Elias Kunnas

Selected Essays

The Question Nobody Asks — What physics requires for complex systems to persist.
Values Are Replicators — Your values aren't yours. They inhabit you like viruses inhabit cells.
The Original Sin of History — How the West became a paperclip maximizer.
The Last Step — Where the rationalist and mechanist traditions diverge. MacAskill built the right telescope with the wrong lens.
Telocracy — Democracy answers "who decides." Nobody answers "what for."
Ethics Is an Engineering Problem — From disposition training to architectural constraints.
The Holographic Unity — Why civilizational collapse and AI risk are the same math.

Aliveness

The Aliveness framework analyzes what sustains existence indefinitely. An 820-page book deriving ethics from physics: not "what should we value?" but "what must be true for a system to persist?" Free PDF, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mekanismirealismi

Mekanismirealismi: Sivilisaation käyttöohje (2026). Ongelma ei ole kuljettajassa vaan koneessa. Katsomme ihmisiä, puolueita, lupauksia — emme kannustimia, takaisinkytkentöjä, aikahorisontteja. Ja syvempi ongelma: Suomella ei ole päämäärää. Korjaus: telokratia ja Mekanismivirasto (MeV).

EN: Mechanism Authority — a proposed independent agency ensuring that laws and incentive structures actually work.

LawVM

LawVM — an open-source compiler that replays amendment acts into point-in-time legal text-state. Deterministic, no AI. Finland proof case: >99% text agreement with official consolidation, 22 verified divergences reported to the government. Experimental frontends for the UK, Estonia, Norway, and Sweden. Why law is law-shaped.

farchive

farchive — a content-addressed archive format backed by SQLite with zstd dictionary-trained compression and deduplicated blobs. Efficient scraping, corpus management, and reproducible data work: preserves exact bytes at named locators with full provenance.

Parempi Suomi

Parempi Suomi — kansalaisaloitteita ja ehdotuksia Suomen institutionaalisten mekanismien parantamiseksi.