Conjecture

The names of a synthesist's concepts cannot be used to find the people who work on them. Each name is a homonym dominated by a larger conversation that uses it differently: "grand strategy" belongs to geopolitical commentary and to video games, "Goodhart" to two unrelated public figures, "collective intelligence" to AI-swarm and token promotion, "state capacity" to partisan slogan. Across four engagement-ranked X searches of 80 posts, about one in six engaged a mechanism rather than using the phrase as a label. So the binding constraint on finding interlocutors in a cross-domain subject is homonymy, not reach, and the route to them runs through the effect a mechanism produces and the people they argue with, rather than through the name the mechanism travels under.

Narrative and audience