AI gives us access to 'Metis' — the practical wisdom Scott said the state destroyed
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-20
A viewpoint post: AI oddly grants access to what Seeing Like a State author James C. Scott called Metis — the tacit, grandmotherly intuition of tricks that just work. Ironically, Scott argued the state destroyed this kind of knowledge through inorganic regularity and paperwork, yet AI now carries it.
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