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Zhu: Chinese EVs will remain attractive in the West despite 100% tariffs
“Even if you levy a 100% tariff on new energy vehicles, China's new energy vehicles will still be very attractive in European market or maybe even in the States.”
Calacanis: US states will decide AI regulation rather than a federal mandate
“They're going to win that because states have great sovereignty rights and like we're seeing what's self-driving. The states are going to decide it's not going to be a federal mandate.”
Spencer Pratt is suing Los Angeles, California, and LADWP
“And so I called my lawyer who's representing me in the case against the city and the state and LA DWP, one of the most famous lawyers in the world.”
O'Driscoll: State power is a more tangible threat than theoretical AI risks
“AI might be scary in the theoretical after, oh, it could be used for this, it could be used for that. The state is scary in the real sense of we have laws, we have men with guns to enforce those laws, and we can take your company if we want to.”
Lessin: States will not let prediction markets forgo sports betting tax revenue
“They're just not gonna sit here and say the billion dollars that we get in tax revenue on sports betting, we're just happy to give that up. Like, they're not.”
Srinivasan: US regulatory assault blocked tech IPOs and M&A for four years
“For four years, it was just a desert. A bunch of companies silently died. The state blocked IPOs. They're blocking M&As. It was just an all-out anti-tech assault.”
Balaji Srinivasan: States rely on legislation while networks rely on code
“The state is someone should pass a law and the network is someone should write some code, right? The state is everybody who is directly or indirectly paid by essentially either the US government or a government more generally. And the network is all those peop…”
Balaji Srinivasan: Decentralized networks will replace the state as authority of truth
“So it gets a very fundamental thing where tech guys are sensing there's something here, but ultimately the network has to supplant the state as the form of truth.”
Krishnan: Single-State Tech Regulations Often Become De Facto National Law
“If you have a small state set rules, It can often become the de facto law for the country, because if you're a company, you're like, well, I have to operate in this state, or I have an office, so let me just do that for everybody. It's kind of just like the EU…”
Manickam: Indian Governments Fund 70% to 75% of Semiconductor Projects
“50% from central government, states, 20, 25%. So 70, 75%, right, is coming from the governments, right, all this.”
Bullard: US energy storage investment now surpasses wind investment
“Solar is just on its way up. You know, it's more than forty billion dollars in the trail in 12 months. And storage now invests more than wind does in the States.”
Dr. Balasubramaniam: The State Operates on Information and Power Asymmetry
“See, the state, by definition, runs and operates on information asymmetry and power asymmetry. I have enormous information, but I don't give everything to the citizen. Therefore, I can control you. Whereas, that's what gives me power to the state executive app…”
McCord: US States Seek Over 700 Different AI Regulations
“The vast majority of states are pretty regulation happy and want to put up, like, 700 plus different versions.”
US tech workers exhibit greater ownership than their European counterparts
“I would say that there is a difference in the states People feel like their job is a much bigger part of their identity, and I think in Europe is just less of a phenomenon, and when you feel that your job is important to you personally, I think you put in more…”
Matt Clifford: Inexpensive AI Drones Inherently Favor Rogue Non-State Actors
“Being able to build cheap, Smart drones benefits rogue actors, you know, non-state actors a lot more than it benefits states.”
Subbarao: Prime Ministers Have Limited Flexibility for Ad-Hoc State Funding
“Prime ministers have limited flexibility, if at all, about giving ad-hoc money to states.”
Miller: Somatic Regulation Works Better Than Cognitive Reframing
“Instead of kind of trying to change the story, or trying to fix something, or trying to solve something, which is what, you know, most people do by default, myself included in the past, if you change your state first, then there's a cascading effect which chan…”
Balaji predicts US will divide into Bitcoin states and dollar states
“And I actually think this becomes a very important dividing line and political issue where it's essentially the Bitcoin states where you know, people are allowed to hold Bitcoin in private hands and the dollar states where they're not. Basically meaning you li…”
Mintz: California spent $20B on homelessness as homeless population rose 20%
“The state has spent twenty billion dollars on homeless services in the last five years. Twenty billion dollars. The number of homeless people in the state's gone up 20% in that time.”
Cowen: Interstate competition will significantly improve productivity and governance
“And now that it's easier to move, this has all become more intense, and I think it will make an enormous positive difference for productivity and quality of governance, even within this country”
Multiple states have updated laws to allow OTC sunscreen in schools
“Since she got her start, a bunch of states have changed their laws and now allow kids to use sunscreen in schools without a prescription.”
Super apps are here to stay and moving East to West
“You see, super apps are here to stay, and the big internet giants in the States already get it. This trend is coming from east to west.”
Hennessy: California and San Francisco would economically collapse without the tech sector
“You know, our cities and the state have such dramatic issues, and yet you pull out the high tech sector. I mean, the state and the city of San Francisco will collapse.”
Weisman: Money transmitters must secure licenses across every US state
“States have money transmission licensing, and if you want to be a money transmitter, you have to obtain a license in every jurisdiction in the United States”
Colford: State regulatory experimentation forces faster federal action on tech policy
“All of that is to say that the states can almost be A forcing mechanism or a forcing function for the federal government to respond more quickly.”
Ullyot: States tend to be laissez-faire while cities are regulatory prescriptive
“And I think generally speaking, you're going to find states being much more laissez-faire and cities being prescriptive.”
Mokyr: Industrial Revolution succeeded despite state institutions, not because of them
“The national institutions probably play a relatively secondary role. Quite frankly, you know, if you put a gun to my head, I would say what happened, happened despite the best efforts of these states, not thanks to them.”
Chan: China's mobile payment ecosystem is far ahead of the U.S.
“I'd say in China, I don't know if mature is the right word I would use for it, but I would say it's far more advanced than what I do see in the States and probably what's happening in India.”
Chan: Email penetration is much lower in China than in US
“One is email penetration is actually much lower in China than it is in the States.”
Chan: QR code scanning in apps is far more common in China than US
“Well, I think one area of app design that's very common in China, but not as seen in the States, is the usage of QR codes and the usage of the scanning feature in any app. And WeChat is actually it's heavily reliant on the scanning feature. So, for example, yo…”