Popups are the new startups.Here’s the Perplexity cafe in Seoul:Perplexity Supply (@PPLXsupply):now open: cafe curious by @perplexity_ai📍 seoul, korea https://t.co/zupcvTxbio ...

When all else goes down, the Internet stays up. So, after a catastrophe, we restore from cloud.We're actually already used to this idea, and even have icons for it. We just need to scale it up from individuals to communities. Bitcoin is like v1 of that.https://t.co/ZHOsa7BAlo https://t.co/BR4NlvIdsoYishan (@yishan):As the trade war intensifies and geopolitical tensions rise, Balaji’s philosophy and his vision for the future becomes clear.Establishment midwits think of him as a crypto tech bro, but he has al ...

One thing I want to stress: this is the Flight 93 Administration.What that means is: many in the administration really are smart, well-intentioned men who managed to rush the cockpit against all odds, take control of the plane from abolish-the-police ideological terrorists, and are now trying to avert a crash landing. Some also do get how difficult the strategic situation vs China and the debt and so on is.But if you look at the numbers, the plane's relative descent has been going on for decades and is now ...

Democrats underestimated Republicans, and lost the meme war. Republicans underestimated China, and are unfortunately losing the trade war. And some in China may underestimate the free Internet, where choice can triumph over force.This requires some explanation. Let's go.(1) First, as a reality shill, we should stipulate that modern China is perhaps the most physically formidable country to ever exist. Visualize a young Bolo Yeung from Bloodsport. It's #1 in electricity, cars, steel, ships, and countless oth ...

At first that may be what’ll happen.But think about how the US was balanced for decades by the USSR. And during that period, the US was a better actor than the USSR. West Germany was better off than East Germany, South Korea was more prosperous than North Korea, and in general the US strengthened its allies while the Soviets didn’t.However, once the USSR fell, the US gradually became unbalanced. After 1991, it invaded too many countries and printed too much money — both to its own citizens’ detriment and to ...

The Internet was built to resist a nuclear attack. So you can’t easily use physical force against it. Even cutting undersea cables can be thwarted by satellite internet. https://t.co/xoLeGgCjdyElliott Pearce (@IrishCowboy13):@balajis Perhaps. How is the internet supposed to deal with thousands of cruise and ballistic missiles? ...

China is more MAGA than MAGA.The Internet is more America than America.That is: China has the heavily armed, highly industrialized, culturally traditionalist, monoethnic society that MAGA wants.Meanwhile, the Internet is global equality and uniform rule-of-code. It’s free markets and free speech, and the next version of what America once was.At this late stage, I don’t think the ~77M in MAGA can realistically out-manufacture the 1.4B of China. But the 7B+ on the global Internet could eventually balance the ...

RT @levelsio (@levelsio)With the wave governments are going in Europe, increasingly taking away freedoms and wealthI think it indeed may finally be time for network statesMy difference of opinion with the Network State theory here is that I think it's easier to adapt existing countries (or city states) to become network states that attract people, than to create entirely new countriesFor example, Dubai is attracting a lot of the high-skilled high-IQ and high-income Europeans, no matter how hard Europeans wa ...

Market Trend - China is expected to launch a blitz of open-source AI models across various fields, including computer vision, robotics, and image generation [1] - The trend suggests a potential overproduction of AI models from China [1] Strategic Inference - The analysis infers that China aims to commoditize its complements in the AI sector [1]

About 55% of unicorns are still in the US, but the trendline there is also towards decentralization. https://t.co/oa58mOZJ5J ...