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Human systems & deployment

Technical capability does not determine objectives, legitimacy, incentives, risk distribution, or institutional behavior. These pages attach humanistic and social-scientific questions to concrete technical artifacts.

Week Question Artifact changed
125 How reliable is the story / source? claim ledger / historical context
126 Who benefits, who bears error, who has recourse? objective / evaluation
127 Who has power and veto rights? governance / decision rights
128 What do metrics and incentives reward? anti-Goodhart tests
129 How does failure become normalized? monitoring / stop-work authority
130 Is the problem itself contested? reversible portfolio / reformulation
131 Is disagreement factual, normative, or relational? decision record / conflict process
132 What is economically binding? cost / real-options model
133 What rules actually apply? compliance / standards matrix
134 Can another person reproduce the claim? release package
135 What institution keeps learning when leaders are wrong? lab / team constitution
136 What should happen next? public defense / 12-month program

Reading / epistemic-role map ->