Articles by realitydrift
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Why Do So Many Everyday Systems Feel Harder to Use Now? (therealitydrift.substack.com)

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The Optimized Tomato (therealitydrift.substack.com)

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How Metrics Drift: Goodhart's Law, Metric Gaming, and Reality Drift [pdf] (github.com/therealitydrift)

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AI as a Mirror of Cognition: Compression, Prediction, and Semantic Drift [pdf] (github.com/therealitydrift)

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Nothing Is Broken. So Why Does Everything Feel Off? (therealitydrift.substack.com)

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Why do systems stay coherent even as they lose connection to reality? (therealitydrift.substack.com)

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When Intelligence Scales, Reality Drifts (therealitydrift.substack.com)

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When Representation Replaces Reality in Modern Systems (doi.org)

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Why AI systems improve while drifting away from reality [pdf] (github.com)

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Why do so many systems feel like they're getting worse at the same time? (reddit.com)

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Why Systems Optimized for Metrics Eventually Drift from Reality [pdf] (offbrandguy.com)

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A Reality Alignment Index: Measuring When AI and Systems Lose Meaning [pdf] (offbrandguy.com)

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Why optimization slowly breaks the systems it improves (slideshare.net)

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Why Modern Systems Keep Functioning After They Stop Making Sense [pdf] (offbrandguy.com)

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Large Systems Lose the Ability to Correct Themselves (therealitydrift.substack.com)

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Why Modern Life Feels Unreal: An Information-Theoretic Model of Cognitive Drift (ssrn.com)

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The AI Productivity Paradox Is a Feedback Problem (therealitydrift.substack.com)

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The Loss of Stop Conditions in Modern Life (slideshare.net)

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Early Signs of Constraint Loss in Product and System Design (slideshare.net)

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Continuous Context Switching Erodes Attention (imgur.com)

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The Optimization Trap: Why Doing Everything Right Feels Wrong (slideshare.net)

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UX systems now optimize faster than users can make meaning (slideshare.net)

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When Information Accelerates Faster Than Human Compression Capacity (slideshare.net)

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The Drift Principle: why systems get worse even when they're "working"

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Life Online Feels Fake Because of Drift: A Theory of Compression and Fidelity (therealitydrift.substack.com)

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The Failure Mode of AI Isn't Hallucination, It's Fidelity Loss (figshare.com)

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Semantic drift: when AI gets the facts right but loses the meaning