I wonder if New Zealand might have some appeal for a NS campus? What it offers:
- Immigration is straightforward
- time zone is just 4 hours from PST and 4 hours from Beijing Time
- after maybe Singapore and HK, probably the best balance of tight integration with both the US and China you'll find anywhere
- beautiful natural environment
- Routinely tops WB Ease of Doing Business rankings with easy one-day business registration, streamlined and predictable regulatory environment, and a transparent legal system
- links to space with regular Rocket Lab satellite launches
NZ has always looked for ways build get past the tyranny of distance. Critical mass of driven entrepreneurial culture can be a problem there (the country is so _chill_) and I wonder if a NS campus could be a solution.
>Even OpenAI doesn’t believe they’ve made enough research progress to deserve a one point increase in the version number. The half point increase from GPT 4.5 to GPT 5 was a massive flop.
Disagree here. GPT 4.5 itself was the flop. From GPT 4 --> GPT 5 there was a significant jump, it's just that most of the jump happened from o1 and o3 which were intermediate models. The jump from o3 --> GPT 5 was small.
I wonder if New Zealand might have some appeal for a NS campus? What it offers:
- Immigration is straightforward
- time zone is just 4 hours from PST and 4 hours from Beijing Time
- after maybe Singapore and HK, probably the best balance of tight integration with both the US and China you'll find anywhere
- beautiful natural environment
- Routinely tops WB Ease of Doing Business rankings with easy one-day business registration, streamlined and predictable regulatory environment, and a transparent legal system
- links to space with regular Rocket Lab satellite launches
NZ has always looked for ways build get past the tyranny of distance. Critical mass of driven entrepreneurial culture can be a problem there (the country is so _chill_) and I wonder if a NS campus could be a solution.
Great post. Your bit about the New Cold War feels sadly true to me. I wrote about it and just keep seeing it more wherever I look https://open.substack.com/pub/minnesotaconfluence/p/we-dont-talk-enough-about-age?r=bwkxp&utm_medium=ios
Was super interested in how network school actually works and how it's panned out. Can't wait to hear more and hope to visit someday!
Fascinating article Brian, thank you and keep them coming 👏
It’s good to read you again.
Thank you!!
>Even OpenAI doesn’t believe they’ve made enough research progress to deserve a one point increase in the version number. The half point increase from GPT 4.5 to GPT 5 was a massive flop.
Disagree here. GPT 4.5 itself was the flop. From GPT 4 --> GPT 5 there was a significant jump, it's just that most of the jump happened from o1 and o3 which were intermediate models. The jump from o3 --> GPT 5 was small.
The Taiwan blockade wasn’t geopolitical—it was the last gasp of centralized control.
They manufactured crisis to ration compute. White hats responded by making scarcity irrelevant.
Not revolution. Migration to systems that actually work.
https://substack.com/@piratefirst/p-188037885 🔗
#StraitGambit #WhiteHatDoctrine