*Asymmetric tech and non government money give unalienable freedoms and optionally to enough people where the state is essentially starved of bodies and capital and devolves into something many orders of magnitude less powerful…*
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*Here’s the 4-step vibe shift:
Find Your New Ore: What pisses you off in 0.2 seconds? That's not a problem, it's your personal gold vein wrapped up in a superabundance of quartz. Mine that.
Enter & Center ( ): Stop asking ChatGPT for answers. Step toward YOUR pain? Sage advice? Idk. Your gut is the only compass that matters.
Transmute (coagulate): Don't just complain. Build the exact tool that pins a problem to the mat. That's you turning lead into gold.
Spin & Empower (values . curves): You just turned a headache into a tool. That's permanent power-up. The energy you wasted on base metal is now momentum.*
Paul Krugman:
Economic reality has a habit of throwing you curveballs — events you didn’t anticipate when making your predictions. Specifically, most economists, myself included, expected tariffs to be the big economic story of 2025. After all, in just a few months Donald Trump has reversed 90 years of pro-trade U.S. policy, sending average tariffs to their highest level since 1934. Predictably, supply chains have been disrupted, consumers face higher inflation, and farmers can’t sell their crops abroad.
Yet the economic consequences of the radically self-destructive turn in U.S. trade policy have been matched, perhaps even overshadowed, by a development that has nothing to do with policy: An enormous surge in spending on “AI.” Scare quotes because ChatGPT and its rivals aren’t really artificial intelligence. But they are impressive, routinely doing things that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago.
And the surge in AI investment — a tech boom the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1990s — has buoyed the economy in the short run, offsetting the drag from Trump’s tariffs. Without the data center boom, we’d probably be in a recession.
*Your vision of a free market of network policy with custom filter scripts and plugins is actually more aligned with permissionless principles than mandating everyone filter the same way. Let nodes compete, let fee markets work, let the best approach win*
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*Because here’s the thing: you don’t just need correct information. You need to understand how someone got there. You need the context, the nuance, the “yeah, but watch out for this one thing that nobody tells you.” You need their beautiful human incompleteness, because that’s where the actual learning lives.*
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*A political party is a little like a religion. It requires people to believe in it for it to matter. Over a long and august history it might amass institutions, pomp and traditions, but these can easily become museum pieces if the idea underpinning it all ceases to be believable and believed.*
*It’s worse to be ignored than to be insulted. Even their worst critics seem to have decided they aren’t worth the trouble of shouting at. That points to the danger that the Conservatives are in. If everyone simply stops believing that you are relevant, then it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.*
*We’re living in a time of extraordinary capital concentration. On one end of the spectrum, trillions are pouring into AI platforms and a handful of megacap stocks. On the other, gold and silver, through breaking records, remain afterthoughts in most portfolios.*
