Companion to the Seat series. The series argued that no contentful verdict comes from nowhere, that the only honest residue of neutrality is declaration, and that a community which grounds its authority in a method hides the one choice the method cannot make. This essay runs that result on the machine — and finds the … Continue reading Installing the Seat on the Machine
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Commitment Systems and the Architecture of Drift
Any arrangement of stabilized commitments operating in an environment that changes faster than the commitments do will eventually face a structural problem: how to acknowledge that operational practice has drifted from the commitments without dissolving the authority that grounds the commitments. This problem appears wherever the conditions hold, which is more places than is usually … Continue reading Commitment Systems and the Architecture of Drift
