A threshold guardian is often just a guy in the slow lane of the story appointing themselves traffic police. Like those truckers who decide to straddle merging lanes to enforce “fairness” when a full capacity zipper merge would in fact be more efficient.
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I would like to see an example of what is meant by a zipper merge being more efficient.
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I understand (I think) how it'd be optimal efficiency if robots are driving/coordinating, but with humans I imagine the efficiency is lost to additional disruption in flow. Bandwidth through the choke point is maximized if flow is fastest.
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