34. Cursus Honorum of the AI Future Part 6
In Episode 34 of the Great Houses Forum, Gregory Treat revisits his case for the Roman cursus honorum as an alternative to modern credentialing, correcting the prior episode's impression that nation-state scale is required by arguing that just six to ten neighboring households, comparable to the Jewish minyan, can run the system effectively. He walks through each rung of the Roman sequence, tribune, quaestor, aedile, senator, praetor, consul, and censor, showing how each office forced leaders to prove competence through real-world tests judged by the people whose lives were affected, with…
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