The Wisdom Wall

“what happens is from, from a political standpoint is the cities that are run right there in, in, in, in their local democracies, it's these super high end kind of, you know, very progressive elites. And then it's sort of the clientele underclass. Right. Um, that, um, you know, of, you know, in the U.S. it's Hispanic…”

“as long as China's a big enough threat, it will be sufficient to kind of glue us together, uh, to be able to actually make some rational decisions, uh, as a society. Um, you know, maybe the presence of an external enemy is actually helpful to kind of galvanize, you know, kind of your own side to, you know, to organize…”

“I don't think what's happening now is a betrayal of liberalism. I think it's just the full realization of liberalism. Like, I think it's, it's, it's what happens when you take liberalism to the extreme, which is you declare war on the intolerant, right?”

“in the 20th century, basically every industrial revolution in every other country that has worked in the last hundred years basically follows that model as well, so. You know, it's, it's the same thing Germany did. It's the same thing Japan did. It's the same thing Korea did. It's the same thing China, uh, is doing…”

“the way that you get populism is slow growth, right? Because you, because slow growth puts everybody in the mind of, of, of zero sum, right? Everything becomes a zero sum. You know, kind of fight for resources, um, because people don't think that there's a lot of opportunity in the future.”

“if you're gonna replant your, the sort of commanding heights of your economy on knowledge work, then what you're gonna do is you're gonna slam basically all economic growth into the cities, right? Because you're, which is what, what Silicon Valley has done, right? So you're gonna, all the software developers in one…”

“There's one area of healthcare that is incredibly sophisticated, technologically advanced, and the price curve looks like Moore's law. The price curve looks like video games. The price curve is just a straight line down, and the quality of the service has gone way up, and, and that's LASIK eye surgery. Right, and, and…”

“the way that capitalists maximize their wealth is not by hoarding a new technology, it's by selling it to everybody.”

“Any, any, any time you have a clustering of people who are high in openness, inevitably they're, they're on the, they're on the political left and usually very far, uh, to the political left.”

“productivity growth is the source of effectively all economic growth. Um, and so therefore technology is the source of practically all economic growth. And that's been the case for hundreds of years.”

“increased technology and a particular AI should basically actually make it possible to be more human. You should be able to spend more of your life doing things that are human in, in their nature and human in the sense of fulfillment, as opposed to doing the things that the machines can do for you.”