Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by verdverm on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:26PM
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did you make this account just to defend Jensen?
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by testtestmetest on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:39PM
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Yes.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by unethical_ban on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:07AM
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I do wonder, not knowing exactly how this came to light, exactly how it came to light. Not that the the actions, if true, aren't bad. But why and when it broke that is interesting.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by skew-aberration on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:44AM
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I appreciate your comments, but 'spy' is definitely the correct term for someone who acts on behalf of another country/company, even if only through a minor/informal/temporary arrangement. That's actually how most spying is done - 'assets'/'informants' rather than 'agents'. A lot of Chinese espionage is incredibly informal.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by Glyptodon on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:01AM
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Even if the Chinese government instigated her funneling GPUs IMO it'd just make he a smuggler and not a spy. I don't know thatI particularly defend him, but reporting is very vague and short.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by overfeed on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:12AM
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> Even if the Chinese government instigated her funneling GPUs IMO it'd just make he a smuggler and not a sp
It's not even smuggling either; if the destination government is cool with your imported product, you declare your import like every other legal import. Using 3rd party countries to go around export restrictions is a very old entry in the sanctions-busting playbook; I'd bet every single sanctioned country in the history of sanctions has done this in some shape or form if there existed at least one third country that traded with both sanctioner and sanctionee.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by skew-aberration on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:32AM
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Yes, but that's what smuggling is.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by irthomasthomas on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:57AM
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But the destination government is not cool with it. CCP have strict limits on Nvidia imports to encourage their domestic GPU industry. There is 10$billion of nvidia GPUs sitting on a dock in Hong Kong rn because they are blocked from import.
Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang
by irthomasthomas on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:53AM
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10$billion of GPUs are sitting on a dock in Hong Kong because CCP banned their import. China has a strict limit on how many Nvidia GPUs each firm can buy. China don't believe LLMs will lead to AGI/RSI and are betting that it's more valuable to become independent of Nvidia than to win the LLM race.
He did get suspiciously political very quickly around that time. Im definately not convinced that this is a Red Vs Blue thing, I think there's plenty of people on Trumps team that are extreme China hawks.
Its hard to know for sure, but I dont think the lady was a spy. Atleast not until I see evidence.
We do this kind of mysoginist thing in the West when we see successful, well dressed Chinese women close to polticians, CEOs and label them spies, pawns of the CCP... Like Mitch McConnels wife gets this treatment frequently.
Even if she was funneling GPUs to China, which there's also no evidence for other than claims in the WSJ that lack any evidence. I dont think being a cunning business women makes someone a spy, nor does it make Jensen complicit.
Its as if we dont want to admit to ourselves that its possible for the Chinese to be successful, cunning and tactical like any other business person without it being a shadowy plot of the communsit party.
Its very weird, and it makes it super easy to manufacture consent around stories like this.