Measuring the Unsolvable: A Comparative Study of the Liber Primus (Cicada 3301) and the Voynich Manuscript
Falsification, discriminative statistics, and the limits of AI in historical cryptanalysis
The study of Matheus Soranço
Philomathēs
φιλομαθής adj. Gk. — fond of learning; lover of knowledge.
Essays, fiction, art, music, cryptography, code, projects, curation and manifestos, gathered in one place. Research in artificial intelligence engineering and multi-agent systems, writing and engineering treated as a single craft.
Index
Contents of the collections
- Essays Dense, opinionated texts on science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, consciousness, literature and the future. Includes the Polymathēs series. 9 texts
- Zhakev Archive Texts published under the pseudonym Alexei Zhakev, preserved as they were published. The authorship was revealed in October 2026. in preparation
- Fiction Short stories, excerpts and chapters, and the book Breve Inventário de Coisas que Não São Exatamente Esperança, Mas Servem (in Portuguese). in preparation
- Art and music Visual works, albums, audio and process notes. in preparation
- Engineering Tutorials, project notes, code, demos and technical reposts with credit and a link to the source. in preparation
- Cryptography and cryptanalysis Long analyses, with mathematical notation, on ciphers and cryptanalysis. 1 text
- Curation Communities, free resources and material from the internet, each with its own description, a curator’s comment and a link to the source. in preparation
- Manifestos Texts on cultural and digital freedom, cyber culture and digital rights. in preparation
Recent
Latest texts
The Last Instrumental Century
On the possibility — and the possible forms — of a human future
The Partition of the Abyss
Mereological Nihilism of Consciousness
The Tyranny of the Mirror: Consciousness, Deliberation and the Necessary Suffering of Human Decisions
Conscious deliberation is not the origin of our choices but a late narrator of them; the essay argues that much specifically human suffering comes from consciousness invading the domain of the subconscious, and asks who, after all, decides.
The Possibility of Superintelligence and the Void of Alignment
Nothing known prevents a superintelligence from existing; the technical path and the timeline are opaque; and the alignment problem is open while institutions are inadequate. An argument for cautious possibilism, neither doomerism nor complacency.
Intelligent Computers, Life Extension, and the Reconfiguration of Human Conditions
How artificial intelligence is turning the reversal of aging from a philosophical aspiration into an engineering program: epigenetic reprogramming, AlphaFold, deep aging clocks, six original theses, and the ethical and geopolitical stakes.
Ex libris
Elsewhere
The reference version of the texts is the one on this site. The addresses below are copies, archives or profiles.
- WordPress Polymathēs polymathesblog.wordpress.com The original blog of the essays. The texts were replicated on Substack and Medium.
- WordPress The Zhakev Archive oarquivozhakev.wordpress.com The original blog of the pseudonym Alexei Zhakev, now frozen. Replicated on Substack.
- Substack Polymathēs on Substack matheussoranco.substack.com Publication with the replicas of the essays.
- Substack Matheus Soranço’s profile substack.com/@matheussorano Personal profile on Substack.
- Substack Alexei’s Substack alexeizhakev.substack.com Publication with the replicas of the Zhakev Archive.
- Substack Alexei Zhakev’s profile substack.com/@alexeizhakev The pseudonym’s profile on Substack.
- Medium Matheus Soranço on Medium medium.com/@matheussoranco Profile with the replicas of the essays.
- Profile GitHub github.com/Matheussoranco Code and projects.
- Profile Hugging Face huggingface.co/MatheusSoranco Models and datasets.
- Profile Lattes CV http://lattes.cnpq.br/2638856314649555 Academic CV on the Lattes Platform (CNPq).
- Profile ORCID orcid.org/0009-0003-1892-5976 ORCID iD 0009-0003-1892-5976.
- Profile Google Scholar scholar.google.com/citations?user=a-HhXsYAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR Citation profile on Google Scholar.