Synthetic Civilization
AI, power, governance, and the future of civilization.
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The Civilization That Cannot Explain Itself
Editor’s note: This is the twelfth and final essay in the Synthetic Civilization political economy series. The eleven before it are (E1) “Output Without Income,” (E2) “The Market Becomes an Interface,” (E3) “The Wage Was a Legitimacy Machin...
Their Machines Can't Leave. They Can.
The most immobile thing being built in America this decade is the AI data center. It cannot chase cheaper labor abroad or slip into a friendlier tax code. It is poured into one county, wired to one set of substations and fed by power plants...
AI Will Bring Universal High Income. To Two Countries.
The application runs to a short list of conditions. The applicant must be a newly married man from the emirate of Abu Dhabi. He must already have a housing request on file with the state, whether for a grant, a plot of land or a subsidized...
Jamie Dimon's Marshall Plan Stops at the Frontier
“The initiative, I think, must come from Europe.” George Marshall said it about halfway through a short speech at Harvard in June 1947, and it was the sentence that turned a speech into a program. It would be neither fitting nor effective,...
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...
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