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Will all our drugs come from China? | Alex’s blog

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Personal site for posts about my interests: the biotech industry, medicine, molecular biology, neuroscience, biorisk, science, consciousness, AI, innovation, decision making, philosophy, games, sci-fi, probability, and forecasting (among other things). I write to learn, mostly about biotech.

I’m no car expert (I don’t even drive), but my cofounders used to work at a company called Applied Intuition that develops self-driving software for automakers. Over lunch we often talk about the similarities and differences between the pharma and auto industries, and one of the themes we keep returning to is the impact that innovation from China is having on established Western firms. The big Western original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) — Volkswagen, Ford, BMW, GM, etc. — are facing an existential threat from Chinese OEMs that relatively recently began to push the bounds of performance, co

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