by Doug Casey, International Man:
International Man: China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) platform has stunned the world, outperforming US AI models while using just a fraction of their resources. Some are even calling it the “OpenAI killer.”
What’s your take on this development?
Doug Casey: Technology—all technologies—inevitably become better and cheaper over time. That trend has been in motion, at an accelerating rate, since at least the end of the last Ice Age about 12,000 years ago. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution about 200 years ago the hyperbolic curve has gone vertical.
Recently I saw a news article about a Democrat lawmaker who decided to have herself sterilized, the reason she gave was because she didn’t want her child to be born during Trump’s administration. It seemed to me to be a rather harsh step to take, and as I pondered her decision, two things immediately came to mind. Either she had never heard of abstinence or birth control, which makes one wonder whether her parents ever actually told her about the birds and the bees, or she was just another mentally challenged Democrat suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, believing that sterilization was her only option.
