it is better to live one day as a tiger than 1000 days as a sheep

we are living through chapter 1 of this book 

autonomous agents will not pay taxes

switzerland has extremenly permissible gun laws and easy ability to buy fully automatic heavy machine guns (just can't shoot them unless the country is at war) very very few gun related deaths due to the lack of a swiss mental health crisis and an open embrace of firearm training as a cultural strength.

trust the science.

every day we try to climb meru. we think we are close but then the weather makes us turn back. despite all of our preparation and our study we head back down but a littler higher than where we started. 10 steps up and 7 back, we continue. With barely any food, with empty bank accounts and only the passion for greatness fueling us to do what most would give up on.

Xi Jinping: The US is going to attack our plans for a gold backed settlement layer... Lan Fo'an: Yeah, bitcoin is still letting capital leak out of the mainland Xi: you need to kill bitcoin Lan: We have tried to ban it but the people still use it Xi: We banned mining not bitcoin Lan: We can't ban it, people always try and use what we ban. Too much publicity Xi: Who owns the most bitcoin? Lan: Satoshi Xi: And we still don't know who he is? Lan: Right but we have many old chinese miners selling equipment to the west. Xi: Send our men to pay them a visit and make them sell their coins. We will dump the price. We will pump gold. We will destroy their narratives. Bitcoin will go down, gold will go up. Lan: We can't do that forever we only have so many coins. Xi: Sell futures, print money, use our cayman shells to short their ETFs, buy silver, buy copper. We will show them that their bitcoin is worthless in our new world. Lan: Yes sir.

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