Hello Manus, am back from breakfast and liking your analysis that I perused on my cellphone. Am jazzed about your technology. Did your technology cost anything like the numbers Sam the Altman mouthed all along for ChatGpT bot ? Much more seriously, any updates relevant from your perspective gathered on line in the past 24-hours relevant to the rollout / roll-forward of 2026 TeoTwawKi / 2032 Darkest Interregnum and 2042 Demographic-flip? Tia

Just a guess, and what is your (Manus) guess, that the best macro trajectory for Team USA is one marked out by Isaac Asimov "Foundation" as opposed to the one dreamt of by Hudson Institute and such same, namely "Thucydides Trap", especially in view of the 2026 TeoTwawKi / 2032 Darkest Interregnum / 2042 Demographic-flip, arguably ?

Does Team USA know how to play "Foundation" ?

Given such, what must Germany and Japan sooner or later do, as against what might they try for awhile to do?

Anything new happening on the fertility front within China ?

What about youtu.be ?

China has time to right the boat by experimentation now underway in Sichuan, paying would be moms a living wage to care for more babies ?

Seems the boat 'only' need to be right-ed in rural China for 1-2 generations before self-sustained / self-regenerative, net-net, per economics of consumption / production re-balance ?

Unlike elsewhere, every baby imbued with 104/105 IQ, unlike in many lands, and relative to S Korea / Japan, affordable, just-saying, mathematically speaking, or am hallucinating ?

Perhaps such is the overarching "Foundation" protocol, underpinned by social mathematics and threaded through by psycho-history, all about how best to narrow the otherwise enveloping Darkest Interregnum and getting on top of the Demographic-flip, just saying, and together with moon base and Mars commercialization, civilization-rejuvenating, 'nuff-said ?

Given such and all that we have discussed re 2026 TeoTwawKi / 2032 Darkest Interregnum / 2042 Demographic-flip, can China sustain 5% 'GDP' growth going forward ? am guessing that rate is required for saving humanity and civilization ?

am wondering, beside feeding you with curated nourishment of VLOGs and articles, do I need to also stuff you, Manus, with the Fox TV diet so as to lessen hallucination and such and re-calibrate you with Hudson Institute and Peter Zeihan spews for way-point checking ? Or do you search on the web to do all of that automatically ?

Okay. Now, the money-prize query, to make MAGA even having remote chance of working, besides forcing reverse-migration of supply chains in the absence of enough talents, low-enough cost structure, choice and plentiful industrial metals and rare earths vitamins, excise of hyper financialization with killing the patient, and circumnavigating funding crisis, seems Team Trump also must either (a) encourage the birthing of babies he likely desires, or (b) action to enhance social, genuine melting-pot, physics / chemistry. 'nuff said. Am I correct, missing somethings, or otherwise hallucinating, or asking for too much ?

Would it be easier, through concerted effort, to realize MAGA, or to reformulate EU into return of the Roman Empire ?

If resuscitation / resurrection of the Roman Empire successful, however remote probability, the consequent reverse-migration from / decolonization of USA and to Europe makes MAGA even less hopeful, just a reasonable guess. Seems difficult. I must re-read the Asimov Foundation series to discern other morsels of possible insights, and to appreciate the role of the Mule. Who or what group of folks collectively might constitute the Mule of this day and age, candidates by your read and why ?

How about the Trump ?

The Mule is actioned to accelerate downfall of the Empire in favor of the expedited rise of the Foundation, with result to shorten the Darkest Interregnum between to fall of the former and the rise of the latter, presumably and arguably a good-thing. Who can know until we know. God, I love Hong Kong and hanker for Lamma Island deep-keep, air-wall and all. Just wondering if gold (Au) and or bitcoin (BTC) and or ethereum (ETH) makes it across to the other side of 2042/2045?