Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

Peace, Power and AI

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Matt McDonagh
Apr 12, 2026
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Many are standing on the wrong side of history.

The masses are currently paralyzed by a synthetic illusion of perpetual doom. Wall Street operates as a highly optimized machine designed entirely to monetize your anxiety.

They huddle behind a massive wall of worry.

They pay exorbitant premiums for financial insurance against regional wars that will inevitably end.

They hedge against a macroeconomic inflation that is already dying.

Most disastrously of all, they bet aggressively against the unstoppable force of human ingenuity.

That’s a bad bet for many reasons we’ve covered before.

We are standing exactly on the precipice of a macroeconomic anomaly of historic proportions. Geopolitical friction will evaporate precisely as our technological ceilings shatter. We will witness an unprecedented equity melt-up and a massive wealth transfer known as a volatility crush.

The architecture of this shift rests on two pillars.

We will secure permanent peace in the Middle East.

We will untether artifici…

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