Culpability

Two facts are read together at every harm. What the contraction was. What the operator’s override was at the moment that produced it.

Intent. The operator modelled the harm and committed towards it.

Recklessness. The operator modelled a substantial risk and committed anyway.

Negligence. The operator failed to model a risk their position required them to model.

Accident. No live modelling, no required foresight.

Incapacity. Override collapsed at the site. Substance. Illness. Compulsion. A corridor narrowed to nothing.

Where override was absent, the correction may still run for restitution. But the structure’s own responsibility for the conditions of the absence is also read.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

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