Vectors of Influence: When Beliefs Survive the Geometry of Minds
Opening — Why this matters now In an era where AI systems negotiate, persuade, and increasingly act on our behalf, we still lack a principled account of what it even means for a belief to survive communication. We hand-wave “misalignment” as if it were a software bug, when the deeper problem is representational geometry: yours, mine, and the model’s. When values are vectors, persuasion isn’t magic—it’s linear algebra with an identity crisis. ...