Abstract Currency

Time is the ultimate currency, so we make content worth your time.

Everything is on this page. 8 interactive pieces and instruments on the arguments actually shaping the economy — built to be explored rather than skimmed. No sign-up, no paywall, nothing to install.

The visualizer's 3D cube: twenty political traditions and sixty historical and living figures plotted on economic, authority and identity axes, with controls to collapse it to a line or a plane, and filters over the people layer.
Interactive atlasAugust 2026

The Political Spectrum Visualizer

Answer six questions, land inside a political space you can spin, then collapse it to the familiar left–right line and see what it hides.

20traditions, with dossiers
60real figures
12axes, all defined
Explore →
The Problem Web's masthead: “Every problem worth solving, all the way down” set over a faint white wireframe globe, with the top of the ranked list of the world's biggest problems below it.
Problem rankingSeptember 2026

The Problem Web

The world's ten biggest problems, ordered by how much of the world's suffering they account for. Open one for the goals that would solve it.

10problems, ranked
300reviewed nodes
∞layers down
Explore →
The Policy Web's masthead: “The decisions Congress could actually make” set over a faint white wireframe Capitol dome, with the top of the ranked list of policy decisions below it.
Policy rankingSeptember 2026

The Policy Web

The same instrument pointed at one building: ten decisions this Congress could make that economists think would raise living standards.

10decisions, ranked
160sourced nodes
∞layers down
Explore →
The voices map: seventeen named figures in the AI debate — Musk, Amodei, Altman, Sutskever, Hinton, Bengio, LeCun, Hassabis, Yampolskiy and others — plotted on how bad they think the downside is against how fast they think we should build, almost all of them crowded into the worried half.
Argument ledgerSeptember 2026

All Solutions to Superintelligence Problems

Every serious proposal for keeping a superintelligence from ending badly, each with the strongest reply from the other side underneath it.

70mechanisms, rebutted
15threat vectors
17positions placed
Explore →
The lumber yard mid-shock: the price tag held at the old level while the yard stands empty, the unfilled orders counted beside it, and the job site below with its unsold houses.
Interactive teaching toolSeptember 2026

Yard Market

Supply and demand without two lines crossing: a lumber yard and a job site, where a shortage is an empty stall before it is ever a number.

2markets, wired together
16shifters, S or D
3horizons, to five years
Explore →
The Big Five test: three lengths to choose from, and a results page of five percentile meters with the thirty facets folded underneath them.
Interactive instrumentSeptember 2026

The Big Five Personality Test

The public-domain IPIP-NEO, scored against Johnson's norm tables for your age and sex. Thirty facets, and nothing leaves your browser.

300items, at most
30facets under the five
0answers sent anywhere
Explore →
The simulator's floor: a room of personalities drawn as coloured dots, joined by green lines where they click and magenta where they clash, beside the room's chemistry and its fight of the night.
Interactive simulatorSeptember 2026

Group Personality Simulator

Put Big Five personalities in a room and watch them mingle: who clicks, who clashes, how to get along — and the one person the group is missing.

12people in one room
10kinds of clash
5occasions to test
Explore →
The ledger: twenty-two arguments for data centers and twenty-four against, in matched columns, each expandable to the numbers behind it.
The ultimate guideAugust 2026

The Data Center Question

46 arguments about data centers, matched side by side, each with the strongest reply underneath. Mark the ones that move you.

46arguments, both sides
5interactive sections
1deal simulator
Explore →