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Palantir CEO Alex Karp reacts to the Jensen Huang news: "Jensen is a titan in our industry. Arguably one, if not the most important people in the AI industry." "I know him quite well. I respect him. He's going through a very tough time. I really feel for him." "I'm glad he's taking the steps he's taking to be transparent, and his importance to all of us in the industry cannot be underestimated." Via POLITICO (recorded a few days ago (I think))
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.Elon Musk: “We are in the singularity.” “I think we’ll hit AGI in 2026.” “You’re at the top of the rollercoaster about to go down.” “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement. It won’t matter.” “I don’t just have courtside seats— I’m on the court. It still blows my mind multiple times a week.” Via Peter H. Diamandis, MD
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says people arguing we should pause AI development are not living in reality and de facto saying we should let our enemies win: "If we didn't have adversaries, I would be very in favor of pausing this technology completely, but we do.” Via @cnbc
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Alex Karp congratulating Peter Thiel for winning the Axel Springer Award will bring a tear to your eye Alex says when he first met Peter at Stanford Law, he thought, "That's the first person who understood anything I think." He says Thiel is "the last standing important German."
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the AI labs want you to buy into a future where you: "Have no job, adversaries win, and everybody who does win is a small, tiny group of people living in a tiny place that believe because they eat vegetables and don't support war fighters, they deserve to have the total means of production of this country—and the rest of us should just sit back and absorb the cost of that revolution, which we're paying for."
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.Elon Musk says he was literally “all in” betting everything he owned on Tesla and SpaceX when his third rocket failed and Peter Thiel stepped in to save SpaceX: “My buddies from PayPal saved my butt.” “Peter Thiel’s been a big supporter. He invested in SpaceX at an important time in 2008. Before orbit. After our 3rd failure but before success:” “Big credit to Peter and Luke Nosek and the other guys at Founders Fund. Basically my buddies from PayPal.”
Jawwwn1,964,284 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
.Garry Tan’s early story from Palantir reveals the genius of Alex Karp: Garry was 25, and Palantir sent him to DC to do customer demos. They put him up in the Mandarin Oriental hotel. “Alex—why are we staying at the Mandarin Oriental? We’re just kids. Set me up in the Motel 6. We’re a startup.” “He said, ‘Guys. You’re going to go and talk to Generals and VPs of Fortune 500s. You’re going to show this incredible software.’” “‘And then as you’re walking out the door, they’re going to say, ‘How long are you in town?’ They’re going to make small talk.’” “‘And if you say, ‘I’m staying at the Motel 6, that says something about what Palantir is.’” “‘They’re gonna think this is Motel 6 software. Palantir is not Motel 6 software. Palantir is Mandarin Oriental software.’” Via Walter Isaacson Kaleidoscope
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on open borders and killing fentanyl traffickers: “If fentanyl was killing 60,000 Yale grads instead of 60,000 working class people, we’d be dropping a nuclear bomb on whoever was sending it from South America. “At Palantir, we are on the side of the average American who sometimes gets screwed because all the empathy goes to elite people, and none goes to the people actually dying on our streets. “When you have an open border, it means the average poor American earns less. “To believe our Constitution does not give us a right to stop 60,000 deaths a year of working class men and women, is insane. This country is right to stop that. To the extent we’re involved in these efforts, I and many Palantirians are proud.”
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Palantir CEO Dr. Alex Karp: “You need a higher purpose, and I think you often need a lower purpose. Andrew Ross Sorkin: “What’s your lower purpose?” Karp: “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us.”
Jawwwn3,020,408 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
.Joe Lonsdale on Chinese spies and honeypots at Google in 2019: “Everyone in the valley knows the Chinese government is very involved.” “We’ve found, at all of our companies, Chinese spies. It’s something we don’t talk about a lot, but this is a regularly known thing in Silicon Valley.” Via CNBC
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on China: “It’s their job to destabilize us. It’s our job to be stable.” Via The All-In Podcast
Jawwwn24,248 görüntüleme • 3 gün önce
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the Wealth tax doesn't solve the massive wealth inequality that AI will create: "Me being 20x wealthier than I am now is a societal problem." "When you talk to people, the answer is always, 'But everybody else's wealth is going to go up by 4% a year.' I just don't think it's explainable to the American people or any Western democracy." "I have one of the first or second-largest anti-fan bases in the world. But the fan base is probably 10x larger than the anti-fan base. With that caveat, I'm one of the most popular CEOs in the world, and I wouldn't know how to explain that to my fans." "Pretending we can just defer this issue just plays into the extremists." "The extremist view is—let's blow up the US economy with some kind of wealth tax that, whether they realize it or not, would just shut off innovation, kill the startups, and at the end, actually would probably be pretty okay for people like me because we pay it, but then the startups that would compete against us get crushed." "It doesn't solve the issue they're pretending to care about, but it does solve the political issue which they do actually care about—which is hurting people who are impossibly wealthy."
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Americans' right to privacy: Most people don't realize how influenced they are by tech "What they're often imputing is, 'I don't care what commercial companies know about me, because that's my choice,' which it is." "But they're thinking of their opinions as being wholly their own, and at best, your opinions are a dialogue between your ideas and the outside consensus view." "They're underestimating how much their thoughts are being influenced by the tech products they're interacting with." "And because they underestimate that, they don't understand the in- the, the, the, the way in which they should be more concerned about privacy." Via Walter Isaacson Kaleidoscope
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Peter Thiel makes his first and only 𝕏 post, live in an interview: “I’ve never actually used Twitter, but I thought I’d use it for the first time today.” “I will go ahead and do my first tweet — ‘from zero to one’ — both the tweet, and a link to my book ‘zero to one.’”
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Peter Thiel on the Antichrist and the risk of a totalitarian one-world state: Thiel says a totalitarian one-world state would be a "tyrannical, single government that controls the entire world, that turns the entire planet into a prison from which there is no escape." "It'd be far worse than North Korea because you could still get out of North Korea." "How does the Antichrist convince the entire world to surrender and let this one-world government take over?" "The Antichrist comes to power by talking about Armageddon nonstop, by talking about existential risk nonstop." "I'll pick an AI example: Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote this book in fall of 2025: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies." "It goes through all these different risks where this technology is potentially dangerous." "The thing where this book in my account is weak is—what do you do? You are supposed to surrender to the one-world state." "If you outlaw it in the US, it'll be built in China. If you outlaw it in China and the US, it can be built in South Africa. So you have to outlaw AI everywhere in the world." "I am not a crazy person who's arguing that we should just push the nuclear button and see what happens or something like that. When I was 20 years old at Stanford, I had dinner one evening with Edward Teller. He was an 80-year-old physicist, the father of the H-bomb." "He sort of told us he was not scared of nuclear weapons, and it was not enough to contain communism. You needed to roll communism back. And if you put him in charge—he was from Hungary—he would send the tanks into Hungary right away. He was not scared of nuclear weapons." "This was two years before, you know, um, the Eastern bloc fell without firing a shot." "I am not pro-Dr. Teller. I'm not pro-Dr. Strangelove, none of these things. But the perspective I want to give you is that that's not the danger in our society." "The threat is much more someone like Greta or her fellow travelers."
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