Reminds me of a term I came up with years ago: Engineer Critical Mass. As soon as you get X or more engineers standing around looking at something, you will start increasingly attracting more engineers at a rate proportional to the current size of the group. Kind of like a lower level "stiction" for inquisitive gravity.

At my last job X=3 and we had around 40 engineers on-site so it was pretty dangerous.

At my current job X~5 maybe but we only have 2 engineers on-site, so it's safe.

I lost about a week to it the first time. It was worth it.

Never has a game made its point so well as universal paperclips.

I've seen it, and it didn't grab me. I think I'm a special kind of stupid. Whew.

And your comment reinforced his thought. Now I HAVE to see what it is.