Hunter Wieman

Metascience @IFP

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Like, yes, you can become monomaniacally focused on how data centers benefit from there being more electricity.

But so do steel mills and EV owners and people who want to sell heat pumps and folks who enjoy having the lights on at night. Electricity is very useful.

[Jordan Schneider @jordanschneider]

@PalmerLuckey what more could china possibly have wanted from jensen

[Hunter Wieman @HunterWieman]

Couldn’t it just reflect the likelihood of significant new restrictions on NVIDIA chip sales?

[Jason Furman @jasonfurman]

The large decline in NVIDIA's stock price suggests that the marginal product of at least some CEOs is extremely high--often well above their compensation which can be restrained by norms.

[Chris McGuire @ChrisRMcGuire]

Absolutely insane that the Department of Commerce still refuses to place Megaspeed on the Entity List, despite knowing it is run by Chinese spies. It's difficult to draw any other conclusion from this than that Commerce leadership is just utterly uninterested in protecting US national security. Totally disqualifying.

Also, Megaspeed is undoubtedly only the tip of the iceberg. Commerce needs to urgently fix the gaping hole in US export controls that Southeast Asia represents, and at a minimum impose a license requirement for the entire region, and likely for all large-scale orders to untrusted companies like Megaspeed. The fact that Commerce refuses to even block shipments to companies known to be running by Chinese spies is a total dereliction of duty.

And Nvidia claims that they placed Megaspeed on their "block list" and stopped shipping to them in 2025. But if that's the case, why is Megaspeed still listed on Nvidia's website as an official cloud partner? And did Nvidia also stop shipping to Speedmatrix, Megaspeed's subsidiary in Malaysia? This denial doesn't add up at all.

[Senator Jim Banks @SenatorBanks]

The AI race with China is all about who has the best and most chips. There are four main ways China gets access to chips:

1.) Buying them directly from US companies like Nvidia.

2.) Illegally smuggling them from other countries into China.

3.) Accessing them remotely through the cloud from data centers located in places like Southeast Asia.

4.) Building their own domestic chips in China.

The Chinese military has used advanced chips to further its capabilities while undermining our national security, and the Chinese government has used these chips to strengthen its totalitarian surveillance project.

Congress has a generational opportunity in this year’s NDAA to pass bipartisan bills that would address all four of the pathways through which China acquires chips.

While we need a full assessment of the damage done to our national security by recent revelations, we can begin today by setting a better course.

No excuses. No apologies. Let’s get this done.

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

Flagging for @jeffhauser. What do you think of an astroturfed campaign paid for by, presumably billionaire donor oligarchs, paying influencers to oppose this bill? Do you want to follow the money?

[Hunter Wieman @HunterWieman]

@ECaliberSeven Everyone is saying that Osborn underperformed because voters caught on to his fake independent brand.

But does this suggest that Osborn actually did better in 24 compared to 26 because Harris at the top of the ticket mobilized Dems who were lukewarm about Osborn to vote anyway.

[Hunter Wieman @HunterWieman]

This looks really bad

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Each new development in this case just looks worse and worse for Jensen.

[Shakeel @ShakeelHashim]

Jensen himself directly lied to Bloomberg’s @ianmking and @tsgiles, too.

[Chaz Nuttycombe @ChazNuttycombe]

The morning after the WI primary two journalists at the NYT reached out to me the day after to ask about why polls missed, for a *primary*

We just witnessed the *largest average polling error in a general election* in my lifetime and there's not a single article by them on this.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

She's a Chinese spy, it's not really a family concern.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

So, the current position of the NVIDIA board is that there’s “no reason to believe that national security was compromised” by Jensen Huang having an affair with a Chinese spy.

wtf?

[Caleb Watney @calebwatney]

And now official confirmation from Jensen himself to the Nvidia board (!!!)
https://t.co/sJ47mXr5gp

[Gil @RFishBlueFish]

Log loss / brier score of correlated outcomes is not very useful aghhhhhhhhh. Publish (some approximation of) the joint log likelihood of the total results!

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

the school of thought that says "we shouldn't make it easier for the government to build things because the government might build bad things" has resulted in bad governments building bad things and good governments building nothing

it's time we tried something different

[Hunter Wieman @HunterWieman]

@AndyMasley @Andrew_Semenza This quote wasn't from a teacher. It was the author's wife (unless she is also a teacher)

[Arthur Tellis @arthurctellis]

The correct response to shooting yourself in the foot is rarely, if ever, shooting yourself in the face.

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

The premise of Rho Khanna being reluctantly pulled into the race is extremely funny https://t.co/aWvT6BnfeT