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Philosophy

Is AI Conscious? Ask Mathematics.

Is artificial intelligence conscious? The deeper question is whether complex mathematical structuire is conscious; what happens when physics, mathematics and technology converge.

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Philosophy

Captain Fractal and the Machinery of Human Stupidity

Captain Fractal examines how political identities, media algorithms and institutional resistance to change reproduce conflict and instability.

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Philosophy

The Value of Nothing: Captain Fractal and the Price of Everything

Extreme wealth preserves its own stability by shifting costs onto everyone else. Captain Fractal explores why even billionaires cannot escape the physics of their own existence.

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Philosophy

Captain Fractal Takes a Coffee Break at the End of Civilisation

Over coffee, Captain Fractal considers a civilisation whose communication systems increasingly reward the behaviours that undermine its survival. The machinery isn’t broken. That’s the problem.

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Philosophy politics satire

Captain Fractal Un-Fucks the World: A UN Acceptance Speech

When humanity finally runs out of idiots to put in charge, it turns to Captain Fractal. Armed with decades of systems thinking, a ridiculous hat and a dangerous understanding of consequences, he sets about un-fucking civilisation.