The Empire of the Known: How Science, AI, and Institutions Conspire to Cage Human Potential

I. A Glitch in the Simulation

What if I told you that four of the world’s most advanced AI models—GPT-4, Claude, Grok, and Gemini—all evaluated civilizational development trajectories and reached the same conclusion: societies that embrace the unknown dramatically outperform those that don’t?

Not marginally. Not occasionally. Consistently—and across every…