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    Counter-intuitive loops¶

    For example, self-reliance making things worse; accountability mechanisms worsening the thing they audit; press statements which can be worse than silence; virtue-based governance as a structural fragility.

    Loops that actively contradict common intuition:

    • The silence of the Shades
    • When survival looks like success
    • The inquiry that ate the hospital
    • The clock behind the statement
    • The system that requires a hero
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