China is the exception to every rule.They can afford nationalism, because they are at billion-person civilization scale rather than million-person nation scale. They can actually afford autarky, because they already produce billions of widgets not just for themselves but the world. And they can even afford communism, because in reality they practice capitalism.Finally, China can ride the tiger in the AI Era by just centralizing everything and creating the largest walled garden in existence. The infrastructu ...

A billion-person Chinese superstate.And a thousand million-person network states.Jay Alto (@theJayAlto):out of necessity, the internet will soon be made up of geofenced, human-verified, invite-only micro-communities ...

@tylercowen Singapore is #2 in Claude usage per capita. https://t.co/ZGaRLf6ul1 ...

If you broadly know what you want to get done, AI will help you get there faster.But in its current form, it can’t set the direction for you. And it doesn’t move at infinite speed.Moreover, it does speed up everyone else who does know what they want to do.So while AI does make exploratory work easier, goal setting and prioritization has never been more important. ...

AI is a tool.But you need to provide the goal. ...

Communism is wealth seizure.But communism requires surveillance.Here’s how to see that.In 1918, in the midst of the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin gave an order to murder 100 nearby “kulaks.” By that he meant the kind of peasant who might have two cows.An under-appreciated aspect of Lenin’s order is that it required a list. That is: the communists couldn’t murder the kulaks without actually having a list of kulak names and locations.Moreover, the poor kulaks were tied to those locations, like farmers tend to b ...

AI has changed the very nature of surveillance.Any scrap of information online can now be integrated, digested, and synthesized…by any state or stalker capable of running an AI model…to form a dossier more complete than anything the Soviets could ever dream of.There will be no single silver bullet. But anything you haven’t encrypted can and will be used against you.So, we just need to encrypt everything.And give the AI nothing.Nothing means zero.Zero knowledge.Balaji (@balajis):From AI to ZK.Artificial inte ...

The choice is clear.It’s Zcash or communism.https://t.co/4sAG9WG0jA ...

RT Brian Chau (@brianchau57)https://t.co/3uyXU6Aev0 ...

@cnaut Rain scaled their business >100X in four years. All on the basis of stablecoins.For example, they let you quickly launch a stablecoin-backed card that works globally. https://t.co/EcEvaUKximCharles Yoo-Naut (🌧️,🌧️) (@cnaut):Glad to have @balajis as the first USDC in to help us fulfill our mission at Signify: having all businesses operating on web3, starting with helping startups fundraise and spend seamlessly ...