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🚨CHAMATH: "If you want a country to thrive it needs to have economic supremacy and it needs to have military supremacy. In the absence of those two things societies crumble. The only thing that underpins those two things is technological supremacy.

Microsoft had a $22B contract with the US Army to deliver some whiz bang thing and they couldn't deliver it so the Army went to Anduril. Why did they do that? Because Anduril had the technological supremacy to actually execute.

A few weeks ago we saw the same thing with the Chinese and DeepSeek.

This is a very simple existential battle. Those who can harness and govern the things that are technologically superior will win and it will drive economic supremacy and military supremacy which will create safe, strong societies.

JD Vance nailed (his AI speech) and saw the forest for the trees, he said exactly what needed to be said, and put folks on notice that you're either on the ship or off the ship."

@chamath @theallinpod

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JackTheMimic 11mo ago

What an evil perspective to have. The same perspective of those who think if you aren't exporting violence to other countries you're an "Isolationist"

This can be whitled down to: "We need to be able to kill everyone and if not, be able to buy them. Or else, our country will fail."

Disgusting.

Currency of Distrust 11mo ago

I tend to agree. I don’t follow his thinking at all.

Deleted Account 11mo ago

It comes down to whether you think we escaped history or not.

Nic 11mo ago

I recommend reading the begginign chapters of Jason Lowery's Softwar.

What Chamath is saying, to me makes sense. It connects to the Power Projection theory.

Currency of Distrust 11mo ago

I actually have read this but haven’t thought about it in a while. I can see this argument for sure. I’m just highly skeptical of tech bros who are now trying to take over the military industrial complex.

But, it’s not lost on me that we need to be able to defend ourselves.

Nic 11mo ago

I definitely agree with you that we should be skeptical of them

halalmoney 11mo ago

Sociopaths who correctly reference realities (power projection, military industrial complex) are still sociopaths.

Nic 11mo ago

Agreed, but is Chamath a sociopath?

halalmoney 11mo ago

I don’t like to get personal but here are some signs of sociopathy:

Manipulation

Deceit

Lack of empathy

Nic 11mo ago

I think it's very fair to say he partook in manipulation and deceit, when it comes to his spacs, that's for sure.

JackTheMimic 11mo ago

It's a demonstrably false supposition. Supremacy is by definition a singular position. What about the other 195 countries? They just aren't countries? They can't survive? It's just a false notion that you can't exist in the world without subjugating the rest of it. You CAN just peacfully trade and specialize for a cohesive improvement to humanity. Governments will never understand this.

CitizenPedro 11mo ago

De-escalate, de-escalate, de-escalate. Less guns and more building opportunities. More opportunities for everyone.

War is the ridiculous business to fall into.

This is Trump is the greatest. He gets this. Businesses over everything. Trump is a libertarian at heart. A business man, a merchant, at heart.

Deleted Account 11mo ago

Backed by the threat of annihilation, everything he is doing is to strengthen military. Example Panama, Greenland, Japan and Gaza.

CitizenPedro 11mo ago

I would say everything is a really strong word that doesn't best a comparative reality.

But yeah I think peace and trading should be much more talked about among these elites.