The story of my adult life: 1. Republicans fuck things up. 2. Democrats clean up the mess, get blamed. 3. Republicans fuck things up again. The post-Cold War GOP has *always* been the party of Trump.

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The US should end the Iran war rather than digging the hole deeper, and Democrats should do what they can to make it happen. But we shouldn't kid ourselves. Trump has so badly damaged America's strategic position that ending the war will look like choosing a bad loss over going for partial success.

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Done and done. And I do mean done.

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It’s a chronicle of the people who triumphantly Built AGI and ushered in the Next Age of Human Existence. It’s a Winner’s History. It’s the View from the Top. It reports what they believe they have done. It never questions whether they have, in fact, done it.

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Kind of a perfect final line of the final chapter. “It was a riot from start to finish. We had such a good time." -Anthropic engineer. Credit where it’s due: cover to cover, this book is clear on what it’s trying to do, and doesn’t much pretend to be something it’s not.

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