🔮 The future of AI; bottom-up investing, hacking Teslas, monkeys, pizza & coffee++ #258

”We’ve never lived in a world where the largest economy is the authoritarian state capitalist”

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🤯 “We’ve never lived in a world where the largest economy is the authoritarian state capitalist. We’re about to live in that world. That is, under any definition, a much more dangerous and volatile w…