Sidhartha Jha

Insert requisite DFW from ... 1996:

Or, I don’t know about you, I’m gonna have to leave the planet. ‘Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not

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Nearly half of the best AI researchers and nearly 40% of the ones working in America are from China (based on where they obtained their undergraduate degrees), according to a 2022 report by the Paulson Institute, an American think-tank. Many major American firms rely on Chinese employees’ expertise. Most members of an 11-person team hired to... See more

Yet the failed experiments left a legacy. An entire generation of executives trained at the two companies has fanned out across the energy sector. “None of the people who worked for me at New Energies have struggled to get great jobs,” says Gainsborough. “I had lunch with 10 CEOs in London who had all worked for me in New Energies. The Shell... See more

By making cities difficult and increasingly more expensive to live in, young people seeking to have families will simply leave. We observe this in Paris, where droves of people are leaving every year for some time now. If you can’t drive a car, then you can hardly afford to sustain a large family.

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In short, seven years ago, the US launched a supply-chain war against China. China’s response was to de-Westernize its supply chain, at great cost to its investor base, to economic growth, to domestic consumption and even to its birth rate