PERSON DIRECTORY
Noah Smith
Noah Smith appears in 4 indexed conversations across The a16z Show, Latent Space, The Cognitive Revolution. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
FPV Drones -The Next War Is Already Here — Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law & Noah Smith, Noahpinion
Brandon AndersonNoah SmithYaroslav Azhnyuk
FPV drones now cause 70–80% of frontline casualties, with Ukraine producing about 4 million last year at roughly $500 each versus $4,000 for a 155 mm shell.Autonomy can raise mission success from 20% to 71%, but electronic warfare, counter-drone cost exchange rates, and China’s potential to manufacture billions of systems make allied industrial scale urgent.
US-China Relations: History, Culture, and AI Competition, with Noah Smith, from Econ 102
The U.S.–China contest is increasingly about control of trade routes, digital infrastructure, and strategic option value rather than reserve-currency dominance or LLM supremacy.Semiconductor equipment, software, and personnel controls may slow China’s costly 7-nanometer manufacturing and preserve conventional military advantages, but Taiwan incentives and the coming decade’s peak-risk window leave escalation unresolved.