Concept
Under institutional capture, the training half does more damage and recovers more slowly than the preservation half. A captured preservation institution holds a tuned version of the complex form — in principle re-discoverable from external evidence and alternative archives. A captured training institution tunes the receivers themselves, and trained perceptual machinery cannot be easily un-trained: subsequent un-captured preservation has to work against a re-tuned readership that decodes incoming evidence through the installed key. The asymmetry decides which half a network has to defend first when the institution is under pressure. Per the capture-taxonomy this is the special case of the more general consumer-key-vs-surface principle.
Connections
- Defined in: Capture Taxonomy, Preservation vs. Training
- Discussed in: Ch 11 — AI as a New Kind of Node, Ch 10 — Political Economy of Attention, Ch 8 — Preservation vs. Training
- Enabled by: Out-competition of institutional carriers in attention markets
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