I wouldn’t be quite as alienated if I didn’t have VERY good reason to believe Peter Diamandis is aware not only of my role with the Hutter Prize, and not only the CATS Prize and not only my leading role in the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 (declared by its original sponsor introducing my Congressional testimony July 31,1991), but even the relatively obscure political economic reform I proposed in 1992 to replace the 16th Amendment with a single flat tax on liquidation value of net assets to replace the increasingly meaningless “vote” with a citizen’s dividend that privatizes delivery of social goods.
When Diamandis succeeded with the Ansari X-Prize I congratulated him on pulling off something that I likely couldn’t have. When one of the standard aerospace journals tried to get me to denounce the X-Prize (knowing there was something of a rivalry going back to the antecedent of the Singularity University) I refused to do so. We all have our strengths. This lack of acknowledgement of my strength – even if only plagiarizing my ideas (which I would welcome) – is getting to be a serious danger to humanity. I wouldn’t admonish Diamandis if I didn’t have a lot of respect for him relative to the “foundations” like Gates and now OpenAI’s, let alone that Unspeakable Thing In DC. https://youtu.be/aMyubFA106U?t=3686 1:01:57 look for maoist intelligence influence on libertarian influencers. They are the ones that have stood in the way of political economic reforms that would unleash the private sector such as abolishing the 16th amendment and replacing it with a flat tax on net assets to fund the privatization of delivery of social goods through a citizens dividend. I proposed all that in 1992 after testifying before Congress on the launch services purchase act of 1990 and the direction Western civilization should take towards space. Look I know it’s hard for guys like you to admit that I was way ahead of you but you have no business talking about maoist influence on the US until you recognize capital socialism has damaged entrepreneurs as well as the middle class. 3:25 real disservice in this segment. Here’s why: there are enormous differences between base load and dispatchable generation capacity and this matters not only to consumers but to hyperscalers and most particularly to hyperscalers like SpaceXai. Indeed this distinction is at the heart of its IPO. 31:00 Philanthropy is like government in that no one takes the conflicts of interest seriously enough to propose objective criteria for awards. You have to limit judge discretion to attract the best talent. And that of course needs operational definitions. On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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-M3bda269aeb9d5e86ab60c3b4 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
