Unfortunately, with this sabotage of American Open Source, it looks like we are leaving the good timeline behind and beginning the descent into the AI Doomsday Scenario.
Around 1426, Michael Junge, Bishop of Sambia, issued a decree forbidding the Old Prussians from rebaptising their children in rivers or elsewhere after they had already been baptised by Christian priests. He also prohibited giving the children different names from those received at Christian baptism. Violators faced fines or whipping.
Around 1426, Michael Junge, Bishop of Sambia, issued a decree forbidding the Old Prussians from rebaptising their children in rivers or elsewhere after they had already been baptised by Christian priests. He also prohibited giving the children different names from those received at Christian baptism. Violators faced fines or whipping.
An earlier example comes from the Livonians. In the late 12th century, after the departure of German crusaders, the recently baptised locals reportedly washed themselves in the Daugava, declaring:
“We now remove the water of baptism and Christianity itself with the water of the river.”
According to Henry of Livonia, they even placed a carved wooden head, which they believed represented the Saxons’ god, on a raft and sent it down the river after the departing Germans.
…five people who worked at the chipmaker have now come forward to tell The New York Times that the billionaire also had an extramarital relationship with Kimberly Powell, 48, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare.
Five people who work at the company said Huang was in a relationship with Kimberly Powell, 48, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare
The two were reportedly captured on video being affectionate at a San Jose, California hotel during the Nvidia conference in March, two of the sources said.
They were then both in attendance at the Nvidia GTC Conference in Berlin, Germany at the end of October, sharing a stage together, though Powell was also seen around the same time flaunting her engagement ring.
I continue posting articles on this story because once begun it’s best to continue the tale. Another reason is Huang is an important and very wealthy figure. He also seems to be a genuinely good guy. Another aspect of this case is his wife may not care if he has girlfriends; she may even approve. Extramarital arrangements like that are not uncommon, especially in East Asia. I, personally, see zero reason for Huang to step down as CEO or be ousted for behaviors, which are nobody’s business but those closely involved. If he was seriously compromised like a schoolboy by a Chinese seductress, maybe there is reason to do something, but maybe he has learned his lesson and will be stronger for that. He has been the main energy behind Nvidia for a long time. Why change horses in the middle of the river? ABN
To communicate, we often must ignore the truth or falsity of a statement, our own or someone else’s.
I believe it is an instinct to do this; that it is part of our instinct to communicate at all. Communication requires cooperation, an agreement to be agreeable enough to get the message through.
We might call ignoring truth or falsity in communication “truth elision” or “psychological elision.” Elision means to omit something. Psychological elision would mean omitting or not mentioning psychological truths.
We do a lot of truth elision to save time. In professional or group settings it is hard to communicate any other way because there is not enough time to be perfectly truthful and most people will not care. They just want to socialize and/or get the job done, not search for truth.
Most communication is like that. Most messages are not even superficially analyzed. Semiotics glide through our minds without any thought to their deep origins or interpretations. Truth and falsity are frequently elided.
Like all instincts, our instinct to cooperate by ignoring the truth or falsity of many statements can be misused to consciously deceive.
Indeed, we frequently deceive even ourselves by accepting our own statements as true when analysis would show they are not. One way we succeed in doing this to ourselves is by simply avoiding the analysis—analysis elision.
This is where a simple instinct starts to go bad. A basic need to cooperate on the signs and symbols of communication gets twisted into tricking people, deceiving them, even deceiving ourselves.
The way to see this most clearly and to stop doing it with at least one other person is FIML practice. One of my main goals for this website is to show how and why communication goes bad and how and why it harms us. At the same time, I present a practical way to fix the problem described — FIML.
I think the above sheds light on false confessions and pretty much all self-abnegating lying on the spectrum trending down from a false confession with legal consequences.
Abusers work these ill-defined and difficult to grasp areas to dominate, entrap, and manipulate others. Narcissists and other “strong” or “clever” dark personality types use our fundamental willingness to cooperate against us.
Gas lighting greatly relies on people’s willingness to ignore truths and accept falsities about themselves. If there is more than one gas lighter at work, victims may even accept blame for things they know with certainty are not true.
As with so much in this world, immoral people put time and energy into fooling those who have not put time or energy into the dark arts.
Mass mind-control preys on our mass susceptibility to believe the story that first comes out; the story that is approved by the ‘authorities’ and mass media; the story that is embraced and recited by our friends and family. Mind-control relies on our need to conform and our fear of being ostracized and criticized for straying from the mass instinct to be the same as others.
Buddhists all know about wise compassion. We also need wise understanding of the world and wise cautiousness about the full scope of human motivations.
Our tendencies to go along with falsity can be seen in every part of life, from small corners of our own lives to the great expanses of entire societies.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having an affair with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, who is also suspected of being a spy working for the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS). Now, an investigation by The Information has revealed a ‘labyrinth’ of companies centered around Shanghai Century Litong and connected to Singaporean firm Megaspeed, which has previously been accused of smuggling $2 billion worth of Nvidia chips. The report claims Alice Huang helped move 240,000 banned chips into the country, mostly H100 and H200 systems, and was instrumental in securing AI GPU imports to the tune of $7.5 billion.
Sources in the report link the two companies to Alice Huang via their personal knowledge and corporate registration records, while there have also been reports that some of the Nvidia AI chips Megaspeed bought went to Shanghai Century Litong’s data centers in China. But aside from these corporate ties, there were also numerous reports about Ms. Huang’s personal relationship with the Nvidia chief, and how it gave her the ability to procure chips that were otherwise hard to get elsewhere.
Ms. Huang allegedly boasted about her access to the Nvidia CEO publicly. People familiar with her said that she regularly uploaded photos with Jensen to her WeChat account and even shared other images with customers to establish her credibility.
