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Re: Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

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Post by bigyabai »

downrightmike wrote: post #34
nonethewiser wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NVIDIA? On what basis?

Lack of competition. Just like Intel and AMD

Intel and AMD compete with each other, shipping raster GPUs.

AMD also ships CDNA, which is a legitimate competitor to Nvidia's hardware (albeit not a CUDA replacement). Breaking up Nvidia into B2C and B2B portions would probably end up killing CUDA in the consumer GPUs (which enthusiasts rely on), and send the value of datacenter GPUs skyrocketing even further. Nvidia's competitors wouldn't benefit from that.

Re: Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

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Post by matheusmoreira »

nonethewiser wrote: post #19
spicyusername wrote: post #12

Is the problem here NVIDIA or is the problem that our government doesn't function unless there's a pac funneling money into decision-making? Hardly surprising to see a company with strategic interests strategically try to achieve them. A business exists to make money, and if pulling policy levers is required to make money, you'll see them try to pull the levers. Reverse Citizens United and you solve these kind of pro…

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Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster.

https://archive.fo/Zd1LP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41765734

Re: Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

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Post by nonethewiser »

Plont wrote: post #22
nonethewiser wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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You can't be serious.

About what? NVIDIA starting a Political Action Comittee? Yeah I'm not sure why that's a problem.

I mean you can dislike PACs but it's pretty delusional to assume most people think they are categorically bad. Clearly there is an echo chamber here.

And to be clear, NVIDIA started a PAC, not a super pac.

PAC approval (by Public Affairs Council Pulse):

  - 2020: 55% overall (Dem 57%, Rep 61%)
  - 2021: 53% overall (Dem 58%, Rep 56%)
  - 2023: 51% overall
[0] https://pac.org/public-affairs-pulse-survey-2020

[1] https://pac.org/impact/democrats-pro-business-republicans

[2] https://pac.org/poll-americans-concerned-about-honesty-openn...

Re: Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

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Post by bigbadfeline »

cyanydeez wrote: post #16
spicyusername wrote: post #12

Is the problem here NVIDIA or is the problem that our government doesn't function unless there's a pac funneling money into decision-making? Hardly surprising to see a company with strategic interests strategically try to achieve them. A business exists to make money, and if pulling policy levers is required to make money, you'll see them try to pull the levers. Reverse Citizens United and you solve these kind of pro…

So the first step down the lobbying-is-good-for-governance that both sides embraced was when they defunded the congressional research office. So a vital way in which congress "informed themselves" was basically minimized to the point that the only way for congress to now inform themselves is via lobbying and th eonly way to write complex legislation is via those lobbyings. This is the endpoint of that effort and the…

Good catch, the self-contradictions in the excusatory narrative are becoming hard to ignore.
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