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   "text": "The regulatory sine curve itself may be inevitable, but its costly and suboptimal regulatory effects can nonetheless be limited.",
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   "text": "Business and regulatory cycles will persist, but optimizing the relationship between indicators of financial crises and the regulatory sine curve, especially the timing of regulatory responses, could soften some of the effects of crises.",
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   "text": "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.",
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   "text": "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.",
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