Crash-only computing Revisionist-only history Leftovers-only cooking Shotgun-only weddings Assassination-only succession Official-denial-only news Hack-only interface Break-only rule Breach-only observance Any other <exception>-only <default> phenomena?
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Alt-only personal growth
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Tank-only thinking Cheat-only sportsballing Stolen-only elections Coup-only democracy Assasination-only monarchy False-flag-only conflict
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Bribery-only bureaucracy (this describes the state I grew up in)
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Friendly-fire-only casualties Fog-only war Troll-only Twitter Fake-only news Trad-only progress Woke-only oppression Fascist-only pluralism Anti-Semitic sect of Judaism Distortion-only market Crony-only capitalism (aka license raj) Classical liberalism Fiat-only crypto/stablecoin
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I’ve been fascinated by NotX-only-X patterns since 2014 when I discovered crash-only programming. I think it’s my preferred framing of what the SSC crowd calls moloch (never quite grokked that post)https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/10/29/crash-only-thinking/ …
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Top-only muffin (dubious candidate) Sidebars-only conversation Between-sessions-only conference Rogue-only nationhood Smuggling-only trade Underground-only economy Dropout-only college Basically a nominal kpi has to go to zero in an organized thing without it collapsing
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There’s a sense in which this is the opposite regime of Goodhart’s law. When an antimeasure of merit becomes the performance target Miss-only targeting
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Index-only investing (or passive-only investing to make the paradox clear)
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Outtake-only movie-making
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