Policymakers
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Allaire: Mainstream crypto adoption requires integrating with traditional finance and regulators
“If you want it to work that way, well, you know, you have to integrate with the existing system, and you have to work with policymakers to figure that out. There's just no other way.”
Epoch AI: Government attention to AI will double or triple annually
“I think that right now we've seen this thing in revenue and finances where it's been doubling or tripling every year. And my default assumption is that attention that AI gets from policymakers and governments is going to follow a similar trend where it will do…”
Policymakers will not regulate CDR until feasibility is proven independently
“I, I've always felt that no policy maker is going to establish a policy that's not feasible because then it just comes back to bite them. So it's on us as the CDR industry to demonstrate that we're feasible and cost effective.”
AI will force massive organizational change management within two to three years
“We're not there from the technology standpoint, but I do think in the next two to three years, if I, you know, take the bait and like have to make a guess is the technology will get to a point where it will push the change management and policy makers to say l…”
Duffell: Policymakers favor flashy startups over second-stage business incubation
“Policymakers are impatient, so they want a flashy success quickly in a startup, and then hundred job announcements they can make and ribbons they can cut on the other end.”
Delangue: Policy makers will require AI to be shared as public infrastructure
“I believe the policy makers will require it to be shared across as some sort of kind of like a fundamental infrastructure for all.”
Policymakers and Retailers Bear Far More Responsibility for Domestic Manufacturing Than Consumers
“Probably policymakers number one probably retailers number two and brands number
Three, and then consumers, I think, are fourth and the least important, because I think consumers have got to act rationally, and they should.”
Dixon: Policymakers fighting stablecoins hurt US dollar adoption
“It's frustrating that some policymakers are trying to fight against stable coins when it seems pretty clear that, that popularizing the dollar should be in our interest.”
Compliance carbon policymakers explicitly designed markets to rely on investor price discovery
“On the compliance side, helping the policy makers achieve their objective of reducing emissions from their emitters by being part of that market and participating in that market, which is explicitly contemplated by the market design in order. They want investo…”
Jensen: Policymakers will accept inflation over a deflationary market crash
“I think policymakers are much more likely to take inflation than a deflationary crash at this point. And there's so much that can be done in society by distributing the wealth via those mechanisms. So I think you're likely to see that.”
Papic: Geopolitical analysis must focus on constraints rather than preferences
“Preferences are really not the starting point of analysis, because they're a derivative. They're subject to something else, and that's something else's constraints, because unlike preferences, Constraints are not optional.”
Aitken: Low Rates and Regulation Drove Unconstrained Shadow Banking Leverage
“The cool eye of financial history might conclude that by driving interest rates to ridiculously low levels, while simultaneously driving financial intermediation out of prudentially regulated banks, We or policymakers perhaps effectively uncapped leverage in t…”
Lynn: Stuxnet alerted nation-states to physical cyber attacks
“I was totally wrong about that, because what it did was it woke states up, policymakers up, to the possibility that this was a possible, feasible thing to do.”
Flournoy: Policymakers misapply nuclear deterrence models to cyber threats
“Most of the policy makers don't fully understand The technology in detail, and so they can, they're tempted to apply previous frameworks in a way that doesn't really fit, like they'll, so they'll hearken back to the nuclear domain and, you know, concepts of es…”