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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Principlev1PR-1190

Maintain a recognizable behavioral default…

Maintain a recognizable behavioral default that is occasionally adjusted rather than stated boundaries that are routinely overridden to distinguish genuine flexibility from masked capitulation.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from habit formation (Habits as Context-Response Associations) and tacit knowledge degrading without detection (Knowledge that exists only in tacit form degrades without…). The pattern-over-time diagnostic prescribed here allows detection of boundary erosion that might otherwise remain invisible, particularly when rationalized as flexibility.