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Cause & Effect, But Make It Continuous: Rethinking Primary Causation in Hybrid AI Systems

A failure log is rarely polite. A cooling pipe ruptures. A control system fails. Temperature does not jump instantly; it climbs. A later inspection action records an unsafe reading. Somewhere in that sequence, someone asks the expensive question: what caused the threshold breach? The lazy answer is: the last event before the alarm. ...

February 17, 2026 · 17 min · Zelina
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When Temperature Rises, Who’s to Blame? — Causation in Hybrid Worlds

Temperature is a patient witness. A valve ruptures. A cooling system fails. A technician records a radiation reading. Minutes later, the core temperature crosses a danger threshold. The incident report now asks the question every system audit eventually asks, usually after everyone has already chosen a favorite suspect: Who caused the temperature rise? ...

February 17, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina