John Rawls

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The question that stopped me cold was not about technology. It was about a curtain.

Rawls asks you to imagine designing the rules of a society — who gets what, who bears what cost, who decides — from behind a veil that hides one piece of information: which person in that society you will be. You do not know if you are the builder or the displaced. The CEO or the data labeler. The engineer in Trivandium whose capability just expanded twenty-fold, or the engineer sitting next to her whose specialized expertise just became a commodity available for a hundred dollars a month.

You do not know. And from behind that not-knowing, you must choose.

I have spent this entire journey thinking about amplification. About the river of intelligence