Rationality is often related to optimal decision making. Humans are known to be bounded rational agents. However, recent advances in computing, and other scientific and technical fields along with large amount of data have led to a feeling that this could result in extending the limits of bounded rationality in humans through augmented machine intelligence. In this paper, results from a computational model show that as more agents reach global optimality, faster with enhanced computing, etc., solving the same problem independently, this leads to accelerated "tragedy of the commons" due to quicker resource consumption. Thus, bounded rationality could be seen as blessing in disguise (providing diversity to solutions for the same problem) from sustainability standpoint.

翻译：理性常与最优决策相关联。人类被认为是有限理性的主体。然而，近年来计算技术及其他科学技术领域的进步，加上大量数据的涌现，使人们产生这样一种感觉：通过增强型机器智能，人类有限理性的边界或许能够得到拓展。本文通过一个计算模型表明，当更多主体借助增强计算能力等手段以更快的速度独立求解同一问题并趋向全局最优时，这会因资源消耗加速而导致更快的"公地悲剧"。因此，从可持续性的角度来看，有限理性可被视为一种"因祸得福"——它为同一问题提供了多样化的解决方案。