Elias Kunnas

Composite I many components, one answerable principal. Essay from a talk given at the Mind in the Age of AI pre-workshop, University of Turku, 19 August 2026 ( programme ).

Composite I many components, one answerable principal. Essay from a talk given at the Mind in the Age of AI pre-workshop, University of Turku, 19 August 2026 ( programme ).

Captured insiders rarely adopt globally better frames because adoption is not a legal move on the local board. Concentric capture bonds epistemic, status, material, and coordination positions so tightly that defection on one axis triggers cliff-edge losse

Knowledge is a graph. Every publication format serializes it into a line. LLMs collapsed production cost, revealing the real binding constraint: architectural design. The hypercodex is the format that preserves graph structure while remaining human-readab

Why the state is a misaligned optimizer - and what architecture could fix it. The governance alignment problem, the derived telos, and the Fourth Branch.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article by article, with thermodynamic analysis. Original text alongside critical evaluation of costs, prerequisites, and failure modes.

Philosophers debated ethics for 3000 years. Nobody asked what physics requires for complex systems to persist. This question has an answer.

How legal systems made passivity the only safe strategy. The institutional architecture that punishes action, rewards inaction, and selects for the Unstained Incompetent.

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The trolley problem isn