They do in our puritanical culture.

In a Goffman Front Stage/Back Stage sense, you are supposed to keep the front stage presentation on the level of a pious monk or nun.

The irony to me is this just another asymmetrical advantage for Chinese culture.

Trump was elected twice. I think there are other factors here.

Maybe people are tired of that bullshit. The most powerful guy in business clearly felt empowered to let that facade go. I guess he just got a check for his experiment.

I am pretty sure under normal circumstances, a person with 160 billion dollars that leads a 4 trillion dollar company is able to cause these stories to never materialize.

If someone thinks there is not a lot of sex going on in the c-suite maybe you need to get out more.

The best thing Co-Pilot told me was something like "If Claude did what you say it did and I made what I made, I would use Claude too"

Munger also didn't mean this in the context of an intelligence operation.

This is not just a lapse of judgement from some random encounter on a business trip.

Surely a whole team would be dedicated to this operation with whatever resources needed since it will be a tiny investment for the possible payoff.

Similarly, one would assume that an equally sized team is in charge to protect such a crucial asset.

The is in most organizations under the CISO or Head of Security to some degree.

What would that team be doing, doting out their own potential affair partner? Then you have to wonder about the honeypots going after the honeypots, or the honeypots going after those honeypots going after the honeypots.

This could have been a plotline from Archer. Just a circle of spies hooking up with each other thinking they are pulling a fast one on the other.

Best strategy is just making sure boss has full stomach and empty balls at all times, whatever it takes.

You’d be an excellent chief of staff!

I bet if you asked Munger, he'd say it applies here just fine.

Also imagine an intelligence agency is designing cover for someone to seduce YOU.

It is not just having an affair with some random person and using poor judgement. It is a person what was crafted with you as a target. The whole thing is weaponized.

I have never cheated in a relationship and it is not something I would ever consider. It is easy to say this though knowing I am not going to be the target of an intelligence agency honey pot.

I wouldn't expect his wife to excuse the infidelity just because the mistress was intentionally trying to seduce him. As an Nvidia investor, I don't excuse him for lying about it and opening himself up to blackmail even though I can understand how it came about.

The irony too is how much less censored the Chinese models are.

I would love to make AI art films but anything I can picture in my head I know will be too over the edge for silicon value sensibilities.

Then culturally, there is enough anti-AI sentiment in the West that it seems like a waste of time to invest time and effort into video unless actually marketing to non-western people.

The interesting thing is I think we might over hype the tulip hype now.

It seems like much of the tulip mania has become the stuff of legend.

From what I have read, it seems closer to baseball card trading than AI or dot com.

You can find baseball and pokemon cards trading for thousands of dollars right now on ebay.

This would seem insane to a culture just valueing the cards as pieces of cardboard.

It would be like hundred of years from now people viewing our society as wanting to buy Mickey Mantle cards instead of houses. It is a very small number of people involved with this. It is not a widespread movement to hold your retirement money in Mickey Mantle cards.

In an interesting way it shows even better though he we are susceptible to these type of mythologies. People don't even question the absurd givens of the narratives of the tulip mania. We just repeat these narratives to each other as if they are historic fact.

The definition of "finished" has changed for me also.

More and more, I am using half finished as a polished product, but pragmatically very useful software I have built myself.

More importantly, I see no reason to polish this into a product. It is more useful in this half finished, easily moldable state.

Like it use to make sense to bake the clay and sell the hardened output but now I want to keep the soft clay so it can be molded to my changing needs. I keep adding to a collection of these moldable states.