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Moloch is the personification of a structural failure mode in multi-agent systems: the systematic production of outcomes that no individual agent wants, through the interaction of locally rational choices. The name comes from Allen Ginsberg's 1955 poem, in which Moloch is the devouring god of industrial civilization — Moloch

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