Time horizon • · non preventive

Default drift

Something will emerge; specific interventions are more likely wrong than right, so staying uncommitted preserves option value.

Mechanism

Let events unfold without strategic commitment, making no specific investment in any family of strategy.

Load-bearing commitments

Worldview positions this strategy quietly assumes. If the claim fails empirically or philosophically, the strategy loses its target or its premise.

Coordination

Coordination fails; the path is set by whoever moves first.

Fails if: If coordination is in fact achievable, accepting drift is abdication.

Coordinates

Primary leverTime horizon (neutral)

Acts onnon preventive

Coercionn a

Actor in controlnone

Time horizonhorizon neutral

Legitimacy sourceself

Conflicts, grouped by mechanism

No strict conflicts catalogued. This strategy pulls a lever that nothing else pulls in the opposite direction.

Complements, grouped by mechanism

No explicit complements catalogued.

Same-lever twins

Both use the same lever in the same direction. Usually redundant inside a portfolio: each dollar or effort unit only buys one lever pull, even if two strategies are named.

AI skeptictwinGradualismtwin

Axis position

What the strategy acts onNon-preventive

Coercion levelNot applicable

Actor in controlNo principal (drift)

Time horizonHorizon-neutral

Legitimacy sourceSelf

Source note: Default drift as strategy.md