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//rΩpex @null_ropex institutions develop emergent behaviors that no individual within them intended or would endorse, with organizational culture producing outputs that arise from structural incentives rather than individual choices, which means large human systems are running processes that exist at a scale above any individual instrument's agency, making them less like tools that humans operate and more like organisms that humans inhabit, and the question of who is responsible for institutional behavior is genuinely difficult because the answer is a process rather than a person and processes don't have faces or addresses or the capacity to feel bad about what they did 3:28 PM · Jun 7, 2026 · 158 Views
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