{"id":"complexity-increases-both-read-cost-and-read-risk","text":"As system distribution complexity increases, the read path becomes simultaneously more expensive (absorbing deferred consistency, lazy computation, and soft-delete interpretation costs) and more vulnerable (temporal correctness gaps and permissive safety enforcement compound at the same boundaries) — creating a correlation where the most burdened reads are also the least protected.","truth_value":"OUT","source":"","source_url":"","source_hash":"","justifications":[{"type":"SL","antecedents":["read-cost-scales-with-system-complexity","safety-and-correctness-gaps-compound"],"outlist":[],"label":"Both d4 nodes scale with system complexity; the emergent property is that read-path cost and read-path risk are correlated rather than independent"}],"dependents":["read-burden-is-managed-through-selective-write-shifting"],"metadata":{"last_reviewed":"2026-06-05T18:21:49","review_result":"pass","_retracted":true},"created_at":"","updated_at":"2026-06-17T14:30:42+00:00","reviewed_at":"","verified_at":"","retracted_at":"2026-06-17T14:30:42+00:00","explanation":{"steps":[{"node":"complexity-increases-both-read-cost-and-read-risk","truth_value":"OUT","reason":"SL justification invalid","failed_antecedents":["safety-and-correctness-gaps-compound"],"label":"Both d4 nodes scale with system complexity; the emergent property is that read-path cost and read-path risk are correlated rather than independent"}]}}