What podcasts say about Chris Power
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What Chris Power has said on podcasts
15 statements · 6 positive · 7 negative · 2 neutral
Great powers eventually offshore industrial capabilities after becoming financially oriented.
“every great power of all time does four very simple things. They have some generative population function. They have the best industrial capacity. And then they win or prevent a war. And then they get incredibly lazy and they end up with a financial industry and they offshore what made them successful in the first place.”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 3:58
The global reserve currency changes roughly every 150 years.
“roughly every 150 years the reserve currency of the world changes”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 5:14
Hadrian builds design-agnostic autonomous factories.
“we build design-agnostic autonomous factories”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 10:18
Current advanced manufacturing machines require human oversight because they lack closed-loop control.
“The reason why a welder or a machinist has to stand in front of a machine is because it's not closed loop.”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 12:28
Hadrian’s software-powered factories let workers perform setup before automated systems complete production.
“we build software power factories to make sure that you can... do a physical task, which is very hard for any robot to do, which is high judgment, set up something very fiddly, and then load it into a robotics and CNC or welding system and say, go, it's done, walk away.”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 12:47
Companies should retain 10–15% of manufacturing capacity in-house.
“I think every company should have 10 to 15% in-house.”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 20:22
Manufacturing scale should be achieved through external suppliers.
“scale has to happen externally”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 20:36
The United States would exhaust its current missile inventory within seven days of war.
“We have our current missile inventory in any war game. We expend everything in the warehouse and we run out in seven days.”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 23:20
China produced 2,600 ships compared with six produced by the United States.
“China produced 2,600 ships and we produced six”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 23:31
The United States is far behind in industrial production.
“we are so far behind”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 24:47
AI progress increasingly depends on physical-world deployment and mass manufacturing.
“most of software, especially AI, is now determined on what is the velocity of your training data, which means physical world deployment, which means mass manufacturing.”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 25:27
Some U.S.-made components cost three times comparable Chinese imports.
“Chinese imports are still three. I can make a component for a customer. I can buy the raw material in the United States and it's three times the cost of the component imported from China for some of our commercial customers.”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 37:21
China subsidizes energy, labor, capital, and exports to build industrial power.
“the CCP is subsidizing energy, labor, capital, and export tariffs”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 37:44
American police and military drones should not contain Chinese circuit boards.
“it's a terrible idea that every American police drone or military drone can have any Chinese circuit board in it”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 40:09
Banning Chinese components and requiring American or allied sourcing is correct policy.
“the banning of components and assemblies to say you've got to buy American-American allies and let the market correct for cost is correct.”
Open the episode · How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech HubListen at 40:59
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