Posted on 02/15/2025 2:29:04 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
“Do you want to see my guns?” he asked. One of Karp’s hobbies is long-range shooting, whose targets fall outside the normal parameters of a firearm, he explained. He struck a stance to show the blend of practice and instinct that combines for the perfect shot.
Those fans, Karp said, tend to have been through an experience in their own lives that mirrors the skepticism that greeted Palantir. “I said X, everyone in the establishment said Y, and Y meant X was stupid,” he said. He added: “The Y people essentially are complete bigots, by the way. Please write that down.”
...on Oct. 7, 2023 galvanized him to get louder, he said. In the hours after word of the attack spread, Karp had Palantir employees on the ground in Israel to help coordinate the country’s response. Two workers—a Pole and a Brit, both non-Jews—flew themselves there before Karp could ask them to go, he said.
The artificial intelligence systems fueling investor fervor for Palantir are going to raise the floor of capabilities to such a degree, he said, that they will force everyone to “do something unique, creative.”
The analogy could also be drawn from his own hobby of long-range shooting. Businesses and individuals are going to have to use AI to operate “outside the range of what a human can do,” he said.
That is “where all the value is,” he added. “Because you have to hit the target.”
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"He is described as a wellness fanatic who swims, skis cross country, and practices martial arts. He has stated that he practices tai chi and that it should not be confused with qigong. He keeps tai chi swords in his offices. He is highly skilled with handguns, and a reporter observed him "expertly hit targets...from 264 yards" with a BUL Armory SAS II Bullesteros 9mm competition pistol." from WIKI
If one has firearms, NEVER display them for public consumption.
—”If one has firearms, NEVER display them for public consumption.”
For us mortals, for sure.
Alex Karp is one of the more secretive guys on the planet.
The reporter counted six “assistants” at the house he visited on a weekend.
He is a billionaire after all.
"Si;icon Valley" wants government contracts.
He saw MJ Fox do the Crack Shot thing in Back to the Future II, then saw Max Headroom do the specials, and something just clicked. /jk
A close friend claimed to have voted for dems, retired deep in the 0bama recession and sold his partnership for not much and all the receivables he wanted to chase. When the company was only doing 15MM/yr, last year they were back in the forties.
Now out of the business, the mask is off; Trump signs in his front yard.
“Karp has described himself as a socialist and a progressive, and said he voted for Hillary Clinton. He has condemned “woke” ways of thinking, calling them the central risk to his company Palantir, and to the United States as a whole.”
An interesting personal anecdote. I have two rather like it, and in each case "adoring belief" has turned to "what was I thinking?"
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