Three local rules give you a murmuration. Slightly different rules give you a stampede. The rules between agents deserve the same care as the capabilities inside them.
AI and agentsOptimization
Topic · Mandelbrot
Mathematics
Fractals, higher-order structure, and the proofs that feel inevitable once you see them. Self-similarity as a way of thinking.
3 pieces
- EssayOct 10, 2026Simple rules, whole societies
- ResearchApr 1, 2026Chitrakāvya: poems that are programs
Sanskrit poets encoded knight's tours, magic squares and palindromic surfaces into verse, a thousand years before Euler. The archive, with the tour you can step through.
Chitrakāvya - NyāyaApr 21, 2024Where there is smoke
The school of how we know and how we argue: four roads to knowledge, one shape for every inference, and a complete catalogue of the ways a losing opponent cheats.
PhilosophyAI and agents
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