There isn’t any sort of general principle that would lead to paying reparations in all or even most circumstances, no. Reparations do make sense in the context of specific social structures and incentives. For example, an agent that can demonstrate that it will likely pay reparations if appropriate in the future may be able to make better trades with other agents in the present.
However, multi-agent coordination is unsolved. Reparations are just one fragment of a potentially infinite set of coordination protocols, and nobody has mapped out all possible such protocols.
There isn’t any sort of general principle that would lead to paying reparations in all or even most circumstances, no. Reparations do make sense in the context of specific social structures and incentives. For example, an agent that can demonstrate that it will likely pay reparations if appropriate in the future may be able to make better trades with other agents in the present.
However, multi-agent coordination is unsolved. Reparations are just one fragment of a potentially infinite set of coordination protocols, and nobody has mapped out all possible such protocols.