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    It is not the case that Reputation-based traits can arise in repeated games when each generation plays the entire game

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    • 1.Finite automata constraints artificially bound cognitive complexity, making reputation effects an artifact of the model's architecture rather than emergent rationality.
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    • 2.When the number of automaton states is exogenously fixed, reputation-building reflects imposed structural limits, not genuine strategic reasoning about future interactions.
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    • 1.Binmore and Samuelson argue that evolutionary stability in repeated games requires generational turnover, not full-game play within a single generation.
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    • 2.If each generation plays the entire repeated game, selection pressures cannot distinguish between strategies that differ only in late-game behavior, undermining reputation's adaptive grounding.
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    • 1.In Neyman's model, players can only play mixtures of pure strategies programmable on finite automata
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    • 2.The number of available states is fixed exogenously by the modeler
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    • 3.Each generation plays the entire repeated game, allowing reputation effects to accumulate across rounds
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