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Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening … kinda like using a Chatbot. But worse. Huang says many outrageous things in the podcast. Like when Klein asks about how kids don’t learn skills when using LLMs, Huang responds: I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?[…]Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. Jensen – I don’t think it matters that I build the technology that blocks kids from learning – Huang Outrageous. But he needs to go on and top this statement with an even worse one: There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first…

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