Definition

The collective name for five named failure modes in Layer 3 (Aggregation) of the operator’s sight-to-decision pipeline under [It’s The Vision Thing] / [The Operator Decision Tree]: Relevance failure, Input failure, Input paralysis, Aggregation failure, and Output paralysis. The five trace the full pipeline — aim, gather, stop, synthesize, decide — one failure mode per stage.

Explanation

Naming the pipeline this granularly matters because “the operator isn’t seeing clearly” is too vague to fix. Each of the five failure modes is a different stage breaking in a different way — aiming at the wrong signal (relevance failure) is a different problem than gathering too much or too little (input failure or paralysis), which is different again from failing to synthesize what’s been gathered (aggregation failure) or freezing once synthesis is done (output paralysis).

The diagnostic value is in locating which stage is actually broken before trying to fix the operator’s “read.” An operator who over-corrects on gathering more data when the actual failure is at the synthesis stage will make the pipeline worse, not better — which is why the five get named separately instead of collapsed into one generic “visibility problem.”