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Design organizational processes by asking 'What will a
Design organizational processes by asking 'What will a rational person optimize for under these incentives?' rather than 'What do I hope people will do?'
Why This Is a Principle
Derives from Agents are systems defined by perceiving their environment (agents perceive and act to achieve goals), The performance of an agent is bounded by the accuracy of (agent performance bounded by world model accuracy), and Behavior is a function of both the person and their (behavior as function of environment). The principle prescribes incentive-first design thinking. Directly applicable to all process design.