High Signal Podcasts Evidence ledger
Method
Browse
How the evidence works

Public evidence record

Arthur Kroeber

Published podcast speaker

Claims
27
Episodes
1
Shows
1
Named items
0

Claim ledger

What Arthur said.

6 transcript-backed records

01 / evaluation

They started cranking out cars in 2019, which became immensely popular. It seems like one of the things that happened was that the Chinese companies by 2019 had gotten pretty good at the underlying technology of electric cars, specifically the batteries and the software systems that govern the cars.

“They started cranking out cars in 2019, which became immensely popular. It seems like one of the things that happened was that the Chinese companies by 2019 had gotten pretty good at the underlying technology of electric cars, specifically the batteries and the software systems that govern the cars.”
Speaker
Arthur Kroeber
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

02 / evaluation

There’s a lot of criticism that China is trying to get rich on the backs of everyone else in the world by running this gigantic manufacturing export machine. It seems like the Chinese ambition is to produce all the manufactured goods in the world, run an enormous trade surplus, which means they are depending on the rest of the world’s buying power to support them.

“There’s a lot of criticism that China is trying to get rich on the backs of everyone else in the world by running this gigantic manufacturing export machine. It seems like the Chinese ambition is to produce all the manufactured goods in the world, run an enormous trade surplus, which means they are depending on the rest of the world’s buying power to support them.”
Speaker
Arthur Kroeber
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

03 / evaluation

The valuations of these stocks, which again got crazy, you couldn't justify them by earnings. They said, it doesn't matter because the land they're sitting on is so valuable.

“The valuations of these stocks, which again got crazy, you couldn't justify them by earnings. They said, it doesn't matter because the land they're sitting on is so valuable.”
Speaker
Arthur Kroeber
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

04 / evaluation

China really gets in the way of that narrative because it's this incredibly successful authoritarian system where the authority still calls itself communist.

“China really gets in the way of that narrative because it's this incredibly successful authoritarian system where the authority still calls itself communist.”
Speaker
Arthur Kroeber
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

05 / evaluation

If you think back to the discourse around the Internet in the late 1990s, everyone was saying the Internet was the death knell of authoritarian regimes because it empowered everyone to have information.

“If you think back to the discourse around the Internet in the late 1990s, everyone was saying the Internet was the death knell of authoritarian regimes because it empowered everyone to have information.”
Speaker
Arthur Kroeber
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

06 / evaluation

It was not perfect, it had plenty of problems. But the absence of that channel, I think, was really catastrophic in the early days of COVID where we literally had no way of understanding what was going on within the Chinese system.

“It was not perfect, it had plenty of problems. But the absence of that channel, I think, was really catastrophic in the early days of COVID where we literally had no way of understanding what was going on within the Chinese system.”
Speaker
Arthur Kroeber
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast
Search evidence