system-failure-is-undetectable-and-irreversible

Status: OUT

The system's natural trajectory is toward permanent undetectable data loss: corruption propagates silently through every pipeline without detection, AND the structural degradation that enables it is irreversible at every abstraction level — failure is invisible while it happens and unfixable after it's discovered.

Justifications

Silent loss (no detection at any pipeline stage) combined with irreversible degradation (no self-healing at any layer) means failures compound monotonically without any observable signal or recovery path

Depends on (SL): silent-data-loss-is-default-operational-mode, degradation-is-irreversible

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