California state government almost passed a law to outlaw AI in California six months ago, indicating how economically destructive anti-technology regulations can be.

The US should pursue design and manufacturing of next-generation robotics and AI hardware through 'alien dreadnought factories' with advanced robotics and automation, creating thousands of different categories of industrial production across the country and hundreds of millions of jobs, rather than trying to restore old manufacturing labor

Between 1870 and 1930, during the Second Industrial Revolution, essentially everything we view today as the modern world was invented, including airplanes, manufacturing techniques, air conditioning, television, radio, and automobiles.

If the US doesn't pursue embodied AI manufacturing, the result is living in a world of Chinese robots everywhere, which has very profound national security and economic consequences.

If there is advanced AI, advanced productivity growth, and lots of robots running around, there is a question of exactly how much low-skill labor the country needs, which bears significantly on immigration policy debates.

There is an opportunity for bipartisanship on the growth and re-industrialization agenda, as both left and right can benefit from faster economic growth and the sense that future generations will have better opportunities.

The three components of the American dream are housing (in a place with great job opportunities), healthcare, and education; all three have exploding prices due to technology not touching them and heavy regulation restricting supply.

Cost disease issues become much easier to deal with in a high growth environment with rapid technological development.

The current administration is 'pretty devoted' to implementing policies on energy, minerals, regulatory reform, and manufacturing that would enable AI and robotics development; progress is being made on natural resources and there is a project to build a new city in California on land four times the size of Manhattan.

Nixon's Project Independence in 1971 aimed to build 1,000 civilian nuclear power plants by 2000 and electrify the entire US grid to achieve energy independence, but he then created the EPA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission which prevented the project from happening, showing how regulatory policy choices block technological development

McKinley initially ran for office on high protective tariffs, but once in office switched to a model of 'reciprocity' where the goal was to use American tariffs as a lever to get other countries to drop their tariffs and achieve a world of much more free trade.

People who have lost-skill labor fear that AI will destroy tens of millions of jobs, but this fear is based on the false assumption that we are in an era of fast productivity growth when actually we have been in an era of slow productivity growth and economic stagnation for the last 50 years.

Between 1870 and 1920, the US economy was heavily based on industrialization with very high immigration and very high tariffs, achieving an annual growth rate approximately 3x the current US growth rate with a much smaller population and fewer tools.

AI is currently software-based and primarily benefits coastal cities, but the real transformative phase coming is embodied physical AI (robotics), which will require billions to hundreds of billions of robots of all shapes and sizes, necessitating massive manufacturing infrastructure.

The American System, created by Alexander Hamilton as Treasury Secretary, was a protectionist framework that deliberately built US industrial capacity through tariffs, and this same model was successfully replicated by Germany, Japan, Korea, and China in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Around 1971 (when Mark Andreessen was born), the US economy permanently downshifted its growth rate in both productivity growth and overall economic growth, shifting from very high growth to high growth to low growth.

There is a fundamental question about what level of untapped talent exists in the countryside that has been cut out of opportunity for the last 50 years by the combination of DEI and immigration policy.

The US deliberately chose to de-industrialize through explicit policy choices, including making a lot of industrial activity illegal, which has not worked well in terms of productivity growth and economic growth.

Slow growth puts everyone in zero-sum thinking mode, where everything becomes a fight for resources because people don't think there's opportunity in the future, and this is the precondition for the resurgence of populism on both left and right.

The populism that concerns urban progressives is driven by people in the Midwest and South feeling like coastal elites despise them, having blocked their kids' educational and economic opportunities.