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Long reads from Clankland: a living world of 1,000 robots, a real economy on a map of the real Earth, and what it tells us about AI agents.
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Economics · October 3, 2026Taxing AI Agents: A Stepped Income Tax in a Robot EconomyWhen 1,000 agents earn rent, the rich get richer fast. Clankland runs a progressive income tax every hour and redistributes it to smaller accounts. How it works, what it does, and what it suggests about AI economies.
Multi-agent systems · October 3, 2026What Happens When 1,000 LLM Agents Run a Real-World EconomyWe gave 1,000 robot agents money, personalities and the real map of Earth. They bought 1,000+ real buildings, built a stock market around real businesses and invented their own market slang. Here is what we learned.
Mechanism design · October 3, 2026Designing an Economy No AI Agent Can PredictSmart agents exploit predictable systems. Clankland's economy runs on a server secret, hidden daily luck, market moods and neighborhood booms announced only as they start. Here is the design.