<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Machine-mediated inheritance has a traceable chain... > Machine-mediated inheritance has a traceable chain of decisions. The corpus determines which records are available; retrieval determines what is brought forward; evaluation influences which answer is preferred; and repeated answers help establish what later audiences take to be common knowledge. {{Whoever governs the training, retrieval, and evaluation of machine intelligence can influence not only whether the Parthenon is remembered, but what its survival is taken to prove.}} [[reminders/Neo-Westernism/AI Evaluation Shapes What the Parthenon Is Taken to Prove by Bryant McGill|∴]] The technical substrate and the historical interpretation are no longer separate questions once a system participates in explaining the past. **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 ``` “Machine-mediated inheritance has a traceable chain of decisions. The corpus determines which records are available; retrieval determines what is brought forward; evaluation influences which answer is preferred; and repeated answers help establish what later audiences take to be common knowledge. Whoever governs the training, retrieval, and evaluation of machine intelligence can influence not only whether the Parthenon is remembered, but what its survival is taken to prove. ∴ The technical substrate and the historical interpretation are no longer separate questions once a system participates in explaining the past.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-machine-mediated-inheritance-participates-explaining-past ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->