What Is Not an Extant Locus Not everything real is an extant locus. Not everything that matters is a locus.
Applied Case: The Unknown Locus The unknown locus asks us to hold the field open long enough for truth to arrive, when truth is still reachable.
Applied Case: The Shooter Inquiry The Shooter Inquiry was a failed field analysis, and harmful to the field it was created to repair.
Applied Case: HBO's Chernobyl HBO's Chernobyl warns us against the cost of simplifying reality for institutional convenience, while also explicitly, openly simplifying reality for its own narrative convenience.
Applied Case: The Prisoner's Dilemma Anyone who presents the one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma to describe their field is not morally serious.
Applied Case: The Epicurean Death Problem The harm is not missing an experience or having a bad one, the harm is losing the reachable future.