Archive - Faster, Please!

🏗️ Permitting ourselves to build: A Quick Q&A with … energy policy expert James Coleman

'We had an incredible infrastructure boom in the postwar years, along with an economic boom, and we've been spending down that infrastructure…

12 hrs ago •

James Pethokoukis

🌐✨ Trade and AI uncertainty are not the same

Another great example of the Down Wing versus Up Wing dichotomy

Feb 3 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #33

A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was

Feb 1 •

James Pethokoukis

January 2025

🌍 My chat (+transcript) with researcher Toby Ord on existential risk

Faster, Please! — The Podcast #69

Jan 31 •

James Pethokoukis

24:54

✨⏩ What DeepSeek means for faster AI-driven economic growth

'The potential for a faster buildout of AI platforms and applications raises the prospect of a more optimistic adoption and productivity boost…

Jan 30 •

James Pethokoukis

☀ The Doomsday Clock needs a pro-progress switch to the Genesis Clock

Also: AI as a thought partner: A Quick Q&A with … machine learning researcher Katie Collins

Jan 29 •

James Pethokoukis

✨ DeepSeek drama: The optimistic case for AI spending momentum

Plenty of historical precedent and the Jevons Paradox suggest AI efficiency gains will drive higher, not lower, total spending

Jan 28 •

James Pethokoukis

✨ Begun, the US vs. China AI race has

How should America respond to DeepSeek?

Jan 27 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #32

A curated selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the week that was

Jan 25 •

James Pethokoukis

✨ DeepSeek, China's new AI challenge

America shouldn't fear competition. We should adapt and accelerate. Hear that, Washington?

Jan 25 •

James Pethokoukis

🤖 My chat (+transcript) with journalist Nicole Kobie on why the future of tech still hasn’t arrived

Faster, Please! — The Podcast #68

Jan 24 •

James Pethokoukis

28:07

✨⚡ Can we actually build Stargate?

Massive funding for AI infrastructure may be no match for massive permitting obstacles. That needs to change.

Jan 23 •

James Pethokoukis

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