If I wanted to propose a grand synthesis for Americans to understand Shenzhen, it would be uh Detroit in its heyday of about 100 years ago to Silicon Valley today.
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I think it comes down to whether you think AI is more Oil or God, more 'an economically useful commodity that can be scaled and refined to act as a multiplier on everything we do' or 'supremely intelligent and powerful being that's going to wake up and make humanity subservient (if we're lucky).'
Packy McCormick
Kalanick's unifying idea for Atoms (and Uber before it) is that physical industries can be built like computers. In Kalanick's model, manufacturing is the CPU that transforms atoms, real estate is the storage layer, and transportation is the network that moves atoms from one place to another.
Packy McCormick
It is not the neutrals or the lukewarms who make history. Hot lead can melt, but it took hammer blows to shape the very foundations of civilization — the same is true of human will.
Erwin Chargaff — Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature