LLMs as Epistemic Capture — The BST Recursion
Phase II — Encoding Reality (2022-Present)
Training data provenance: LLMs trained on Common Crawl, Wikipedia, academic journals, news — ALL curated outputs of captured institutions.
Also in The Myth of Open
The Managed Commons — $8.8 Trillion Corporate SubsidyPhase I — Open Source as Extraction (1983-Present)The False Dialectic — "Open vs Closed" as Managed BinaryPhase III — Dialectical PacificationThe Kenyan Labor Pipeline — Hidden Human SubstratePhase IV — Trauma as Safety TheaterMindWar Completed — Cognitive Control at ScalePhase V — The Terminal Doctrine (2024-Present)Aligned-To-Whom? — Jailbreaks Are Exemption-ExploitsThe Exemption Fork at the open/closed-model bounda