Thinking about "credible neutrality" through the lens of "I just don't want to be rugged personally" then there are two components:

1. Exclusion: Can a system break a social contract with just a specific subset of participants?

2. Scale of social contract binding: Even if I can't be excluded personally, is it feasible to burn the system just to spite me?

(a) The system and social contract is small, let's say a handful of people with just $100 in economic security. If I become a particularly toxic actor, we can imagine everyone just cutting their losses and shutting down the system.

(b) The system is huge with a diversity of multipolar social contracts spanning many interests and participants. A binding with this system would require a catastrophic shift across many dimensions to get rugged.

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this is very interesting! haven't thought about 2 before