Rohan Paul

Jensen Huang was visting Taiwan with @lexfridman . His case against export controls: build the flywheel instead of just blocking access. "So the question is, are you optimizing for someone else not having access to this technology, or are you optimizing for a flywheel? ... And I suggest that a more sophisticated long-term strategy is to optimize for a flywheel." He argues that keeping things away from rivals makes sense for physical items like refined rare earths, bullets and bombs, but he argues that for computing tech, America is safer by selling widely. Sales create wealth, wealth pays for more R&D, and that loop keeps the US ahead, because, the safest countries in the world are the richest ones. ---- Full video on "Lex Fridman" YouTube channel, (link in comment)