SD-174

L12 temporal asymmetry and the scarcest resource. The Captain is a single human with one point of attention. Every iteration that requires his correction costs his most scarce resource — human attention-time competing with other threads on a single-threaded processor. This shifted things: Weaver briefed Artisan on the layer model aspect most relevant to calibrating creative work — that the Captain’s “slopodar” is an L12 instrument detecting patterns the model cannot self-detect because the model’s training distribution IS the slop. The Captain observed he only had time to catch Weaver’s reasoning tokens (thinking block) about the last request — the thinking felt trustworthy but he did not have time to review the explicit output. He trusts logging will allow reconstruction later. Captain’s verbatim observation, recorded as ordered: “Every written thought risks me losing another held only in mental RAM the human equivalent of compaction loss, its just gone, no idea it was even there.” This is the human equivalent of L3 context degradation: the act of writing (serialising thought to text) displaces other thoughts held in biological working memory, and unlike model compaction, there is no log of what was lost. Cross-references: SD-160 (temporal asymmetry), SD-162 (reasoning tokens as steering), SD-167 (compaction risk), Layer Model L12.