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▲ trvrprkr 17 hours ago

He's the chief architect of this. I hope the ones he's hurt along the way have support.

▲frabjoused 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He’s also the chief architect of one of the most influential companies in the world. How many people has he positively affected?

▲cj 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

▲bigyabai 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> He makes overpriced computer chips

Every US chip manufacturer does. Difference being, I can avoid US-made STM-32s but I can't buy Chinese CUDA.

▲mapcars 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He is changing the course of history, maybe even more impactful on a global scale than colonial conflict

▲ARandumGuy 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm dying to know how other tech CEOs rank on your "historical figures ordered by importance" list. Like, do you think Steve Jobs was more or less important then Harriet Tubman?

▲kridsdale1 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Globally? Honestly he probably was. Hundreds of millions of people have access to heath and finance resources they wouldn’t have got without the modern smartphone form factor and forced negotiation of unlimited data plans.

Ask someone in Bangladesh who the fuck Harriet Tubman is.

▲jcranmer 14 hours ago | parent [-]

AIUI, the rise of mobile telephony in the Third World was driven almost entirely by feature phones, not the kind of smartphones that Jobs helped to drive.

▲Schiendelman 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Telephony, yes. The services that are making massive impact now are dependent on smartphones.

▲Conscat 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Steve Jobs was just an *sshole boss who abused employees and stole organs. He's not Harriet Tubman.

▲yoyohello13 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bro... get a grip. He's one dude whose jobs is to boost stock prices, the company will be fine.

▲saturn8601 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Screw the stock price. If you looked into the history of how the company survived you know the company is now Intel. The US has probably lost yet another industry to China. Wonder if the Taiwan investments into the US fabs will now slow because a lot of them were relationship based...thanks to Jensen.

I hope I am wrong but I am starting to think the US left is about to walk into a historical economic collapse that they are inevitably increasing the chances of by 'doing the right thing'.

▲komali2 an hour ago | parent [-]

Interesting that doing the right thing would cause an economic collapse. Makes me wonder about what that economy was depending on.

▲loceng 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You don't seem to understand how the economy and competitive forces work, nor how hierarchies of competency function and work.

I suspect you hypocritically have and will continue to benefit from his work that he started as their CEO 33 years ago.

▲DoctorDabadedoo 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I just shed a tear thinking of how much shareholder value he created over the course of his career.

I'll be sure to tell that to my kids while I put them to bed today.

▲sire-vc 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Truly a tragic moment those poor shareholders and the way out of poverty that NVIDIA offered them.

▲loceng 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wasn't referencing shareholder value - but it sounds like you have an Overton window dismissing the value that AI CPUs have provided-facilitated, if you weren't able to understand what I was referencing holistically; so you seem to have a bias.

▲DoctorDabadedoo 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you have a bias yourself, GPUs are cool and etc., but the man didn't discover fire, penicillin or the meaning of life.

▲NetMageSCW 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Depending on the future of LLM AI the impact may be larger than all of that.

▲loceng 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Re: "... but the man didn't discover fire, penicillin or the meaning of life."

This is called a straw man argument, nobody claimed such.

▲RunSet 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or maybe they understand better than you.

I hope this kicks the legs out from under the "circular financing"[0] that has enabled slop to permeate seemingly everything good about computing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_kiting

▲loceng 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe but their conclusion(s) points to they're not including the full picture, and most people on here don't actually engage - or not in good faith, or I-you'll find quickly they fall for logical fallacies, etc.

I agree circular financing is a problem - but the CEO will have practically zero to do with that, and that they have to play the game everyone else is playing.

There's far more serious financial fraud strategies being use, that even Elon was afraid to specify on Joe Rogan podcast awhile back - afraid it'd get him assassinated, which he said in half-jest.

And you don't think US intelligence agencies knew immediately the CEO of Nvidia was being courted by a spy - but allowed it to continue? Who knows, maybe this has all been long-term pre-planned, all part of theatre towards what end - God only knows.

▲svnt 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> I agree circular financing is a problem - but the CEO will have practically zero to do with that

I am sure you understand many things, but this is not one of them.

▲shimman 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Really shows you how out of touch the tech world is with humanity and what average people care about.

▲instrument_67 20 minutes ago | parent [-]

Really shows you how little attention most of humanity and ordinary people direct towards existential technologies and their futures. It didn't matter that most people at the time didn't care about the internet; it still upended human societies all the same. It's a similar thing for AI, gene editing, and organoid computing. It doesn't matter what the average person thinks or cares about; it's never mattered

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▲63stack 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And how many has his influential company affected negatively?

▲edent 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

▲frabjoused 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_neglect

▲NetMageSCW 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ford and Edison seem to have done pretty well in the view of history.

▲WinstonSmith84 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And yet you've a convicted felon who vacationed on Epstein island sitting at the highest office in the land, or even in the world.

▲trvrprkr 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> How many people has he positively affected?

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

▲calcifer 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> How many people has he positively affected?

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

▲Topfi 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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?

▲deaton 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He's no saint, of course. That being said, he is human and he's going through a lot right now. Its easy to dismiss someone's struggle because he's wealthy and powerful, and because it is his own fault, but somewhere buried in this story there is a human person who is suddenly the center of a lot of very negative attention. It is not wrong to hope that he is okay.

▲trvrprkr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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.