Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
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It looks to me like inflation is rolling over, and that's just about a solved problem... it implies that interest rates are coming down... it seems to me like we're on the cusp of a golden age here... I think we're headed for a gangbusters 2026 — rates are coming down, inflation is coming down, and you're also getting tax cuts going into effect next year.
It is very likely the case that Huawei already has a lithography system that they'll be putting into production. ... being developed in China that not only maybe provide parity to ASML but get ahead of ASML. ... China is not just in a catch-up race, they're in a primacy race. ... which will give them primacy in manufacturing, which will give them primacy in AI,
The takeaway here is that the timeline on China closing the gap with us is being sped up. Whether it's the fact that they're copying what we're doing, whether EUV is being reverse engineered, or maybe their scientists are figuring out a way to leapfrog.
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Bernie Sanders' data-center-moratorium pitch frames the AI-perception debate: Chamath's Gilded-Age prescription (Carnegie libraries — hyperscalers must spend balance-sheet cash on visible public dividends, 'you're going to start to see stuff in the new year'), Sacks debunks job-loss with Vanguard data (AI-exposed occupations show HIGHER job and wage growth) and exposes the Buterin/Moskovitz-funded doomer complex. December CPI beats at 2.7% (core 2.6%, 1.6% 3-month run rate): Sacks calls inflation 'a solved problem' and a 'gangbusters 2026' (czar-capped support on fed-easing-2026); Chamath adds the 2026 tax-cut stimulus; Jason takes the perception counterpoint (no instrument). China lithography is the meat: the Reuters EUV-prototype story triggers Friedberg's strongest China-primacy call yet — Tsinghua AI-lithography papers, the $48B Phase-3 chokepoint fund, 'Huawei likely already has a lithography system' — a triple reinforcement of nvidia-silicon-fragmentation (Chamath's SRAM/memory-centric future, Sacks' timeline-sped-up concession). California wealth-tax exodus block: Chamath declares CA revenues 'going to plummet' ($100-200B trajectory change), Friedberg flags the ~$1T pension hole — this PREFIGURES state-muni-stress-2026 (born as a 2026 annual prediction three weeks later; era rule prevents retro-attach, noted here for lineage). Marijuana rescheduled Schedule I→III in a closing aside — no instrument captured. Labels: clean, core four all labeled.