This is an intuition tool, not a forecast. It illustrates how verification norms, reinforcement, and emotional salience
can shift the likely stability of a shared reality.
Emotional salience
How strongly the claim grabs identity, fear, outrage, or moral certainty.
55
Algorithmic reinforcement
How strongly feeds repeat / amplify content aligned with prior engagement.
65
Verification effort
Time + friction invested in checking, triangulating, and tolerating uncertainty.
40
Identity cost of revision
Social/psych cost of changing one’s mind inside a group.
The “short-term illusion stability” line reflects a failure mode: cohesion can increase even as reality feedback is suppressed.
In the long run, suppressed error signals raise the probability of abrupt correction.