Charlie Warzel

Staff Writer, @TheAtlantic. I host Galaxy Brain, the first and only video podcast.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

there appear to be real, meaningful gaps between the seriousness of the products being built (the money at invested, the rhetoric, the societal stakes) and the seriousness of some of the leaders here

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

NEW: In further embarrassing AI executive news this evening, OpenAI's national security officials were tricked into thinking they were speaking to the Ukrainian Intelligence service. It was actually a Russian prank duo, and they uploaded the call online. https://t.co/4RLo2gEd9n

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

you just know a tweet like this is gonna be a banger when it starts with the lil stock twitter $ tag

[Hamid @hamids]

$NVDA: Let's say Jensen Huang slept with 10 different women...let's say 20. Does it change anything?

I thought the big deal was that he slept with a spy. Now consensual sex is an issue too? The coordinated effort to smear and attack an icon is an obvious ploy to take him out as head of $NVDA ... But by whom? I want an investigation into THAT!

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

also the natsec affair was an affair with a customer

[Dan Primack @danprimack]

For those arguing Jensen should not be fired (and there are many on here), my basic question:

If you're the board, what else do you do once confirming that your CEO lied to you about one affair (which has major nat sec implications) and also was sleeping w/ a direct report (obvs policy violations for good reason)?

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

gotta go back to their roots and put in a tremendously awkward gamer who runs a geek squad desk at best buy as ceo

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

they're calling it the tweet of the decade on multiple fronts now

[Nathan Calvin @_NathanCalvin]

If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

today we are all this man

[Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18]

Jensen Huang had a relationship with an Nvidia executive who reported to him.

https://t.co/w8T3JImnJ2

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

one of the better, more interesting newsletters around imo. always feel like i'm learning something or getting some clarity on something i was experiencing fuzzily via the TL

[Rachel Karten @milkkarten]

While there are many theories on the tides that led to last week’s blue wave, one thing is clear: a sophisticated social strategy is essential to mobilization. @paulinaVEVO at @TheDemocrats took over today’s newsletter to share her complete playbook. Below are a few takeaways.

[dave kasten @David_Kasten]

In case you're tracking where we are in the superintelligence-risk-as-COVID-2020 metaphor, we're at "Senator retweets Zvi" stage of the operation

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

this is the car that Clark Griswold brings home if National Lampoon's Vacation comes out today

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

we found him, the median voter

[David Hudnall @davidhudnall]

Spotted today in midtown Kansas City. Unfortunately, on some level, you do kind of gotta hand it to this guy

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

i'm not a comms specialist but I think a lot of people see posting long tweets about this stuff as pretty low effort relative to the danger being presented. while i understand there are all kinds of apocalypse scenario posts on lesswrong and other places...i do not think that most people have any idea how you get from Right Now to End Times without a lot of big leaps and assumptions. I realize that in some ways X is the way a lot of people who spend their days thinking about this stuff vent off their despair or frustration. but i think it's also easy for onlookers to read it as 'cooked brain' or 'depressed loser mentality.' not saying it is that...but it reads that way to many people.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

very nice, very cool. good talk everyone.

[Aaron Scher @aaronscher]

I think Buck is too optimistic about the situation. Given ASI by the end of 2027, I think it's *very likely* that your life is ended/ruined, greater than Buck's implied ~2/3 chance.
I too feel "frustrated and sorry" that we didn't do better. But there is time and we fight on.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

@amandamull @TheAtlantic ! lets make some weird podcasts!

[竹田ダニエル(講談社『デジタル社会の歩き方』発売中) @daniel_takedaa]

yeah this was so good

[rollin hu @rollrhu]

This piece from Charlie is excellent on our bizarre political economy where everything is kinda propped up by Jensen Huang's contradictions not spiraling out of control

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

@AndyMasley which slogans do you think specifically?

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

Nvidia’s board conducting the independent investigation includes…people who’ve known Jensen since the beginning and…Elizabeth Holmes’ lawyer and trusted SBF pick. Nice!

[Matteo Wong @matteo_wong]

nice group leading Nvidia's independent investigation via @theinformation

[Brian Nichols @briab_briar]

This is probably one of the bigger disconnects I'm seeing between the Bay area and DC right now, from my limited vantage point? There's much more anger at Jensen in D.C. than I think the broader tech ecosystem realizes.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

Wrote about the Nvidia scandal, the company's centrality to the global economy and the warped logic of the AI boom https://t.co/tOKLAZ2Yca