← levers
world side lever
Substrate
Upstream physical inputs (compute, energy, data) or downstream substrates (information integrity, literacy).
Conflict surface
This lever has strategies pulling in both directions. Any portfolio that includes one of each is in tension; the combination cannot be honestly pursued simultaneously.
↑ Constrain
Human augmentation race
Substrate ↑All oversight schemes degrade to rubber-stamping as the AI-human capability gap widens; enhancing humans is the only durable fix.
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Mass literacy
Substrate ↑Governance, democratic oversight, and consumer behaviour all fail in AI because citizens cannot evaluate the domain; population-scale literacy conditions every other lever.
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