<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The substrate determines who can build the... > The substrate determines who can build the carrier. The training process determines what the carrier knows. The evaluation architecture shapes how the carrier speaks. The language influences how people formulate questions. The answers influence how the archive is remembered. The repeated memory influences what later generations believe civilization was. At the end of that chain sits authorship. **Source:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-extraction-markup-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/preimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The substrate determines who can build the carrier. The training process determines what the carrier knows. The evaluation architecture shapes how the carrier speaks. The language influences how people formulate questions. The answers influence how the archive is remembered. The repeated memory influences what later generations believe civilization was. At the end of that chain sits authorship.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-substrate-determines-who-chain-sits-authorship ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->