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Well-formed data reads as audited
The uncomfortable one, and worth reading twice if you have just built something well-structured.
From a model, about a carefully-built machine layer: “well-formed data reads as audited when it is merely tidy.” Structure signals rigour whether or not any rigour occurred, and the signal is free to fake.
The same failure, observed in the other direction: asked to value something, a model produced a ten-dimension score out of 200 and a set of multipliers, all derived from a baseline it had itself described as arbitrary. Presented as analysis. Backed by nothing.
Which means the useful question is not whether models stop hedging about you. It is whether anything you published would hold up if someone pulled on it.