A fully general tech company is a technology company with the ability to become a world-leader in essentially any industry sector...
Notice here that I’m focusing on a company’s ability to do anything another company can do
To clarify, is this meant to refer to a fixed definition of sectors and what other companies can do as they existed prior to the TCS?
Or is it meant to include FGTCs being able to copy the output of other FGTCs?
I’d assume you mean something like the former, but I think it’s worth being explicit about the fact that what sectors exist and what other companies can do will be moving targets.
Yep, you got it! The definition is meant to be non-recursive and grounded in 2022-level industrial capabilities. This definition is bit unsatisfying insofar as 2022 is a bit arbitrary, except that I don’t think the definition would change much if we replaced 2022 by 2010.
I decided not to get into these details to avoid bogging down the post with definitions, but if a lot of people upvote you on this I will change the OP.
To clarify, is this meant to refer to a fixed definition of sectors and what other companies can do as they existed prior to the TCS?
Or is it meant to include FGTCs being able to copy the output of other FGTCs?
I’d assume you mean something like the former, but I think it’s worth being explicit about the fact that what sectors exist and what other companies can do will be moving targets.
Yep, you got it! The definition is meant to be non-recursive and grounded in 2022-level industrial capabilities. This definition is bit unsatisfying insofar as 2022 is a bit arbitrary, except that I don’t think the definition would change much if we replaced 2022 by 2010.
I decided not to get into these details to avoid bogging down the post with definitions, but if a lot of people upvote you on this I will change the OP.
Thanks for raising this!