Merrin isn't the first or third person to notice, she's not even the first person to say 'possibly that's a market failure and doesn't look like an urgent response, put that on hold', but the latency on deciding to bypass the entire system and bypassing it is long enough that somebody has time to say on the overhead speaker "Possible market failure on prediction Thi-73" a few long long seconds before somebody realizes the entire system is borked in some unknown way with unknown-many consequences, and the prediction markets get blanked out of the monitors.

Merrin isn't the first or third person to notice, she's not even the first person to say 'possibly that's a market failure and doesn't look like an urgent treatment if there is a reason, put that recommendation on hold', but the latency on deciding to bypass the entire system and then actually bypassing it is long enough that somebody has time to say on the overhead speaker "Possible market failure on prediction Thi-73" a few long long seconds before - since evidently this market is borked in some unknown way with unknown-many consequences that could be corrupting everything - the prediction markets get blanked out of the monitors entirely.

Merrin isn't the first or third person to notice, she's not even the first person to say 'possibly that's a market failure and doesn't look like an urgent treatment if there is a reason, put that recommendation on hold', but the latency on deciding to bypass the entire system and then actually bypassing it is long enough that somebody has time to say on the overhead speaker "Possible market failure on prediction Thi-73" a few long long seconds before - since evidently this pseudo-market is borked in some unknown way with unknown-many consequences that could be corrupting everything - the prediction markets get blanked out of the monitors entirely.