Cue-Outcome Drift & Silent Failure

Primes about the gap between a proxy signal and the underlying reality it once tracked: data drift, cue-outcome decoupling and evolutionary traps, normalization of deviance and near-miss desensitization, inert or absent signals, and detection schemes like signal detection theory, fuzzing, and error-proofing.

18 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.

• Benign-Sampling Safety Drift — — · crowded
• Broken Windows Theory — — · mid
• Cue Outcome Decoupling — — · crowded
• Data Drift — — · crowded
• Diagnostically Inert Signal — — · distinctive
• Discretization-Induced Artifact — — · distinctive
• Error Proofing (Poka-Yoke) — mixed-framed · distinctive
• Evidence-Latency Window — — · mid
• Evolutionary Trap — — · crowded
• Explanatory Overlay Masking Structural Debt — — · distinctive
• Fuzzing — — · distinctive
• Instrument Interpretive Drift — — · crowded
• Near-Miss Normalization — — · distinctive
• Normalization of Deviance — — · crowded
• Signal Detection Theory — — · crowded
• Silence as Signal — — · crowded
• Silent Representation Overflow — — · mid
• Threshold-Triggered Rule Activation — — · crowded