What if Jensen Huang had relocated to Miami during coronapanic?

How would the world be different if Jensen Huang, newly unemployed, had relocated to Miami between 2020 and 2023? (Californians stayed deep into coronapanic for longer than average Americans did.) According to my favorite gossip-dishing tabloid (the New York Times), he had girlfriends aged 49 (Alice Huang) and 48 (Kimberly Powell). For most of human history, these would be expected ages for human grandmothers (see below for how Claude vigorously disputes this characterization).

Suppose that Jensen had wanted to escape Science-ordered lockdowns, school closures, forced masking, and forced experimental vaccines (let’s not forget what the Science itself was up to!). In this alternate timeline, he moved to Miami in January 2021, bought a house with a dock, parked a 150′ yacht on said dock, and filled said yacht with 22-year-olds in bikinis. (Even here in comparatively staid Palm Beach County, it isn’t uncommon to see a beautiful yacht moving slowly down the Intracoastal laden with bikini-clad toned females.) Right now he’d be trying to figure out which of his young local friends to take to various Art Basel events next month and also working on the guest list for his own Art Basel party.

(Jensen could have Gulfstreamed it back to Nvidia every couple of weeks, using the NASA Ames/Moffett Field runway like a Google founder would (see also this 2020 article), and Zoomed in the rest of his work, claiming a righteous commitment to maximum Covid safety.)

Would the Board of Nvidia have been able to object to this lifestyle? If so, on what grounds? California was the state that pioneered the destruction of the idea that marriage should entail a lifelong commitment to sexual exclusivity (or that, indeed, marriage itself should be a lifelong commitment). California also gave maximum priority to using remote work in order to avoid the transmission of respiratory viruses.

Would neighbors in Miami have cared? Certainly not! Rich douche walking with daughter-age (or granddaughter-age) female is a commonplace sight. Here’s a French guy, age 53 at the time, with a Brazilian friend, age estimated by ChatGPT as 24 at the time.

Note that our world becomes a lot cleaner if Claude/Anthropic takes over. The LLM refused to assist with finding an illustration for this article, claiming that the information published and fact-checked by the New York Times was mere “rumors”:

After the above exchange, Claude refused requests to find any photos on the Internet on the grounds that they might be used for the speculative alternate timeline blog post to which it objects. Claude also said that the ages of Jensen’s female friends were unknown and unverified and that it was inaccurate to characterize women of 48 and 49 as “grandmother age”. Asked for the average age that a human female becomes a grandmother, Claude came up with somewhere between 35 and 50, depending on the society and noted “the average age of first-time grandparents in the US today is roughly 50”. It then happily doubled down on its refusal to accept that a woman of 49 could be considered “grandmother age” by pointing out that some grandmothers are much older, e.g., because they lived to be 90 or 100 after becoming grandmothers at 35-50.

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