The UAE is an exceptionally well-run place.Along with Singapore and El Salvador, it’s one of the most important small countries in the world, because it’s a startup state.There’s a book on how it was built by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.https://t.co/OKyNfQ90SM https://t.co/bSqgaHcucxBeff (e/acc) (@beffjezos):Dubai feels like the true nexus of Eastern and Western civilizationIt's an anchor point near the world economic center of massVery bullish on this place ...

That was from January 2022. Ten months later, ChatGPT arrived.The nature of technopolitical change today is that trends bounce along the ground for years until one day going completely vertical.From the current thing, to the sudden thing.https://t.co/SA0MdlX8RB ...

Then came year 53. https://t.co/iAlBpU7sql ...

RT vittorio (@IterIntellectus)to spacemoon first, mars next and then to the stars https://t.co/lpmEDvZdya ...

This is the map I had in my head.It’s actually a bit of a pain to get AI to add the nodes for the Far East and Mars, after San Francisco. AI struggles with the spatial, unless it’s laid out very explicitly with (x,y) coordinates.But perhaps you can do that.Nzube Ndiokwelu (@thebeaconsmith):I like charts https://t.co/JMMvs1jPRX ...

The Internet may expand into space because it is not welcome in America.anand iyer (@ai):Six US states now have bills to pause data center construction. New York just introduced a three-year moratorium. Florida's governor is publicly opposing them. Bernie Sanders wants a national freeze. The same AI infrastructure buildout that's driving $500B+ in annual capex is ...

Exactly.Go so far West that you end up in the East.Or to the cloud, and then to space datacenters, and from there to Mars. https://t.co/1UzNuIwq9nGoltra (@Goltra):West of San Francisco: Asia, the Internet, Space ...

Yes.One thesis is that Xi Jack Ma’d Jack Ma so that Jack Ma couldn’t Elon Xi.Meaning: Xi seized Jack Ma’s assets and drove similar Chinese tech founders into subservience or exile, so that Jack Ma (or someone like him) couldn’t use his fortune to challenge the ruling Party, like Elon did in America.So: in China, the State won over the Network. But in America, the Network won over the State.Elon freed speech with X, and tech freed media with AI and freed money with crypto. Technologists did not bend the knee ...

From Greece to Rome to Britain to America.From the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to the Wild West, to San Francisco.The technological frontier kept moving West, till it reached the Pacific Ocean.But if the wealth seizures destroy Silicon Valley, as they are intended to do and likely eventually will…where will the frontier go next?To the Far East, and to the cloud.To China, and the Internet. ...

Yes, it does herald the end of American Empire.(1) First, those social media posts are on the Internet. Not via some state-aligned prestige outlet, not via broadcast media. They are on the Internet, on tech platforms operated by non-government actors, where anyone can talk back. Very different from the institutional strength of the past!(2) Second, obviously the global economy would not choose from scratch to center itself around something so unpredictable as today’s DC. The past architects of American Empi ...