Remedying Defects
Updated 2026-08-10
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
A classical Chinese phrase from political and institutional writing, meaning to remedy deviations and rescue abuses. The core proposition is that any system in operation drifts away from its design intent over time, and that drift must be corrected deliberately rather than left to self-correct. The key qualification is proportionality: the remedy must match the defect, because an overcorrection installs a new distortion of its own. The principle therefore concerns continuous calibration rather than periodic purges.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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- Drift detection: compare the current system behavior against its original design intent. - Root tracing: separate the surface symptoms from the structural cause that produces them. - Measured correction: size the remedy to the actual defect and monitor carefully for any overcorrection.
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Systems accumulate small deviations because local adaptations accumulate while no one owns the whole. Each deviation is individually rational, so the aggregate drift stays invisible until performance degrades noticeably. Correcting early keeps the required intervention small and local, whereas correcting late requires changing many interdependent parts at once, and that scale of change creates new inconsistencies faster than it resolves old ones. Timely correction keeps the cost curve flat.
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