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fallinditch • today at 2:59 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Interesting insights about similar issues in this video by Openrig [1]

Multi-agent coordination is an engineering problem characterized by the inevitable emergence of human-like social pathologies - such as bureaucratic inertia.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-PQuB2wy0


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perching_aix • today at 3:07 PM

> human-like social pathologies - such as bureaucratic inertia

Isn't bureaucracy just the sociological manifestation of synchronization overhead? Sounds shortsighted to file it away as just some weird social pathology that emerges out of nowhere specifically affecting humans.

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