Ben
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Ben
@benlecu
Pasaba por aquí y me quedé
Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid Katılım Nisan 2011
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The United States has a habit of watching its rivals shrink. The Soviet Union collapsed. Japan, which was supposed to own America in the 1980s, is now a far smaller economy. China looks set to follow.
In 2021 China's GDP reached 76 percent of American GDP, and the consensus was that it would pass the US before 2030. That consensus has collapsed. By 2024 the US economy was 29.2 trillion dollars against China's 18.9 trillion, a gap that has widened for three straight years. China's working-age population is shrinking. Its fertility rate has fallen to roughly 1.0, half of replacement. There is no immigration to compensate.
Yet America benefits from believing it faces a formidable rival. The belief is what keeps it competing.

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Mientras Mandami grita Tax the Rich, como si esto no es lo que ahora ocurre, nos enteramos que los "ultra-ricos" neoyorquinos representan el 0,7% de los declarantes y pagan el 41% de la recaudación del impuesto sobre la renta. Los 200 contribuyentes más grandes pagan solo el 7,7% de todo el impuesto sobre la renta del Estado.
No hace falta ser un genio para adivinar lo que va a pasar: al subirle aún más los impuestos, estos individuos dejarán Nueva York y la ciudad se empobrecerá. Esto ya ocurrió en los 70s y la ciudad quebró. Lo mismo pasa en California. La migración es hacia Texas y Florida.
En España pasa lo mismo con muchos yendo a Portugal antes e Italia ahora.
El socialismo suena bien pero hace mal.
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@LaResentid42682 Y se harán documentales especiales sobre pobreza energética, España vacía, exportación de armas, niños en riesgo de pobreza, precariedad laboral, ineficiencia de las instituciones públicas, y demás conceptos que hoy aún no existen 🤷🏼♂️
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In 19 days, a jury in Oakland is going to decide whether the entire legal foundation of the AI industry is built on fraud.
Everyone thinks the Musk vs Altman lawsuit is a billionaire grudge match.
Two egos, one grudge, a $150 billion damages number designed for headlines.
Easy to dismiss. Easy to scroll past.
That's exactly what Altman wants you to think.
Because what's actually on trial on April 27 is something much BIGGER than Elon's hurt feelings...
A jury is going to decide whether you can legally take billions of dollars in nonprofit donations, use them to build the most valuable technology in human history, and then quietly convert that nonprofit into a for-profit company worth $850 billion.
If the answer is no, the entire AI industry has a problem.
Because OpenAI is not the only company that did this:
Anthropic was founded by OpenAI defectors using the same nonprofit-first mission language.
xAI pitches itself as building AI "for humanity."
Every frontier lab has used the moral cover of "we're doing this for the good of the world" to attract talent, capital, and regulatory goodwill they would have never gotten otherwise.
An Elon win doesn't just touch OpenAI. It creates a legal precedent that every AI company built on a nonprofit or public benefit promise becomes vulnerable to shareholder and donor clawback suits.
That's why this case matters. And that's why Altman is panicking.
Just look at what he did this week:
Elon filed a motion demanding the court remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and FORCE OpenAI to return to its nonprofit origins.
Then he amended the suit to say if he wins the $150 billion, all of it goes to OpenAI's charity arm. Not him. Zero dollars to Elon personally.
That amendment was surgical. It stripped Altman of his entire public defense.
He can no longer claim this is about Elon's ego or Elon's bank account. Elon is now legally on record saying he just wants the mission back.
OpenAI's response was to panic-write a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general asking them to investigate Elon for "anti-competitive behavior." Their strategy chief publicly accused Elon of coordinating attacks with Mark Zuckerberg.
They called the lawsuit "harassment driven by ego and jealousy."
That's NOT the response of a company that thinks it's going to win.
Real companies with real defenses don't ask the government to silence the person suing them 3 weeks before trial. They let the evidence speak.
OpenAI is scrambling because they know what's in discovery.
Elon's team has been building this case for two years. Emails, board minutes, internal conversations about the conversion.
The kind of paper trail that juries understand and executives can't explain away.
And the timing couldn't be worse...
OpenAI is trying to IPO at $852 billion. They just raised $122 billion. Microsoft has $135 billion of exposure to them.
A jury verdict that even partially sides with Elon in late April or May would crater the entire IPO runway and send shockwaves through every major AI investor on Earth.
This is why Altman spent the last 2 weeks doing press tours and policy blueprints and "super intelligence agendas" aimed at Washington. He's trying to REFRAME himself as the responsible statesman of AI right before a jury decides if he's a con artist.
Most people will watch this trial start and think it's celebrity drama.
The smart money is watching it and realizing that the legal foundation of the AI boom is about to be tested in court for the first time EVER.
And if that foundation cracks, everything built on top of it is at risk.
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@rafatrej0 Lo peor es que no “tenemos derecho a seguridad”. La seguridad nos la tenemos que ganar.
Muy bien por los vecinos!
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Se harán películas de esta misión de búsqueda y rescate.
Qué auténtica locura:
—Un caza de combate F-15E 🇺🇸 es derribado en Irán 🇮🇷.
—Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 decide ir a su búsqueda y rescate a plena luz del día, con un riesgo muy alto.
—Irán 🇮🇷 ofrece una recompensa por la cabeza de los pilotos.
—Rescatan al primer tripulante.
—El segundo tripulante continúa “desaparecido”.
—El régimen iraní 🇮🇷 pone a toda la región a patrullar la zona.
—Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 rescata al segundo tripulante tras más de 24 horas en territorio enemigo.
—Tras su rescate, dos aviones de transporte se quedan tirados en mitad de Irán 🇮🇷.
—Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 moviliza a otros tres aviones para rescatar a los equipos de fuerzas especiales que se han quedado varados en mitad de Irán 🇮🇷.
—Las fuerzas especiales estadounidenses 🇺🇸 destruyen los aviones de transporte y son evacuados en los nuevos.
Sin palabras.

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@JoeyMannarino Europeans are poor. This will never change. Leftist governments fuck us with everything.
We are working to pay taxes.
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People really aren’t aware of how poor Europeans are.
The most common salary in Spain is €1,298 per month.
An average apartment exceeds €250,000.
If you manage to save €250 per month, you’d need 1,000 months to pay for it.
That’s more than 83 years to buy yourself an apartment.
Is it really worth having public healthcare instead of private insurance when you have to live poor your entire life?
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@ciudadanoalt @CarlosHQuero Por fin alguien le pone palabras. Muy de acuerdo contigo
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Carlos H. Quero: "No tiene mucho sentido estar haciendo nuevos desarrollos de vivienda donde hay 4 alturas, pista de pádel y piscina. Hay que pensar en la idea de densidad".
Extracto de la entrevista que le hice a @CarlosHQuero hace unas semanas.
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@Jainko_Barik @Windwer Pues iba a decir justo lo contrario. Que Euskadi es rica a pesar de la conflictividad. Podría serlo mucho más. Pero esto no lo podemos saber.
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