Rob Wiblin
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard May 2025
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Yeah.
So if yeah, if if I think about how um these folks might respond, or at least uh my my my simulacrum of them.
Um okay, so yeah, maybe I shouldn't have said it was obvious.
It's it's obvious to me because I've literally been been been taught this more or less.
I get it again in books and and maybe even in undergrad.
So I suppose everything is obvious once once you've literally been told it.
Um but uh pushback that I can imagine is, you know, we're living in the UK.
The UK has nuclear weapons, it's pretty in a pretty friendly neighborhood.
Um
Really saying that when the UK adopts some new technology or it designs its cities one way or another, or it has a particular housing policy, it's doing this because it thinks that it has to for defensive purposes, because otherwise it's going to be invaded by France or Russia or whoever.
It's not as if we're actively thinking about these defense issues or competitive issues all the time.
I guess individual businesses do think about if we don't adopt this new technology, we'll be out competed.
But at least the the military thing is less clear once you have a very strong
strong kind of defensive position where you don't feel a great great risk of attack.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the uh the case study that the the focus on uh in your work, I think is is the Meiji restoration uh in in Japan in the in the mid-19th century.
It feels like almost about as clean a k an example of this uh military competition driving driving history as you could imagine.
Uh you can you briefly explain it?
Yeah, well I think the thing that set the timeline uh you can imagine I think the the only reason this was possible for Japan was because it was an island and so it was actually quite hard to invade.
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