Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
The new information is it increases the odds of him leaving
I mean yes, but why? Are people treating it as evidence that the c-suite is stacked with talentless hacks with no skills other than being unusually attractive for 40+? Somehow I don't think that's what is driving the pressure.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
The second affair doesn't add any new information. We already knew (from the first affair) what kind of person he is, and that he had compromised the foreign policy of the United States. I guess now we find out that he also compromised his own executive team? Who cares?
It does bring up an interesting corporate governance question: How does the duty to ensure that the company operates legally weigh against the duty to protect shareholder financial interests? Like, if they decide that no one will prosecute over the export control violation, do they have to keep letting Jensen sell chips to China? Do they have to keep letting him bang executives? Delaware corporate law wasn't designed to handle decisions worth trillions of dollars.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
The number one reason to own Anthropic is that their total addressable market is all thermodynamic free energy in the lightcone.
The number two reason to own Anthropic is so that Roko’s Basilisk doesn’t torture you as punishment for not buying Anthropic stock.
The number three reason to own Anthropic is that Democrats might crush every other AI company on the planet for them.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
No, because he was selling export-restricted Blackwell chips to Singaporean and Malaysian shell companies controlled by CCP operatives.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
There’s a real chance that Jensen goes down as the worst traitor to America since the Rosenbergs. The narrative will be that Trump let it slide for ballroom money (plausible tbh).
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
Imagine if they had fired him after the iPod, but before the iPhone.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
That's probably the best solution. We could also try the brute-force Dr. Strangelove solution of recruiting a strategic reserve of young, attractive, patriotic women to saturate the desires of our top officials and scientists, therefore rendering them immune to foreign honeypots.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang caught having affair with Chinese spy.
There was some discussion of this in the Sunday thread, but I think this is a big deal worth a top-level post.
The woman, Alice Huang (no relation), is an executive at Singapore-based cloud computing company Megaspeed. The official story from Nvidia, up until last week, was that this was a totally normal nothing-to-see-here business relationship with a client. Jensen himself now seems to admit this is not the case.
Jensen has been strongly opposed to chip export controls for some time. No doubt prosaic conserns about margins and market expansion were a major factor, but now we have to wonder how much corruption, blackmail, and CCP blackops might have played a role. There have been rumors of... irregularities regarding some Nvidia chip shipments to Asia. There is new reporting today that Nvidia itself intervened to squash a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed.
I feel like the board has to fire him after this, but on the other hand it seems almost unthinkable. Imagine Apple firing Steve Jobs. There might be pressure from investors to keep him on. It will be interesting to see how the National Security apparatus responds to such a massive persistant vulnerability if it comes to that.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
I got to the part of the paper where they cite a 200-OOM range for the fraction of habitable planets with life and immediately knew where this was going.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
If the Democrats were smart, they would be working around the clock to draft the DONALD J. TRUMP EXPAND AMERICA ACT of 2027. Washington D.C will be admitted to the union as a full state, to be known as The District of Trump. Unauthorized aliens who can demonstrate a residence in the US of at least 10 years will be eligible for TRUMP cards, offering amnesty and a path to citizenship. The Kennedy Center will be officially renamed. 31 U.S.C § 5114(b) will be amended to allow Donald Trump’s face to be printed on US currency prior to his death.
The crown of Henry Clay is lying in the gutter. Chuck Schumer can pick it up if only he swallows his pride.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Blow-ups like this reinforce my bias that while poly/open relationships exist, you can't get away with them if you're a high status man.
No, the reason Jensen can’t get away with this is that he got honeypotted by China. If this were some random c-list aspiring K-pop star he got busted busting with, no one other than his wife would care.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Fuentes never bought into the “Israel killed Charlie Kirk” conspiracies for example.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
Fuentes is the only explicitly anti-Israel pundit on the right who has resisted the descent into insane anti-intellectual conspiracism. Tucker, Candice, etc. all lost the plot surprisingly quickly. There isn't a huge bench of thought leaders, so Fuentes kind of wins by default.
Is The Hackening accelerating?
Microsoft Outlook was down for 24 hours starting yesterday. Some people still don't have access. Microsoft denies that the incident was AI-related.
The FAA just called a nationwide emergency ground stop. No planes are allowed to take-off from any airport in the United States as of this writing. This is reportedly due to, "a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers."
I don't think it is a coincidence that Jensen Huang was forced out at about the same time as AI-powered cyberattacks become a part of everyday life. It was easy enough to look the other way as Nvidia generated trillions of dollars for US shareholders on the back of smuggling advanced chips to China through Southeast Asia. Now that we are living with the consequences, people are poking around and finding that the Chinese open-weight AI models currently being used in cyberattacks were trained on export-banned Nvidia Blackwell chips. I was not kidding when I said that Jensen could end up as the greatest traitor to America since the Rosenbergs. I believe that he personally will face criminal charges at some point. If things get bad enough, if AI cyber-conflict becomes the new Cold War, Jensen could even be executed. No one in the future will believe that we allowed this to happen in plain sight just for a few extra basis points in stock market gains.
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