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Referring to Palantir I once asked him if he ever had a Robert Oppenheimer moment - he did not answer. No more words were needed.
Non-answer seems about right -- how do you treat nonsensical questions?
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> "High-level corruption as a service" is likely to be his main value proposition, basically. He could have gotten that from almost anybody in Washington or Wall Street...
Ah, but there's a certain cachet that comes from partnering with major figures who've been caught with their hands as explicitly in the cookie jar as were Kurz's. And on camera, no less.
Referring to Palantir I once asked him if he ever had a Robert Oppenheimer moment - he did not answer. No more words were needed.
LOL, i would pay money to watch this in real time. another suggestive Thiel anecdote: after PayPal IPO'd the team threw a party to celebrate and he was said to have run a 10 game simultaneous (Thiel would play ten different games, moving through each board one move at a time, down the line) and was only beat by one person (David Sacks). after losing, he flipped the board and apparently responded to being called a sor…
Did he act like he made up that old quote, attributed to Vince Lombardy for decades? https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/vince_lombardi_161268
Referring to Palantir I once asked him if he ever had a Robert Oppenheimer moment - he did not answer. No more words were needed.
You asked him whether he ever reflected on database visualization and query tools (that's what Palantir is) and considered that he had brought a previously unimaginable capability for destruction into this world? Non-answer seems about right -- how do you treat nonsensical questions?
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Ah, but there's a certain cachet that comes from partnering with major figures who've been caught with their hands as explicitly in the cookie jar as were Kurz's. And on camera, no less.
Is there? Because the cachet usually comes from the opposite, to do it with figures who managed not to be caught.
To be openly court corruption of this sort, as a way of rejecting the accepted norms of Western democracy. In its current effete, collectivist form.
"Burn it down, burn it down!", in other words.
Until the world is ready to accept his profoundly more enlightened norms -- of evolved, "capitalist" democracy.
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Why do people with this much wealth want even more wealth for themselves? I've never understood this.
If you're poor it tends to look like "How many houses could a person want?" If you're rich, it looks like "Everyone else, especially governments, sucks at allocating resources. I will do a better job." And here's the kicker, being extremely wealthy is the result of being good at the skill of resource allocation.
If you add skills such as 'externalizing costs', and 'diverting resources', sure, I'll buy what you're selling.
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> thiel isn't that talented or smart, but he did get hella lucky, This is true for more than 99% of extremely successful people. It is only worth mentioning when one does not like any particular successful person.
99% of internet posts make claims without sources.
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You asked him whether he ever reflected on database visualization and query tools (that's what Palantir is) and considered that he had brought a previously unimaginable capability for destruction into this world? Non-answer seems about right -- how do you treat nonsensical questions?
You're speaking of a company named after the device that Sauron used to control the Middle Earth equivalent of the Internet. A user with sufficient will power could decide what the palantirs would show (and hide) to other users. The "Database Torturer" would inspire more trust.
1. Linking the name of a company to people and places that don't exist doesn't demonstrate anything.
2. You don't even know enough to know that the Palantiri were originally created and used by the elves, not Sauron.
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This is a surprisingly illustrative anecdote. America is incredible at "doing the right thing" when push comes to shove - regardless of policy, procedure, or legalese. In so many ways, going through life in the US means people figure out how to help you, unblock you, or ignore hurdles. Allowing Arnold to become president if he was interested is clearly such thing - no sensible person would think it should be prevente…
Unwritten rules are everything in America
Show me where it says that.
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This system is all encompassing, politicians are in it as well. The only real system change is through revolution, and revolutions are never pretty.
Why would it have to be pretty? Change needs sacrifice.
That's the hard part, I'm all up for overthrowing this shit but the consequences are always the biggest deterrent.