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Philosophy

Unsustainable Cost of an Automated Economy

Consider artificial intelligence and capitalism together, not as separate forces but as mutually reinforcing dynamics, where automation becomes the primary mechanism for enforcing scale-dependent profitability. Technologically mediated commercial systems were always likely to converge on something like this. AI is not an aberration. It is a natural extension of a system that prioritises speed, scale, […]

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Philosophy

Natural Stupidity

Artificial intelligence is the single greatest facilitator of natural stupidity. It accelerates, amplifies, and at least partially self-validates our worst impulses while reassuring us that we are becoming wiser. Most people seem oblivious to the historical thinness and transient fragility of what they hold dear — emotions, bonds, responsibilities, wealth, loss. All of it rests […]

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politics

Bad News Bears: Populism in Australia

Tyrranical ignorance resurfaces not as a national quirk but as a communicative phenomenon: as complexity scales, systems collapse toward simpler signals — not because simplicity is true, but because it is what travels fastest and replicates most easily. Influence accrues to those who reduce the world to the fewest moving parts. What we’re living through […]

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Philosophy

Human Systems

Human behaviour gathers around centres that never quite appear. We move toward meanings that seem solid, yet their solidity comes from the very motion that tries to reach them. The closer we look, the more the “centre” dissolves into the relations that formed it, leaving us oriented by something that exists only as a pattern […]

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cybernetics

Technical Debt

The more precisely a technological system is engineered—its algorithms finely tuned, its processes deeply automated, its data flows tightly orchestrated—the more space is created for chaotic ambiguity to hide in the seams. In social media, for instance, the apparatus of engagement-metrics, feed-ranking, and viral amplification claim clarity and intent, yet they spawn unpredictable collective behaviour: […]

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cybernetics

Coherence through Contradiction: A Game of Words

Civilisation runs on language. Every system we build—laws, markets, machines, minds—depends on describing the world in order to act within it. Yet the world always moves first. The act of catching up is not a flaw but the essence of thought: meaning arises in pursuit, not possession. The delay—between what is and what can be […]

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cybernetics

General Intelligence

Imagine F and G as two interdependent operations—each defining the other through difference. F acts as a generator: it constructs hypotheses, projections, or internal states. G acts as a comparator: it evaluates, reflects, and reintroduces the outcomes of F back into the system. The diagram’s symmetry, where F = − G, indicates an inversion rather […]

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cybernetics

Organisational Inertia

It is an uncomfortable truth that most organisations exist to sustain their own inertia. Systems accumulate procedures, forms, and roles that replicate themselves under the guise of necessity. Meaning, in this context, is not produced by purpose but by repetition—the continual reinforcement of structures that justify their own persistence. The illusion of productivity masks a […]

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Philosophy

[01] Disinformation Dynamics: Unified Framework

Part 1 — Executive Summary and Scope Modern communication systems—political, technological, and cognitive—operate as self-organising fields of feedback. Their coherence does not arise from authority, ideology, or truth, but from rhythm: the timing, repetition, and resonance of interaction. Disinformation exploits this rhythm. It is not merely falsehood, but a manipulation of synchrony, coherence, and recursion—the […]

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Philosophy

[02] Disinformation Dynamics: Recursive Harmonics

2.1 Coherence as a Function of Recursion Every communication system is recursive. It consists of elements that transmit signals influencing their own subsequent states. This self-reference produces coherence. A message gains meaning not because it exists but because it is repeated, referenced, and reinterpreted. Without recursion, meaning is static. With recursion, meaning becomes dynamic and […]

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Philosophy

[03] Disinformation Dynamics: Interdiction Operations

3.1 Measurement Philosophy Measurement in recursive harmonic systems does not isolate variables; it captures relationships. Every observation modifies what is observed, because communication systems are reflexive. Therefore, measurement itself must be designed as participation in the field—an act of modulation that respects feedback dynamics. The goal is not to determine truth but to detect phase […]

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Philosophy

[04] Disinformation Dynamics: Operational Framework

4.1 Overview Disinformation interdiction is not the elimination of falsehood but the rebalancing of systemic coherence. It operates at the level of phase relationships—how signals align and reinforce one another—rather than semantic truth. The objective is to restore dynamic equilibrium: sufficient synchrony for stability, sufficient noise for adaptability. The system must breathe. Interdiction therefore proceeds […]