Another update from our intellectual and moral superiors

The news that Jensen Huang got honeypotted by a Chinese spy almost needs no further discussion or analysis. What can you say? Our Silicon Valley overlords are the richest people who have ever lived, but that doesn’t give them the sense that God gave a mule. Jensen Huang knows how our society should be ordered, how your entire working life should be structured, and how to run a $4.5T company — but the second he gets a boner he’s giving up national security secrets. Jensen horny, Michael!

In truth, I’m not concerned with “losing” the “AI race” to China. There’s no race and nothing to win or lose. But I am concerned about private citizens who have control over such massive sums of capital and whose behavior ranges from careless to reckless. That these people have acquired so much power is a catastrophic failure of democracy. Maybe the only intel that Alice Huang brought back to China was about how to improve her workflow by getting her AI agents to book airline tickets at rock-bottom prices while she’s sleeping. It still shows Jensen Huang to be undeserving of the responsibility and influence that he has.

Certainly there are a lot of hilarious subplots and “this you?”-style commentary one could make here. For example, Jensen was the guy who recently admitted in an interview that he doesn’t know his own home address, and this was treated as evidence of his sagacity. It’s also odd how Jensen Huang, a guy who’s been married for 42 years, has (presumably) one affair and his reputation is torpedoed, while Elon Musk continues to inspire slavish devotion among the tech and financial set no matter how many pas he fauxs. I don’t even think Jensen visited Epstein Island.

In the end, though, this is just one more argument for not listening to anything these guys say anymore. They’re all compromised one way or another. And that doesn’t mean that they may not know how to make graphics cards or whatever, just that giving a small cabal of extremely rich dipshits full control over the future of our society might not have been the smartest idea. Democracy’s back on the menu, boys.