Prediction markets forecast outcomes.
Time-serious systems map reasoning.
One answers what happens. The other answers who understood it before the rest did, and why.
How Time-Blindness Causes Moral Collapse
uncomfortable but real.
Step 1: Time Is Flattened
Early uncertainty and late certainty are treated equally.
Step 2: Risk Is Punished
People learn that being early is dangerous.
Step 3: Silence Becomes Rational
Only speak once outcomes are obvious.
Step 4: Responsibility Evaporates
Everyone claims “we all thought this.”
Step 5: History Is Rewritten
Bad decisions appear inevitable. No one is accountable.
Thats how:
Institutions repeat failures
War decisions lose moral ownership
Financial crises recur
Cultural errors metastasize
Time-blind systems don’t just fail epistemically.
They train moral cowardice.