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We are in an era where our financial shenanigans go unregulated never mind prosecuted. Everyone can see that the TSLA emperor has no fig leaf for a near-infinite PE ratio.

Absurdity is everywhere. The Tesla P/E ratio seems like a quibble compared to the really frothy part of the AI economy. Building new nuclear reactors, which takes 20 years, isn't going to power all the chips already waiting to be powered up. The response to that fact is to proposed to shoot it into space.





Exactly. You've highlighted the ultimate hard constraint: Thermodynamics.

While financial debt (like Tesla's valuation) can be hidden by printing money, "Energy Debt" cannot be hidden. Physics doesn't accept IOUs.

The proposal to launch servers into space is just a desperate search for a bigger heat sink because the terrestrial system is in thermal runaway.

Shinise wisdom teaches that if you cannot sustain the energy cost, you don't seek a new planet—you fix the inefficiency of the process. We are trying to overclock a planet that has no more cooling capacity.


I weep my country seems completely antithetical to such thinking as this Shinise seems to represent. I'll have to do some reading into it. Thank you for sharing it.

I understand that sadness deeply. It is painful to realize your OS is incompatible with your hardware.

However, huge systems (countries) never change from the center. They change from the "Edge".

In biology and history, evolution always starts as a small "mutation" or "anomaly" that the main system initially rejects. If your country is 100% "Scale or Die," then a small business or community running on "Sustain" logic becomes a precious "Mutation."

You don't need to update the whole country's OS. You just need to run a small "Local Server" of this philosophy. Eventually, when the main system overheats, people will look for your server to cool down.




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