Dr Johnny BlanchardNobody with any kind of morals should be buying nvidia shit now (new stuff anyway) ignoring the AI stuff, now the CEO is saying he’s “all in” on the Middle East war and they’re shipping chips for rapid face recognition - disturbing with their close ties to palantir
DJGummikuh@jonn_blanchard I think he's a scumbag, but this might well be a decision forced upon him. With the Straight of Hormuz being blocked by iran, and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait being threatened by the Houthis, the collapsing international supply chains can threaten nvidia's ability to fulfill their contracted obligations, which, given the sheer size of the AI bubble, likely poses an existential threat to the company. Therefore, trying to accelerate the conflict might be an economic fight for survival
David Culley@DJGummikuh @jonn_blanchard Please don't use terms like "survival" for corporations. A corporation has no live, it isn't alive, and therefore "survival" is no concept that applies here.
People though are fighting for survival.
A corporation going bankrupt and a person fighting for survival aren't on the same conceptual level.
Language matters. Language influences how people think.
Letting a contract go unfulfilled and letting a person die also aren't on the same level. We shouldn't try harder to prevent the former than we try to prevent the latter.
@davidculley @jonn_blanchard interesting position, though other than picking at my wording it does not really contribute to the matter at hand, does it?
@DJGummikuh What is the matter at hand? Defending scumbags and explaining why scumbags behave like scumbags? Because that's all that you did.
If someone in the novel 1984 had said that people should stop calling the torture agency the "Ministry of Love" and stop speaking in Newspeak because it's propaganda, would you also have told them that they're just picking at words?
@davidculley u drunk?