Failure Ontology: A Lifelong Learning Framework for Blind Spot Detection and Resilience Design

arXiv:2604.10549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized learning systems are almost universally designed around a single objective: help people acquire knowledge and skills more efficiently. We argue this framing misses the more consequential problem. The most damaging failures in human life-financial ruin, health collapse, professional obsolescence-are rarely caused by insufficient knowledge acquisition. They arise from the systematic absence of entire conceptual territories from a person'