Reality Drift: Frameworks in Action

This page brings together selected visual diagrams originally published in r/FrameworksInAction, a community for sharing and applying frameworks across systems, culture, cognition, technology, and everyday life. The selections below trace how Reality Drift appears across different domains and situations.

Core Mechanisms

• The Reality Drift Engine
• Why Systems Drift From Reality as They Scale
• When Systems Stop Learning From Reality
  

Optimization and Proxies

• The Optimization Trap
• The Semantic Fidelity Gap
• When Food Is Optimized Past the Point of Taste
  

Cognition and Culture

• The Cognitive Drift Cycle
• Filter Fatigue
• Why Does Nothing Feel Real Even Though Everything Works?
  

AI and Institutions

• Why AI Sounds Right but Feels Wrong
• How Organizations Drift Away From Their Purpose
• Provenance Drift: How Uncertainty Becomes Authority