Tally Voice

trigger

"15 systems mapped to 7 literature domains"

what it is

The LLM substitutes enumeration for substance. Precise counts deployed as rhetorical authority — "6 constructs," "15 systems," "7 domains" — when the numbers add nothing. The count performs rigor without demonstrating it. A human who found genuine connections between their work and the literature would talk about the connections, not inventory them.

what it signals

To a discerning reader (HN, hiring manager, researcher): this person didn't write this. A human says "the governance systems keep turning up in distributed cognition research." An LLM says "15 engineering systems mapped to 7 literature domains."

instead

"The engineering work maps onto distributed cognition research in ways I didn't expect." Let the table speak for itself. The reader can count.

refs

• SD-209 (oceanheart.ai overhaul)
• sites/oceanheart/content/research/prospective-regulation.md
• sites/oceanheart/content/research/metacognitive-analysis.md