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?
Conversation
Tank-only thinking
Cheat-only sportsballing
Stolen-only elections
Coup-only democracy
Assasination-only monarchy
False-flag-only conflict
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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)
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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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