The problem from the interaction with sub-agents is real even if already known...
Do you happen to know of any good places to read about this issue? I have yet to look into what others have thought of it.
I've seen not-especially-theoretical discussion about this problem for human organizations, though mostly from the point of view of lower status people complaining that they're being given impossible, incomprehensible, and/or destructive commands.
This points at another serious problem-- you need communication (even if mostly not forceful communication) to flow up the hierarchy as well as down the hierarchy.
You're pointing at a failure mode (I have a JOB! I wanna do my JOB!) which is quite real, but there are equal and opposite failure modes. For example, o...
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