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From what historians of science tell us, Gödel was in any case an absolute perfectionist who mostly published work that was bulletproof. His enormous body of notes surely contained some very sharp insights, but it is unlikely that he would have produced illuminating, conclusive new theorems by chance and without realizing it. He was a very harsh reviewer of his own work.

There are a lot of questions around this resignation, and they're hard to untangle. It'd be something just to figure out what exactly he's supposed to have done wrong. Did he really (on purpose or "inadvertently") pass banned chips to China? All this story's going to leave us with is suspicion and no certainty...

Huang is the classic example of an entrepreneur who grew up and came of age at the end of the Cold War, at the height of globalization and the Pax Americana: focused mainly on business, with no obligation to take sides for any national interest. Unfortunately, those days are over, and, reluctant to fully adapt, he has paid the price.