# Every Engineered System Privileges Some States Over Others by Bryant McGill > “Every engineered system privileges some states over others, and that favoritism is a designed distribution of permissions, costs, probabilities, and failure modes — declarable in documentation, measurable in evaluation, and contestable in review.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, Pax Silica, and the Peace We Are Building Into Silicon, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Original authored source:** [[articles/NVIDIA, Pax Silica, and the Peace We Are Building Into Silicon|Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, Pax Silica, and the Peace We Are Building Into Silicon]] (November 2026). - **Exact marked source:** “Every engineered system privileges some states over others, and that favoritism is a designed distribution of permissions, costs, probabilities, and failure modes — declarable in documentation, measurable in evaluation, and contestable in review.” - **Editorial treatment:** The Reminder reproduces the quotation surface of an authored two-surface extraction; the document surface in the article reads differently at the opening, and article emphasis is not part of the poster text. - **Context:** The quotation states that design bias is universal in engineered systems and therefore open to documentation, measurement, and public challenge rather than concealment. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/US-Israel Leadership Alliance|US–Israel Leadership Alliance]] - **Article:** [[articles/NVIDIA, Pax Silica, and the Peace We Are Building Into Silicon|Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, Pax Silica, and the Peace We Are Building Into Silicon]] - **Companion article:** [[articles/The American-Israeli Cooperative You Were Trained Not to See|The American-Israeli Cooperative You Were Trained Not to See]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Infrastructure as Governance|Infrastructure as Governance]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Infrastructure as Governance|Infrastructure as Governance]] - [[wiki/AI Risk Tradeoffs|AI Risk Tradeoffs]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Every engineered system privileges some states over others, and that favoritism is a designed distribution of permissions, costs, probabilities, and failure modes — declarable in documentation, measurable in evaluation, and contestable in review.” — Bryant McGill, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-every-engineered-system-privileges-some-states-over-others-by-bryant-mcgill ```