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Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2009
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Introducing the New Lower Terrace at Club James! Check out the latest stunning addition designed by Conner + Perry Architects. This space elevates the iconic Club James experience, blending modern design with breathtaking views. @ConnerPerryArch
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The only way the West wins is through an abundant AI future, despite an enormous looming deficit.
After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed. He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself. So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends. Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight. Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant. Here's the part almost nobody sees. For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit. Robots break that asymmetry. When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible. And that changes everything politically. So there are two scenarios. Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse. Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built. That's the Western renaissance. The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice. The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.
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Lautner Castle: a wood deck and built-in seating tucked beneath the sweeping overhang of the Cavern. Photo: Joe Fletcher conner-perry.com/lautnerscas…
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A pair of worlds, each 20 miles long. Exterior of a double cylinder space colony by Rick Guidice for NASA Ames, 1975.
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The beads ringing the endcaps are farm pods. Each one spins for its own gravity and can hold its own climate, tuned for a different crop. Guidice said the gear at the ends is a zero-gravity factory zone.
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The cylinders always come in pairs that spin in opposite directions, which makes them much easier to keep pointed at the Sun. Together they hold about 500 square miles of land. Scans via NSS: nss.org/settlement/nasa/70sA…
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A leaf-like concrete shell rests on three stone points in an aspen clearing, its glass room facing the mountain. A level path leads in.
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AI photoreal take on a 1970s NASA space colony scene. The land is already laid in the ring, river and all, while long panels are fitted over it strip by strip to close the roof.
🤖 Made with AI
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Parts get shaped in a 100 m factory sphere at the hub. The finished ring is wrapped in 10 million tonnes of packed slag and Moon dust as a shield.
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The original. Roofing a world: construction along the rim of a colony for 10,000 people, by Don Davis for NASA Ames, 1970s. NASA SP-413. Scans via NSS: nss.org/settlement/nasa/70sA…
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A whole village wrapped around the inside of a spinning ball in space. Bernal Sphere cutaway by Rick Guidice for NASA Ames, 1970s.
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The outer shell is a radiation shield, built up from slag left over after processing Moon rock. Sunlight comes in by a chain of mirrors: one set times day and night, and the ring mirrors at the caps send it inside.
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Gravity fades toward the poles, so a 20 minute climb from the river takes you to zero g. Crops grow in the stacked rings next door. Scans via NSS: nss.org/settlement/nasa/70sA…
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A curved concrete vault, anchored in the hillside, balances on a granite wall and reaches out over the lake. Granite steps lead in from the pines.
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Louisiana and Texas are becoming the center of the hyperscalers' revolution. They will be vastly wealthy states in the near future.
This is not normal what is happening in Louisiana right now. $300+ Billion in the project pipeline.... $100B – SpaceX Starbase LA (Planned) $50B – Meta Hyperion AI Data Center (Under Construction) $18B – Venture Global Plaquemines LNG Expansion (Planned) $18B – Amazon Multi-Site AI Data Centers (Under Construction) $18B – Argent LNG (Planned) $18B – Woodside LNG (Under Construction) $15B – Venture Global CP2 LNG (Under Construction) $13B – Entergy Energy Buildout for Meta (Planned) $10B – Commonwealth LNG (Under Construction) $10B – Hut 8 AI Data Center (Under Construction) $10B – Cameron LNG Expansion (Planned) $8B – Ascencion Carbon Ammonia (Planned) $6B – Hyundai Steel Mill (Under Construction) $4B – Applied Digital AI Data Center (Under Construction) $4B – CF Industries Ammonia Plant (Under Construction) $4B – Lake Charles Methanol II (Planned) $3B – Shintech Petrochemical Expansion (Planned) $3B – DG Fuels Synthetic Chemicals (Planned) $3B – Louisiana International Terminal (Planned)
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A creek, a bay and a Golden Gate style bridge, all inside a spinning cylinder in space. Endcap view by Don Davis for NASA Ames, 1970s.
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Look up and the land keeps going. Each cylinder has three strips of land alternating with three long windows, and big mirrors open and close outside to make day and night. Together a pair holds about 500 square miles of land.
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The bridge was O'Neill's idea. He told Davis the view of San Francisco and the Golden Gate from Sausalito would give a good sense of scale. Scans via NSS: nss.org/settlement/nasa/70sA…
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