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    It is not the case that Bounded cognitive agents may fail to identify strategies that are optimal in the long run because their limited information processing prevents them from perceiving the longer time horizon.

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    • 1.Hayek's epistemic argument establishes that decentralized, locally-bounded decision-making aggregates information that no single fully-informed reasoner could process.
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    • 2.The claim presupposes a view-from-nowhere standard of optimality that is itself computationally inaccessible, rendering 'optimal long-run strategy' an incoherent benchmark against which to measure bounded agents.
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    • 3.Herbert Simon's satisficing framework redefines rationality relative to the agent's actual environment, making 'failure' relative to an unbounded ideal a category error rather than a genuine cognitive deficit.
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    • 1.Gerd Gigerenzen's research demonstrates that heuristics operating under cognitive constraints systematically outperform optimization algorithms in complex, uncertain environments.
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    • 2.If bounded processing reliably produces better long-run outcomes than unbounded deliberation, cognitive limitation cannot be characterized as a failure to identify optimal strategies.
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    • 1.Real cognitive agents have limited memory and reasoning capacities.
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    • 2.In iterated social interaction, payoffs are generated along the game and may not be clear beforehand.
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    • 3.The best strategy in terms of short-term payoffs need not be optimal in the long run.
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