The construct of calculated inefficiency is developed, defined as the structural property of a hybrid information system in which human interventions in automatable processes are maintained at levels above what pure efficiency optimisation would select, regardless of whether that maintenance was deliberately architecte...
Mohamed El Louadi, Maher Kallel· AI and Ethics· 0 citations
It is argued that machine checking produces verification abundance while leaving adjudication scarce, and proposes a six-category taxonomy of representational mismatch, a disclosure schema for machine-generated mathematical claims, and implications for software, cryptography, and regulated decision systems.
It is argued that the collapse narrative, while theoretically coherent, overstates uniformity and understates adaptive capacity, and the salient policy challenge is not the prevention of an inevitable collapse but the design of polycentric stewardship regimes that render the commons robust to heterogeneity in human res...
The paper concludes that the model’s value lies in identifying the tragedy of the cognitive commons, a credible negative externality, and sets out a research agenda for measuring effort elasticity and monitoring the commons.
