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Meet "The Palantir Guy"
Asked 148 UVA female students: which 30-year-old makes most appealing husband?
C) Shy, supersmart physics major making $400K at Palantir: 58%
A) Socially adept ex-frat brother making $200K at BofA: 29%
B) Sensitive, smart SAHD making $35K: 6%
Emotional intelligence is nice. Brains & good paycheck nicer for my UVA students.
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Applications for the third year of the Meritocracy Fellowship are now open.
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Based solely on merit, applicants will be invited for interviews.
Successful Fellows will be eligible for full-time roles.
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Humans were designed to worship. There is no opting out. If they don’t worship their Creator they will find (artificial) substitutes.
Palantir CTO @ssankar says many AI researchers have picked up smoking as a way to show other researchers that their "chips are all in."
"There's an unseen force driving the narrative around AI safety, and it's this millenarian doomsday cult meets messianic complex called effective altruism."
"There's only ~2,000 AI researchers in America, and the vast majority of them believe in this worldview around effective altruism."
"There's a profound truth to the Pascal saying, 'Every human has a God-shaped hole in their heart.'"
"Many of these folks in Silicon Valley who are building this technology have filled that hole with the machine god of AGI."
Via @margbrennan @FaceTheNation
Throwback Thursday
Kentucky will record license plates of those who show up to any mass gatherings, such as church services, and will provide that info to local health departments, who will in turn order those individuals to be quarantined for 14 days, Gov. Andy Beshear says cnn.it/3ebJ7xv
Seeing a bunch of clearly AI generated replies of this shape on X over the last few months.
The replies always proudly rephrase the most important takeaway or “learning” from the OP.
New Palantir blog post out, interviewing our engineering HMs across the business
blog.palantir.com/early-tale…
Execution is everything. And the people who best execute are the people who most care.
There are infohazards everywhere for those with eyes to see.
“I’d much rather wake up at 22 with four years at Palantir than a degree from any college.”
Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they 'can't rely' on Ivy Leagues trib.al/Fi2miAG
Europe lagging hopelessly behind is a Good Thing Actually because if our sacred administrative class bans it then it must be a Bad Thing.
