correct me if im wrong but it seems like: - the theme of the @danwwang book, and the general elite consensus now is that “industrial process” is a technology that lives in the heads of people and that it was a mistake to let so much “low value” industry be offshored due to the loss of tacit process capital - TSMC Arizona which makes the most complex and valuable industrial production in the world was a massive success, producing 4nm chips at great yields, on par with Taiwan, mere years after first striking the ground! this involved a generous federal subsidy, and importing thousands of the great Taiwanese semi experts, despite unions trying to quell Taiwanese immigration and some culture clashes - in the US, acquihires of whole teams with process knowledge in their heads is very common. Zuck acquiring some of the greatest talent from other AI labs for massive numbers is just one example of this; also seen in the full self driving wars btwn uber and google, tesla + apple + big pharma acquires industrial process companies all the time - America is a very capital rich place, able to levy literally hundreds of billions of dollars for machine intelligence capex; we can afford to acquihire whole groups of foreign talent for prices that are unheard of to them in their home countries tldr; acqihiring foreign process knowledge for massive sums should be one of the primary goals of any reindustrialization effort, special visa categories should be made for to scoop up whole teams of Shenzhen’s best, the raids on the LG battery plants in Georgia are the exact opposite of what we need. ability to tolerate new arrivals is a technological edge of American capital to be able to assimilate foreign knowledge into domestic industrial processes at a scale nobody else can countenance