The Age of Drift
The Age of Drift is the systemic condition in which Reality Drift becomes the default operating environment across institutions, technologies, culture, and human cognition. Systems continue to function, scale, and optimize even as their representations become less grounded in real-world feedback and lived experience. Nothing has to visibly break for alignment to degrade.
Download PDF: The Age of Drift [IA]
Part of the Reality Drift Framework
Related Concepts:
- Reality Drift [IA]
- Optimization Trap [IA]
- Synthetic Realness [IA]
- Filter Fatigue [IA]
- Cognitive Drift [IA]
- Recursive Compression [IA]
- Constraint Collapse [IA]
- The Drifted Self [IA]
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Note: This site functions as a lightweight archive and reference layer for the Reality Drift framework. Primary essays and long-form writing are distributed across external platforms.
Part of Reality Drift Framework by A. Jacobs (2023-2026)