Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by hashmap on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:06AM
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It is as much of a mistake to anthropomorphize billionaires as it is to anthropomorphize LLMs. People with resources greater than nations are .001% human and the rest is closer to a lovecraftian god. Consider that he can shatter markets or send massive trading companies under simply by having an affair. The empathy is misplaced.
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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by ExoticPearTree on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:14AM
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He actually built something amazing. That is why he should be thanked and left alone, not thrown under the bus.
So much hate for him, it is sad.
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
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.
The mistake is to direct your empathy only one way
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 counterproductive, on the non-empathetic, especially on the powerful and destructive. It is a peace treaty, much like tolerance.