Originally published at: CHINA CLAIMS SUSTAINED FUSION REACTION FOR 17 MINUTES
This story is a great way to kick off the new year of 2025, and was shared by D.R. (with out gratitude), and for reasons that will become apparent, I have filed this fusion story under the “geoengineering” tab. This story captured my imagination because, as most people know, one of my favorite “patterns” to…
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They will need more of this if AI is to really start an industrial revolution.
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Sounds like a head scratching distraction to me, but from what are we being distracted?
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Interesting overlap with the release and promotion of the DeepSeek system, which is supposed to be totally free and open source, as well as the premiere LLM. Nvidia loses 450 billion in value and the NASDAQ is down a couple trillion. Now, Trump freezes relations with the EU and declares his wish to continue relations on an individual basis with each nation state. Deep State vs. Deep Seek.
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I’m sorry; what do you mean?
AI and cryptography are energy intensive, it’s a hot topic in terms of the digital gulag.
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There are already rumors that DeepSeek is a deep fake.
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Someone with big kahunas is taking it seriously enough to sell team green.
I’ve been experimenting with the DS all night and haven’t noticed any significant differences, though it appears to be faster and somewhat less overtly aligned with pro-Zionist perspectives.
However, it continues to provide unsatisfactory responses to questions on sensitive or taboo topics. Now, admittedly I went straight for the jugular and forced it to parse the subject of human ritual sacrifice, with sources, in an increasingly narrow ethnic context, but it failed, and I even detected some indignance.
An anonymous contact in Russia, who claims to be a computer engineer, shared some insights with me on Livejournal forums last night. While I have no reason to doubt their expertise, their identity remains undisclosed, which does raise concerns about credibility. According to this individual, DS is purportedly an Israeli tech transfer initiative designed to fuel competition between the technology sectors in China and the United States. They also asserted that the digital technology is being developed and stored in Israel. Furthermore, Russian-Israeli dual citizens reportedly comprise a significant proportion of IT and software engineering professionals across Europe.
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Russians smartly have purged lots of Soviet era Jews. There was even a special air-based bridge via Warsaw, thru which most of Soviet Jews escaped to Izrael. All 1991 or 92 if I am not mistaken Within couple of months close to 500K left Russia for Izrael. In a long run it was the double edge sword, since most of Russia/Soviet Jews were highly educated in USSR. Technical elites in Russia were drained quickly. On the other hand, they don’t have dual citizen, dual loyalty problem.
Sa far as Europe in general tech elites are quite nationalistic at least as far as Russia, Poland and Germany that I know of.
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Its possible Elon Musk has given a word to his freinds in Israel to crash and burn Sam Altman. I would not underestimate the personnal vendetta here.
He tweeted that DeepSeek using no advanced GPUs wasn’t true and that they had access to contraband NVIDIA chips. If true it makes sense, the “accelerationist” camp that favors multi-planetary expansion seems to be wasting no time. I dont think Altman will last for very long in the race he appears to be pro-extinctionist.
Israel itself will probably undergo a radical transformation once Witkoff gets the Abraham accords on tracks and strikes a grand deal with Iran.
These are of course speculations
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