Will Manidis

The benefits of abundant intelligence will accrue far outside of San Fransisco.

Spent the last year writing about capital, sovereignty, and the coming reordering of economic power.

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in a world where the value of secrets and security increase exponentially, infrastructure and people that prevent you from knowing things you could be compelled to testify will become immensely valuable

my basic view is that fixing the national data center issue (ie stopping/weakening a ntl moratorium) is not trivially easy, but certainly doable even in these late hours but is vanishingly hard to imagine happening because so few of the participants realize where we are

my strong sense is “staking” is an underexplored mechanism outside of crypto. buying bonds and treasuries used to be a much more political act, like you were proving how much you believed in the national project, now it’s just a fixed income product .. great loss in that

if you find non state actors controlling critical infrastructure and providing good service due to market competition charming you’re really going to enjoy the next few decades