At the same time, if you were the US and wanted to undermine Huang's opposition to the US blocking sales to China, this is would certainly be one way to do it... know of (or initiate) an affair, then paint the mistress as a Chinese spy to damage his reputation.

Not that I'm suggesting this is what happened, but in this situation, "both sides" have motivations both for/against Jenson/Nvidia, and it would be silly to blindly trust what _either side_ says.

The fact that everyone reporting this believe it's perfectly normal to know whether someone is a Chinese spy or not, is alarming. Right now I treat this as a plant, or something else deceptive: interesting to follow, but not worth spreading on.

On the other hand all the 3 letter agencies surely must have known about that for a long, long time. Given the timing of that leak, and the fact that he was actually quite fond of working with China, I think it's entirely possible that the "desire to undermine" him could also be coming from the US.

>> China and wanted to undermine NVIDIA

Jensen is a friend to China and has been relentless in promoting the interests of China - why would Chairman Xi want to undermine the man who advocates strongly to sell him GPUs and chips?

Jensen owns 3.5% of Nvidia. Half of that isn’t anywhere near enough to cause that kind of havoc.

> ...but there are still going do be some billions left, that's fuck you money at the orgy level.

AI's Wide Shut

Human impulses are what they are. But that said, it’s a clear argument for why this level of power and control shouldn’t be concentrated in one person: they’re too fallible.

I look at Gates, post-divorce Bezos and Musk and see a lot of insecurities projecting outwards. The isolated nerd becomes the uber-CEO and has more money and power than people can even comprehend.

Strategies don't stop being effective just because they were first employed many years ago.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln.

Not spies, but it is not surprising: Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, Tiger Woods, etc.

Note: Watch Lioness season 3, premise is spy honeypotting: coincidence it came out just before this scandal

Are you asking how an extremely powerful but aging heterosexual man was tricked by an attractive young woman using her sexuality and good looks?

because we are still monkeys with iPhones

I think you answered your own question.

I do have a feeling that they are still, after all those years, just shy, creepy nerds, but with money. See Bezos' new wife, or Gates with the russian prostitutes (I'm not even going to bring up Musk).

They are all just deeply psychologically damaged people with a lot of money to cover all that up.

Add to that the level of constant temptation coming from every way, women literally throwing themselves at them either for their own gain, or as in this example for their country.

I don't think we should be feeling pity for them, but they live in a very, very, VERY different world than the normal person.

But the money trap here is the wife and the marriage, not the affair. If for example you swap him with Elon Musk, no claimant would get much of anything, because he is wise to such money traps.

Ok, against my better judgement here goes.

Marriage is best looked at as a societal entity for the creation and growth of a family. As such, entering one should be seen as a partnership, in many ways similar to a business partnership or startup.

Do not do either if you do not have a high level of trust in your partner! The possible downsides are immense!

It then falls to the state to figure out what to do when things go wrong. Not only like this, but with other important things like what happens to your stuff when you die. Here be dragons.

So the 50/50 thing is an obvious starting default given this lens. Especially when things get complicated (children get involved), tracking "how much" each person contributed to the partnership is an impossible task.

Contributions in terms of time and other resources will be seen in a highly variable way. Traditionally men have completely undervalued what women bring in terms of time and opportunity cost (lost career progress).

So: it is best to leave that valuation to the people in the partnership, and start with the presumption that both will contribute equally in their own ways.

You can attempt to change this default with prenups and other legal tooling. Your mileage may vary, legal enforceability of these arrangements is a complex per-state issue.

> I'm not super wealthy, and on a personal level I'm very happy for my partner to have an equal claim to my wealth

1) sounds like you don't have much to be concerned about, and 2) this cuts both ways (you have an equal claim to her wealth).

> on a personal level I'm very happy for my partner to have an equal claim to my wealth, but I do resent that I have to think about this

It's not clear to me what there is to think about: if you ever get divorced, you have legal certainty about how the assets will be split. If the rule didn't exist, courts would have to try and figure it out for each and every case (more so than they already do).

Unless you're advocating for "you take what you brought in", in which case historical precedent has shown this has been immeasurably unfavourable to women.

Jensen Huang has not done tens of billions of dollars worth of hard work; he mainly got really, really lucky. If he only gets to cash out half of that extreme fortune for whatever reason, let alone not keeping it in his pants, I don't think there's any serious discussion to be had about what's "fair" for him.

She isn’t “entitled” to the money, it is hers already. That’s how marital property works.

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Is helping solve AI not a worthy cause? If it ends up helping every intellectual problem asked by people, wouldn’t it help more than charity? Charity reaches a point of diminishing returns if you just dump it on an organization that doesn’t know how to spend it properly.

I guess that's one way to tax billionaires.

You have fallen for her headlines

That 25% is a pretty typical "very high end" divorce number, I was told at the time. There are likely a lot of practical considerations to work through that could slow this down for years - consent decrees, liquidity of the underlying stock, the board's willingness to have a non-employee owning so much, etc. etc. All can definitely be worked through. But, life is short. And the numbers are already, you know, pretty big.

Why does Lori Huang deserve half of Nvidia?

> You can be sure he had his lawyers arrange his affairs to show he owns almost nothing, trusts and all.

All the Musk-stans, "He doesn't even own a house, you guys!!!"

Meanwhile, Musk is busy doing ketamine in his friend's $45M home that he just ... lives in ... whenever he wants.

> Not only is he the richest person in the world -- but arguably the smartest in arranging his "relationships with women affairs" to give him the lowest potential risk.

This comes off kinda more than a little incel red pill-y.