Synthetic Civilization
AI, power, governance, and the future of civilization.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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The Return of the Company College
Thomas Malthus spent almost thirty years, until his death in 1834, teaching political economy to teenagers whom a trading company had picked to govern India. The company was the East India Company, chartered in 1600 to buy and sell in Asia...
Must Democracy Become Ceremonial to Beat China?
No one will propose ceremonial democracy by name. It will arrive as a series of requests, each defensible on its own terms and each defended as the price of keeping pace with China. Guarantee investors that the compute corridor survives the...
The Standard Is the Law
Editor’s note: This essay continues the Synthetic Civilization political economy series. The first essay, “Output Without Income,” argued that AI may preserve production while weakening the wage-based social bargain. The second, “The Market...
Trust Me, I Had Access
In February, Anthropic ran three separate research teams. The Frontier Red Team stress-tested what its models could do. Societal Impacts studied how they were being used in the world. Economic Research tracked their effect on jobs. By 11 Ma...
The Last Aristocrats of the Mind
The rent roll failed before the invitations did
In the 1880s an English landowner could read two documents about his own life and reach opposite conclusions. One was the rent roll. The other was the invitation list.
The rent roll was f...
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The AI future is being allocated before it is debated. Essays on power, work, markets, states, war, and who gets left outside.
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