Daniel Blasingame

Ex-Palantir

[Daniel Blasingame @dblasing]

@chadwahl @chadwahl you don’t fit with this crew. You rarely wear a hat 🧢 🤣💀#MakeChadWearHats #BigBrain

[Garrett Lord @GarrettLord]

https://t.co/EBcWLBGkjz

[Daniel Blasingame @dblasing]

@joinHandshake @OpenAI unlocking builders. Love it! 🔨

[Daniel Blasingame @dblasing]

let's build & shape the future, together

[Handshake @joinHandshake]

This spring, we worked with @OpenAI to launch the Codex Creator Challenge. More than 1,500 students built something on their own terms, driven by their own ideas. That kind of confidence and creative ownership is exactly what the most forward-thinking employers are hiring for.

Explore what they built: https://t.co/qothruRxyu

[Curtis G. Northcutt @cgnorthcutt]

Kudos to @anishathalye and @jomulr for co-chairing the RL agentic benchmarks workshop track for the inaugural ACM CAIS conference this week.

We presented two separate Handshake AI Research papers in: (1) AI agentic systems - first evaluation of grader frameworks, and (2) AI benchmarks - first investment banking benchmark. Their posters had big crowds all afternoon. Great job!

[Daniel Blasingame @dblasing]

This is truth and much of why I spent 7+ years at Palantir. It’s an amazing company and a top-notch group of people defending the faith ++++> life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness. God Bless America 🇺🇸

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.

11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.

12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.

13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.

14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.

15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.

16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.

17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?

Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska

https://t.co/8igjazz1On

[Daniel Blasingame @dblasing]

"Scrum is dead, waterfall is dead, there is only building."

[Chad Wahlquist @chadwahl]

“How do I adapt in this world of AI?”

I get this multiple times a day from all ranges of people.

I see the transformers are the people who ask the “dumb questions,” try stuff that fails, build things that end up interesting but not impactful, and put themselves out there without knowing what they’re doing.

They’re building their AI intuition muscle.

This AI intuition is fundamentally changing how they think about the world, how they approach problems and opportunities because the calculus for the cost of just doing things has changed.

No longer writing RICEFs, KDDs, requirements docs, and long drawn out plans about plans.

Scrum is dead, waterfall is dead, there is only building.

When I can build so fast that working code is my requirements, it changes your business process to operate in the mode of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). The idea of testing and validation is flipped on its head. You have a crystal ball looking into your own future right now, then run simulations about how this new future might benefit or hurt your business before you commit it to main.

Then you parallelize complex efforts on top of this by having the right security and scaffolding, and this unleashes a whole new level of human-computer symbiosis allowing people to collaborate in powerful new ways.

This is not only transforming the technical building but the compounding cycles of learning that you get in a 10-50x faster OODA loop. It is going to unleash a whole new level of human intelligence, new ambition, new possibilities.

I’ve never been more bullish about our future of human and artificial intelligence.

[Akshay Krishnaswamy @hyperindexed]

Palantir AIP provides an end-to-end agentic architecture.

[Yanush Feshter @YaffFesh]

Musk is describing the Physics of Value.
​"Make more than you take" is the definition of Negative Entropy.
To build is to organize chaos into order. That requires energy and fights the natural drift of the universe.
​Extraction (Taking) is easy—it rides the entropy gradient down.
Creation (Making) is hard—it climbs the gradient up.
​Money isn't the goal. It's just the thermal exhaust of a high-efficiency engine.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Palantir CEO Alex Karp receives the Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn Award.

Intro from @ssankar and full speech from Dr. Karp below.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Palantir honors those who swore the oath and kept the faith. Happy Veterans Day.

[TBPN @tbpn]

IN NEWS: Palantir just closed its first-ever $1B deal outside the US.

@louismosley (EVP of Palantir, UK) told us: “We are the operating system for the modern battlefield… the significance of today is the UK, America’s closest ally, making the same move.”

Alongside the deal, Palantir announced a $2B investment into the UK and 350 new jobs.

[Daniel Blasingame @dblasing]

Build with us.

[Daniel Blasingame @dblasing]

!!!! Activate AI with any compute engine, through Palantir AIP. Palantir Dev Matthew Bayer shows Chad Wahlquist how lightweight transforms are powering radically cheaper, faster data transforms — and moving beyond monolithic compute frameworks.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

@chadwahl Full video here: https://t.co/Xppe4tDzWq

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

https://t.co/mVhJexoNPG

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

“You can make your organization more effective without compromising on security and privacy through the use of technologies like Markings, Cipher, Checkpoints, and granular access controls"

See how Palantir AIP enables transformation while protecting privacy and civil liberties.

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Today at the $LEN earnings call:

Lennar’s co-CEO Stuart Miller says they are building a land management system with $PLTR Palantir🔮

[amit @amitisinvesting]

$PLTR

PALANTIR INTRODUCES MMDP:

Multi Modal Data Plane.

Forward Deployed Architect @chadwahl joined me to explain the future of interoperability and what it means for businesses that want to get the value of Palantir but also don't want to leave their existing tech stack.

This could be an absolute game changer for the adoption of Palantir's software because the core focus of MMDP is on providing outcomes, regardless of whatever model or compute you use.

Most SaaS companies want to lock you into their tech stack in order to continue charging you, but if Palantir can meet you where you are and provide outcomes as the basis for why they deserve to get paid, we could see an incredible adoption rate as more businesses don't have to leave their existing stack just to access Palantir.

More details:

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

On the @USArmy’s 250th birthday, Palantir honors the indomitable spirit of the American Soldier.

From Valley Forge to Shiloh, from Normandy to today’s far-flung battlefields.

Count the brave. Count the true.

[Daniel Blasingame @dblasing]

Congrats @ssankar! An amazing honor.

[Shyam Sankar @ssankar]

Today I’m joining the Army Reserve, alongside some of the titans of the tech world: @boztank, @kevinweil, and @bobmcgrewai.

Our mission: help the Army transform for future missions and adopt bleeding-edge tech.

America wins when we unite the dynamism of American innovation with the military’s vital missions. This was the key to our triumphs in the 20th century. It can help us win again.

I’m humbled by this new opportunity to serve my country, my home, America. 🇺🇸