1/ Here is my full Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org talk

will post excerpts later—covering:
*future of R&D + innovation
*history of private funding
*China
*Space Race
*Lux theme of “Tech of Science”
*Miami + how to (and how not to) create tech hubs
cfr.org/event/changes-…
2/ On the unintended consequence of shutting China out of markets for geopolitical competitive reasons

which will make them MORE competitive
as distrust does away with comparative advantage
and stimulates redundant competing space, science, tech races
3/ On

-SERENDIPITY in SCIENCE and the futility of government “directing” discoveries...

-scientists reclassifying or renaming whatever they are working on to get government money given to what politicians deem popular...
4/ My take is a mix of HAYEK x HAMILTON

There’ a role for government to fund undirected basic science research––and a role for us ‘greedy capitalists’ to take the risk to ‘pick winners’

The military—industrial complex gave rise to a scientific-industrial complex...
5/ On the... virtue of Elon.

For society.

And the extremes at one end of giant multi-billion dollar advances only able to be done by government or incredible story tellers

and a giant wave of smaller distributed scientists + technologists....

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More from @wolfejosh

13 Feb
1/ Likely we test new US political movements
that echo 2008 housing bailout
but for STUDENT LOAN forgiveness

Also played on past stages of
Germany vs Greece
North vs Southern Europe (Italy)

SAVERS vs SPENDTHRIFTS
2/ Obviously it is MORE complicated than profligate spending with other spotlights on inflationary cost of higher ed, driven ever higher by government provision of crazy debt loads, bloated administrative ranks, broken promise that a costly degree was high paying job guarantee...
3/ Excellent @GeorgeWill column in WaPo frames the lines...
washingtonpost.com/opinions/stude…
Read 9 tweets
10 Feb
1/
If you CANNOT say when something is OVERVALUED
you CANNOT say you know how to VALUE it

If you buy $1.00 for cost of $0.50—it’s “riskless profit”
(undervalued arb, sure to gain)

If you buy $1.00 for cost of $2.00—it’s “riskless loss”
(overvalued foolishness, sure to lose)
2/
If you cannot VALUE something you do not know if it is UNDERVALUED or OVERVALUED

and thus cannot know if you are taking riskless profit, riskless loss—or profitless risk

The key current test: at what $ price within a 50% +/- range
would #Bitcoin be OVERVALUED?
3/ “Today a young man on acid realized:
everything should be free
Property rights are zerosum oppression by patriarchy Everything’s relative to something which’s relative to nothing
there’s no absolute value
info wants to be free
money is made-up
...Here’s Bob with the weather”
Read 4 tweets
9 Feb
1/ I wish for a BETTER world for my kids.

A world where
they can *feel* offended but have no right to be protected from feeling offended or feeling uncomfortable if they are insulted for any reason or someone says or does something wrong, ignorant, misinformed, rude or uncivil
2/ A world where
-they can make mistakes and commit errors and be given a chance to correct them and not cancelled

-they can be surrounded + welcoming of diverse people with diverse life experiences + diverse POVs who may also make mistakes + commit errors and BE corrected
3/A world where
-they must COMPETE intellectually, physically, psychologically when there are zero-sum outcomes + lose if they deserve to lose
-they must learn to COOPERATE with people different than themselves with different POVs who they might have to play non zero-sum games w
Read 6 tweets
8 Feb
1/ Some NEW news 🤯

Revealing— @Matterport's going public, partnerinf with Gores

Lux now joined by outstanding high quality world-class investors: Tiger Global, Senator, Dragoneer, Fidelity, BlackRock + Miller Value🚀 with up to $640M cash in $2.9B deal
matterport.com/news/matterpor…
2/ Lux is @Matterport largest shareholder––since leading their seed investment in 2013.

Lux cofounder @peterjhebert has served on the Board since helping guide to INCREDIBLE growth + technological breakthroughs in a giant market...
3/ The @matterport platform turns any physical space into immersive 3D digital twin—

and now has the largest spatial data library (over 150 countries)—in HISTORY.

Over 10 billion sq ft of space + GROWING
homes, office spaces, museums, schools, factories, hospitals, and retail
Read 4 tweets
5 Feb
1/ Having now read thousands of pages across hundreds of articles about the debate of PROGRESS or GREAT STAGNATION

And seeing learned people flip their minds--in both directions--(like Othello chips⚫️⚪️) given persuasive new evidence...
2/ I believe...

there are the contributing elements of "lag" and "mismeasurement" possibly behind the Solow Paradox (paraphrased as tech is everywhere 'cept in productivity)
3/ I believe...

there are salient anecdotes + examples NEAR and FAR (subject respectively to recency bias...and nostalgia for clearly-compounded effects of old technologies)
Read 8 tweets
3 Feb
THIS is not bravery––this is more than that. It is GENIUS.
meduza.io/en/feature/202…
2/🔥🤯
-All this because a small man in a bunker is losing his mind

-I mortally offended him by surviving
And then I committed a more serious offense
I didnt run +hide

-We all remember Alexander the Liberator, Yaroslav the Wise. Now we'll have Vladimir the Underpants Poisoner
3/
-This isn’t a demonstration of strength — it’s a show of weakness. You can’t lock up millions and hundreds of thousands of people.

-Millions of people living without the slightest prospects for the future.

-The only thing growing in Russia is the number of billionaires.
Read 4 tweets

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