Synthetic Civilization
AI, power, governance, and the future of civilization.
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The Tax State After Labor
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...
The Authoritarian API
On 30 October 2023, a Belarusian filmmaker named Andrei Hniot landed in Belgrade and was arrested at the airport.
He had not been arrested by Belarus. He had not been convicted of a crime in Serbia. He had been flagged by an Interpol Red N...
When the Rich World Stops Needing Workers
Imagine Europe in the 2040s.
The birthrate never recovered. Italy is older than its politicians expected. Germany has more care facilities than classrooms in some regions. Spain has become a country of empty interiors and crowded coastal c...
The Map: Where Power Goes When Intelligence Is Cheap.
Most people meet AI as a technology. They ask whether it takes jobs, whether models wake up, whether schools should ban it, whether regulators can keep up. Fair questions. But they sit on the surface.
The deeper shift is simpler and strang...
If You Can't Get Into an Ivy, Join the Army
Here is the pitch, and it is a good one.
You are eighteen. You are bright, you are not rich, and you did not get into the school whose name would have done half the work for you. You can borrow six figures against a degree in a field that...
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Governments govern. Markets allocate. Regulators regulate. AI already moved the real decisions somewhere else. The new great-power competition isn't territory. It's compute, infrastructure, and who controls the intelligence layer. This is the map.
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