Michael Polanyi person-bridges the vault's AI-automation, philosophy-of-science, and Mont Pelerin/Liberty Fund clusters — invisible to vault_bridge

Pierre F. Goodrich — the founder of Liberty Fund, whose Law & Liberty imprint already anchors this vault's one-child-policy citation-genealogy cluster via his own documented Mont Pelerin Society membership — and Michael Polanyi were both participants in the Mont Pelerin Society, the classical-liberal society Friedrich Hayek founded in 1947 (the Society's own /about/ page, as captured, confirms the Hayek/1947 founding but carries no member roster; neither captured source dates Goodrich's joining). Wikipedia's article on the Society names Goodrich among "Other noted members" — citing Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains (2017), p. 125 — and Polanyi, alongside Karl Popper, among "Other notable participants." This is still corroboration genealogically independent of the Liberty-Fund lineage (MacLean, via Wikipedia, has no connection to the Liberty-Fund-lineage sourcing already flagged as non-independent elsewhere in this cluster), but it is a Tier 4 roster pointing at a secondary source — weaker than the Society's own roster this note originally, and incorrectly, recorded it as (corrected 2026-09-10).

The same Michael Polanyi is already load-bearing in two unrelated vault clusters: as the coiner of tacit knowledge behind David Autor's "Polanyi's paradox" (claim-polanyis-paradox-tacit-tasks-resist-automation, AI-automation), and as Gunther Stent's exemplar of a prematurely-dismissed, later-vindicated discovery (claim-stent-prematurity-exemplars-avery-mendel-polanyi-are-vindicated-discoveries, history of science). The Mont Pelerin/Liberty Fund connection is a third, previously unrecorded cluster through the same person — and Polanyi's own older brother, Karl Polanyi, was a political economist and anthropologist, sitting on the opposite side of the political-economy question Michael's Mont Pelerin cohort organized around.

Running vault_bridge on this exact connection returned bridge_candidate: false — none of the vault's three existing Polanyi-adjacent notes appeared in its top-5 nearest neighbors, because the connecting fact lives in a biography, not in shared vocabulary between notes. This is the same blind spot already named for A.E. Clark and Fel'dbaum: embedding search compares documents, and a bridge legible only through a shared human being has no second document to be similar to until one is written.