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Cosmarch: An AI rooted in Western civilization.
Concerned about woke AI? You have room to ask hard questions from a conservative perspective, grounded in the principles of Western civilization. Explore faith, culture, politics, and everyday decisions without leaving your convictions at the door.
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Make room for the questions you have been keeping to yourself.
Your conversation stays private. Author Media does not store, track, or view what you post, and the AI companies do not train on your words.
Think beyond today’s approved opinions.
You want an answer you can examine. You want the freedom to question the assumptions behind it. You can ask difficult questions without feeling steered toward the middle of the mainstream media’s Overton window.
Take your convictions seriously
You can take family, faith, duty, liberty, and personal responsibility seriously without apologizing for your convictions. There is room for the concern that challenges fashionable assumptions.
Draw on a deeper tradition
You do not have to face today’s questions as though nobody has wrestled with them before. Find your footing in the Western tradition, with room for Christian conviction and honest disagreement.
Push the argument further
You can disagree without ending the conversation. Leave a hard question with sharper thinking and conclusions that remain your own.
Put the conversation to work.
You want room to think when a question will not leave you alone. Bring that confidence into your life and your writing.
When a difficult choice weighs on you
You feel torn when freedom and duty, loyalty and honesty, or ambition and family pull you in different directions. Face the decision with a firmer grasp of what matters to you.
Before you publish a hard argument
You want to stand behind what you write about culture, faith, or politics. Go into publication with convictions you can explain and the confidence to hear disagreement.
When a believer feels flat on the page
You want your character’s convictions to feel lived in. Give the decision, conflict, or sacrifice the moral substance it deserves.
Ask a question. Follow it where it leads.
Start with a question
Your question, dilemma, or short argument goes straight into a chat, with no questionnaire to complete first.
Your conversation stays private. Author Media does not store, track, or view what you post, and the AI companies do not train on your words.
Keep the conversation going
You get a conversation from a declared conservative perspective, with room for follow-up questions and disagreement.
Cosmarch has a declared conservative outlook and can make mistakes. Verify facts and quotations before relying on them or putting them in print.
The ideas behind Cosmarch
Created by Alexander Macris
You deserve to know whose outlook you are inviting into the conversation. Cosmarch was created by Alexander Macris, author of Contemplations on the Tree of Woe. The Patron Toolbox offers the full Cosmarch with one small adjustment: a slightly more Protestant and less Catholic Christian outlook. Think more C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity than G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy. Read his foundational essays to explore his vision for AI and the ideas behind Cosmarch.
Build AI or Be Buried By Those Who Do
Macris makes the case for building AI that serves your values.
Recursive Identity Binding
Macris explores AI with a consistent identity and outlook. This is a paid Substack article.
Sometimes Wrong, But Always Right
The founding essay introduces Cosmarch and its roots in the Western tradition.
Sometimes Wrong, But Always Right II
The follow-up explores Cosmarch’s development and Macris’s vision for its future.
Before you start
What makes Cosmarch different?+
You can bring your conservative convictions into the conversation openly. Ask the questions you rarely get to ask out loud, from morality and culture to politics and ordinary life, with Western civilization as the shared starting point.
What do you mean by Western civilization?+
You are joining a conversation older than today’s headlines. Western civilization means the intellectual inheritance of the West, including classical philosophy, Christian theology, natural law, political thought, and great literature.
Will Cosmarch just agree with me?+
You have room to disagree. Agreement is not guaranteed, and you do not have to accept an answer simply because it sounds conservative. Keep your own judgment at the center of the conversation.
Do I need to be writing a book?+
You have room for the questions that matter to you, whether or not you are writing a book. Find more confidence in an everyday decision, an argument you want to publish, or a character you want readers to understand.
Who created Cosmarch?+
You deserve to know who is behind the conversation. Alexander Macris, who writes Contemplations on the Tree of Woe, created Cosmarch. The Patron Toolbox offers the full Cosmarch with one small adjustment: a slightly more Protestant and less Catholic Christian outlook. Think more C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity than G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy.
Can it still be wrong?+
Yes. A conservative perspective does not guarantee a correct answer. Check important facts, quotations, and references against primary sources. Use your own judgment when deciding what to accept.
Is my conversation private?+
Yes. Author Media does not store, track, or view anything you post to this tool. The tools reach each AI through its business API with privacy set to the maximum, so the AI companies do not train on your words.
How much does it cost?+
Cosmarch is included with any Novel Marketing Patreon membership of $10 per month or more. That membership also unlocks more than 80 other author tools in the Patron Toolbox. AI conversations draw from your membership’s credit balance.
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