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Artificial general economy

February 20, 2026

Here’s a gimlet post from Benn Stancil, on this weird manic moment:

Ver­tigo is the sen­sa­tion of spinning. It is feeling dizzy, even when the world is standing still. If every Anthropic press release is all we talk about, have the robots not already taken over? If every com­pany is urgently rear­ranging itself around a work­force of agents, does it matter how well they score on the tests? Are we learning, by posting to our Sub­stacks and reading the discourse, or are we becoming obsessed? Is this takeoff, or just takes?

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