Jordan Schneider
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 May
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And I think one of the sort of other things that happened with the COVID controls is like there was this very ideological decision by Xi to like lock stuff down and this is the right policy.
And at a certain point, you started getting protests and people being frustrated.
And there was enough of economic pain that one day he was just like, all right, fuck it.
Like, let's let him get COVID and we'll figure it out as we go along.
So with any of these sort of big political decisions, there are competing interests.
And it's not like one is going to go away just because you are sort of marginally more inclined to rely on software innovations to power productivity growth.
So I'm talking less about the sort of energy permitting than just like, at what point is a system going to feel like change is coming too fast?
And then this sort of like anesthesiologist lobby, like locks it off from coming into their ecosystem.
The teachers say, no, we don't want AI in our schools.
I mean, that, that sort of thing to me is going to be the more relevant variable of which country is going to gain the most from this and be able to diffuse the technology.
Because if it is so economically relevant and useful, like both countries are capitalist enough.
There will be people trying to make money by bringing it into their systems or out-competing other firms based on their ability to be 10 times more efficient.
If we're calling China the sort of like archangel of modernity, we also have to understand that there are parts of that modernity, which I hope listeners of this are very uncomfortable with.
Like modernity, if you are a Muslim in Xinjiang in 2018, 2019 feels pretty uncomfortable.
Then, uh, yeah, if you happen to own some shares in an EV company.
Right.
One thing I'll say is like the trend of having, I think, more deliberate state involvement in strategic industries on the one hand is like something I think is something that
You know, a lot of a lot of Asian developing countries have done to various levels of success.
Like, I don't want to give all the credit to the Chinese policymakers for manifesting this stuff.
Like the fact that it is like a country that is large enough to have a protected market, which is relevant, is a very special and unique part of China and one of the reasons
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