[doctorpangloss]

While revenue optimal, growth in retail is eventually driven by psychology, not pricing, since if there’s anything our real economy is good at producing, it’s morons.

[whymauri]

That's the Bulow-Klemperer theorem. You would rather have more growth (bidders) at the expense of an optimal bidding mechanism.

[antpls]

If actors are humans, then sure. But if actors are rational computers, and it's used billions time a day, you might prefer optimality.

Not saying this would be useful for communication between computers, but coming from CS degree, I have the intuition it could have some use cases.