On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 3:35 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Every country effectively taxes wealth by printing money. > Every country effectively taxes MONEY by printing money. See Property Money <https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2020/01/property-money.html> for the distinction that virtually all monetary theory obscures. > But my point is that China is winning the AI race thanks to foreign policy > blunders by both Biden and Trump. > > > https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/huawei-chairman-thanks-the-us-for-supercharging-chinas-semiconductor-industry-washingtons-export-controls-encouraged-chinese-firms-to-invest-in-r-and-d-and-build-their-own-tech-stack-competing-with-american-technologies > A far more fundamental reason that China is winning the AI race is the West's failure to capitalize on its primary strength: Individuality -- and that was my point in 1992 which I refined in Property Money when I foresaw the covid pandemic would unleash a monetary crisis. > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > On Sat, May 30, 2026, 10:47 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Circa 2000 I told a kid that the future looked bright for protecting >> enormous concentrations of wealth caused by subsidizing wealth through >> revenue raised by taxing income. >> >> He's now worth 9 figures. >> >> https://substack.com/@jabowery/note/c-267752636 >> >> Of course, I also told him that there would come a time when all of that >> could collapse. >> >> https://ota.polyonymo.us/others-papers/NetAssetTax_Bowery.txt >> >> Let's hope it does before it's too late for all of us. >> >> On Sat, May 30, 2026 at 9:01 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> The future of warfare is AI. I have posted earlier that China is >>> building an army of robots. The Ukraine war has already proved that manned >>> planes, ships, and tanks are obsolete. >>> >>> https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3355232/chinese-scientists-create-kill-them-all-algorithm-drone-warfare >>> >>> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] >>> >> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tbeeac1e73934d021-Mba69bea8a2538b0e53293dd3> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tbeeac1e73934d021-M881bc4bc7c05a7b364487aca Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
