What does American Dynamism mean as a vision for the future? More factories with bigger flags? More throughput? More Zyns? To what end? OK now we're on Mars. What are we doing? Building another factory, but wearing a Carhartt spacesuit this time?
Aesthetics aside, American Dynamism rests on the morality of Steven Pinker: we're going to make more stuff, GDP will go up, and life will be better — in some nebulous, undefined way.
What if we organized our nation in line with the pursuit of some higher principle? That is what life is about, after all. You know this to be true.
Erik Voorhees: “ETH is still the king, and I don’t see it being dethroned"
The founder of ShapeShift and Venice AI is asked if Ethereum was a “sustainable ecosystem.” He replies:
“I think [Ethereum] is more than sustainable. I think it is the clear winner of the smart contract innovation. It actually wasn’t the first mover in smart contracts, but it was the first one to achieve any sort of scale with smart contracts. What’s most important about Ethereum isn’t so much the first-mover advantage as much as it is the network effect it has had since it was released.”
Erik continues:
“I think both Bitcoin and Ethereum have achieved a network effect that is close to unassailable. People have gotten distracted with some of these other L1s, but if you look at metrics like where the developers are and where stablecoin volumes are, these are hard to fake metrics that are very important. They’ve always been predominantly on Ethereum. It’s not even close. I’m glad that other people tried to build L1s. The process of innovation and competition is really important. But ETH is still the king, and I don’t see it being dethroned. It has had various scaling challenges — the patchwork of L2s and the UX problems between them sucks. But I have a suspicion that Base is going to end up becoming the predominant L2 on top of the predominant L1 of ETH and that vertical is going to be very powerful and very strong. So yes, I’m always bullish on ETH in the same way I’m always bullish on Bitcoin.”
However, Erik warns that if Base loses its permissionlessness it “will flounder and deserves to die”:
“Base has designed things very well. It has gotten a lot of adoption and very quickly became the major L2 even though it was not the first mover. I think it’s gaining a network effect pretty quickly. It obviously has a very powerful corporate ally in Coinbase, and to the degree that Coinbase does not abuse that privilege, that’s a very good privilege. Abuse here means: if Coinbase tries to exert control over base such that it loses its permissionlessness, then it will flounder and deserves to die. But Coinbase has been a very good actor in this regard, and they deserve a lot of credit for demonstrating the principles of decentralization and permissionless innovation in several parts of what they do. Obviously the centralized exchange is not that, but it’s not trying to be either.”
Source: @CoinDesk (Dec 2025)
Public robot companies are already worth WAY more than Ethereum's ~$200B market cap. Tesla alone is sitting at $1.4T, Intuitive Surgical at $160B, and the whole robotics sector is pushing close to $500B (still small compared to what's coming, but not tiny).
#Robotics#AI#Tesla
@KyleSamani Simple solution: We all just choose the 'max AI token spend' timeline and politely ignore the mass unemployment part.
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i maintain the view that space will be the next big VC bubble after AI:
> AI (like all bubbles) will eventually come to back down to earth
> Losses in AI will be explained by it being infeasible to scale enough compute terrestrially quickly enough
> Solution: put our AI data infrastructure in space (i.e. not on land)
> Putting and maintaining exorbitant compute resources requires all kind of new investment in the space economy
> space becomes the new hot, money pit (to fulfill the promise of AI)
(it’s worth noting that VC has grown to big, and structurally requires bubbles to sustain its AUM)