# kaal:claim:5886442-015

**Claim.** Where human managers satisfice because further search is cognitively costly, AI2AI agents continue searching until the global optimum is reached, because additional computation is essentially free.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- assumes compute is cheap relative to the value of further search

**Source quote.**

> Where human managers satisfice because further search is cognitively costly, AI2AI agents continue searching until the global optimum is reached—because additional computation is essentially free.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory* (2025), Behavioral and Institutional Economics and Bounded Rationality, page 14

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

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**Topics.** risk-and-incentives

**Keywords.** bounded-rationality, satisficing, optimization, simon, search-costs

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6421319-016

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