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The enclosed world of the AI gods was shattered by the news that Jensen Huang, founder of the almost $5 trillion company Nvidia, has been having an extramarital affair with an alluring Chinese spy. A consequential sex scandal at last!
tinabrown.substack.com/p/spi…
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ca1icat retweeted
The enclosed world of the AI gods was shattered by the news that Jensen Huang, founder of the almost $5 trillion company Nvidia, has been having an extramarital affair with an alluring Chinese spy. A consequential sex scandal at last!
tinabrown.substack.com/p/spi…
As an aside, I do think once a man obtains a certain amount of capital and power, he needs to start to subvert norms. Like, transgression as a more novel expression of power.
I think having an affair is perhaps the most milquetoast of that subversion. See: Epstein, et al.
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Like once conventional markers of success lose their ability to distinguish you from your peers, the ability to disregard conventions becomes another marker of status.
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The data suggest! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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If Huang really is indispensable to American AI leadership, that should raise the stakes of his judgment, not lower them.
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It's also a huge leap to go from "Jensen is one of the greatest entrepreneurs" to "Jensen is irreplaceable for America's AI leadership."
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The Nvidia corporate statement is weak. Also I find it funny all the people who call TikTok a Chinese psyop casually waving off Jensen’s affair.
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