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This archive documents the structural patterns through which modern systems remain coherent while losing contact with reality. Its work spans AI, institutions, media, cognition, and the everyday conditions of modern life.
Core Concepts
- Reality Drift — how systems maintain coherence while losing grounding
- Optimization Trap — when metrics replace underlying goals
- Synthetic Realness — when artificial environments feel more real than reality
- Filter Fatigue — cognitive exhaustion from navigating layered abstractions
- Constraint Collapse — the loss of stabilizing limits inside complex systems
- Semantic Fidelity — preserving meaning across compression and transformation
- Cognitive Drift — how thought changes under mediated and recursive informational conditions
- Recursive Compression — how reality becomes abstracted through repeated simplification.