Fissures in the body politic
AS WE continue to watch the drama surrounding Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio’s impeachment case, one cannot help but see a divided society. There’s no...
Can we please get a national poll on AI?
I DON’T go on Facebook often, but whenever I do, I inevitably encounter a post about Pax Silica with a belligerent comment section.
In...
Abandoning ASEAN
THERE IS a Chinese saying that translates as “Kill the Chicken to Scare the Monkey.” Basically, you scare the masses by making an example...
Outsourcing war
ONE OF the reasons why Russia has been able to persist in its “special military operation” was because they were able to secure the...
Artificial intelligence as Infrastructure
MANY Filipinos who oppose Pax Silica think that they don’t need Artificial Intelligence (AI). The usual line is that they have lived without AI...
Philippines and the robotics economy
I HAVE believed in the power of artificial intelligence (AI) for a long time. I invested in Nvidia and other key companies since 2020,...
Yes, the Philippines needs AI
MY FACEBOOK feed is infested with a lot of posts fear-mongering about Pax Silica. They say it will raise water prices, electricity prices, harm...
Why AI will make the nation-state obsolete, Part 3
JUST AS time destroyed Feudalism and Archaic societies, it will destroy ours too. The Nation-State will die, because the technology and economics of the...
Why AI will make the nation-state obsolete, 2
ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) is more than just chatbots, automated workflows or large language models. It’s more than even robotics and data centers.
The technology...
Why AI will make the nation-state obsolete
(Part 1)
I’VE STATED before that I think the Nation-State model is obsolete.
To summarize, it’s because I think that most states could not exist...