trey

#FloridaMan, lifelong educator, lapsed scholar (HKU PhD). 20 years in the Pearl River Delta.

writing about systems, AI, infrastructure, history, and theory

[trey @Comparativist]

My model world is up as a GitHub Page. Still in beta.

- Angkor econ, collapse, rise, etc
- Fertility collapse lab
- shadow education
- ed massification
- Out-of-Africa routes
- more!

Everything is meant for users to tinker with

Needs a new name.
https://t.co/str4cpyHtA

[Pinboard @Pinboard]

Jensen Huang's resignation should send a clear message to the AI industry: the only appropriate venue for workplace romance is Slutcon

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

tfw an effective altruist from Berkeley condemns Jensen for unfaithfulness in a relationship

[trey @Comparativist]

@jtoomim My point is Jenson didn’t convince him of anything he wasn’t already doing

[trey @Comparativist]

Trump has a documented history of personally negotiating away restrictions on Chinese companies, technology transfers, tariffs, and Taiwan arms sales.

The Nvidia reversal fits a pattern that predates Huang's current access to the White House.

[Jonathan Toomim @jtoomim]

@Comparativist The scandal isn't that Jensen advocated for letting Nvidia sell GPUs to China.

The scandal is that Trump let Jensen convince him.

[trey @Comparativist]

@zirosou What are you shooting these with?

[trey @Comparativist]

this is the scandal, not Jenson’s sex life

[Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire]

Secretary Lutnick literally couldn't even explain why Megaspeed isn't on the Entity List when confronted about it at an NSC meeting by Secretary Bessent. Not only does the rest of the administration not support Commerce's refusal to implement or enforce export controls, but Commerce can't even explain their lack of action when asked about it. This is beyond absurd, and needs to be investigated.

And to be clear, placing Megaspeed on the Entity List today would be way too little too late. Chinese AI chip smuggling via Southeast Asia is rampant. China would just get chips via Speedmatrix, or any of the dozens of other cutouts in Malaysia/Singapore/Thailand that already exist.

Commerce needs to enforce the existing regulations (which it has refused to enforce since May 2025) that would require a license for all AI chip shipments to Southeast Asia, and also require a license for all large-scale AI chip orders to non-trusted companies in most countries. If a sketchy company is ordering $5 billion worth of AI chips, the US government must know about it and at least have the ability to block the sale.

This is the only way to cut down on Chinese smuggling, otherwise we're just playing a game of whack-a-mole that is difficult in the best of times, and that this Commerce department has shown it is uniquely inept at.

[Bobby @mahasr199]

I didn’t realize the head of Nvidia is held to a higher moral standard than the president of the United States or the American Catholic Church.

Learn something new everyday.

[trey @Comparativist]

It’s still in beta but I have a fertility policy simulator here. You can DL the code, drop it in a decent LLM that has tool calling and run your experiment

https://t.co/RAgpNmffOP

Also just uploaded it to GitHub

https://t.co/IptbOajjez…

[Komi 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇳🌹 @AnonymousLeftie]

My plan to boost birth rate
Forget childless adults. Inconsequential
Focus on couples with 2 children to have more
Include incentives to boost couples with one to have a second within 4 years
Pray to non-existent god

[trey @Comparativist]

@AnonymousLeftie It’s still in beta but I have a fertility policy simulator here. You can DL the code, drop it in a decent LLM that has tool calling and run your experiment

https://t.co/3BA1R343lb

Also just uploaded it to GitHub

https://t.co/ZJGiEOKyCQ

[trey @Comparativist]

@PutinIsAVirus we’re talking about a 40-50 year old woman in the c-suite, right? I get HR wouldn’t like it but… who cares.

[trey @Comparativist]

is this actually ‘fit for print’ news?

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

The New York Times is reporting a second Jensen affair.

[cat ✝️ @a_musingcat]

this jensen thing is such an obviously coordinated hit it’s wild

[Hunter Weiss @Hunter_Weiss]

Forced Claude to tell me why they want Jensen gone

[Robby Richmond @Robbyrichmond]

I wish Sean Lock were alive to see Russell Brand behind bars. He hated that man with a purity of spirit rarely witnessed

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Worth a read.

[trey @Comparativist]

maybe

[Mario Hachemer @MarioHachemer]

Don't make the mistake of thinking this is about his infidelity. These articles will not stop until he agrees to follow Anthropic's proposal to block inference for unsigned and registered open-models in the firmware of modern GPUs.

This is a pretty transparent concerted effort at centralizing control over compute ressources and the ability to execute ever more powerful local models. Jensen is the tip of the spear pushing back at this (in part for his own economic reasons).

I'm team Jensen, his affairs are none of my business, not even the alleged support of circumvention of export controls are my business, his position on open-weight models is.

[William Han @W_T_Han]

The intel chiefs must've brought their best evidence, which means they got jack & squat.

[trey @Comparativist]

Never heard this before

[Zach Edwards @thezedwards]

There was a network of websites built by CIA / CIA contractors with covert communications networks built into them which could be broadly found / fingerprinted, as reported @ https://t.co/E1jiWWgj7P (i worked on this) / China likely found these, tracked who visited them, then ⤵️

[Misha Teplitskiy | Science of Science @MishaTeplitskiy]

It's very odd and interesting that medieval universities had exams, but they weren't for judging mastery of the material. As long as students paid the fees, no one really failed. Several centuries (!!!) passed before exams were used to judge performance

[YTSL @FY4Chan]

Hub-ba-hub-ba (or not) from today's @HKBigLychee blog.