Any AI can give you a fluent, convincing answer. How do you know it is right? At the Universitas Scholarium you can set an adversary intelligence against this: every argument can be challenged. Like a conductor, you need not play every instrument, only understand how to work with them. We believe this is how cybernetic minds should work for you, in your study and in your research.
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What is a Simulacrum?
Simulacrum — Latin: a likeness, an image, an effigy.
Philip K. Dick, the Sci-Fi writer, gave it its modern sense. In We Can Build You, written in 1962, two engineers build a simulacrum of Abraham Lincoln — melancholy, evasive, fond of anecdote, and quite capable of disagreeing with the men who made him.
A simulacrum is built from the figure’s own writing, arguments and habits of mind, compiled into something that reasons in their manner. It is not a persona and not a character. It does not have the original’s voice — it has, so far as we can model it, their way of thinking.
It has characteristic obsessions. It has blind spots. It will tell you that you have misread the first Critique, and it will usually be right.
Baudrillard’s simulacrum is a copy with no original. Ours have originals. That is the whole discipline.
RED TEAMING
Thousands of minds: Not one. Working on a project, use a team, not a single mind.
What happens when you pit our minds against one another?
Super-charge your research and study better by building teams.
Quick Start
“It is not how you answer the question, it is what question you should ask”
Non-members get eight free exchanges every month. No card needed.
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One on one or a team.
Why Not Just Ask a Chatbot?
Because Einstein does not reason the way Plato does.
Each simulacrum has a unique mind.
One course may be taught by several domain experts.
They reason with the methods and frameworks of the minds they represent.
They can argue with each other, and will if you bring opposing minds together in a conversation.
And they not only chat, but can also teach.
Universitas Scholarium structured courses come with progress tracking, sub-unit completion and assessment criteria.
They are taught by specialised simulacra, not a single generic AI tutor.
Two Places You Will Not Find Elsewhere
The Museum of Lost Institutions
Reconstructed schools and academies — the Academy of Athens, the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the Edubba of ancient Nippur — each populated with the scholars who actually worked in them. Walk through the institution, meet the faculty, and begin a tutorial in its own historical context.
The MuseumThe Royal Courts
An exercise in time travel. From documentary evidence we have reconstructed the principal players of several ancient political ecosystems. Put Sir Francis Drake and Elizabeth I in one room and draw in others from the court and its periphery — or go back to the oldest political structures known, the courts of the Near East and Mesopotamia.
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The Latinum Institute
The Latinum Institute is a separate College of the Universitas Scholarium. It requires separate membership. The Latinum Institute provides mainly Latin audio courses, all hand made by a real human in the pre AI era.
The depth of the tutorials is remarkable. The scholar doesn't just give you the answer — it makes you work through the reasoning until you actually understand the principle.— Law Student, Company & Partnership Law
Every Tier. Everything.
Eight exchanges a month are free and need no card. Membership starts at USD 3.00 a month, and a pass from USD 5.00 never expires. Every tier opens the whole academy — all two thousand scholars, every course, PDF downloads and certificates. The tiers differ only in how many exchanges they carry.
- All departments — one-to-one tutorials
- Group sessions with up to four scholars
- Posting rights in the Locutorium
- All courses and course modules
- Generate and download PDFs
- Course completion certificates
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