Ikujiro Nonaka — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Ikujiro Nonaka — On AI. 15 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
Ascending Friction
The Orange Pill's thesis that AI does not eliminate difficulty but relocates it to a higher cognitive floor — the engineer who no longer struggles with syntax struggles instead with architecture.
Ba — The Shared Space for Knowledge Creation
Nonaka's adaptation of Kitarō Nishida's concept of basho — the shared context, physical or virtual, in which knowledge conversion occurs through mutual trust, shared purpose, and the embodied empathy that co-presence enables.
Combination Mode
The third mode of the SECI spiral — the reconfiguration of existing explicit knowledge into new explicit knowledge through sorting, recategorizing, synthesis, and recombination. The mode AI has turbocharged beyond any historical precedent, produc…
Episteme
Aristotle's name for the form of knowledge that apprehends what is universal and necessary — the domain in which AI systems have achieved, and in many cases surpassed, human competence.
Externalization Mode
The second mode of the SECI spiral — the conversion of tacit knowledge into explicit form through metaphor, analogy, hypothesis, and model. The most creative and most difficult of the four modes, where AI has emerged as an unexpectedly prod…
Internalization Mode
The fourth mode of the SECI spiral — the conversion of explicit knowledge back into tacit, embodied understanding through the irreducibly physical process of practice. The mode AI most directly interrupts by producing outputs that bypass th…
Phronesis (Nonaka's Reading)
Nonaka's late-career retrieval of Aristotle's practical wisdom as the highest form of organizational knowledge — the capacity to perceive what a particular, unrepeatable situation requires, distinguished from both theoretical knowledge (epi…
Socialization Mode
The first mode of the SECI spiral — the conversion of tacit knowledge from one person to another through shared experience, co-presence, and the embodied empathy that only humans working together in proximity can produce.
Tacit Knowledge (Polanyi-Collins Reading)
Michael Polanyi's 1966 insight that we know more than we can tell — refined by Collins into a taxonomy of three species that has become the decisive framework for understanding what AI systems can and cannot absorb from human practice.
Techne
Aristotle's term for the knowledge of how to make things — craft knowledge, productive reason — and the domain whose collapse to near-zero cost defines the AI revolution.
The Amplifier
The device that increases the magnitude of whatever passes through it without evaluating the content — Wiener's framework for understanding AI as a tool that carries human signal, or human noise, with equal power and no judgment.
The SECI Spiral
Nonaka and Takeuchi's foundational model describing how organizational knowledge is created through four modes of conversion between tacit and explicit knowing — Socialization, Externalization, Combination, Internalization — spiraling upw…
Worthy of Amplification (Maslow Reading)
Maslow's reading of The Orange Pill's central question: worthiness is not a moral endowment but the developmental achievement of a person whose signal is shaped by B-values.
