He makes overpriced computer chips... he isn't gandhi.

And how many has his influential company affected negatively?

That isn't the way the world - or most morality systems - work.

A surgeon who saves a thousand lives doesn't get a pass for the one murder they commit.

If the person who eventually cures cancer also happens to be a rapist, do you remember their name with awe or pity?

The sort of Felicific Calculus practiced by the "Effective" Altruists is a tawdry trick designed to excuse despicable behaviour.

> How many people has he positively affected?

I honestly don't care. It's not a balance sheet to me.

> How many people has he positively affected?

What's your definition? People he sold a GPU to at extortionate markups?

What’s the revenue target I need to hit to get a free pass for sanctions avoidance? What other rules, regulations and laws do you think he should be absolved from considering NVIDIAs quarterly profits?

People talk like he is a genius. Monopoly is easy.

I never said it is wrong to hope he is okay. I'm just choosing to put any hope I have to spare towards those caught in the collateral damage of this. You know, the unwitting victims.

Those who didn't make the decisions that led to this but are impacted by it. Those who trusted him, whether it be personally, emotionally, financially. Those who maybe saw him as a role model and are having that idea shattered because they can't reconcile the morality of his actions with their own worldview. Surely, plenty of kids and aspiring entrepreneurs looked up to him? What part of Jensen Huang should they model themselves after now?

I really wonder why there seems to be a proclivity to support one individual, evangelize one individual, and specifically mourn one individual's loss if the loss seems to largely be a creation of their own greed and ego. And to do so almost in defiance of acknowledging all of the other people that are caught up in it.

> I think it's a fair question to ask "why is this all coming out together now?

1. Got too well known to hide

2. Republicans just badly lost the midterms. There is a lot of info that the President and head of Department of Commerce also knew about all of this the entire time and did nothing. They won't be able to stop investigations, and they don't want to be seen as getting in the way of them.

If that's true, the bigger story is not just that Jensen did all this, but that the administration likely knew he was guilty of Espionage and actually helped facilitate it by knowing but not acting. That is a real possibility.

To clarify, there is a possibility that the President of the United States and members of his team knowingly concealed and aided Conspiracy and Espionage against the United States.

My guess would be it having to do with Jensen's friend in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue recently losing a ton of power.

Do you find it implausible that there is any reason the Chinese government would want to spy on NVidia?

Indeed it seems absurd, but maybe the Chinese government sent a spy to honeypot Huang into destroying (indirectly) its own company instead - knowing how western culture react to such events.

> I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.

I don't understand what compels people to make up scenarios to defend people who have come out and said the opposite.

I think the "formal apology letter" wouldn't have existed if this was some sort of open-relationship situation. In that case, Huang violated an important agreement, and cannot be trusted to not violate other important agreements.

Well you could read the letter he wrote but why when you can just ask empty edgy questions to farm karma.

I agree with your sentiment in general: we should not make assumptions about the parameters of others' relationships.

But in this case, Huang himself explicitly mentioned the hurt that he caused his family. I don't think it gets much clearer than this.

    I owe my family and all of you an apology.

    I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and 
    our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am 
    deeply sorry.

    Throughout my life, my family has given me love and 
    support. They deserve my honesty and loyalty. Instead, 
    I let them down and damaged the life we built together. 
    I take full responsibility for what I did and the hurt I 
    caused, and I accept the criticism that comes with it.

    To my wife and family: I love you. I know an apology 
    cannot undo what I have done. I hope our family will heal 
    and that, over time, I can earn back your trust.

He wrote himself a press release saying he was unfaithful and because of his actions he hurt his family... it sounds pretty clear that was not a consensual non-monogamous relationship. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company

If it was an open marriage, why would his first statement have been an apology to his wife and family? I don't see any reason to start assuming it was actually fine. In any case the affair becoming public in such a way would still be hurting them - the media attention you're speaking about. Much worse than a divorce, right?

Bond: I doubt if she'll remember me. M: Remind her. Then pump her for information. Moneypenny: You'll just have to decide how much pumping is needed, James.

If it wasn’t an affair they would just say that

he wouldn't have publicly apologized if all of that was "perfectly fine" with his wife

Might wanna google the term “affair”

People don't need facts when they just want an excuse to attack someone from the outgroup.

He publicly stated he broke his wife’s trust, buddy.

That wouldn't justify anything.

No, I just think honesty is cool.

Yet the choose to publish this one throwing Powell under the bus. Did she deserve that as well?

Absolutely not. The value of empathy is not "have empathy because empathy is good", it is in the pro-social outcomes. Empathy is wasted, and counterproductively so, on the non-empathetic, especially on the powerful and destructive. It is a peace treaty, much like tolerance.

He jumped in front of that bus himself. If the investigation turns out he was definitely orchestrating defying export controls then it's more like he drove one bus into another. He deserves every bit of embarrassment and ridicule no matter how impressive his business accomplishments were up to now.

He quickly threw a small but original market under the bus without hesitation. I'm sure every man, woman, and child without a 5090 is chuckling

No, they are technologists who a) think they are smarter and better than everyone else and, b) think that maybe one day they could also make a billion dollars and still have people care about their feewings.

womp womp. Shoulda thought of that before he went and got himself some strange

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> Try walking in his shoes…

Chances are I could just sell them and live for a year or ten off it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/leather-jacket-worn-by-nvidi...

Which illustrates the gap between his life's challenges and everyone else's nicely, IMO.

Try walking in his shoes? He has an easier life than 99% of people lol. People always quick to jump in to defend the shittiest behaviour, maybe have some empathy for his wife?