Derek Thompson

of computer chips that are relied on by the artificial intelligence industry?

So winner, China.

Winner, solar.

Winner, Latin America.

Winner, future drone warfare.

I'm not sure if that's a real winner situation, but I guess someone has to win or lose.

Winner, arguments for strategic reserves of critical commodities.

And finally, loser, artificial intelligence.

Alex Chernobyl, thank you very much.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

One of the themes that we've been circling the last few weeks is the way that the modern world can hijack our values.

This principle was recently articulated by the philosopher C.T.

Nguyen in an episode called How Metrics Make Us Miserable.

T told us that he became a philosopher to answer the biggest questions in life, but he discovered in grad school that everyone around him mostly just cared about numbers.

The journals were ranked by status, numbers.

The university departments were ranked by status, numbers.

Individual researchers had their own H scores and other public quantifications of prestige, more numbers.

And this cult of quantification completely took over his life.

The internal value of, I want to answer the world's deepest questions, was replaced by the external value of, make number go up.