Definition
The design principle that the causal distance between an institutional error and the actors who can revise the generating rule should be kept as short as the stakes demand. Where error-bearing parties sit far from rule-makers (by hierarchy, by time, by evidence format, or by classification), corrections arrive late, weakened, or not at all.
It matters because proximity is not visibility. A harm can be fully visible to the people carrying it and still reach nobody who can change the rule that produces it. Shortening proximity means building the channels that let mismatch travel from the edge back to the rule: corrective standing, records that travel, and halt stratification. Insulation is distance from corrective consequence; feedback proximity is the commitment that shortens it.
Scale: Organizational · Phases: Design, Audit · Measurability: Semi-quantitative · Maturity: Core concept
Adjacent terms
References
- Insulation · Theory
- Challenge density · Theory
- Structural corrigibility · Term