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My favorite saying : "The future belongs to those who show up."

His covid predictions with china have been spot on as have his previous predictions with brexit. I recommend following his twitter and youtube accounts for more info. The stuff he says isn't being said by most ppl right now and it's not "spookism" it's very technical and he's very good at not stepping outside his boundaries

Love this interview

Once we have a platform for agricultural automation, it won't be necessary to do everything over for each new device. That is to say, once you've got a framework that can integrate cameras and manipulators that can recognize different plants and what state of growth and health those plants are in, that technology follows an experience curve, becoming substantially cheaper every year until cheap little machines that can move around a backyard vegetable garden can use it.

Peter Zeihan has been interviewed by a million podcasters and KZfaqrs now, and apparently no one bothers to inform him that he should get a proper microphone... ffs, give me your address Peter, I'll buy and send you one!

where is the best place to have a conversation about what kind of world we want to live in and how to get there?

I think we need to reform our supply chain in a way that makes domestic manufacturing more viable and also fits in line with our goals for the environment and independence. I think that vision means massive SKU reduction. We should be manufacturing at most 5-6 programmable chips that we can use for everything. Your microwave, your washing machine, your dishwasher and your smart thermostat should all be running off not just the same chip but the same entire board with different software flashed on to it. With that model we can leverage economies of scale to produce the electronics the consumer market demands while also reducing our waste since we will be able to end appliance disposability if parts are more universal and accessible. We will also need right to repair legislation that cuts back on some of the excesses of copyright law that allows us to bypasses some of the software lockouts that allow us to service existing products and focus on extending product lifespans.

this is weirdly hopeful and terrifying

To use the high end silicon you need quite a lot of mid/low components as well. A motherboard is full on non-high end components. Am I missing something here? Maybe there is enough production of this in the west even though majority is produced in other regions?

Really hope so

I have a meat thermometer that tells my phone what temperature it is, and I f*cking LOVE it!

Population collapse is going to be awful for those who are childless when they get old.

We will if people keep getting jibber jibbed

The root of the problem is corrupt politicians.

Good !

Good. There are way too many people in the world by far, by perhaps a factor of 100.

Tempus made some good points.

over population is the number one world problem

Did you copy and paste your questions into an existing video. Or does Zihan always say the same things

@4:39 wtf did Chris say? Sounded like Swedish Chef “guhferdafer”

What if we get our hands on that flying saucer motorhome technology?

Are collapse and decrease the same thing? Genuine question.

But my meat probe to my phone has allowed my laziness to really bloom! I don’t even need to get off the couch to check the progress of my cook anymore 😎👍

How old is this interview?

Internet of things was gonna br failure anyway , i think making every single thing into a smart device is very stupid idea

Let the rich and super rich have kids

Chis is in his 30’s with no kids.

The biggest nuclear affect as been the introduction of contraceptives.

I cannot believe that this video, that was talking about decreasing population, did not even touch on the increased death rates across the planet, and exactly what is causing it. And how are the drug companies involved in the population reduction?

Internet of things etc wont be going away though. The nature of how the economy & everything else works is about to change drastically. ESG & stakeholder capitalism changes everything.

Does anyone know of a video who details out what exactly causes the drop off from 9 billion. So many people say we slow down and decrease, but why?

Peter is always very passionate about what he says... but have his predictions ever come true?

Um speak for yourself regarding that thermostat that links to your phone 😂

Hmmm... meat thermometer that talks to your phone... Hey, QVC ...

Thanks to Billy and his magic injection, she added.

03:41 Because patents keep such technology expensive.

My energy bill has tripled.

The reason is: People are having less kids because of social anxiety, birth control, and different priorities other than marriage/raising kids.

What are the chances that this positively impacts housing prices within the lifespan of a 40 year old man? Because I could get behind it...

We need less people on our planet. Since 1973 we doubled our population. That is crazy and irresponsible.

If you can count robots as a workforce, then probably they can be part of the human population too

Yes thanks to wef and the stupidity of politicians

Shit that explains why my taxes always going up, ecen if I don't make more money

We've been able to easily predict this for the last 60 years when the baby boom happened, and it's been taken for granted as fact for the last 40 when their children largely didn't have children. Largest generation in human history, followed by rapid global urbanization, and 3 well documented small generations, equals an eventual population decline.

Regardless of whether the statistics are those of a tribe or those of a continent, the clearest state of mind from which individuals can understand “demographics” is from a personal perspective. Because only from an individual vantage point can they can fully appreciate that unless they have someone who not only loves them but will also survive them, they are in a heap of trouble.

03:53 Most of the world wouldn't need it, we just need a few super producers that will feed the world.

The big issue for the West is going to be pensions. Not enough people of working age to pay the taxes to pay our pensions. We're going to see even more population migration from S America/Africa, and the destruction of our Judeo Christian world & values.

Western women expectations are too high. And men have no reason to steele down sex is giving out like candy . Most wonen want a guy to marry that makes over 6 figures and is 6 feet tall . Thsts less that 10 percent of men in America

The world will be a kinder, more compassionate, more enjoyable place with far fewer propagandized zombies beating their drums in unison. I'd love to be alive in a world with only a billion people, as the Earth was for the majority of human history before petroleum based fertilizer.

I think a massive drop in population will be a good thing for people's quality of life and the planet. Ultimately leading to conditions that increase people's children (lower population density), and the cycle continues. Booms and busts, peaks and troughs, like many other species. Like many species, though, absent a huge disaster resetting the population to a very low level, the peaks and troughs will get smaller, eventually stabilising more closely to a stable carrying capacity.

No, we're facing a KZfaqr clickbait boom. I see it everywhere, competition is too fierce so KZfaqrs resort to tried and tested MSM tactics and the cycle completes

Captain Doom & Gloom, back for another episode....

This has been surprisingly void of facts - the growth of Africa is what is not talked about - the continent is due to double in the next 25 years. If you think mass migration is bad at the current levels - just wait until the number of Africans fleeing war zones doubles. Talking about global population levels is therefore largely unhelpful - the issue is local instability and mass migration caused by local over-population, mostly in central Africa, which will drive instability mostly in Europe.

Dude microcontrollers are more important than microprocessors

Due to aging demographics global population will reduce but longer term, global supplies of energy, minerals, metals, fertilisers and food will all decline. The scientific understanding of geological formation of commodities has been well understood for 70 years. There is little left to be found and reserves are in decline.

as long it happens in africa and asia

Im not trying to be a ass.... but dude seriously needs to do some CARDIO.

'AI is only about image recognition' HAHAHA what a brain!

Fuck no SOUND

If you want more 30 year olds you have to have started 45-50 years ago cuz you need the parents to want to have marriages and kids in the first place. Y’all need to dig another 5 layers deep for your root cause.

Hopefully we are. A couple hundred million people left worldwide would be super nice. I always liked the idea of Asimov's Solaria. A few people per planet.

yep In western countries tho

I like Peter but he talks about things as if they are so black and white. If this, then this. This is not a game of Civ.

Usually I am a huge fan of you both... but this is all really old news...

Concerning depopulation: Peter is not considering a very important factor here: The HIGHER the standard of living, and the more URBAN the population, the fewer children people tend to have. But the reverse is also true... the poorer, and more RURAL the population the MORE children they have. (It doesn't matter that htis doesn't make sense, it's born out by the data). As such, de-globalization will see a modest de-urbanization from a need for more food to be produced more locally and in less centralized easily mechanized farms. But that will be a small effect compared to the increase in poverty. Both will drive higher birthrates. Concerning automation: Peter is also a bit off... the automation that matters is not the automation that replaces a worker with a robot whole-cloth, but rather the automation that lets a worker do the work that used to be done by two workers or ten. Think of it as LABOR-SAVING devices not "robots". Examples: One check-out guy watches 5 self-check-out stations at a grocery store. These sorts of automation CAN be easily tweaked and re-factored because the remaining workers can pick up any slack dynamically. Automation and population and economics come together here in a way that he's missing: A lot of the automation that will matter for a the economy in decades to come will be strictly SOFTWARE automation enabling ENTREPRENEURS to start and grow businesses as sole-proprietors or only a small set of partners. Consider, if I had a cool idea for a product in the 1970s, I would need to get investors or a loan, and build a prototype and then hire workers and build a production line, hire a production manager, and HR people, and a lawyer, and an accountant, and a secretary... and all of that just to bring the first version of the product to market. To some degree in the present, and even more so in the future, all of that can be dispensed with to automation or out-sourcing. (Out-sourcing and automation are functionally the same thing, and sometimes even actually the same thing). In the future, if I have my idea the initial funding is via IndieGoGo crowdsourcing... Gone is the need for some slick business major to make an elevator pitch to a VC. The manufacturing is out-sourced, the accounting and lawyer and secretary work is handled by software-bots who deal in customized cookie-cutter contracts and balance sheets and have software guides for customizing them to a given business. These software bots will be available for free, with service contracts available for more advanced needs following the software as a service model. There will be no HR as the only employees will be partners compensated in equity, and buying their benefits on the private market. Likewise, no facilities, no janitors or security for those facilities, etc. To be sure if the product is successful and the company grows enough, there will come a point where it makes sense to become a legacy-style brick-and-mortar business, but let's face it that's a waste of funds in most cases. Optimistically only 3 in 20 startups get that far. Note how this entrepreneur automation model allows for the number of businesses and products to go up even as the number of consumers and producers goes down. On the production side it is powered by a larger fraction of people being product creators, and on the consumption side on bespoke customized products with smaller production runs becoming more valuable to consumers than economy of scale driven commodity consumption... that is people would rather have, at a given price-point, a cell phone that has a particular set of features that serves their needs even if they pay a premium for it than a phone that is broadly more powerful but not optimized for them... or to say it another way, every consumption industry will start to have the properties of the fashion industry: value arising from design rather than commodity price point. In such an economy, population is only loosely coupled with economy.

If you want more 30 year Olds you would've had to start 31 years ago. Yikes

The poor will always procreate

This guy makes 7000 predictions every year for the past 20yrs lmao. //Edit: I agree btw that we are in a population collapse. That's why when I reach 65 I'm moving to India, SEA or Africa prolly by then.

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." Voltaire

Zeihan talks and presents with conviction but he makes up a lot of stuff or has poor sources. I'd bet he has never even been to China for example but those who fall for his style of speak as though he is an authority would assume that he is some type of expert, which is far from reality. He has become popular on KZfaq because a lot of content creators look for someone like him as some type of celebrity expert, so as each copy one another and the algorithm pops him up again and again he seems to be everywhere as the go to expert. He is an entertainer, not sure he's an actual expert

*"Global population collapse" Their globe: America. Edit. Don't worry bois if it actually starts to happen my country will definitely come in clutch. Edit. India

This dude is a total joke. A doomsday doom and gloom jesus is coming clickbait "trust me bro" is all he is. Go back to older videos, nothing he said came true, who would expect that lol. Chris you are making a bad name by hosting this kind of people here. Will drag you down.

Population collapse is going to be awful for those who are childless when they get old.