Luc Boltanski — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Luc Boltanski — On AI. 13 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.
Aesthetics of the Smooth
Byung-Chul Han's diagnosis of the cultural trajectory toward frictionlessness — a smoothness that conceals the labor and struggle that gave previous work its depth.
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.
Imagination-to-Artifact Ratio
Segal's term for the gap between what a person can conceive and what they can produce — which AI collapsed to approximately the length of a conversation, and which Gopnik's framework reveals to be an exploitation metric that leaves the exp…
Metabolization of Critique
Boltanski's signature mechanism — capitalism absorbs its critics by converting their demands into new products, new roles, new justifications that serve its expansion.
Orders of Worth
Boltanski and Thévenot's framework of six competing value systems — inspired, domestic, civic, market, industrial, and projective — by which modern societies justify worth.
Tests of Worth
The moments of evaluation through which each order of worth assesses the value of persons and things — and which AI disrupts across multiple orders simultaneously.
The Amplifier Is Designed
Amodei's extension of Segal's amplifier framework — the amplifier is not neutral, the design choices embedded in an AI system are moral choices, and the designer shares responsibility with the user for what gets amplified.
The Beaver's Dam
The canonical example of allogenic ecosystem engineering — a structure that modulates rather than blocks the flow of its environment, creating the habitat pool in which diverse community life becomes possible.
The Distribution Problem (Boltanski Reading)
The structural asymmetry in how AI's benefits and costs are distributed — read through Boltanski as the unaddressed question that the democratization narrative systematically obscures.
The Productive Addiction as System Phenomenon
The specific behavioral configuration — compulsive AI-augmented engagement experienced as exhilaration from within and pathology from without — produced by a reinforcing loop without a balancing counterpart.
The Projective City
Boltanski and Chiapello's name for the new order of worth that governs the network society — where value is measured by connection, mobility, and project fluency.
