Tyler Cowen

And national security as a lobby, they don't care about tech per se, but it is meant that on a whole bunch of things in the future, you will get your way a bit more than you might be expecting.

But a key problem you have is so much of it is in one area, and it's also an area where there's a dominant political party, even within that political party, there's in many parts of California, a dominant faction.

And you compare yourself to the community bankers who are in so many American counties, have connections to every single person in the House of Representatives.

Your issues, in a way, are not very partisan.

The distortions you cause through your privileges are invisible to America.

It's not like Facebook, where some John Haidt has written some bestselling book complaining about what it is you do.

There's not a bestselling book complaining about the community banks.

And they are like ruthless and powerful and get their way.

And I'm not gonna tangle with them.

And you all here are so far from that.

In part because you're dynamic and you're clustered.

Well, our main concern always should be war.

And I don't have any grand theory of what causes war or if such a theory ever is possible.

But I do observe in history that when new technologies come along, they are turned into instruments of war.

And some terrible things happen.

You saw this in 17th century England.

You saw this with electricity and the machine gun.

Nuclear weapons is a story and process.

And I'm not sure that's ever going away.

So my main concern with progress is progress and war interact.