Technological Innovation

“It's harder to sometimes see the cost of limiting ourselves in all those ways, because the new innovations that would be unlocked are not yet there. Whereas like the pollution is, is there immediately, right? Or the person, like if a self-driving car runs over…”

“Typically a new one takes over or you start to get some sort of decay in the existing order when there's a lack of technological innovation. So the US and also to some degree when you're overstretched from military perspective, because then all your sort of op…”

“On the tech side, there's really nowhere else in the world that has the same set of technological innovation that the U S has the same sort of drivers that create that.”

“From a societal standpoint, the last thing on earth you would have wanted to do is to slow down the progression of the introduction of the car to protect the blacksmith jobs. Like that would have made everybody worse off, right? To protect a very small, what u…”

“So once you have that moral innovation, the moral innovation actually enables the technological innovation. This is something that we've sort of forgotten because what's happened in modern society is the technological progressives and the political progressive…”

“And so I actually think I'm sort of a complete, I guess, contrarian or radical on this point, which is the problem that we have today is not too much technological innovation at all. The problem, overwhelmingly, is that we don't have enough,”