RadixJournal - November 13, 2026


Anti-Anti-Semitism

Slow Horses

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15 minutes

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132.08

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2,070

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69

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1

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Hate speech

5

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Transcript

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00:00:00 Now, who am I to talk about Jensen of NVIDIA?
00:00:04 This is not really my cup of tea.
00:00:08 This is not my field of expertise.
00:00:11 But I do think that this is massively important and is going to be consequential.
00:00:20 So, as you might have heard, Jensen was, I mean, these Wang puns are just waiting to be implemented.
00:00:33 I mean, Jensen was credibly accused of not only having a marital affairs, but having a marital affair with a woman named Alice Wong.
00:00:44 They have the same last name, who is a sort of front woman, executive, but probably Chinese spy of a company called Megaspeed.
00:00:58 and what she does is very dubious to to put it mildly but they were having an emerital affair
00:01:09 and then once the dam breaks water is rushing everywhere and he's also been accused of being
00:01:17 intimate with the subordinate and uh you know these things happen we have images of that um
00:01:24 ill-fated radiohead concert or ill-fated coldplay concert excuse me where the ceo was um canoodling
00:01:33 with one of his subordinates although someone who was successful in her own right i mean they were
00:01:40 sort of equals similar with jensen um a woman named kimberly that he was having an affair with
00:01:48 I mean, on some level, who cares? And there are more and more coming out.
00:01:54 Jensen is a very interesting man, and I mean that seriously, whereas the typical Silicon Valley entrepreneur doesn't actually have a lot of technical expertise.
00:02:11 There's that famous moment.
00:02:15 It's been put into films, and I'm sure it happened in real life,
00:02:18 with Woz asked Steve Jobs, what is it exactly that you do?
00:02:23 And Steve Jobs maybe could say, well, I'm the showman.
00:02:27 I bring the panache, that je ne sais quoi, that cachet.
00:02:31 That's exactly what I am.
00:02:33 I'm guiding the ship, and I have a little bit of technical knowledge,
00:02:38 although you shouldn't overestimate that.
00:02:40 jensen's a very different guy he went to college he went to oregon state he was born in taiwan
00:02:46 which is very interesting and he um his parents immigrated to the pacific northwest
00:02:53 and he was um at oregon state and he actually is an engineer and he struggled he you know i don't
00:03:03 know how much of a struggle it was um you know you can carve out a middle class existence in
00:03:09 america but he worked at denny's and uh bus tables and washed dishes and did all that kind of stuff
00:03:15 and he studied hard uh he grinded where while these other famous iconic ceos just dropped out
00:03:23 and had a big idea and people threw millions at them he didn't he grinded and uh he started making
00:03:31 what is in effect the first gpu a graphics processing chip uh with nvidia in the 90s
00:03:39 they founded nvidia at a denny's um which is kind of funny i i've seen pictures even in the 90s he
00:03:47 was wearing his iconic black leather jacket so that was he stuck to his guns on his aesthetics
00:03:54 and he did very well
00:03:59 when the GPU was basically about video games.
00:04:07 Obviously, NVIDIA exploded
00:04:11 and is much more than video games
00:04:13 at this point in time
00:04:15 and he became not only the guy
00:04:19 who made the chip for AI
00:04:22 But much more than that, this was someone who was engaging in the circular financing where he is lending money.
00:04:34 He sort of created a company that was so big and that had stocks increasing so regularly that he could fund other companies and was sort of the chooser, the one who determined who was going to succeed.
00:04:51 A lot of that has to do with the fact that we're in an obvious AI bubble.
00:04:59 And so demand is way, way outstripping supply.
00:05:04 But he was also engaged so he could determine who gets the chips.
00:05:10 But he was also engaged in that circuitous financing of investing in companies that were going to buy his chips.
00:05:18 And they were so advanced that it would take anyone 10 years to catch up, et cetera, et cetera.
00:05:24 He was also big with the Trump administration.
00:05:26 There's a sort of hilarious scene where Jensen is on stage announcing things.
00:05:34 We're working with Palantir now, and he gets Trump on the phone.
00:05:38 And Trump says that this guy can design the best chip in the world, but he can't operate a speakerphone.
00:05:44 And there are all these laughs.
00:05:46 And I think that sort of wholesomeness, if you will, was part of Jensen's vibe.
00:05:53 He never scared people in the way that Elon did.
00:05:57 Now, he buddied up to Donald Trump, but he wasn't seen as a right-wing ideologue or someone who clearly wants to be president of the United States like Elon Musk.
00:06:09 So he was a very interesting person.
00:06:11 NVIDIA is a trillion-dollar company, or was.
00:06:16 It's actually shed a trillion dollars over the past few days.
00:06:21 It has a larger valuation than the entire European stock market.
00:06:28 I mean, when you look into what happened with Jensen over the past few years, it is mind-boggling.
00:06:35 And he, I believe, became a centibillionaire, at least in valuation on paper.
00:06:41 and um so he is having this affair with alice and you know
00:06:50 i get it on some level you know on some level this is none of our business
00:06:56 and who cares this stuff is stuff is happening all the time he's obviously inflated from a guy
00:07:02 who was struggling to pay his monthly credit card bill to a man who has more money than god
00:07:10 and that does inherently change you you know he's a superstar even though he still looks like a you
00:07:18 know nerd in his 50s or early 60s but yeah you get chicks and everyone loves you and i've been
00:07:25 listening to a number of um reports and there i think there was a cult-like atmosphere going on
00:07:31 but it's almost like a natural cult because they're all in it he is the man he did this he
00:07:38 was Jesus as an itinerant preacher before anyone cared and when they weren't making any money. He
00:07:47 did it. He's making you a millionaire. He's making you a billionaire, at least for people
00:07:52 on the board and major investors. He is going to make it happen. That little AI company that he
00:07:58 likes, well, that's going to become a multi-billion dollar company because he wants it to.
00:08:05 And it's a natural cult. I don't think Jensen is charismatic. He's anti-charismatic. He's certainly no Steve Jobs in the way of communicating with people and having that touch and saying things that are genuinely interesting, as Steve did.
00:08:24 uh but he didn't have any of those gifts maybe that's a too high an obstacle for um him to cross
00:08:33 uh there's a charisma gap much as there is an intelligence gap between peoples i mean let's be
00:08:43 honest uh but what's interesting about this case of he's having an extramarital affair with alice
00:08:52 of mega speed um is that there's a kind of like inner turmoil going on in the administration
00:09:00 with howard lutnik the commerce secretary who just looks the other way wants to work with russia
00:09:07 just wants money are we selling chips to china yeah sure can i get in on this deal remember who
00:09:14 grease the wheel, right? Howard Lutnick. And then people who are genuinely concerned with national
00:09:23 security. You could disagree with them here and there, but that is their bent. And that would
00:09:29 include the Rubio faction of the administration. And apparently, reportedly, Scott Besant,
00:09:35 who is the Treasury Secretary, who got into a lot of arguments with Lutnik and Jensen and company, basically.
00:09:49 And then there's Trump just sort of overseeing all these things.
00:09:52 But the most charitable way of dealing with this case, I would say, is that we have a honeypot situation going on here. 0.99
00:10:05 Alice, you know, she she's a very good looking woman.
00:10:11 You know, he's been with his wife for a long time and, oh, you know, he's so powerful.
00:10:17 He can do anything.
00:10:18 it's hard not to dip your finger into the honey jar honey pot as it were i mean i i think that's
00:10:26 in a way the most charitable way of looking at this which is that in a way jensen himself
00:10:34 is a victim and he got honey potted by someone who is probably a chinese spy and you know it's
00:10:44 male hubris, et cetera. But what man could resist a honeypot? I think that's a very charitable way
00:10:52 of looking at it. I think a lot of this could be explained just through pure greed in the sense
00:11:01 that he wanted to fund this company because smugglers. And we're talking smuggling on the
00:11:10 level of 7 billion or so i mean this is like crazy numbers this isn't like they skimmed a little off
00:11:17 the top this might be like 20 percent of their annual income is done illegally in effect through
00:11:26 these preferential treatment to companies that are shady to say the least um uh maybe non-existent
00:11:36 just simply in the sense of just simply being created
00:11:39 to make an end run around sanctions, et cetera, et cetera.
00:11:44 So I think a lot of this could just simply be explained
00:11:48 through greed that he wanted to make some on the top
00:11:54 and he looked the other way.
00:11:58 And yeah, he's a patriotic American, 1.00
00:12:01 but you know is all are all these llms really gonna you know knock us off the top really are 1.00
00:12:09 they gonna knock us off the throne i don't think so i think it's gonna be fine and you know we want
00:12:15 china to succeed after all as china succeeds we succeed um i i think actually the entirety of the
00:12:23 case could just simply be explained through greed but i'm just throwing this out there
00:12:29 um jensen might he have known full well what was going on and the word honeypot just keeps
00:12:41 getting repeated it gets it got repeated early on with a short selling firm that was doing this
00:12:47 research and they want to short nvidia and make you know millions of dollars themselves and they
00:12:54 were looking into this and this alice woman was posting uh photos of the two of them looking
00:13:01 affectionately into one another's eyes on social media i mean she was sort of asking for it maybe
00:13:06 she was asking for it which is another interesting twist um but i just wonder the degree to which
00:13:15 jensen born in taiwan the degree to which he's really an american maybe he doesn't fully
00:13:22 understand the national security implications maybe he does maybe he wants asia and china to be
00:13:30 very successful maybe alice isn't a honeypot at all and instead they were in it together and
00:13:41 making millions of dollars while doing something a little bit dangerous and doing something for 0.67
00:13:48 the motherland the old country that is china and they just the you know when you're doing something 1.00
00:13:54 that exciting you just want to hop in bed together it's that's the cherry on top of the sundae 1.00
00:14:00 and so i do think that jensen will be put into jail in a reasonable amount of time
00:14:09 This is now broken, and it's uncontainable at this point, and it's being reported everywhere. Trump is already going down, and this doesn't help.
00:14:26 apparently Marco Rubio didn't want Jensen to be traveling to meetings with China about
00:14:35 sanctions he did he Marco Rubio wanted him to stay at home and they like brought him with
00:14:41 I you know I I find I think he will be at the very least scapegoated and probably properly
00:14:50 scapegoated in the sense that he's not actually an innocent goat he clearly broke laws out of
00:14:58 he should have known maybe he did know exactly what he was doing but this notion that like alice
00:15:06 tricked him into doing it which you hear from people is based on an assumption that jensen
00:15:14 is actually a patriotic American and I wouldn't hold that assumption. I think he might very well
00:15:23 have known exactly what was going on and wanted Asia to succeed and was perfectly willing to give
00:15:31 mega speed or whatever companies it was distributing to, um, you know, millions,
00:15:37 billions of dollars in chips, but just my thought.