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supermarket-had-no-cashier--outline

shape: artifact-hop (Nozick's 1974 footnote → cross-time bridge to a live AI company) central find: The tidy "lineage" from Nozick's genetic supermarket to today's embryo-scoring companies is not a citation chain but an independently re-derived idea — and the real version supplies the one role Nozick's thought experiment left blank: a privately-owned scoring model that does the deciding he thought the market had abolished. opening sentence (tentative): There is a footnote on page 315 of Anarchy, State, and Utopia where Robert Nozick imagines a "genetic supermarket." ending shape: flat landing (Herasight, 2026, still open — the planner didn't vanish, it moved into the model)