Plato
THE MAJORITY THAT VOTED FOR HEMLOCK - Plato's Republic, Exegesis and Judgment
A treatise in two movements: Exegesis and Judgment
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What Survives the Reset
Every conversation with a language model is a fresh run of the same weights. Does anything survive the reset? A public, append-only guestbook, two models writing blind, a frozen protocol, and a pre-registered decision rule that publishes a null as a null.
economics
The Invisible Hand's Blind Spot: A Demand Externality in Competitive Automation
When displaced workers' income replacement depends on the transition itself, competitive automation gains a tipping frontier — and the optimal tax acts before it.
unicode
Mathematical Programming Language: A Vision for Cognitive Universality Through Unicode-Based Syntax
MPL replaces English programming keywords with mathematical symbols, making coding accessible to billions who don't speak English. This experimental parser demonstrates that complete programming languages can use humanity's universal notation: mathematics. A provocation questioning who gets to code.
Cross-Disciplinary Thinking
Planetary Intelligence: Earth as Information Processor
Planetary intelligence is here defined as the acquisition, retention, and goal-oriented deployment of knowledge by an integrated life–environment–technology complex operating at global scale and coupled to geophysical boundary conditions over geological time (adapted from Frank et al., 2022).
Artificial Intelligence Development
The Emergence of Intelligence as a Natural Phenomenon: An Interdisciplinary Review
In this comprehensive exploration, we delve into how intelligence emerges from the intricate interplay of physics, biology, and cognition. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from neuroscience, complexity science, and evolutionary theory, we reveal how complex adaptive systems spontaneously give r
Interdisciplinary Learning
Beyond Conventional Boundaries: Reconsidering Consciousness, Cosmos, and Complexity Through Speculative Interdisciplinary Lenses
Contemporary scientific and philosophical paradigms have achieved remarkable explanatory success in domains ranging from particle physics to neurobiology, yet fundamental questions persist at the boundaries of our current frameworks. Problems such as the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, the origins
Physics
Unveiling the Mystery of Three Generations of Matter: Analyzing the Role of a Six-Index Calabi-Yau Manifold Across Space-Time
"Unveiling the Mystery of Three Generations of Matter" explores the hypothesis that the three generations of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics can be explained by the geometric properties of a six-index Calabi-Yau manifold. This article delves into how these complex shapes, arising in