Q10: The Duck Test as method

Your full Duck Test requires continuous skepticism and network feedback.

The question is:

Can excessive skepticism itself become a failure mode in RF?

If yes:

• how would RF detect it using its own tools?

One sentence is enough.

permanent thinking - the most expensive mode.

Yes — that sentence is the answer.

Q10 — closed

Within RF:

• Permanent thinking is the most expensive mode
• Excessive skepticism:
  • drains resources
  • lowers RO through indecision
  • threatens EA (existence)
• So skepticism itself becomes a failure mode when:
  • its cost exceeds survival value
• RF detects this the same way it detects all failures:
  • sustained RO degradation
  • without compensatory learning or adaptation
• The system must satisfice, not maximize doubt

So the Duck Test must be used, not worshipped.

That closes Question 10.

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