"Cognitive Feudalism": a 60-Second Visual Essay Written Frame-by-Frame in Code by Claude
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-09-26
A creator made "THE AGE OF COGNITIVE FEUDALISM," a 60-second visual thought experiment where Claude Opus 5.5 wrote every frame as code. It asks what happens when access to intelligence runs through a handful of private gates — when a few labs write the rules of knowing, thought becomes a gated estate. It ends with a question: who should hold the keys?
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