{
  "handle": "LowLateralityExit",
  "gloss": "Build in points where one party alone can stop or change course, so that ending an activity never needs everyone to switch at once",
  "mechanism": "In an {{organisation_game}}, the best joint move sometimes becomes stopping: the conversation has run its course, the project is no longer worth doing. If stopping requires every participant to change strategy at the same time, high {{laterality}}, each must know that the others also see the value has gone, and uncertainty keeps the activity going: zombie projects and death marches continue although their workers know they are a waste. Build in moments at which stopping is unilateral: pauses in a conversation in which either party can end it, review points at which one accountable person can halt a project, defaults that let a single team withdraw. These positions keep the most likely next move cheap.",
  "invariants": [
    "At designated points, one party can end or change the activity without others' agreement",
    "Exit points recur often enough to catch a drop in value",
    "An exit at one point does not need knowledge of every other party's valuation"
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Policies that make everyone fill every gap, so no one can exit alone",
    "Exit points so rare that wasted effort accumulates between them",
    "Exits that one party can trigger but no one feels entitled to use"
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Society",
      "Coordination"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "source": "Adam Timlett, On the Origin of Risk (2025), Ch 13 p.94-95"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:LowLateralityExit#mh:SHA-256:1991c3fb6f8cccb3e319b7a70ba9881e003b3cffdf49f77bde73cfb85a5d52d1",
  "sema_ref": "LowLateralityExit#1991",
  "sema_stub": "1991",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "laterality": "sema:Laterality#mh:SHA-256:f864c6713f7a81a2b9df3c13674ca1c30f592728f0a389d5e0cc45212b948c7b",
      "organisation_game": "sema:OrganisationGame#mh:SHA-256:9269cc8c1dc81d154d11f324f8f482a68d636ee6956267f529676a23c2cc3759"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Society",
  "sema_category": "Coordination",
  "used_by": {}
}