the question is, equally important to whether we can build better ai or better fighter jets or electric cars or whatever, can we reproduce metallica in moscow in 1991? if we can’t, we’ll have taken a wrong somewhere. we need those "soft-ware" moments
westphalian system -> machiavelli -> the collateral of a state is its ability to coerce -> geographic + political centralization. what's s the network state's monopoly on violence? defi, nanofactories (BuildOS-powered) as depins, a religion + a fuckload of distribution? ambitious
@0xsmac if i could only hold one token, for the rest of my life, it'd be ada. cardano is going to win, they productize hardcore research and haven't made tradeoffs for near-term adoption. check out edinburgh-decentralization-index, midnight, cip 1696, and listen to a hoskinson ama
it's time to execute. success is not guaranteed. keep in mind that "Turning Twitter into X was like turning Ford into Tesla. Turning the USG into what it should be is like turning the Taliban into OpenAI." (curtis yarvin)
"And now we the poor grandchildren find that it will not stick together on these terms any longer; ... that the red-tape Offices in Downing Street are near the end of their rope; that if we can get nothing better, in the way of government, it is all over with our world and us."
let charles hoskinson and ron paul represent crypto in the trump administration they've been there before in '08. and elon needs to let george hotz intern per usual. it's time to execute @doge
samo burja really just took his live player philosophy which he kinda forked from pgraham and enhanced it and built an investment strategy around it. and it worked! ideas and frameworks are beautiful when you can apply them anywhere. this is one of those cases
the fact that mistral isn’t signing the EU’s AI safety pledge says everything. s/o to google and microsoft for signing that shit. default dead, unlike zuck’s meta