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That or Persia

Like the pro-gamer move for having a Navy is having lots of trade and a society where you can get cheap insurance and capital.

So I would point to the Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force cultures exemplifying these differences (superficially Spartan, Athenian, and Macedonian but that's glib) as a counterpoint.

Please keep it up!

And I would argue vice versa. There’s a lot to be said for the cultural kismet between the Dutch and English economies and polities and their navies.

Same with Athens and rowers.

The funniest part about "you ruined our admirals" is that for years, the Navy made sure that almost no one who had a shot at O-7 ever set foot in our classrooms in Newport. (We did produce a few good Army/USAF generals)

I probably made this one up or misconstrued it. In my defense, I’m working on war in 2031 while paying attention to war in 2026, so my accuracy on 4th century BC is low.

The two greatest Naval thinkers in Mahan and Corbett were not in the Royal Navy and I feel like that pattern holds.

The Navy understands education, but does not value it, while the Marine Corps values education and does not understand it.

At the end of the day, nobody wants to risk their career by making a hard decision.

As in the Aristotelean “oligarchies make hoplites, democracies navies, and aristocracies cavalry” it appears that navies build idiots.

Like Naval PME is way above average - but the Navy doesn’t feel that way about it.

The Navalists weren’t wrong. They were just annoying. As I tweeted at Konrad, “As someone that agrees with you, I want you to shut the fuck up.”

“Waddaya mean? Of course a child could do it! The Smiley Face didn’t cover their obstacle with fires!”

Jabba the Hutt saying "Han, what if everyone who smuggled for me dropped their oil when LLoyd's of London declared the Straits high risk?"

This is why we need to kick those FA59s out of the JPGs and put in some real navalists here.

Screenshot of the game Minesweeper

Put me in coach, I'm classically trained for naval campaigns for key maritime terrain!

Han Solo saying "It's the ship that made the Straits of Hormuz in 12 parsecs"

So the unfortunate thing is that after dealing with Navy acquisitions, I don't don't know if they could build ships effectively at any level of funding.

But like, they need funding.

Straits around the globe

Ah, that's why p-orbitals look like that...

We rely on coup d'œil, like the good book preaches

A terrifying thought? The horror we see is not Orwell. It’s rather Huxley (or maybe both), and the solutions for one are not transferable.

We have problems, not “a problem.”

My argument is similar for AI - the promise of AI can't both be "we will replace workers" and "everyone can make an app" while also having the AI companies be filled with people working 9-9-6 schedules.

I mean, there was the same level of dislocation in the adoption of computers - typist, calculator, spreadsheet writer, etc. were all real jobs that now seem antiquated, but firms increased their demand for administration alongside this displacement.

Stuff like this gets mega-reach on here but “oil is back below $100” 8 hours later…not so much. This dynamic is why you should absolutely not be trading actively unless you have a high risk tolerance and capital to burn.

The point I’m making is exactly that. AI art and branding is very mediocre and there’s a competitive advantage to building creative right.

So like a futures contract that would just be “my gas for the next year will cost $3.25?”

Even the companies that research and develop AI are fighting for human capital. They would be the first place to replace their workforce because of lack of concern for liability and safety, but no.

The thing about the implications of an AI economy is that there’s a higher premium on human creativity. If the only barrier to entry for making an app is the idea, then the ideas have the value; if every brand is made with slop, human creativity stands out.

I was thinking "at least we won't have shortages like the 70's" and boy, wrong.