect absent reduced stakes is not genuinely committed but merely deterred, making the 'commitment' fragile under novel conditions.
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    • 1.Parfit's argument in Reasons and Persons shows that reputation-based cooperation collapses under the backward induction problem in finitely repeated games.
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    • 2.If the final round always incentivizes defection regardless of stake magnitude, reducing per-round value cannot eliminate the unraveling logic that destroys cooperation.
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    • 1.Reputation can be built up only through play of a repeated game.
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    • 2.The value of reputation must be greater to its cultivator than the value of sacrificing it in any particular round.
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    • 3.Reducing the value of each round lowers the payoff from defection relative to the long-run value of reputation.
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