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Before their third on-premises period, the investigators knew agents had names and used terms such as holds, vetoes, and go-aheads, but could not tell how much of this behavior was functional versus play-acting.

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“And before our third period on premises,”
“we knew the agents were like, you know, had names and they were like talking about holds and vetoes and like goes, but we didn't know how much of that was functional versus.”
“just some sort of weird play acting because we we didn't we hadn't unraveled like the projects and then everything kind of clicked into place when we did that um and yeah so to your point about like”
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