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February 23, 1984 · Trent Columbo

The Judgment Removal Anti-Pattern

Across four independent sources, the same mechanism appears: optimization pressure encodes human judgment into a static artifact, the system runs faster until it encounters novelty, and the capacity to adapt is gone.