{"id":930,"date":"2026-04-18T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T04:46:06","slug":"people-cant-chase-what-theyve-never-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/2026\/04\/people-cant-chase-what-theyve-never-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"People Can&#8217;t Chase What They&#8217;ve Never Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representation isn&#8217;t sentiment, it&#8217;s mechanism. It flips a mental switch from &#8220;something other people do&#8221; to &#8220;something I could do.&#8221; When that switch doesn&#8217;t get flipped, we don&#8217;t just lose individual talent, we lose entire generations of potential and the perspectives they would have brought into the room. This connects directly to the AI training data argument: the room where these systems are being built has a representation problem, and the output will reflect it.<\/p>\n<p>(Read, <a href=\"\/realstuff\/essays\/people_cant_chase\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Room Where It Gets Built &#8212; Essay #4: People Can&#8217;t Chase What They&#8217;ve Never Seen<\/a>)<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/realstuff\/essays\/people_cant_chase\/hero.png\" width=\"60%\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representation isn&#8217;t sentiment, it&#8217;s mechanism. It flips a mental switch from &#8220;something other people do&#8221; to &#8220;something I could do.&#8221; When that switch doesn&#8217;t get flipped, we don&#8217;t just lose individual talent, we lose entire generations of potential and the perspectives they would have brought into the room. This connects directly to the AI training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[196,223,202,208],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkedin","tag-ai","tag-ai-ethics","tag-leadership","tag-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitchencloset.com\/home\/bryan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}