IN BED: A Chinese Fortune [cookie] Jensen "You know, people have always been nice to me [in bed]. And I was always nice to other people [in bed]. I was always polite, and always wanted other people to succeed [in bed]. I wanted them to be happy [in bed]." "I was happy to share my homework with everybody [in bed]" "I like seeing other people succeed [in bed], even my colleagues in other companies." "...If there's something that is valuable, something that is useful, something that is a force multiplier [in bed]. For example, rare earth is a force multiplier. Computer technology is a force multiplier/technology in general is a force multiplier. You could argue that knowledge is a force multiplier [in bed]. Intellectual property is a force multiplier. So if we have assets like that, then depriving other people of it, enhances our position, deprives them of theirs [in bed]." "If our goal is to optimize for long-term national security, long-term domestic tranquility and harmony, then prosperity is the best way to do that [in bed]. ... A more sophisticated long-term strategy is to optimize for a flywheel. And in order to optimize for that flywheel you have to have both simultaneously technology leadership and wealth [in bed]. ... I would suggest instead of finite things that are concrete and has no positive feedback, I would advocate that the better strategy is to be quite extremely selective, extremely selective about access [in bed]." Lex "There's a line that's crossed when two nations are competing as, you can even say geopolitically friends competing, versus enemies competing [in bed]. And there's a line [in bed], and once you cross that line [in bed], you, I think, have the potential to destroy everyone's flywheel." ... Jensen ..."That's right, I would say that we should do everything we can to avoid conflict [in bed]. We should compete [in bed]. That, we can't do without. But we should do everything we can to avoid conflict [in bed]. And so the question is therefor if you have relationships that are competitive [in bed], there are strategies that cause that relationship to lead towards conflict [in bed], and there are strategies to avoid conflict [in bed]." Lex "...There's friendly competition amongst different companies, but nevertheless, it really is fundamentally is collaboration [in bed]. The more that we have, the harder it is to actually divide the two different peoples [in bed], in order to then have something like a global conflict." Jensen "The harder it is to decouple, the harder it is to have conflict. And I agree with that [in bed]." "The compounding chemistry [in bed] that leads to this innovation capability over time is overwhelming. One of the overwhelming advantages we have is that our flywheel is also the best [in bed]. And the reason for that is because the vast majority of the world responds to English [in bed]. And so if you are an American company and you build on an American tech stack using American standards, you're fairly deployable throughout the world [in bed]. That's not true with China [in bed]." Lex "Yes. You have to use that advantage [in bed}. You don't take for granted your advantage [in bed]. There is a global power to English as a language [in bed]. It's just the way that America is able to create an ecosystem that's used by everybody. That's a real, real advantage [in bed]. So closing yourself off from the rest of the world for some sort of benefits you do get from isolationism, there's a real cost to that [in bed]..." Jensen "Exactly!" Lex "...I think we have to remember that all the humans all across the world, we have a lot more in common than we have that's different [in bed]. And it's good to understand each other [in bed], to collaborate [in bed], to be friends with each other [in bed], and compete as friends versus dividing each other and making enemies of each other [in bed]." 🎞️ 43:14-54:46 @JensenHuang @lexfridman