  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.
