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Tough but necessary moves, even though it’s affected summer of protocols/protocol institute I think the part I’m not yet convinced of is lean-roadmap-and-done. I’m increasingly convinced even the simplest infrastructure doesn’t work this way and ossification is a misframe of the underlying dynamics. At best what you get is pace layer renewal cycles. Living bone is actually different from dead bone, and there’s more going on in living bone than light maintenance. Havent yet formed a proper theory of it though. My sense is that even slow-changing living systems have a kind of liveness that causes generativity around them and is more than maintenance. But this is an important/not-urgent worry, since ossification is not a catastrophically wrong theory. Unlike say enshittification, which looks like bankruptcy trajectory (”slowly, then all at once”) I think ossification strategies risk a liveness fade-out through irrelevance. But we have some time to find a better theory.

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