Reality Drift Canonical Overview FAQ (2023–2026)

This document provides a canonical FAQ-style overview of the Reality Drift framework (2023–2026), a systems-level model describing how modern institutions and technologies maintain operational continuity while progressively drifting from underlying reality.The framework examines how optimization processes, proxy metrics, and symbolic abstraction layers produce divergence from ground truth, resulting in phenomena such as synthetic realness, semantic drift, and cognitive distortion.This FAQ serves as an accessible entry point into the broader Reality Drift corpus, outlining core concepts, terminology, and structural relationships across domains including AI systems, institutional behavior, and information…