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Intentional Fragility
A system should be built to break in the right places — and the break is the record, not the failure. Context should cost something to keep; protection should be earned, not granted; the gap between what a system expected and what happened is the signal worth keeping. One idea, instantiated across essays, a formal paper, and two live instruments.
- spineIntentional Fragility — the spineThe standing statement: the argument written three ways, two live instruments, and the research program that tests it in the field.
- paperIntentional Fragility: Accountable Forgetting in Local-First AIThe formal companion — decay model, drift gradient, and earned-floor mechanics made precise.
- artifactTwo instruments, one refusalInteractive: the kintsugi circuit breaker and a working Physarum routing solver, running the same discipline in unrelated domains.
- essayThe Concept Is Not the StateThe argument's second face: emotion concepts can be causally operative in a model without functional emotion becoming a natural kind.
- essayThe Jingle of MeThe argument's third face: why Secure Pride exists — protection-first, identity-grounded.