Shawn Ryan

But then once we've made that choice, they're optimizing.

Given that constraint, what can they do that's valuable?

And I think that then there's a reason why we made our choice, right?

And that still has an effect of everybody that I know.

It's really hard in India and China, I think, to break out of those systems unless you happen to have an advisor or someone you knew who was in the US system, which is insane.

I mean, I feel bad for the researchers.

It's just like, it's so sociological in some sense.

You can't just have a brilliant idea and get to be a part of this club in some sense because, again,

It's almost more like if you don't speak the language or the right way, people don't think you know what you're talking about or they don't understand you.

And so there's pipelines that are very limited and very much go through the US and out.

Almost like go through Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, MIT and out.

And that sucks.

But that definitely just says that it's not like we're behind in that sense, right?

I mean, I'm less of an experimental type of person.

I think a lot of, I mean, I'm excited for my phenomenological buddies if they think that they can get somebody to fund an experiment that the U.S.

wouldn't prioritize.

I'm happy for them.

I still think the things that I'm more excited about are still in Silicon Valley as far as I'm concerned.

But that's my own bias.

It's my own.