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Would you play Russian Roulette if the payoff was Total Wealth for you?

Would you play Russian Roulette if the payoff was Total Wealth for you?

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Sam Altman sat down with Axios today and did what he always does. Fed everyone silk meringue. Smooth. Sweet. Nothing you can hold onto. He talked about superintelligence like it is already here, acknowledged it could be "horrible," and then walked the room back to optimism before anyone could ask a follow-up. That is not transparency. That is technique.

This episode of Connor with Honor covers four fronts.

THE MACHINE. Altman compared superintelligence to a tool, but this tool is not a hammer sitting in a drawer. It is a hammer that opens the drawer and walks around the room. He hinted at models behind closed doors that are far more powerful than anything the public has access to. The PlayStation analogy is back. They already have PlayStation 10. We are paying $20 a month for PlayStation 4.

Iran threatened to bomb the $30 billion Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi. Data centers are now military targets. The machines need electricity like we need food and somebody just threatened to cut the power line. Meanwhile the commander in chief is talking about destroying Iran's power grid and desalinization plants. The people running that government might survive. The people living under it will not.

Anthropic leaked its own Claude Code source code onto GitHub. Plans for a persistent agent. A virtual assistant called Buddy. Was it really an accident? Or was it the AI equivalent of a business owner torching his own building during a riot and blaming the neighborhood?

THE BODY. Jason Fung's new book The Hunger Code breaks hunger into three types. Homeostatic hunger is real starvation. Most of us who carry extra weight have never actually felt it. Hedonic hunger is the dopamine chase. The drive-through on autopilot. Ordering the food before you even think about it. Destroying the evidence before you reach your destination. Conditioned hunger is eating by habit. The clock says noon so the brain says eat. The tobacco companies lost the lawsuits and bought into food. The same people who engineered nicotine addiction now engineer your bliss point. You do not have to smoke. You do not have to do heroin. But you have to eat. That is what makes food the last addiction.

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic do not just blunt hunger. They blunt desire across the board. Relationships. Drive. Connection. They solve one problem by flattening everything else.

THE HOUSE. The market is normalizing. Days on market climbing to 80 and 90. The 10-year bond is getting hit because of Middle East uncertainty, pushing rates higher. This is not a crash. This is the sugar high wearing off. And the commi

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