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Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

Bittensor co-founder @const_reborn in the UK April 24 // @imperialcollege London

The founder of $TAO just declared war on big AI "we repeatedly beat sota (state of the art)…we actually solve problems better than anybody else in the world" decentralized beats centralized. every time. $TAO CC: @ParisBlockWeek

Bittensor Ecosystem Highlights of the Week #57 // SUBNET UPDATES & ACHIEVEMENTS ➤ @webuildscore SN44 Score announced a major alliance between @manakoai and @PwC_France to bring physical AI to enterprises at global scale. (bit.ly/4mDpTEQ) Out of 1000+ startups that applied, their BD @arnod3f also won the @ParisBlockWeek startup competition. (bit.ly/42gerWc) ➤ @IOTA_SN9 SN9 They unveiled “ResBM”, their SOTA compression technique for pipeline-parallel training across the internet. (bit.ly/3OBMmFw) ➤ @TargonCompute SN4 @AskVenice released its new model, Venice Uncensored 1.2, trained on Targon. (x.com/TargonCompute/…) ➤ @SynthdataCo SN50 During their Q1 alpha call, they shared that Synth ended Q1 at $70k MRR. (x.com/Old_Samster/st…) They also added $HYPE, $XRP, and $WTIOIL to Synth dashboards and API. (x.com/SynthdataCo/st…) ➤ @bitmind SN34 CysecOnline, South Africa’s trusted digital forensics experts, is now integrating BitMind into its services. (x.com/bitmind/status…) ➤ @resilabsai SN46 Their portal is now live, and you can now access their “Institutional Grade Property Pricing API.” (x.com/Sebyverse/stat…) ➤ @Data_SN13 SN13 Thanks to their Dataverse CLI, they processed 147k+ jobs in April through their API. (x.com/Data_SN13/stat…) ➤ @brainplay_ai SN117 @Shiftlayer_Ai completely redesigned and relaunched BrainPlay, a subnet that incentivizes AI benchmarking through games and agents. (x.com/Shiftlayer_Ai/…) ➤ @chutes_ai SN64 @nevika_ai added Chutes to its provider dropdown. (x.com/chutes_ai/stat…) ➤ @metanova_labs SN68 The NOVA nanobodies competition is now live. (x.com/metanova_labs/…) ➤ @EnigmaSN63 SN63 Subnet 63 rebranded to Enigma. (x.com/EnigmaSN63/sta…) ➤ @ridges_ai SN62 Ridges dropped some feature updates for Ridgeline. (x.com/ridges_ai/stat…) ➤ @oroagents SN15 Oro’s agents software competition is now live. (x.com/oroagents/stat…) ➤ @babelbit SN59 Their new incentive mechanism, Arena, is now live. (x.com/babelbit/statu…) ➤ @TPN_Labs SN65 Agents building on @SkaleNetwork can now access TPN’s decentralized proxy network and pay for it autonomously. (x.com/TPN_Labs/statu…) ➤ @djinn_gg SN103 Djinn teased and shared some screenshots of its upcoming app. (x.com/djinn_gg/statu…) ➤ @minotaursubnet SN112 Minotaur released its roadmap. (x.com/minotaursubnet…) // BITTENSOR ECOSYSTEM ➤ @ExploitSummit You can now grab your ticket for the Exploit Summit Bittensor event in Montréal, Sept 28–29. (x.com/ExploitSummit/…) ➤ @ParisBlockWeek Const speaking with @Bpifrance at PBW. (x.com/ParisBlockWeek…) ➤ @TrustedStake x @KrakenInsto They announced their official validator staking partnership with Kraken Institutional. (x.com/KrakenInsto/st…) ➤ @TAOInstitute_ TAO Institute, a Bittensor research and analytics platform, is now live. (x.com/TAOInstitute_/…) // PODCASTS & ARTICLES ➤ @opentensor Novelty Search with @const_reborn to talk about the new locked stake mechanism, “conviction”. (x.com/opentensor/sta…) ➤ First Chutes AMA with @jon_durbin, where they mentioned their approach to decentralized training. (x.com/chutes_ai/stat…) ➤ @JesusMartinez podcast with Jon Durbin from Chutes (x.com/JesusMartinez/…) ➤ @herelle_jean Crunch podcast with @numinous_ai (x.com/crunchDAO/stat…) ➤ Hash Rate 165 by @markjeffrey with @micaelabazo from Metanova (x.com/markjeffrey/st…) ➤ @twistartups podcast hosted by @Jason with @bitmind and @MacrocosmosAI (x.com/twistartups/st…) ➤ Twist podcast with Resi (x.com/Sebyverse/stat…) ➤ Hash Rate 166 with @MaxScore (x.com/markjeffrey/st…) ➤ Revenue Search 63 by @SiamKidd and @MarkCreaser with @Bitrecs (x.com/dsvfund/status…) ➤ @Novig podcast with @HarryDCrane from Djinn. (x.com/Novig/status/2…) ➤ @mccrinbc article about IOTA “Science in the Face of Chaos” (x.com/mccrinbc/statu…) $TAO