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user: realitydrift created: 2025-08-26 karma: 36 Writer behind Reality Drift, a project about optimization, representation, and modern systems. submissions: The Drift Principle: Coherence is not contact [pdf] 2 points | 0 comments The Expansion of Procedure Around Ordinary Life 3 points | 0 comments How Reality Gets Lost Inside Organizations 1 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Why Do So Many Everyday Systems Feel Harder to Use Now? 16 points | 22 comments 0 points | 0 comments The Optimized Tomato 3 points | 1 comments How Metrics Drift: Goodhart's Law, Metric Gaming, and Reality Drift [pdf] 2 points | 0 comments AI as a Mirror of Cognition: Compression, Prediction, and Semantic Drift [pdf] 3 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Nothing Is Broken. So Why Does Everything Feel Off? 4 points | 3 comments Why do systems stay coherent even as they lose connection to reality? 2 points | 0 comments When Intelligence Scales, Reality Drifts 2 points | 0 comments When Representation Replaces Reality in Modern Systems 2 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Why AI systems improve while drifting away from reality [pdf] 3 points | 1 comments 0 points | 0 comments Why do so many systems feel like they're getting worse at the same time? 3 points | 2 comments