they don’t have to spend it to win. It’s a defensive move for them, if they commit $50B, OpenAI and Anthropic need to go raise $100B each to stay competitive
这是一个极其反直觉的洞察。科技巨头的巨额资本支出并非单纯为了技术胜利，而是作为一种“消耗战”的防御策略。它们利用自身庞大的资金储备作为护城河，逼迫依赖外部融资的AI初创公司进入无法跟进的军备竞赛，最终因资金枯竭而投降。这揭示了当前AI竞争中资本壁垒比技术壁垒更具决定性。
for - from - LinkedIn post - What if Artists Were your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom? - https://hyp.is/BXB-XmGvEfCJvBfKjwObTQ/www.linkedin.com/posts/tijntjoelker_art-creativity-systemschange-activity-7350396135213088768-imLO/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
"What if Artists Were Your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom?
for - to - substack - What if Artists were your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom? - https://hyp.is/5NVKlGGuEfCGlnei6XLPog/ourmanifesto.substack.com/p/what-if-artists-were-your-strategic
as we get closer to superintelligence, it will be seen more and more as an enabler and driver of weapon of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, if not as a WMD in and of itself. Direct calls for a “Manhattan Project for AGI” are already starting.
for - quote - AGI - Weapon of Mass Destruction
quote - As we get closer to superintelligence, - it will be seen more and more as an enabler and driver of - weapon of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, - if not as a WMD in and of itself. - Direct calls for a “Manhattan Project for AGI” are already starting.
Returning to Bevan’s brilliant question, today it is easier to see how wealth persuades poverty to give up its freedom
for - key insight / quote - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
key insight / quote - (see below) - Returning to Bevan’s brilliant question, today it is easier to see how - wealth persuades poverty to give up its freedom and, instead, - to serve the broligarchs-in-charge: via their cloud capital - that has a capacity, - unlike any hitherto form of capital or government department, - to shape our behaviour - automatically and - directly. - Nothing short of a revolution can restore any hope of personal agency, - let alone of democracy.
cloud capital performs five roles that used to be beyond capital’s capacities
for - five roles of cloud capital - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4 - monopolizes the attention economy - manufactures desire - sells directly to us that which it has made us desire - controls labor - creates a system of free voluntary behavior to sustain the behavioral modification system, turning us into cloud serfs
Instead, it comprises machines manufactured so as to modify human behaviour. These produced means of behavioural modification train us to train them to determine what we want.
for - progress trap - cloud capital - behavioral modification - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
there is a superpower, a hyper-weapon, that the broligarchy possess today that their Big Business and Wall Street predecessors did not. It is a form of capital that never existed until recently: cloud capital
for - comparison: robber barons of the past and today's broligarchs - cloud capital / technofeudalism - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
Are we not doing the same now, appearing astounded that a bunch of oligarchs are going through the same revolving doors connecting Big Business and government?
for - relevant quote - the more things change, the more they remain the same - seems to apply to this statement - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
Sovereign Individual.
for - further research - Oligarch's favorite book - The Sovereign Individual - Author - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
For a few crumbs off their table, that they ploughed into the Trump campaign, the Big Tech brotherhood are in the process of receiving three amazing gifts
for - Trumps three gifts to lobbyists - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4 - 1. Huge government contracts - 2. Deregulation will enable a free-for-all - 3. State-sanctioned power over labor
Aneurin Bevan
for - further research - Aneurin Bevan - 1952 - liberal democracy's greatest paradox - How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4 - inequality - elites - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power?
for - key insight - inequality - elites - How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
for - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4
Shares of Musk-run Tesla have soared nearly 40% since Trump won re-election nearly two weeks ago
for - from - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4 - https://hyp.is/n7kI1M2wEe-jUutC8gY3WQ/www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/01/06/musk-trump-and-the-broligarchs-novel-hyper-weapon-le-monde-4-1-2025-full-original-english-version/
Knowing is not a rationale for not acting. Can we doubt that knowl-edge has become a weapon we wield against ourselves?
Cohen, J. (2021, August 27). COVID-19’s origins still uncertain, U.S. intelligence agencies conclude. Science. https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-19-s-origins-still-uncertain-us-intelligence-agencies-conclude
Ricard, J., & Medeiros, J. (2020). Using Misinformation as a political weapon: COVID-19 and Bolsonaro in Brazil. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 2. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-013
Saddam’s Bomb: How close is Iraq to having a nuclear weapon?
Bush’s prewar claims, the failure of U.S. intelligence services to correctly gauge Iraq’s weapon-making capacity, and the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction—the Bush administration’s primary rationale for going to war—became major political debating points.