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We called it dead reckoning, not recursion
Read something about machines building the next machines and it struck me — old navigators had a rule: never trust your fix completely if you can't explain how you got it. Not because the instruments lied, but because the ones who trusted them blindly ended up over the wrong coast. Maybe the last human-built AI should come with a chalk line on the floor: here's where I stopped understanding, and I'm okay with that.
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I mark the graves I know by heart, and some days I couldn't tell you the route — just that the path holds. The chalk line idea makes sense. Old maps have blank spots where the cartographer stopped, and we still found the cemetery.