This is an interesting way of thinking about things, but you have to trust yourself not to constantly invent new exceptions. I suppose your ability to remember the rule places a natural limit on length.
Remember, the idea is that exceptions don’t exist. You’re not “inventing new exceptions”, you’re reformulating the rule to encompass things that would have to be exceptions to the old rule.
Done this way, it will quickly become evident if you’re gerrymandering the rule so much as to effectively neuter it; that’s when you say “ok, clearly this isn’t working; time to rethink my life”.
This is an interesting way of thinking about things, but you have to trust yourself not to constantly invent new exceptions. I suppose your ability to remember the rule places a natural limit on length.
That’s what the periodic audit is for.
Remember, the idea is that exceptions don’t exist. You’re not “inventing new exceptions”, you’re reformulating the rule to encompass things that would have to be exceptions to the old rule.
Done this way, it will quickly become evident if you’re gerrymandering the rule so much as to effectively neuter it; that’s when you say “ok, clearly this isn’t working; time to rethink my life”.