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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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   "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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