Ben Horowitz

We didn't give you this freedom.

It came from something else.

And that's really, really important because it means if I'm the president, if I'm Congress, no matter who I am, I can't change it.

no matter how much I want to change it.

And there are many who would like to change some things, who think they know better than these truths.

Yeah, and that is a thing.

But because of that, the freedoms that you have in America are really, really protected to a degree that they're not in any other country

And they're very hard to lose.

And we've seen this.

There's just a great talk about free speech.

We've seen this with free speech where countries are like, well, maybe that's not such a good idea anymore.

But if it can't be taken, if it didn't come from people, it can't be taken away from people.

And that's been very, very powerful and very persistent, I think, over the entire history of the country.

And it's really unique.

There aren't other countries who have quite as strong a version of that.

You know, it's been interesting because if you go back to kind of pre-ChatGPT, the conventional wisdom was China had this big AI lead on us.

And then ChatGPT comes out and says, oh, well, maybe, no, we have a lead on them.

And then things will evolve from there.

But the thing that was true about the kind of old incorrect idea was that

They were way ahead of us in integrating their AI technology with their government on a kind of military basis, on a bureaucracy basis, and all facets.