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   "text": "The computative agent is not a satisficer, because computational resources are capital rather than a fixed cognitive endowment, so added capacity scales the size and quality of the generable possibility space rather than easing a cognitive bound.",
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   "text": "In Neoclassical analysis the action space is a parameter of the model and the agent is a chooser within it, whereas in Computative Economics the action space is an output of the agent and the agent is a generator over it; every operational difference between the two architectures follows from this parameter versus output distinction.",
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   "text": "An architecture with a reward channel but no action surface implements generation as an off-protocol act whose outputs cannot enter the protocol's action set, so the protocol's possibility space remains exogenous no matter how generatively active the agent population is.",
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   "text": "Without a representation of the possibility space distinct from the current mempool of pending instances, no quality metric can be computed, and without quality metrics generation can be rewarded only for quantity and not for quality.",
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