> Note that the media for instance isn’t racing to investigate the strange sex lives of Anthropic senior leadership.
Thus far, there's no evidence Anthropic was knowingly violating sanctions on China, nor did they donate $25M to the Trump ballroom project while doing so.
So you admit that it had nothing to do with the sex and everything to do with Nvidia’s politics in the AI space. Good.
Yes, it's the illegal stuff (bribes and sanction busting), not the legal stuff (consensual, of-age sex), that's getting him booted. I am very prepared to admit that.
(Plus presumably lying to the board about all this as it started to break.)
Having secret sexual relationships with your subordinates is a big problem. Anyone claiming the opposite needs to have a careful think.
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From what I had read the sanctions-busting type stuff was really "lobbying the administration to not do anything about it from a regulatory perspective" which is different from just ignoring the law like the talking points claim.
I'm fine with the idea of not selling chips to China, but this is being used as the catalyst to embed government-controlled kill switches in all advanced chips under the guise preventing chip smuggling to China. Read up on the Chip Security Act sometime. Most on HN would find such a policy on its face abhorent, but those like you will cheer it on now because of the partisan affiliation of specific actors in this story.
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