Steve Hsu: The End of the Unipolar Moment & the Cementing in Blood of the Eurasian Alliance
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 568 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Physicist, startup founder, and polymath Steve Hsu discusses the end of the unipolar moment, the return of geopolitics, and the U.S.-China New Cold War. He believes China is not as fragile as some say. We talk Taiwan, how Beijing has caught up in military tech, and how the nature of naval warfare in the next war will be very different. On the technology and AI front, he feels the U.S. and China are at parity, but that the long-term trend is in China’s favor. He feels the social credit system is advancing just as fast in the West as in China and that the digital yuan is rapidly gaining in stature. He gives his view on the Ukraine crisis and how it has been a huge strategic error by the U.S. because it has cemented the Eurasian alliance. He’s concerned about a systemic financial meltdown, discusses being a victim of woke cancel culture, and knowing Richard Feynman.
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Show Notes
On Ukraine: the return of Multipolarity and Hard Power https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-ukraine-return-of-multipolarity-and.html
Strategic Calculus of a Taiwan Invasion https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2021/08/strategic-calculus-of-taiwan-invasion.html
Websites
Twitter https://twitter.com/hsu_steve
Information Processing Blog https://infoproc.blogspot.com
Manifold Podcast https://www.manifold1.com
About Steve Hsu
Dr. Stephen Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held faculty positions at Yale and the University of Oregon. Hsu was founder and CEO of SafeWeb, a Silicon Valley technology startup acquired by Symantec for $26 million. He is a scientific advisor to BGI and a member of its Cognitive Genomics lab.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Geopolitics and Empire podcast is joined by a polymath physicist startup founder of companies like SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction and Authum, among others. I'm not sure. Blogger, podcaster, and more. Thank you for joining the broadcast. Steve. How are you doing? I'm great. And it's a pleasure to be on your show. And I want to say that I'm a regular listener to your show. |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah, I was going to ask you that, and I thought that was funny. |
| 0:26.3 | So, yeah, that's cool. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm honored that you are a listener. |
| 0:34.9 | And before we get into some of the topics, you're a guy that's all over the place. And perhaps, you know, could you give the audience a quick background of your work, |
| 0:38.8 | who you are and your interests? |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah, I'm a Chinese American and I grew up in Ames, Iowa, |
| 0:46.0 | which is not too far from where you're from, Chicago. |
| 0:49.3 | I was a precocious kid. |
| 0:51.8 | I studied math and physics. |
| 0:57.1 | My hero, my intellectual hero was a guy called Richard Feynman, who was a professor at Caltech, and I attended Caltech as an undergrad. |
| 1:03.8 | I mainly, the main part of my career, the conventional part of my career, has been as an academic |
| 1:09.8 | scientist, as a professor of theoretical physics. |
| 1:12.9 | And there I focus on pretty esoteric things like quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, |
| 1:18.4 | black holes, cosmology, Stephen Hawking kind of stuff, actually, or even really kind of very |
| 1:23.8 | similar to what Feynman worked on when he was alive. But as you mentioned, I've |
| 1:28.9 | slightly polymathic tendencies, so I get interested in other stuff. And so, for example, |
| 1:33.9 | right around the time of the first tech bubble, I founded my first technology startup company |
| 1:38.7 | in Silicon Valley. And subsequently now I've been a founder or co-founder of four different tech startups in areas. |
| 1:46.8 | Initially, it was all having to do with information security and encryption, which is pretty |
| 1:51.6 | mathematical in a certain sense. |
| 1:53.7 | And then lately it's been more having to do with genomics, computational genomics, things |
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