# Regulation, not competition, killed American railroads — a warning for AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-02
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** "Will demand for advanced AI chips (GPUs) be 1:1 for every person? We sit down with Greg Osuri to find out." (Block Fuel)
- **Watch at:** 00:19:48 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-demand-for-advanced-ai-chips-gpus-be-1-1-for-every/id1705468368?i=1000671509211
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2024-10-02-regulation-not-competition-killed-american-railroa-tra3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Regulation, not competition, killed American railroads — a warning for AI," "Will demand for advanced AI chips (GPUs) be 1:1 for every person? We sit down with Greg Osuri to find out." (Block Fuel), 2 Oct 2024, 00:19:48. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-demand-for-advanced-ai-chips-gpus-be-1-1-for-every/id1705468368?i=1000671509211

## Quote — verbatim

> Railroads did not die because airplanes came or motorways came... railroads died because they got overly corrupt and regulated as a result, and that led to the death of a whole industry. And that's the reason why we have railroads in Asia and Europe but we don't have railroads anymore in America.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His historical argument against heavy AI/chip industry intervention (quote spans into the 00:20:30 block), paired with a Chips Act critique ("the intention is always good, but the implementation is always bad") and a recommendation of Rothbard's Progressive Era.