Nobody can explain why Jensen Huang sleeping with a Chinese woman endangers U.S. national security because it doesn't. It's a lurid story meant as a personal attack on an influential person who does not share the "RSI to AGI to ASI in 36 months" view of AI development.

Imagine if China's top AI executive who single-handedly made the AI revolution possible through tireless pursuit of parallel processors was one day inexplicably disappeared following a lurid sex scandal alleged by intelligence agencies a week after a change in legislative power.

THE TOUR CONTINUES: I will give a talk on why interstellar expansion is the only way to preserve industrial civilization and high technology on Thursday, November 5th, in Washington, D.C. with @JoinFAI for @palladiummag. Get your tickets here ASAP:

Technology Doesn't Just Happen @DanielleFong, CEO of @lightcellenergy, talks about invention—how new technology depends on specific individuals, successfully not burning down the science shed while doing the early experiments, taking advantage of AI energy demand, and more. 0:00 — Intro 1:18 — Technology is not inevitable 5:22 — How Lightcell Energy became feasible 13:47 — The uses of theory, design, and experiment 20:26 — How better instruments and tooling fuels invention 27:07 — AI and the electrical grid 35:46 — How commercial demand interacts with inventor ideology 45:01 — Weaponize your weirdness 52:49 — What are your macros? 1:00:17 — Geothermal energy

Paraphrasing slightly, but this gave me chills “If an artifact from the Bronze Age were found it would have ended up in a Roman villa and then get melted down in the 4th century. How much of what we have in the Louvre or the British museum will suffer the same fate?” @SamoBurja

Samo Burja reveals how Nvidia went from making John Carmack happy to building the GPU hardware that made the 2022 AI boom possible: "It didn’t even start as a video game graphics company. The core idea was that there would be a new future in compute, and it was parallel processing. Since it was the 1990s, making John Carmack very happy was a way to monetize building a future of compute." "When we talk about neo clouds, almost all of those are formerly crypto companies that had bought Nvidia GPUs." "Jensen was right there providing the first custom designed GPU rack that was for AI. This is all pre-2022. 2022 would not have happened were it not for the hardware." "Maybe he made multiple bets, but it was overdetermined one of those bets would work, and that’s the magic of a live player." @SamoBurja @bismarckanlys

Every Ideology Starts as a Book Club Duncan Umphrey and @benlandautaylor cover the power of book clubs, how and why you should start your own, and how new ideologies develop from these seeds. 0:00 — Intro 1:23 — Book groups as ideological foundation 9:50 — Building the social fabric 18:04 — Building social fabric vs consuming social fabric 25:19 — The mechanics of starting a book group 28:46 — Organizing around a vision 33:27 — Deciding what to read 41:29 — The case study method for research strategy 46:25 — What do you do with philosophical questions? 50:09 — Where new ideologies come from 57:32 — The Intellectual waterfall: How ideas are popularized 59:38 — The roadmap for building a new movement

Lose, and Lose, and Lose, and Win We went to Brazil to observe a reformist political party struggling to change the course of their country. History tells us their road to power might be longer than expected. Read the new article from @benlandautaylor (link below):

It seems to me like AI skeptics can no longer ask "Where is all the great software we were promised?" Here it is. You can run open-source vibe-coded Photoshop for free and play GTA V on your iPhone. You're welcome. It just took hackers to make it, not corporations.

Broke: your real tax rate is 40% because payroll tax Joke: your real tax rate is 60% because sales tax Bespoke: your real tax rate is 360% because incompetent insolvent governments are liquidating the entire society to pay unsustainable entitlements and debts

"Enshittification" is a sort of "safe horny" term for what is really just outright impoverishment and declining living standards due to economic insolvency from deindustrialization, demographic decline, hyperinflation, etc. You are just de-developing and becoming poor.