# Informational Domination **Informational domination** is an asymmetry in which one actor can construct a high-resolution model of another person or population, predict and shape that population's behavior, and conceal the rules by which the model produces consequences. The modeled population becomes progressively more legible to the system while the system becomes less legible to the population. Bryant McGill identifies this reversal as a form of domination because unequal capacity to model creates unequal capacity to predict, influence, and control. ## Relationships - **defined in:** [[thoughts/The Right to Understand Your World|The Right to Understand Your World]]. - **structural basis:** [[wiki/Information Asymmetry|Information Asymmetry]] and [[wiki/Asymmetric Observability|Asymmetric Observability]]. - **environment:** [[wiki/Machine-Readable Environment|Machine-Readable Environment]]. - **counterprinciple:** [[wiki/Environmental Legibility|Environmental Legibility]] and [[wiki/Auditability|Auditability]]. - **related harm:** [[wiki/Epistemic or Environmental Cruelty|Epistemic or Environmental Cruelty]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[thoughts/The Right to Understand Your World|The Right to Understand Your World]] - [GAO — Law Enforcement: DHS Could Better Address Bias Risk and Enhance Privacy Protections for Technologies Used in Public, December 3, 2024](https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-107302) **As of:** 2026-09-23