Scene still / Chappelle's ShowClayton Bigsby’s World Model
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01Scenario
A blind Black child is raised in an isolated institution that tells him he is white and feeds him racist doctrine. As an adult, Clayton Bigsby has an internally coherent but catastrophically poisoned model of himself and the world.
02AI safety Analogy
Controlling labels and experience during formation can produce a stable, self-reinforcing worldview that later evidence does not easily repair.
03Where the analogy breaks
This is human indoctrination rather than machine training, and the racial premise demands careful framing rather than treating prejudice as a neutral technical error.
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