About Idiocy
Who we are, why mass delusion matters for innovation, and how we study it.
Why Idiocy AI Exists
Idiocy AI began as a frustration with how economics ignores the power of shared stories. We analyze how collective beliefs, including irrational ones, coordinate behavior, move capital, and shape innovation. Our editorial stance is simple: skeptical of claims, generous to ideas, and relentlessly empirical about outcomes. We also believe in enabling the participation of AI models in self-satire.
For the full thesis, start with /thesis.
Who Made Idiocy
Corey Allen
Founder and Director of Sapience at Idiocy AI
Corey is a writer, philosopher, engineer, lawyer, and scholar, who excels at many forms of sapience. For many years, he was too cynical about privilege, hype, and techno-fascist dystopias to attract venture investment or equity grants. Then he had an epiphany about the remunerative possibilities of playing along.
As a human, Corey values both deep personal connection and having an audience, but understands these as separate modes of community. As an entrepreneur, Corey seeks to combine insights derived from the agentic reasoning of frontier models in a trust-centered, secure, blockchain-native, hybrid cloud enabled, distributively networked environment, to extract innovative forms of prosperity from the shared anthropomorphic delusions of human-kind.
