381: American Techno-Industrial Leadership — With Noah Smith

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Noah Smith (Noahpinion Substack) discusses techno-industrial competition with China and Russia. Topics include: - American industry: we’re #2 :( - Allies: no longer a luxury - NEPA sucks - A brief lesson about nickel - The death of state capacity: greatly exaggerated? - Will information destroy liberalism? - Clowns to the left, clowns to the right - Hey, let’s *not* be divided and poor Links: Noahpinion (Substack) (https://tinyurl.com/asry5zej) People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone (https://tinyurl.com/mvfm5252) Happy fun Cold War 2 update (https://tinyurl.com/msf29mze) Three holes in the U.S.’ economic strategy against China (https://tinyurl.com/7vyb7tzy) How liberal democracy might lose the 21st century (https://tinyurl.com/3zusc46f) Liberalism is losing the information war (https://tinyurl.com/r9duzw72)

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0:00.0	Noah Smith is here.
0:11.0	Noah Smith is here.
0:25.7	The guy is amazing.
0:27.7	He writes, no opinion, one of the top econ substacks.
0:32.2	He's also great on X Twitter.
0:35.1	For many of you, I'm sure, he needs no introduction.
0:39.3	If you don't know him, check him out.
0:41.8	He is consistently informative and interesting.
0:46.7	Noah is here to discuss some serious subjects he's been beating his drum about.
0:51.9	The rise of a new Cold War.
0:57.2	The dangerous decline of the United States's status as the arsenal of democracy, the need for American techno-industrial leadership in the
1:03.9	21st century. China, Noah writes, is engaging in a massive military buildup while the U.S. is lagging behind.
1:14.3	He warns that any protracted conflict between the two countries would see the U.S. badly outmatched,
1:21.2	despite its modest remaining advantages in some areas of technology.
1:27.1	Americans need to be screaming our heads off about this, Noah says,
1:31.8	so that we can start planning for this disaster today
1:35.0	instead of allowing ourselves to wait and be blindsided by it.
1:39.3	We need to be warning our friends and telling them to warn their friends.
1:45.1	Noah also notes that we should be talking about it on podcasts.
1:49.6	And so, here he is.
1:52.6	This is the Tech Policy Podcast.
1:55.8	I'm Corbyn Barthold.
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