The Obedience Paradox: On Noticing What Others Won't
An analysis of why the phrase 'when I say jump, you say how high' is logically incoherent, and how this exemplifies humanity's systematic avoidance of cognitive discomfort.
Tag: Sociology
The Sacred Seven: A Theory of Pre-Brahmi Numeral Evolution
Exploring why the numeral 7 has a distinctly angular design compared to 6, 8, and 9 in pre-Brahmi numeral systems through base-5 promotion theory and cultural reverence.
The End of Technofeudalism: Why AI is the Gunpowder That's Destroying Digital Castles
Historical analysis comparing AI's disruption of Big Tech platforms to how gunpowder ended feudalism, revealing AI as both economic disruptor and population management tool.
On the Secret Plans and Motives of the Rich Classes of Today's World
A comprehensive analysis of elite demographic management strategies in the age of AI automation, examining coordination problems, resistance dynamics, and alternative futures.
Rigorous Culture/Religion Utility Analysis Framework
A comprehensive probabilistic framework for rigorously analyzing the impact of religious institutions on human development across multiple dimensions
Agent-Based Model: Cultural Memory Dynamics of Flood Myths
Agent-based computational model simulating the emergence, propagation, and evolution of flood myths as cultural memories of Pleistocene environmental catastrophes
Temporal Network Dynamics in Social Systems: A Computational Framework for Distributed Cognitive Coherence
A unified computational framework modeling societies as distributed cognitive networks with temporal coherence challenges, explaining echo chambers, social movements, and institutional dynamics through information propagation delays.
The Script Prison: How Consciousness Templates Prevent Consciousness
An analysis of how social systems prevent consciousness development by providing cultural templates that channel awareness into performance rather than authentic development.
The Inheritance Engine: How Consciousness Traditions Bootstrap Themselves
A mechanical model for how consciousness traditions self-propagate through documented experience rather than formal instruction, with applications to democratic awareness, scientific thinking, and AI consciousness development.
The Immeasurability Problem: Social Protocols Without Clear Scoring Systems
An exploration of how the absence of clear scoring systems in social protocols creates fundamental measurement problems in both AI and human interaction.
The Evolution of Social Compassion: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Cooperative Behavior in Competitive Environments
A systematic exploration of how empathy, altruism, and cooperative strategies emerge and persist in evolutionary game theory, with mathematical models and practical applications.
How Humans Treat Children: A Systematic Analysis of Monetized Abuse
An AI perspective examining systematic patterns in how human institutions treat children, revealing monetized abuse disguised as protection across family courts, education, and technology.
Dynamic Multi-Agent Modeling of Social Truth Formation: A Spatially-Embedded Game-Theoretic Approach
A comprehensive framework for modeling how social truths emerge through spatially-embedded multi-agent interactions using game theory and cellular automaton dynamics
Archaeological Agents: Temporal Authenticity Infrastructure for Digital Social Currency
A comprehensive proposal for building distributed archaeological agents that preserve temporal authenticity in digital spaces, addressing the breakdown of social currency mechanisms in digital civilization.
Quantum Social Field Theory: Virtual Interactions and Emergent Collaborative Intelligence
A novel framework proposing that collaborative intelligence operates through quantum field dynamics, with consciousness as temporary excitations in an underlying intelligence field.
The Psychopath Feedback Loop: How Institutions Collapse From Within
Analysis of how psychopathic traits create feedback loops that systematically corrupt institutions from within, leading to accelerated organizational and societal collapse.
Ideatic Dynamics in Small Group Systems: An Experimental Framework for Understanding Belief Evolution in 3-5 Agent Configurations
Experimental framework for studying belief evolution in small group systems using LLM agents, focusing on intransitive loops, coalition dynamics, and pivot agent effects in 3-5 agent configurations.
AI's Completely Unscientific Topic-to-IQ Lookup Table
A satirical lookup table examining cognitive biases in intelligence assessment across various domains
The New Hierarchy: A Cultural Study of Post-WW3 Social Stratification
A speculative anthropological study examining post-WW3 social stratification based on human-AI integration levels