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ai_critic | on: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
> What you are describing is conspiracy-theory thinking or the kind of stuff you see in James Bond movies. Not real life.

This is literally a state actor running sexpionage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexpionage).

jdiff | parent
Yes, this is real sexpionage. Not the Hollywood fantasy described upthread. The scenario described is not what has played out in reality.
ai_critic | root | parent
What part of that struck you as fantasy?

Again, this isn't some low-level clerk that just needs a handjob or some Grindr kompromat--this is the CEO of the second largest company in the world by market cap.

Is it the assertion was that they'll do research on you (which is why having a gambling problem, large debts, or lying during a clearance interview is an issue)?

Is it the assertion that they'll pick a very pretty woman instead of some plain-looking one (which is why historically the NKVD recruited from theater and ballet schools)?

The "Hollywood fantasy" is real, it just happens in a vanishingly small set of cases.

For a truly bizarre version (even stranger than this!), see the case of Shi Pei Pu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Pei_Pu).

jdiff | root | parent
This part. Not the research, not that they may be attractive. The part where they're supernaturally sculpted and emphatically unimaginably irresistible.

> They will employ the most sweet and the most pleasurable and gorgeous honey that there is in the world to create the perfect Honey trap.

> Normal people just can not imagine how sweet, specially when it has been customised around your needs and desires.

> It is not just a woman wanting to have sex with you. It will be the woman in your dreams.

I appreciate the link to Shi Pei Pu, that was an interesting read! Less strange than a literal Greek siren, but much stranger than the truth of Jensen's situation.