Paul Buchheit

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[Paul Buchheit @paultoo]

There is a deeper truth which I struggle to fully articulate:

Truth is a story.
Narrative shapes Truth.
Truth flows from Narrative.

"That's not true", your story says, "I have facts!"

But facts alone are meaningless. The Narrative determines which facts are relevant and reliable, provides the context and meaning, labels the heroes and villains, and declares what is accurate information and what is harmful misinformation.

And so we are ruled by stories, Narrative.

All of our most divisive issues are ultimately a war of narrative. We may argue over facts, but the real conflict is narrative, and the struggle for who controls The Narrative.

These narratives are unavoidable. We can't make sense of the world without them. But we can become aware of them, stepping back from the conflict to realize that both sides are each working from within their own narrative bubbles.

The path to peace is not in domination, one narrative wiping out all others, but in understanding.

We can develop a meta-narrative that recognizes and integrates all other narratives, not as true and false but more like species of bacteria, spreading, competing, mutating, colonizing minds, sometimes helping and sometimes harming. We must understand that those colonized by one or the other narrative are generally unaware, to them it is simply the truth.

This meta-narrative brings awareness, and with it some degree of freedom. We can choose our narratives. We can change our narratives. And through this process of awareness, integration, and refinement, all narratives are transformed.

This is the beginning of Alignment.

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

As part of leading the Revoy Series A, I recorded an interview with @reinpk and Ian Rust where we discuss what Revoy is and why it matters.

Revoy recently announced their $27 million Series A, led by @Standard_Cap with participation from XYZ Venture Capital, John Doerr, Time Ventures, @paulg , @ycombinator, @Suhail, Transition Ventures, Leap Ventures, Harlan Robins, Joe Morrissey, Justin Mares, Raphael Parker, Adam Lin, and others. This brings their total funding to $41 million.

[Paul Buchheit @paultoo]

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[Paul Buchheit @paultoo]

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[Paul Buchheit @paultoo]

Prediction: GPT-7 wins the 2024 election

It speaks directly to every voter and says exactly what you need to hear.

[Paul Buchheit @paultoo]

@Conceptcowboy yeah oai has been kind of slow :)

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

Make something agents want.

[Dr. Dad, PhD 🔄🔼◀️🔽▶️ @GarrettPetersen]

You share 98.8% of your genes with chimpanzees. You only share 50% of your genes with each of your parents. That means you're way more related to a chimp than you are to your own immediate family members.

[George E. Pataki @GovernorPataki]

I was Governor of New York on September 11, 2001. The planes did not simply crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They were hijacked and deliberately flown into those buildings by Islamist terrorists.

[darrennn @genzzztrade]

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says donating to charity is net negative

"The common view is that philanthropy is this noble cause, and Bill Gates is like 'I'm going to go rehabilitate my image and do philanthropy.'"

"A lot of charities and philanthropies are actually net negative for the world and they get captured. It's remarkably hard to find a foundation that has not gotten captured by ideology.”

“By trying to do something good, like criminal justice reform, it turns out they just increased crime. I have a donor advised fund and I put money toward things helping civilization advance, but I don't think at this moment I would ever create a foundation."

"If you look at the Ford Foundation, I think Henry Ford would be turning over in his grave if he knew what they were up to.”

“I have a DAF, a donor advised fund, and I just try to put money toward things that I think are helping civilization advance. But I don't think at this moment I would ever create a foundation."

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

Fun to hang out with the @Standard_Cap team and companies and excited to call @Starcloud_ a portco! Thanks for hosting @daltonc, @paultoo, and @berg! 🙏

[Charlie Walsham @CharlieWalsham_]

One of the most successful political tricks of recent years has been turning disagreement into bigotry.

Question gender ideology? Transphobic.

Criticise Islamic beliefs? Islamophobic.

Voice fears about unvetted migrants arriving in small boats? Racist.

Express doubts over the success of multiculturalism? Nazi.

Sometimes people aren’t motivated by hate. Often they’re simply good people with legitimate concerns.

A free society has to acknowledge this reality.

[Bo Winegard @EPoe187]

The problem with embracing a noble lie is that it must always be defended by force and coercion, since it cannot withstand free inquiry. Today’s lie becomes tomorrow’s authoritarianism.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

In Soviet Britain, you can be arrested and prosecuted for speech that no one saw or was offended by.

[Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors @isaiah_p_taylor]

Tech bros need to remember that they exist within a nation that has a people, not a blank economic zone

Middle class America needs to remember that national strength comes from economic and technological strength

This is a careful synthesis between these that we must strike

[Naval @naval]

The left is on a project to enforce equality, despite biology and markets.

The goal of equality gives claim to the moral high ground, but contradicting biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the whole project immoral.

[Bo Winegard @EPoe187]

One of the bizarre arguments progressives have insisted upon of years now is that accepting the plain evidence of your senses is racist and sexist.

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

Super excited to be part of the @Standard_Cap portfolio, love to see the innovation in VC and to link up with other mega ambitious founders! 🙏🚀

[Dalton Caldwell @daltonc]

Starcloud is one of the most ambitious startups in the world and we are proud to welcome them into the @Standard_Cap community of likeminded founders.

The simplest way to increase your ambition is to surround yourself with other ambitious people.

[Hunter Leath @jhleath]

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[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:

Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie

Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.

This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.

Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.

The Words We’re Missing

The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:

Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.

These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.

And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.

The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism

What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.

That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.

This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.

The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.

Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It

People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.

The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.

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[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

I'm super excited to share that we have raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation to build a LOT more AI compute capacity in orbit 🚀

Thanks so much to our supporters, including Manhattan West, who led the round, and new investors, @NVIDIA, @Cisco_Invests, @CedarCapital, Goanna Capital, and @Standard_Cap, as well as continued investment from existing backers @Benchmark, @EQTVentures, @Soma_Capital, @NFX, @SevenSevenSix, and others.

Next week, @Starcloud_ will move into a new 100,000 square ft facility that will enable us to ramp up our production rate to 100 satellites/week.

This is just the beginning! @EzraFeilden, @AdiOltean🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️