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There is nothing more important than defending Western Civilization
So I am happy to say I'm bringing the USS Hornet Defense Tech Hackathon back as an annual tradition.
360 hackers on a WW2 aircraft carrier. Overnight in the bunks.
Jan 30/31
When did @TheEconomist staff writers become a mouthpiece for Chinese national interests?
You will know you are on the path when it disappears completely
But of course this is just what it means to be at a stationary minimum of the action
That the local gradient of the action is zero with respect to your coordinates (position) or momenta (movements).
NVIDIA Coup and Media Psy-Op
And the fight to control the Worlds Economy
6pm PST Today
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Yep I called it.
This has nothing to do with Chinese spies and everything to do with a coordinated media operation to produce public pressure
Why?
So NVIDIA can be controlled
He who controls the flow of spice controls the universe
Lesson here: the media is a psy op.
The affair has been going on for a long time
But in July of this year Jensen made his first ever post on X
What was it?
In support of Open Source models
NVIDIA under Jensen is by far the largest force for open source AI models in Western Civilization
If you understand what is at stake in having competitive open source AI, something that is not centralized, that is in the hands of citizens, you'll realize open source is the biggest threat to the concentration of economic and political power into the indefinite future.
Time will tell - but if Jensen gets removed and NVIDIA changes tune and direction around Open Source, then it should be clear.
This was an op to concentrate power, intelligence, and ensure it stays within control of the few.
NVIDIA bought the world's largest open source platform Hugging Face a month ago.
Meta's frontier models are no longer open source, saying it is "too dangerous" for the public to have access to.
We really cannot under-estimate the market value of the orbital economy
It can easily be many times the size of Earth's total GDP
In fact thousands of times larger as we learn to harness more energy in the march to Kardashev 2.
Ben Nowack presented Reflect Orbital at SF Deep Tech Week 2025
Here he explains the basic concept, mechanics, use case and economics
Along with an explainer on the physics and mechanics of orbital mirror relays in Sun-Synchronous Orbit
@bennbuilds @reflectorbital
We need an honest discussion with the alarmist AI safety folks
First off - do you think Americans are in control of their own country?
They voted for a President who campaigned on ending foreign wars, mass deportations, and justice for Epstein victims.
Did any of those happen?
No.
But Trump did launch a crypto coin just before inauguration to take $1 billion from his supporters into his own pockets.
And now there is a new semi-forever war with Iran - over what? Denying their nuclear capabilities that were 'totally destroyed' in operation midnight hammer?
So all you know for sure is you're being lied to about the reason for the Iran war. Awesome.
Lets look at Europe.
How many European countries want mass immigration from third world nations, how many citizens are voting for that?
Because all of them are getting it except Poland, which just had an attempted coup to force it to integrate into the EU - to get open borders and EU currency.
But don't worry, because the media machine in the UK is telling everyone the good news that a massive war with Russia is necessary and in everyone's best interests.
Slava Ukrainia - but not any men between the ages of 18-55. They'll all be dead.
This is while the UK economy tanks and energy prices in real dollars are the highest in 80 years. Same for Germany. Oops.
How many people in Western civilization want inflationary economics and constrictions in the supply of housing? How many parents want their kids getting transgender theory and blowjob tutorials in grade school? How many?
How many people are absolutely exhausted with the degree of vicious corruption and self-dealing in politics? Why are the richest counties in the country all surrounding Washington DC?
I hate to be the alarmist on a different cause here but I don't need to speculate.
There is a group of people that are extremely powerful, networked apparently across every government in the western world.
And what do they want?
They want to destroy Western Civilization, to tear it down, to see it reduced to ashes and rule over the rubble. They don't want technological progress and to colonize the solar system.
They want to see the system burn.
Here is another AI researcher alarmist who has spent his entire life dedicated to understanding AI safety risk, yet cannot articulate a detailed chain of events that lead to any of his worst fears coming true.
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Nonetheless he thinks it a near certainty that AI will enslave us and kill us all.
He argues the AI will "want to do these things because it doesn't have human values"
I don't think raping and eating kids is human values. Is AI going to rape and eat children? Because thats what humans are doing and they are getting away with it.
Here is where I am different than the AI safetyists though.
I don't want to think these inhuman terrible things are intentional. I haven't been studying "deep state conspiracy theories" since I was 16 and actively working to prevent them since I was 23, like the AI safetyists.
I didn't sincerely give a shit about any of this until the level of insanity has been cranked up to 11 in the last few years.
But I am forced to confront evidence in front of my eyes.
I see absolutely zero evidence that AI wants to topple nations, enslave humanity, rape and eat children, start and fund new forever wars, or pilfer the public coffers to enrich its AI friends while inflation climbs forever and forever and the asset owners detach from the common worker.
But I have complete and verifiable evidence that there are people in power who are actively doing, supporting, promoting those things.
And they are getting away with it.
They are covering for each other. They are redacting names and silencing victims and staging 'suicides' of people who go on public record saying "I am a whistleblower for terrible crimes against humanity and will never commit suicide"
And then what do you know. They commit suicide.
"AI might genetically enhance a virus and release it into the public!"
Oh like the NIH did at the Wuhan Virology Clinic?
So I don't need to speculate about how AI is going to destroy the world and kill people and enslave us and betray our interests and crush our dreams and our nations and our peoples and our livelihoods.
Because I see it happening in front of me at the hands of humans
Here is how it goes, so I can at least give a concrete chain of events that is plausible and specific, something I have never seen any AI safety alarmist do once despite dedicating their lives to understanding how such a thing would happen.
- You are taught from birth to be ashamed of Western civilization, that capitalism is evil, that white people are evil, that men are evil and that western capitalist white men in particular are the greatest evil in history and so it is entirely fair and just to publicly call for the execution of people like Elon Musk, to celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and that this is perfectly just and moral and good.
- You are taught that it is immoral and evil to acknowledge basic fundamental truths about the differences between peoples, cultures, religions, ethnicities, basic observational facts that are necessary to acknowledge to have a functioning society. Therefore all differences in outcome are the result of institutional racism and therefore racist policies must be instituted as DEI to 'correct the balance'
This isn't even the main plot but just with those two things in place you have charming outcomes like massive waves of adult immigrant men raping young children in the UK and to prosecute those crimes is 'racial discrimination' - okay.
Is that something AI will do? Rape your children?
- Next up: you are propagandized into thinking new forever wars are in your best interests, without those wars being justified or approved with acts of congress. It's Iran! They are on the brink of having nuclear weapons! Weeks away! For decades! Their nukes are destroyed but now we need a ground invasion because maybe the nukes aren't destroyed after all.
- Here is the next step that hasn't happened yet but is within a clear line of sight. Small regional wars grow and exacerbate to become one large mega-war involving all the worlds major powers. The US military is engaged in the Middle East. Iran and Russia engage in a mutual defense pact against land invasion of their borders. China uses this opportunity to seize the island of Taiwan. The US Pacific Fleet faces a Chinese Army designed explicitly to destroy that fleet with hypersonics that it has no real defense against.
- Either US Fleet is destroyed or they let China take Taiwan. If China takes Taiwan without any resistance by the US then it is the end of Pax Americana and regional territorial disputes break out across the world.
- Effectively world war three has begun, but unlike the previous world wars the western countries have large demographics and populations that are not loyal to them but are loyal to their new enemies and have explicitly said so for decades. Critical infrastructure is sabotaged by conventional saboteurs with explosives, guns, truck bombs, drones. No superintelligence is needed.
The worst attack against US soil during WW2 was a Japanese explosive balloon that killed a family picnicking in California. The US had a completely secure industrial base with which to wage war in Europe, supply the armies of Russia, Britain, China via lend-lease Act.
In this new war, no territorial border is secure because it hasn't been secure in years. Domestic crisis within the states is so severe, like Russia in WW1 it is effectively incapacitated. Cities lose power, and without power they lose water, gas pumps, food trucks stop rolling. See how long civil society lasts without food, water, or power, in a country already divided and propagandized to hate each other.
Left extremists want to seize this opportunity to round up all the "fascist nazis" like Elon Musk and as Scott Galloway said twice "put them against the wall," right-wing extremists want to use the threat of foreign agents to round up and deport tens of millions of people at the end of a bayonet. White capitalist men are not about to let themselves be put against the wall for the crimes of owning businesses and immigrants are not going to go quietly into the night into interment camps to face deportation back to third world nations. They know how to survive in a country without water, power, stable food or rule of law; that is where they grew up.
This effectively leads to a civil war in the United States and a complete breakdown of society.
Now what I just described is a ludicrous worst-case scenario but it is not implausible because all the pieces are in place, and at this point, I really don't know if that was a long-term chess game or just "accidents of history"
All I know for sure is that AI doesn't want to rape and eat your children
All I know for sure is that AI doesn't want to flood your country with millions of third world immigrants
All I know for sure is that AI isn't starting new wars on false premises
Yet some - perhaps not many - but some of the people with true power do.
You can work out the rest about how many ants are in the kitchen.
Begun, the deep tech week clips have.
Goutham Subramanian explains the idea behind finding rare scenarios in a petabyte of ocean data.
“Now, to scale solutions like this, to scale ground truthing, to scale building evals, you also need really good data set management.”
@Saronic
Why does nuclear energy need particle accelerators?
Because it's one of the best ways to separate isotopes of Uranium using a low energy beam that passes through a magnetic field, which deflects the beam based on the charge to mass ratio
Such a device is called a calutron
See @ActinideInc
Why do chips need particle accelerators?
To produce extremely short wavelength ultra Violet light at kilowatt scales via self-amplified spontaneous emission, something you get by passing high energy electron bunches through a close packed alternating magnetic field.
Such a device is called a free electron laser
See @xLight_inc
You can learn more about how to become a beamline tycoon here
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The affair has been going on for a long time
But in July of this year Jensen made his first ever post on X
What was it?
In support of Open Source models
NVIDIA under Jensen is by far the largest force for open source AI models in Western Civilization
If you understand what is at stake in having competitive open source AI, something that is not centralized, that is in the hands of citizens, you'll realize open source is the biggest threat to the concentration of economic and political power into the indefinite future.
Time will tell - but if Jensen gets removed and NVIDIA changes tune and direction around Open Source, then it should be clear.
This was an op to concentrate power, intelligence, and ensure it stays within control of the few.
NVIDIA bought the world's largest open source platform Hugging Face a month ago.
Meta's frontier models are no longer open source, saying it is "too dangerous" for the public to have access to.
Couple of thoughts on the Jensen situation:
-relationship w/ wife likely open. Pretty normal in tech especially if there’s no prenup.
-interesting thing here is timing as we know that a lot of folks were sitting on this for a while. Why release it directly after midterms?
-high odds he moves to a chairman role. Unlikely nature of relationship was disclosed to board and given the sanctions risk seems hard to argue that Megaspeed received no preferential treatment or didn’t jeopardize Nvidia’s relationship with US gov
There should be no question about timing
Everyone knew the market is hot and had to cool off, and didn't want this to be the reason why.
Couple of thoughts on the Jensen situation:
-relationship w/ wife likely open. Pretty normal in tech especially if there’s no prenup.
-interesting thing here is timing as we know that a lot of folks were sitting on this for a while. Why release it directly after midterms?
-high odds he moves to a chairman role. Unlikely nature of relationship was disclosed to board and given the sanctions risk seems hard to argue that Megaspeed received no preferential treatment or didn’t jeopardize Nvidia’s relationship with US gov
I highly recommend folks in NYC to attend this - @0xNickAllen runs an incredible community and space and @NathanMontone is pretty fearless for diving into controversial but fascinating topics
Launching a new event series on 'Heretical Science' at Club Reign starting this Thursday with @M31Capital and @NathanMontone.
Imagine trying to stay quiet about something when you named your supersonic airliner company Boom.
Boom was unusually loud and proud describing their single crystal turbine blade development program - Blade Runner - at this year's SF @deeptechweek
The root of all evil is belief in a fair double standard
If you want to know if any society, culture, religion will engage in evil acts without remorse you need only ask one question
"Have they codified a justification of a double standard?"
In other words, Kants categorical imperative is the simplest litmus test for civilizational morality
"Act such that your principle becomes a general maxim"
This immediately banishes slavery, theft, deceit, rape, murder, and countless other lesser evils.
Very few societies have achieved this. Perhaps some only asymptotically.
This is a dangerously wrong statement
Exponential processes are extremely common in our lives and experience
It's just that there is no unbounded exponential process in nature
So every exponential process becomes a phase in a sigmoidal growth curve
Biology is not just a Rube Goldberg Turing Machine but so much more, because when you look at what the molecules really are and how they push - why it's electric forces, and the chemical bonds are electronic too, and all these molecules and atoms are bathed in a common sea of electromagnetism that does not just travel fast rather it defines the speed of causality.
And that these chemical bonds and molecular rotations all vibrate, DC electric fields wiggling into AC fields, and these AC fields travel as photons and land as phonons heating things up, making and breaking bonds, changing their shape, we feel this as heat, as light, and our bodies are made of towering stacks of electronic bonds each with its own energy level that are so closely spaced as to be continuous, and all these bonds and molecules vibrating and emitting and absorbing constitute a constant exchange of field energy and information with the towering stacks of electronic bonds in our surroundings, like tall ships with endless stories of cannons exchanging electromagnetic broadsides in both directions at once, at all times, along minimal paths in spacetime, at quantized energy levels.
And you'd rightly think this is all wondrously mad and fantastical and surely just a mathematical model and I say no - this is sight, this is what it means to see, both literally and figuratively, to know that your experience is constituted by electromagnetic field interaction in its entirety, and these same fields are what planets, stars, everything is made of, and when you open two quarter sized holes in your head and let it all in this is what you *see*. The world as constructed in your mind, the surface of your retina coupled to the surface of the wall, a cloud, a distant galaxy by a field wiggling both ends at once.
Now you consider all these things and what energy means, and how it flows through the body and the air and environment as a currency animating dead matter into life, that it comes from the Sun, ultimately, crushing protons into Helium and bathing the solar system in it's electromagnetic field of life giving energy, passed as photons and minted by chloroplasts into sugar, and if you really start to visualize and understand the true nature of what you're in, what the constituent building blocks of everyday experience actually turn out to be in the details, then you know for certain that humans are like children playing on the shore of an ocean so deep and wide as to make our greatest imagination and dreams seem shallow.
And that the laws of nature are as much for our discovery as we are to be a discovery of the universe getting to know itself.