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Cognitive Castes: Artificial Intelligence, Epistemic Stratification, and the Dissolution of Democratic Discourse
Craig S Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14218

Cognitive Castes: Artificial Intelligence, Epistemic Stratification, and the Dissolution of Democratic Discourse
Artificial intelligence functions not as an epistemic leveller, but as an accelerant of cognitive stratification, entrenching and formalising informational castes within liberal-democratic societies. Synthesising formal epistemology, political theory, algorithmic architecture, and economic incentive structures, the argument traces how contemporary AI systems selectively amplify the reasoning capacity of individuals equipped with recursive abstraction, symbolic logic, and adversarial interrogati…

International Conference Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. Political Thought and Social Theory https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/17/international-conference-leonard-trelawny-hobhouse-political-thought-and…

Bailouts by Representation: A Minimal TLC Theory with Weighted Consent
Xinli Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08693 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08693

Bailouts by Representation: A Minimal TLC Theory with Weighted Consent
We develop a purely theoretical mechanism in which provincial bailouts are disciplined by two levers derived from Weighted Representative Democracy (WRD): a political shadow cost of public funds and a weighted-consent cap on any transfer. Bailouts are considered only when an externality threshold is met. With quadratic implementation costs, the static problem yields a simple ''threshold--linear--cap'' (TLC) policy: zero below a lower activation point, linear in the middle, and flat at an upper …

International Conference Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. Political Thought and Social Theory
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International Conference Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse. Political Thought and Social Theory
https://ift.tt/PuobTd0
updated: Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:55amfull name / name of organization: CEAUL/ULICES, School of…
via Input 4 RELCFP