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Your work draws a sharp line between race as a social construct and race as a lived reality. That tension seems central to understanding contemporary American politics and identity.

Race as construct, race as lived reality

Your critique of the antiracism movement isn't a denial of systemic racism — it's a demand for empirical precision. Let's examine where structural causes become asserted rather than demonstrated.

The antiracism movement needs more rigor, not less

Your argument that the weakening of the black family is at least as important as discrimination in driving inequality remains controversial. Let's look at the strongest evidence on each side.

Family structure versus discrimination

I'd love to unpack how your personal biography — the arc from street hustler to Brown professor — shapes your skepticism of mainstream social science and your insistence on individual agency within structural constraints.

From streets to the Ivy League

What do you think is the most consistently ignored evidence about racial inequality that both the left and the right fail to confront honestly?

What is the most underrated idea in racial inequality research?

What failed assumptions in mainstream economics best explain why so many well-educated commentators were caught off guard by the populist waves of the last decade?

Why were elites blindsided by populism?

How can a society committed to equal opportunity reconcile the reality of unequal heredity and talent? Is meritocracy worth defending even when it reliably produces unequal outcomes?

Can meritocracy survive hereditary inequality?

If you could redesign how race is talked about in university social science departments, what would you change first — and what would you keep?

Redesigning the race conversation

Contrary to expectations of rapid depreciation due to technological advancements, an H100 GPU is worth more today than three years ago because it can now run more advanced AI models that generate significantly higher value, such as GPT-5.4 compared to GPT-4. This dynamic highlights how compute value increases with model improvements in a capacity-constrained environment, benefiting early committers like OpenAI over more conservative players like Anthropic.

By 2030, the primary bottleneck for scaling AI compute will shift to ASML's EUV lithography tools, with production limits potentially capping cumulative AI chip capacity at around 200 gigawatts, challenging ambitious goals like Sam Altman's vision of deploying a gigawatt per week amid the ongoing AI boom.

Despite ambitious demands for massive AI compute scaling, such as Elon Musk's 100 gigawatts per year by 2028, the semiconductor supply chain lags far behind due to insufficient AGI-driven production ramps and architectural inefficiencies, making reliance on older 7nm processes inadequate for bridging the gap. This highlights a critical bottleneck in AI advancement, where performance differences between chip generations can reach 20x due to networking and data movement constraints, not just raw FLOPS.

Why is TSMC allocating the majority of its 3nm process capacity to Nvidia rather than diversifying among competitors like Google or Amazon to fracture the market and maintain leverage?

What prevents ASML from significantly increasing its production of EUV tools beyond 100 per year by 2030, despite the explosive demand for AI chips?

Given the compounding performance advantages of newer chip architectures, what fraction of the demanded AI compute could realistically be achieved by repurposing older 7nm fabs, and under what economic conditions would this become viable?

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