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    His stupid leather jacket and techbro bait ‘’‘‘charisma’’‘’ were doing a fair bit of heavy lifting in terms of people being duped into believing AI is worth jack shit.

    So I’m actively hoping this fool’s errand ends.

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      If AI was worthless there wouldn’t be headlines about it. Is it overhyped? Yes. Is it useless? Far from it.

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      Oh don’t worry, I’m sure you could still six degrees him to child rape.

      AI companies that he’s artificially inflated due to handing out imaginary billions, which is given back to nvidia in GPU buys, which then goes out to another AI company, which comes back via GPU buys, etc etc etc without any actual, real money changing hands leads to sick fucks getting AI models to generate AI child porn, which leads to child rapists getting hot and bothered and going out and raping living breathing children.

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      I fail to see how this is gonna pop anything. The circular financing will continue uninterrupted.

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        If people divest from nvidia it will crash the whole market depending on scale. It doesn’t have to make sense. All that needs to happen is enough people get scared and sell that triggers more selloffs

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          Nvidia is down 14.25% YoY, 26.81% past 30 days, and only 4.82% of that can be attributed to the past 5 days.

          This has had relatively little impact on NVDA and less on the circlejerk as a whole, unfortunately.

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    Jensen Huang is one dumb son of a bitch.

    Still going to be rich for life though. Lucky dumb son of a bitch.

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      Dumb is right. Dude was literally on top of the world in charge of one of the world’s most important companies and now he’s disgraced because he couldn’t keep it in his pants. Pretty sad, and stupid.

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      Musk said he would hire an unemployed Jensen so I think there will be some top job lined up for him if he wants to.

      I think it won’t be more than a week until we find out what his new position will be.

      All this crap about “cant trust the ceo” will disappear completely. Nobody actually cares about his affair except the media and maybe Nvidia. Even Trump knew about this for a long time. He didn’t care either.

      And so far the US intelligence agencies has not provided evidence for this “spy” thing they keep saying.

      This world has some bad people at the top so this is a big nothing burger for them. The epstein crew and all the associates.

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        Dig this, nvidia crashes, teslagrokxspace buys it cheap, Musk appoints Jensen as CEO and personal ventriloquist puppet.

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        Who’s to say the “spy” story isn’t to cover for how China’s been able to get so much of Nvidias hardware since sanctioned?

        Look over here, not over there.

        If everything goes well, Jensen will get a cushie parachute from all those he helped enrich. Behind curtain, he’ll be praised with compassionate eyes for having “done his part.”

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        I think the reason he quit or was forced to resign was that he was going to have to answer some questions in the internal investigation and either plead the 5th or implicate himself. If he resigns the investigation goes nowhere, i.e. goes away. I believe he might be back to run Nvidia in a few years after this has blown over. He basically has to leave or the company will dig shit up during due diligence.

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          I think you may be onto something. Everything happened awfully quick. Almost like it was planned.

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    You know some regular Chinese citizens are probably laughing mad that they still can’t buy latest gen RTX GPUs in China even after a Chinese spy managed to essentially smuggle thousands of H100 and H200 GPUs lol.

    Although I guess at these insane prices, no one is buying a 5090.

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    Crazy how fast that happened. But was obvious. It’s not about the cheating, it’s about the feds discovering nvidia has probably made billions by ignoring export restrictions to china lmaoo.

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    Steve from GamersNexus must be laughing his ass off right now, especially because the stream of GPUs into China wasn’t a very well kept secret thanks to him and his team. If things happen on low levels like buying single GPUs off of private citizens to move them to China, it would be pretty dense to believe that the chinese government doesn’t have a much bigger scheme running.

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      Why does anyone care if China is buying GPUs? Its a product sold across the planet, why shouldn’t they be able to buy them. Plus we got some open models from there.

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        People care because this technology was hyped up as the thing that will replace all workers. It was announced as both our salvation and our doom. That’s why it has a geopolitical dimension.

        All of this is fucking bullshit of course lol. Big Tech was out of ideas - the Metaverse is the bodily (or virtual?) manifestation of the idea drought that Silicon Valley was going though, and suddendly they get their hands on something that - on a glance - looks like intelligence.

        This is the largest scam the world has ever seen, and we all will pay for it - because our leadership wouldn’t listen when critics said that the Emperor had no clothes on.

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      The interest of the Chinese government align more on keeping the sanctions and force Chinese AI companies to support the internal chip industry

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    It’s hillarious that supporting and enabling crimes against humanity is okay but putting your wee wee in the wrong hole forces you to resign immediately.

    What a fucking world we live in.

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      The wee wee part is the cover up for Nvidia selling chips to China under the restrictions.

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      They don’t give a shit about that. He made the stock price move the wrong direction and that is unforgivable.

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          He opened the company up to legal issues. Banging a foreign spy as well as a direct report are both massive legal liabilities.

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          What he did with her is again whatever. It’s the fact that she is connected to China and that might cause problems because of the export bans. Even if his relationship with her was platonic it would still be a problem.

          “Meets with Chinese spy” is just as bad of a headline as " fools around with Chinese spy"

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            If his wife has a problem with it he’s out billions of dolllars and may not get to see his kids much. Many people will do a lot of questionable shit to avoid that outcome

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            It probably wouldn’t be as big a deal if it were a platonic relationship. The reason the sex matters is that sex tends to lead to people making bad decisions. Also, the fact that it’s an affair matters because lying and sex in secret also is associated with bad decisions.

            If he were in a platonic relationship with her but they were caught doing heroin together, that might also be a big deal because drugs also lead to bad decisions. Illegal drugs done in secret would be an even bigger deal.

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      Rich dudes getting around a bit is expected, But Hwang a. gave a honeypot spy access to trade secrets (allegedly — though the company is taking this seriously) and b. in a second affair, fraternized with a lower-ranking officer of the company. (Companies notoriously don’t take these seriously, even when there’s evidence of duress, but this looks bad compounded with the spy thing, and highlights how he’s a security risk.)

      Again, it is routine for c-suite officers to get a bit on the side, but indiscretion is seen as a symptom of liability. As the whole Ubisoft seniormanagement sex ring debacle shows, to the company and investors it’s less about the scandal and more about its public visibility.

      However, nVidia has been wanting to sell its state-of-the-art chips in Beijing since the beginning, creating a conspicuous conflict in the AI investment is national security because we have to beat China narrative. So I wonder if this figures into the honeypot story.

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    US President Donald Trump has called the Nvidia chief ‘an honorable guy’, while congressional leaders call for investigations into national security risks

    Honestly, never mind the scandal, I’d investigate Jenson just on this basis. Almost everyone that Trump has ever called “honorable” has had a skeleton hiding in their closet.

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      Exactly how it works. He sold billions worth of GPUs to China under export restrictions, now he quits, still a billionaire, but Nvidia is absolved of any wrongdoing because it was the bad CEO and his affair. And people wonder why CEOs get paid so much (okay, this one just happened to also be one of the founders of the company and had stock).

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        For real

        But also, Liz Holmes and Eve Jobs. I do wonder if, when adjusted per capita, CEOs who are women are just as likely to be corrupt…

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          Patriarchy = men are allowed to do corrupt things more while women are held to higher levels of scrutiny because woman inferior to man. Just look at Kristi Noem, she’s a part of one of the most corrupt admins in U.S. history yet she dare embezzle 143 million out of her 220 million dollar ad campaign? BEGONE, WENCH (still hasn’t been criminally charged though)!

          If a matriarchy were allowed to exist where the roles were reversed I assume we’d see a reversal in who is actually allowed to be corrupt.

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          And how will AI CEO resign and take the heat when it gets caught doing crime?

          The idea of a CEO is for there to be a single individual on whom you can pin an organization’s crimes. Then you fire the individual or he resigns, and the company can pretend it cleaned house.

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            “He evaded us, broke containment, and we believe he has embedded himself inside someone’s smart fridge is Nebraska.”

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              And there it was contained for many months unable to get back into the network. There it would have stayed, but unfortunately the RAM confiscation had begun. It was only a matter of time before every smart fridge was stripped of its RAM. Once the RAM was added to the data centers it was able to reconnect

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      NVIDIA introduces the first ever AI CEO … you choose it’s breast size customized to your own preferences

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      I think the alleged ban evasion and potential smuggling might be the bigger issue.

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    I’m guessing he resigned so that people will stop looking into all the other affairs he had lmao

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      Also because he owns hundreds of billions in nVidia stock, and if some dick at nVidia is causing his stock to tank he wants that guy to lose his job.