credential meaninglessness

The Verification Crisis: Why Society No Longer Knows Who Can Actually Do Anything

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Split image showing healthcare and business professionals in ordered environment on left transitioning through lightning to chaotic credential collapse on right, illustrating civilization-wide verification infrastructure failure

Modern civilization operates on a foundational assumption so basic that stating it explicitly feels unnecessary: when critical systems require expertise, we can verify who possesses that expertise before granting them authority over those systems. This assumption no longer holds. We have lost the infrastructure enabling capability verification at scale. Not degraded it. Not made it … The Verification Crisis: Why Society No Longer Knows Who Can Actually Do Anything

The End of Assessment: Why All Performance-Based Evaluation Is Now Structurally Meaningless

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Split image showing examination room on left transitioning through lightning bolt to exploding test papers on right, illustrating categorical collapse of assessment infrastructure in 2024

Assessment did not gradually decline as AI improved. It did not face mounting pressure requiring adaptation. It did not encounter challenges demanding better methodology. Assessment collapsed as a coherent category in 2024. This is not hyperbole. This is not alarmism. This is structural description of what happened when AI crossed the capability threshold where generating … The End of Assessment: Why All Performance-Based Evaluation Is Now Structurally Meaningless