The Test

The Test 测试

Sep 24, 2026 — by tante 2026年9月24日 — 作者：tante

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. 英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋（Jensen Huang）——那个穿着世界上最像中年危机产物的皮夹克的男人——最近上了 Ezra Klein 的播客。我其实并不建议你去听完或读完那段录音/文字记录。那过程很痛苦。你会感觉自己的智力随着每一分钟的聆听而衰退……就像在使用聊天机器人一样。甚至更糟。

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 黄仁勋在播客中说了许多惊世骇俗的话。比如当 Klein 问到孩子们在使用大语言模型（LLM）时不再学习技能的问题时，黄仁勋回答道：“我完全同意。现在试着让一个孩子去做长除法看看。乘法表正开始被遗忘。还有开平方根，天哪。基础数学正在被遗忘。这重要吗？……是的。我不认为这很重要。我不认为这很重要。”——黄仁勋（Jensen），我不认为我构建的阻碍孩子们学习的技术有什么问题。

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 confession, I actually don’t know my address. […] It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. Jensen – I have literally nothing in common with human beings – Huang 太离谱了。但他还要继续，用一个更糟糕的声明来超越前言：“有很多技能是不重要的。我先坦白一件事，我其实不知道我的住址。……这是完全真实的。Janine 会告诉你，Lori 也会告诉你。有一天我不得不去加油——那是几年前的事了。他们需要我的邮政编码，我当时慌了。我不知道我的邮政编码。我不知道我的电话号码。我忘记了这些事情。但我能活得好好的。”——黄仁勋（Jensen），我与人类简直毫无共同之处。

So Huang is not the only person making these kinds of strange statements. Marc Andreessen proudly declaring not to have any introspection. Sam Altman talking about how ChatGPT (and probably a bunch of nannies) basically raises his kid. Satya Nadella “staying informed” about the world by listening to – and talking to – podcasts that Microsoft Copilot generates for him. This is not how actual people live. These are – for actual human beings – very embarrassing things to admit. Why would techbros do that? Constantly. 所以，黄仁勋并不是唯一一个发表此类怪异言论的人。马克·安德森（Marc Andreessen）自豪地宣称自己没有任何内省能力；萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）谈论 ChatGPT（可能还有一群保姆）是如何基本负责抚养他孩子的；萨提亚·纳德拉（Satya Nadella）通过收听并与微软 Copilot 为他生成的播客对话来“保持对世界的了解”。这不是正常人的生活方式。对于真正的人类来说，承认这些事情是非常尴尬的。为什么科技圈的男人们总是这样做？

It of course brings to mind the famous quote from William Gibson’s Count Zero: “And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” And that is true to a degree: That level of access to money does shift how you see, how you interact with the world. It starts with you having a driver so you never have to park a car or go to the gas/charging station and only increases the more money you have. I would honestly not be surprised if those rich people wouldn’t even know where the washing machine is in their mansion. That’s what the help takes care of. 这自然让人想起威廉·吉布森（William Gibson）在《零伯爵》（Count Zero）中的名言：“那一瞬间，她直视着那双柔和的蓝眼睛，凭着哺乳动物的本能确信，那些极度富有的人已经不再是人类了。”在某种程度上，这是事实：那种程度的财富获取能力确实改变了你看待世界和与世界互动的方式。它始于你拥有司机，所以你永远不必停车或去加油/充电站，而且随着你拥有的钱越多，这种脱节感就越强。如果那些富人甚至不知道他们豪宅里的洗衣机在哪里，我一点也不会感到惊讶。那是佣人们负责的事。

Money – like software – creates abstraction. Distance to the friction of the world. The ability to never be touched and to never have to touch anyone or anything. To have nobody else’s life, their existence as a person with needs and rights and hopes and feelings, matter. That probably is why rich folks – and those who aspire to that lifestyle – love “AI” so much. 金钱——就像软件一样——创造了抽象。它创造了与世界摩擦力的距离。它赋予人一种能力：永远不被触碰，也永远不必触碰任何人或任何事物。让其他人的生活，让他们作为拥有需求、权利、希望和情感的人的存在，变得无关紧要。这可能就是为什么富人——以及那些向往这种生活方式的人——如此热爱“人工智能”的原因。

But I think there is another aspect to those statements. They are a test. Donald Trump (I think more subconsciously than intentionally) is a master of this kind of test. It goes like this: You state something outrageous for example “Lake Ontario is now called Lake America”. People should laugh at you because that is absurd. But some people will instantly call it Lake America (like Google changing what Google Maps says). Those are the people who have passed the test. They have debased themselves in public by following something completely off the rails marking themselves as obedient to the person who started the whole thing. 但我认为这些言论还有另一个层面。它们是一种测试。唐纳德·特朗普（我认为这更多是潜意识而非刻意为之）是这种测试的大师。它是这样的：你发表一些离谱的言论，例如“安大略湖现在改名叫美国湖”。人们本该嘲笑你，因为这太荒谬了。但有些人会立刻称其为“美国湖”（就像谷歌改变谷歌地图上的标注一样）。这些人就是通过了测试的人。他们通过追随完全离谱的事情在公众面前自贬身价，标志着他们服从于那个发起这一切的人。

This is a typical kind of behavior you see in cults or for example right wing extremist groups: If you get people to tattoo a visible swastika on themselves they have not only declared their submission to the group but marked themselves as no longer part of the rest of society. Everything we say has multiple functions and effects. I am not saying that Jensen Huang intentionally plants these weird-ass statements to test the people around him. I am saying that they do serve as a test though. 这是你在邪教或右翼极端组织中常见的典型行为：如果你让人在身上纹上显眼的纳粹万字旗，他们不仅宣布了对组织的服从，还标志着自己不再是社会其余部分的一员。我们所说的一切都有多种功能和影响。我并不是说黄仁勋故意抛出这些怪异的言论来测试周围的人。但我是在说，它们确实起到了测试的作用。

Because in that interview, Klein could have pushed back on Huang. Really dug into how “I don’t know my address” is not about “some skills are no longer required” but about “I am rich and pay a bunch of women to run my life like my mother used to“. Could have challenged that completely disconnected statement to kinda force Huang to step down from abstraction land down to the real world. But he didn’t. Because he knows the consequences. If you do challenge those things you will not get those kinds of high-profile interviews. If you don’t take whatever those weird men say seriously you have failed the test. And that has consequences. 因为在那次采访中，Klein 本可以反驳黄仁勋。他本可以深入挖掘“我不知道我的住址”这番话，指出这并非关于“某些技能不再需要”，而是关于“我很有钱，我雇了一群女性来打理我的生活，就像我母亲过去做的那样”。他本可以挑战那种完全脱节的言论，强迫黄仁勋从抽象的云端回到现实世界。但他没有。因为他知道后果。如果你挑战这些事情，你就无法再获得那种高规格的采访。如果你不认真对待那些怪人所说的每一句话，你就没通过测试。而这会带来后果。

It is imperative for us to push back on that. Now we don’t get to talk to Jensen Huang – which might be good for our intellectual and psychological well-being – but we talk to people who might accept those statements and argue based on that. “Jensen Huang said that we don’t need those skills”, “Sam Altman said that Intelligence is something that we can just rent from OpenAI”, “Dario Amodei said AI might kill us all”. Weird and dumb shit that needs to be challenged. 我们必须对此进行反击。虽然我们没机会和黄仁勋对话——这对我们的智力和心理健康可能反而是件好事——但我们确实会接触到那些可能接受这些言论并以此为论据的人。“黄仁勋说我们不需要那些技能了”、“萨姆·奥特曼说智能是可以从 OpenAI 租用的东西”、“达里奥·阿莫代（Dario Amodei）说人工智能可能会杀死我们所有人”。这些怪异且愚蠢的言论需要被挑战。

We can’t save those broken men from themselves. We have way bigger tasks in front of us. One of those tasks is pushing back on those claims, pointing out how fucking weird those statements are, how they do not make any lick of sense. Pointing that out, making that explicit, choosing to fail the test is powerful. It does give others the opportunity to step out of the often dominant “quirky tech bro is so visionary” narrative to realize how fucking weird those guys are. How little they know about life. About how to be a human. And that is power. That is connection. That is what allows us to push back on our lives, our social fabric being steamrolled by a bunch of unpleasant dudes. The only way to actually win at that test is to fail it. Fail it as hard as you can. 我们无法拯救那些扭曲的人。我们面前有更艰巨的任务。其中之一就是反击这些主张，指出这些言论有多么荒谬，它们是多么毫无道理。指出这一点，将其明确化，选择“不及格”，这本身就是一种力量。这给了其他人机会，让他们从那种占主导地位的“古怪科技大佬很有远见”的叙事中走出来，意识到这些家伙有多么怪异。他们对生活、对如何做人了解得有多么少。这就是力量。这就是连接。这就是让我们能够反击的关键，防止我们的生活和社会结构被一群令人不快的家伙碾压。赢得这场测试的唯一方法就是不及格。尽你所能地不及格吧。