I like Switzerland and agree that it was arguably an exception to the rule. But it isn’t anymore and hasn’t been for some time.It capitulated to Obama in 2009 on financial privacy, and so Swiss bank accounts don’t really exist. The Swiss (perhaps understandably) sanctioned Russia after 2022 and nuked the Credit Suisse bondholders, in violation of financial neutrality. That neutrality is now found only onchain.The country is also de facto a member of NATO and the EU, even if not de jure. And is moving toward ...

If a country stay smalls to remain true to its roots, it eventually gets absorbed by an empire.Conversely, if a country plays for empire, and truly achieves world domination, it absorbs so many that its subjects eventually outnumber the imperial core. And thus the empire, too, loses touch with its roots.Stay small and get conquered.Get big and get diluted. ...

RT David Sacks (@DavidSacks)INSIDE NYT’S HOAX FACTORYFive months ago, five New York Times reporters were dispatched to create a story about my supposed conflicts of interest working as the White House AI & Crypto Czar.Through a series of “fact checks” they revealed their accusations, which we debunked in detail. (Not surprisingly the published article included only bits and pieces of our responses.)Their accusations ranged from a fabricated dinner with a leading tech CEO, to nonexistent promises of access t ...

2020: blue and tech against red2024: red and tech against blue2028: blue and red against tech ...

It’s quite possible that robotics eventually hyperdeflates the cost of physical products, too.Then the physical premium will disappear like the digital divide did. https://t.co/DHbzhr6L7l https://t.co/ztTkfRFimj ...

In the 90s, the worry was that only the rich would have digital products. That was called the digital divide. And it turned out to be completely wrong.Because digital is cheap.Physical is the premium product. ...

RT a16z (@a16z)Balaji Srinivasan on the coming verification gap in an AI world.“AI is going to create massive numbers of jobs in proctoring and verification because it’s so good at faking things.”“AI makes everything fake, and crypto makes it real again.”@balajishttps://t.co/65sKsnsCuv ...

The cost-of-living crisis is really a sovereign debt crisis.You can only print and borrow for so long.It causes problems in the long run.And the long run is here. https://t.co/e4XPpyVt7r ...

RT a16z (@a16z)Balaji Srinivasan says every startup now needs a founding creator. Someone who speaks for the product before it ships.“The founding engineer is the how… The founding creator is the why.”@balajis https://t.co/gmbgWa0PRw ...

For years, the conventional wisdom was to put 100% of your energy into building, and to ignore politics.The problem was that those who put 100% of their energy into fighting, particularly politicians, would then take everything you’d built.Like the video game Civilization. If you put everything into science and commerce, while the next door tribe puts it all into swordsmen and slogans, they’ll waltz over and walk over you.The temptation is then to respond in kind, by putting 100% of your resources into figh ...