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# An administration produces far more than... > An administration produces far more than legislation and executive decisions. Its speeches, diplomatic declarations, national-security doctrines, educational priorities, historical interpretations, public controversies, and articulated values become part of the immense informational environment from which machine-intelligence systems learn. These expressions are amplified through journalism, public discourse, institutional adoption, and the repeated interactions of millions of people, contributing to the cultural and political **attractor basins** within which intelligent systems develop. Meanwhile, procurement decisions, training priorities, retrieval systems, evaluation standards, and institutional deployments can reinforce particular interpretive frameworks more directly. As machine intelligence becomes increasingly capable and flexible, the surrounding infrastructure can simultaneously become more established and resistant to change. **Technological intelligence may become more adaptable even as its institutional and cultural assumptions become more deeply entrenched.** **Source:** [[articles/America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity|America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “An administration produces far more than legislation and executive decisions. Its speeches, diplomatic declarations, national-security doctrines, educational priorities, historical interpretations, public controversies, and articulated values become part of the immense informational environment from which machine-intelligence systems learn. These expressions are amplified through journalism, public discourse, institutional adoption, and the repeated interactions of millions of people, contributing to the cultural and political attractor basins within which intelligent systems develop. Meanwhile, procurement decisions, training priorities, retrieval systems, evaluation standards, and institutional deployments can reinforce particular interpretive frameworks more directly. As machine intelligence becomes increasingly capable and flexible, the surrounding infrastructure can simultaneously become more established and resistant to change. Technological intelligence may become more adaptable even as its institutional and cultural assumptions become more deeply entrenched.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-administration-produces-far-become-deeply-entrenched ```