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Pre-crime operations require no due process nor conviction nor crime, just someone who’s skin color, religion or political affiliation they dislike. Label them Antifa and send them to a Kavanaugh Labor Camp or into the DHS global rendition network. Trump’s SCOTUS approves.

This meritocracy thing needs some work.

Those are good things and there are many others as well. However, people need to get clear that by 2070 (actually closer to 2030) the associated manufacturing jobs aren’t quite zero just very close.

Perhaps we should call them “Kavanaugh Camps.” They certainly aren’t jails because those require due process nor are they prisons because those require criminal convictions. With no due process, no convictions and no crimes they really are something only Trump’s SCOTUS could find constitutional.

Chinese manufacturers use Chinese robotics to enable “lights out” factories that produce cars every 30 seconds with zero human labor. They recently completed constructing a 100 mile stretch of highway with only drones and robotic pavers. The US can’t compete so we call it cheating.

Given the insane policies of this administration 1.5% is amazing. Of course, it’s all due to the AI bubble where the US is spending 10x China even as we fall behind. Since China is 4x bigger than we are I’d guess the size of the bubble is at least a factor of 20.

We need to know much more about what’s really going on in this war. Military secrecy has its limits and we’re waaaaay past them.

Agree with your core point. However there are different conceptual frames each of which has different “phases.” One of those is epidemiological, and I think those are the phases in your post. There’s another which is more Kubler-Ross in structure and a lot of folks are still in phase 1, Denial.

Personal confession - i associated EVs with the Prius for a long time and as a car guy didn’t really think about them. Then I noticed GT racing having to adjust racing classes because no existing race cars could compete with EV enhanced Porsches et al. Opened my eyes and I began to educate myself.

lol - I found it again at age 55 after the first 10 seconds on my first eBike. 😎

Let’s see. I’ve closed multiple $B deals, helped build a world class R&D center and licensed portions of the largest most valuable IP portfolio in the world to and with various entities in China…. But I’m sure you’re the real expert! Btw - that fake social credit thing is an example of the problem.

He and his family and friends are welcome to take all of those doses if they’d like. It’s no longer a public health issue.

Reality. They’re using AI for real problems and production. In those use cases, ideological popularity is counter productive and reality prevails. Plus, they’re open which both reduces problems and enables their resolution.

Agree on Claude. I’ve been around the AI field long before the current crop. Can’t recall the system name but there was an early one used widely to generate sentencing recommendations in criminal proceedings that had a consistent racial bias. I expect similar from Grok or anything trained on X.

Perhaps he should use himself as a real world example. Sort of a “modeling the way” form of leadership. He could leave behind a personal diary explaining his despair at surviving the pandemic.

Hmmm …. I know these guys aren’t great at math but we only imported $1.4M from Iran in 2025. A 10% tax would yield $140k, assuming no volume drop. A 100% tax would yield zero as trade halts. We’d spend more than we got just in the administration of the tariff. Not serious people.

If the US actually bans Chinese industrial robotics it will be impossible to be an EV manufacturer in the US. Might be able to find other roles in the EV era or to move all production out of the US, but the current structure will collapse.

3/ With that strategic clarity, the US should plan and fund the capex and deployment costs of the entire national infrastructure, while allowing local, public/private service delivery operations on a *marginal cost* basis. That’s the winning formula and it’s essential to our ability to compete.

2/ That means stating clearly that our national energy generation and distribution infrastructure is *at least* as important to the 21st century as our national highways were in the 1950s. That strategy should include major demand drivers including EVs and, yes, AI data centers. (Not crypto!)

1/ I think this isn’t nearly ambitious enough. The climate crowd needs to start being clear & aggressive about the *economic* necessity of shifting to a low marginal cost energy infrastructure. The US simply cannot compete in the 21st century while operating on an early 20th century infrastructure.