He should ask Carissa about her own reasoning, before asking project management about the safety of what Carissa did, he thinks; it is not clear that everyone's incentives are perfectly aligned.  But he should ask Carissa about it, soon.

...actually, wouldn't another obvious reason to take a few weeks to carefully manufacture headbands, be if they wanted to modify his headband.  Or everyone's, for that matter.  Hm.  Also a thing to subtly inquire about.

"Maybe it's the wrong use of your time to ask, but if it can be said briefly, what are the consequences if an adversary manages to infiltrate one headband?"

He should ask Carissa about her own reasoning, before asking project management about the safety of what Carissa did, he thinks; it is not clear that everyone's incentives are perfectly aligned.  But he should ask Carissa about it, soon.

...actually, wouldn't another obvious reason to take a few weeks to carefully manufacture headbands, be if they wanted to modify his headband.  Or everyone's, for that matter?  Hm.  Also a thing to inquire about, but subtly.  His next question was one that did occur to him immediately, but was at first suppressed as lower-priority, so his asking it for this other reason shouldn't be much likelihood-ratio to them.

"Maybe it's the wrong use of your time to ask, but if it can be said briefly, what are the consequences if an adversary manages to infiltrate one headband?"

He should ask Carissa about her own reasoning, before asking project management about the safety of what Carissa did, Keltham thinks; it is not clear that everyone's incentives are perfectly aligned.  But he should ask Carissa about it, soon.

...actually, wouldn't another obvious reason to take a few weeks to carefully manufacture headbands, be if they wanted to modify his headband.  Or everyone's, for that matter?  Hm.  Also a thing to inquire about, but subtly.  His next question was one that did occur to him immediately, but was at first suppressed as lower-priority, so his asking it for this other reason shouldn't be much likelihood-ratio to them.

"Maybe it's the wrong use of your time to ask, but if it can be said briefly, what are the consequences if an adversary manages to infiltrate one headband?"

He should ask Carissa about her own reasoning, before asking project management about the safety of what Carissa did, Keltham thinks; it is not clear that everyone's organizational-internal incentives are perfectly aligned.  But he should ask Carissa about it, soon.

...actually, wouldn't another obvious reason to take a few weeks to carefully manufacture headbands, be if they wanted to modify his headband.  Or everyone's, for that matter?  Hm.  Also a thing to inquire about, but subtly.  His next question was one that did occur to him immediately, but was at first suppressed as lower-priority, so his asking it for this other reason shouldn't be much likelihood-ratio to them.

"Maybe it's the wrong use of your time to ask, but if it can be said briefly, what are the consequences if an adversary manages to infiltrate one headband?"

He should ask Carissa about her own reasoning, before asking project management about the safety of Carissa's bypassing the system, Keltham thinks; it is not clear that everyone's organizational-internal incentives are perfectly aligned.  But he should ask Carissa about it, soon.

...actually, wouldn't another obvious reason to take a few weeks to carefully manufacture headbands, be if they wanted to modify his headband.  Or everyone's, for that matter?  Hm.  Also a thing to inquire about, but subtly.  His next question was one that did occur to him immediately, but was at first suppressed as lower-priority, so his asking it for this other reason shouldn't be much likelihood-ratio to them.

"Maybe it's the wrong use of your time to ask, but if it can be said briefly, what are the consequences if an adversary manages to infiltrate one headband?"

He should ask Carissa about her own reasoning, before asking project management about the safety of Carissa's bypassing the system, Keltham thinks; it is not clear that everyone's organizational-internal incentives are perfectly aligned.  But he should ask Carissa about it, soon.

...actually, wouldn't another obvious reason to take a few weeks to carefully manufacture headbands, be if they wanted to custom-curse his headband?  Or everyone's, for that matter?  Hm.  Also a thing to inquire about, but subtly.  His next question was one that did occur to him immediately, but was at first suppressed as lower-priority, so his asking it for this other reason shouldn't be much likelihood-ratio to them.

"Maybe it's the wrong use of your time to ask, but if it can be said briefly, what are the consequences if an adversary manages to infiltrate one headband?"