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    It is not the case that Without complexity costs penalizing larger automata, players have incentive to expand state-space and defect near terminal rounds, unraveling the cooperative equilibrium via backward induction.

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    • 1.Players may use simple automata by preference (satisficing), not because complexity is penalized, breaking the mechanism's causal chain.
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    • 2.Reputation effects and future-game signaling can sustain cooperation even without explicit complexity costs, via pure payoff incentives.
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    • 3.Empirical evidence shows humans maintain cooperation despite ability to defect, suggesting motivations beyond material optimization undermine the model.
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    • 1.Backward induction is logically valid: if defection is optimal in round N, it remains optimal in N-1 absent costs, unraveling all cooperation.
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    • 2.Complexity costs create binding constraints on strategy expressiveness, making larger automata economically irrational without offsetting benefits.
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    • 3.Without artificial constraints, rational players exploit information advantages maximally, and terminal rounds offer unique defection opportunities.
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