# kaal:claim:6421319-016

**Claim.** Human managers satisfice because further search is cognitively costly, whereas AI agents continue searching until the global optimum is reached because additional computation is essentially free, which removes bounded rationality from the economic substrate.

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

**Holds when.**

- applies to autonomous agents with effectively unbounded computational capacity

**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 Collapse of Scarcity Economics* (2026), IV.A. Simon's Satisficing and the End of Cognitive Scarcity, page 17

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

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**Topics.** risk-and-incentives, economics

**Keywords.** bounded-rationality, satisficing, simon, optimization, cognitive-scarcity

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886442-015

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