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 ...

The AI flippening. https://t.co/78a520QeWT ...

All Network State 2025 talks are now free online.Here's a link to the YouTube playlist:https://t.co/weNEfGTagu ...

Popups are the new startups.Because we can now populate the land from the cloud.Here's a full conference recap on that exact point.https://t.co/shz1ICWBmJ https://t.co/MVXjOiSond ...

Billions of dollars.Millions of followers.Thousands of attendees.Half a dozen governments.And one idea whose time has come. https://t.co/Y2JVubfep2 ...

Yes. It's simultaneously to the progressive left and the capitalist right of today's system.Everyone from every race is treated provably equally under Bitcoin's rule-of-code. At the same time, there is zero involuntary redistribution.Tough, but fair.https://t.co/2RJMQ0Q8Vwwbnns (@wbnns):@balajis Cryptocurrencies open doors to free economies where dark talent converts 1:1 to equal opportunityA meritocratic, free gym to level up in and buildEveryone gets the same opportunity to pursue their dreams and life go ...