Archive - Faster, Please!

🎇☠ The economics of AI apocalypse

Hey, fellow humans, what's your p(doom)?

13 hrs ago •

James Pethokoukis

🤖 The Right vs. the robots

A new 'technology agenda for the right' worries way more about social disruption than the downsides of derailing progress and growth. That's a mistake

Mar 11 •

James Pethokoukis

🌐 Trump boom vs. tariff doom

Markets are sending a message. The White House should listen

Mar 10 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #36

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

Mar 8 •

James Pethokoukis

🌅 America's new Golden Age: an update

Chaotic trade policy is a bad start. And the Age of AI isn't yet here

Mar 8 •

James Pethokoukis

🚀 My chat (+transcript) with economist Matt Weinzierl on the growing business of space

Faster, Please! — The Podcast #70

Mar 6 •

James Pethokoukis

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🎇 What if super AI happens during Trump's presidency?

Both the White House and the rest of Washington should be thinking hard about the possibility

Mar 6 •

James Pethokoukis

🤖 Why China might lead the Robot Revolution

'Thanks to its manufacturing prowess, China is positioned for dominance in humanoid robotics much as it has with electric vehicles'

Mar 4 •

James Pethokoukis

⤴⤵ Up Wing/Down Wing #35

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

Mar 1 •

James Pethokoukis

February 2025

👶 Progressive pronatalism: A Quick Q&A with … philosopher Victor Kumar

'A healthy population size matters in part because it drives productivity and innovation; any serious form of pronatalism must recognize the fundamental…

Feb 28 •

James Pethokoukis

👶 Lessons on birth rates: Japan and South Korea

Two Asian nations grapple with demographic decline — one finding a tiny glimmer of hope, the other discovering unexpected economic resilience

Feb 27 •

James Pethokoukis

✨🎇🎆 Talkin’ bout an AI Revolution: 3 scenarios

There's good reason to think that by 2030, we'll only still be in the early days of this intelligence explosion. And that's OK.

Feb 26 •

James Pethokoukis

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