Mike Slagh
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Mike Slagh
@MikeSlagh
Work on hardcore things with hardcore people
NEW: The Department of War is recruiting an elite strike force of Wall Street financiers to create an “Economic Warfare Unit,” which some have dubbed “Deal Team Six.” Their mission: find companies to solve the Pentagon’s supply problems and get them the capital to do it. After the Pentagon’s recruiting deck leaked last week, the NYT warned that “Deal Team Six” could lead to corruption, noting that salaries may reach up to $600,000 — comparable with Wall Street compensation. But as Ryan Hassan (@eventidia) explains, this elite crew of “deal guys” could be exactly what America needs... especially during a time of war. For decades, the military has sourced weapons from a handful of contractors that weren’t incentivized to compete, leading to rising costs and stagnating lethality. Now, we’re hiring folks who are professionals at spending… to actually spend taxpayer money well. Yes, we’re paying them like bankers, and yes that’s the point. Full story 👇
$150,000 That's what the new Nvidia GB300 workstation costs for 1 tower. Let that sink in.
🤯 These cost 150k btw
We need a real time military strategy game that could be used at war colleges, using this platform, @ssankar. Especially one where you can play both blue and red.
. You thought I was joking about Reindustrializing America. I was not. Tune in March 20th for the the start - not the end - of the largest private Marshall plan ever devised. Alabama and F4 is the start. Winning the Production war is the end.
.@travisk says AI will make human labor even more valuable and in-demand than ever before: "Let's say the entire world - everything in our world - was automated, except for plumbers. You had machines making buildings - you would basically have like a thousand buildings a day." "How valuable would those plumbers be?" "Each and every plumber would be like LeBron. Why? Because plumbing would be the long pole in the tent to progress. You can't get those thousand buildings unless you have a plumber." "And by the way, you'd get so much efficiency everywhere else that you'd need millions of plumbers." "Humans [are going to] become more and more valuable because they will be the long pole in the tent to progress - and that progress is going to accelerate and get faster and more robust."
