First off, thank you for taking your time. Secondly, I don’t hate you.

To my initial question: the AI bubble bursting will most certainly plunge the US into major turmoil as inflated AI stocks have been the only thing that kept domestic growth above going negative. Are you worried that American expansionism will, as a method of securing resources to stabilize the economy and therefore also the state, become drastically more aggressive?

Second question: What is your take on Joscha Bach who’s recently been discovered to have had ties to J. Epstein? I’ve known people who have worked with him and revered him like a god, though personally I have always been critical about what he says as I think that he makes a lot of statements (about things) that can’t be falsified, for example the nature of consciousness and specifically people simulating being conscious (which explains nothing as the experience of consciousness still exists as a concrete experience, etc.).

Forgive this question being too big potentially.