David McWilliams
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17,921 appearances
50 recordings
8 series
first heard Jan 2026
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Oh right, okay.
So this this is the big breakthrough in nuclear, yes.
The endless energy.
You see, endless interesting you mentioned that word.
And this is a word that all the tech bros use all the time.
So but I'll come back to them.
So let's let's just this is the anti-AI view.
So in his book, Adamudlu's book, Why Nations Fail, the one that won him the Nobel Prize.
He says that institutions rather than technology decides the outcome.
And he says technology's effect can depend on whether it's inclusive or extractive.
So, for example, you take the mining industry, the technology of mining coal.
That was an extractive industry that
absolutely helped the United Kingdom get rich years and years ago, but ultimately it was extractive in the sense that it depleted and it ran out.
Yeah.
therefore the big boost disappeared.
So he's talking about technology that is inclusive.
And he's he thinks that today's AI hyperscalers, Nvidia's
you know, open AI, all those are extractive.
He says they concentrate ownership
They want to make as much money as possible, they want to capture the regulation, and they want to extract data and attention at a superscale.
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