Law V
The Targeting Problem
Capability aimed wrong makes things worse, not better.
The claim in full
The problem is never insufficient capability. It is capability applied to the wrong level of abstraction. Every domain shows the same diagnostic error: measuring a deficit when the actual failure is misdirection — the system has the capacity but aims it at the wrong target.
What would falsify it
A law that cannot fail is not a law. Each of these is the observation that would break this one, written before the evidence was looked for, so the frame can lose.
A system where adding raw capability to a misidentified target led to sustained improvement rather than waste or harm.
How it is standing
Every candidate counter-example logged against the falsifier above, counted. Dismissed means examined and found not to bear on the claim; watching means open.
- Challenges logged
- 0
- Currently watching
- 0
- Examined, dismissed
- 1
- Last examined
- Not yet challenged
A low challenge count is not strength. It can equally mean the law has not been aimed at anything hard enough to break it, which is why the date matters as much as the number. Record compiled 27 Aug 2026.