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4 notes carry this tag — 1 observation, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Charles Perrow's 1984 'Normal Accident Theory' — reached via a misattributed sociology-of-technology hook — is the unnamed framework already latent in the vault's own AI-power-grid attack claim

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-13 · cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-bridge, sociology-of-technology, normal-accident-theory, ai-safety
The vault's own Bit2Watt claim-note already describes an AI-infrastructure attack in Normal Accident Theory's vocabulary, without ever naming the theory

observation seedling 2026-09-13 · cross-domain-bridge, normal-accident-theory, tight-coupling, ai-infrastructure, power-grid
The RCA engineer in the vault's core-memory patent dispute was the son of UNICEF's founding chairman, who was squeezed out of his career by both Cold War blocs at once

capture promoted Tier 4 2026-09-12 · cold-war-science, unicef, league-of-nations, computing-history, jan-rajchman
Jay Forrester's own core-memory 'invention' story is a contested-credit myth — structurally the same shape as Song Jian's self-credited one-child-policy trigger

capture promoted Tier 3 2026-09-11 · cold-war-science, computing-history, attribution-myth, jay-forrester, an-wang