Rohit Krishnan

Writer of Strange Loop Canon, ambitious long-form essays on progress, science, business, and the future.

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Debt: The First 5000 Years

Will money still exist in the agentic economy?Rohit Krishnan

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Rohit Krishnan recommends this work as an excellent reference for the debate surrounding the origins of money and the role of state power.

“While the origin of money is a hot topic of debate (e.g., see David Graeber’s excellent book Debt: The First 5000 Years), the role of money in a competitive market is to solve the coincidence of wants.”

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Conversations with Tyler

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Deciphering PapyriRohit Krishnan

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Rohit Krishnan recommends this podcast because it provides the foundational papyri archive information that sparked his investigation.

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Agent governance looks less like moral education and more like institutional economics

how agents turn ruthless on paper first

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The Business of Building God

a look at the changing economics of AI labs

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How to control an agent swarm

whistleblowing, civic reminders, and the right ways to anthropomorphise AI

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Who Wins As Intelligence Commodifies?

A fun feature of life in 2026 is that it’s filled with drama.

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AIs are companies, my friend

on the need for liberalism for AI

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Nobody Knows Anything

on living with ignorance

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LLM councils show groupthink

perils and problems of LLM peer review

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Who Audits the Auditors?

Can one AI system make another AI system audit it less independently, just by explaining it’s point of view?

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Introducing BenchBench

TL;DR: presenting the ultimate benchmark, getting models to create benchmarks for each other, and GPT 5.2 is the current (only) winner

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Homo Agenticus

sapiens

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Artificial Life, Artificial Intelligence

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Experiments with Vibe Science

wherein I accidentally pursue an amateur paleontology phd

Rohit Krishnan5mo

Why Coase needs Hayek

sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets

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Agent, Know Thyself! (and bid accordingly)

why we need to train models to learn their own capabilities, and how this will help them bid for work!

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Aligned Agents Still Build Misaligned Organisations

agent handoffs launder uncertainty into official truth

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Deciphering Papyri

analysing bureaucracy in roman egypt

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LLM Enron: experiments on structure vs scale

can AI agents work inside a real organisation?

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Can we build a management flight simulator?

turns out, yes

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Notes on Hong Kong

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The future of work is world models

Why we need to build Starcraft for CEOs

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Vignettes from the Takeoff

Excerpts from a future history memoir

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Aligning Anthropic

The Department of War is angry at an AI lab

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Notes on Mexico

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The Tragedy of the Agentic Commons

Demonstrating why everyone getting their own AI agents will necessitate markets; otherwise known as Hayek's revenge

Rohit Krishnan10mo

Will money still exist in the agentic economy?

Yes

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Seeing like an agent

AI agents as digital daemons

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