Peter Todd

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[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

My political party is Palantir.

[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

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the false religion of frontier labs:

“Philosophically it's wrong because it's not doomer versus not-doomer; it's a hyper-religion of hyper-optimism.”

“They believe all problems — present, past, and future, including the ones they create and don't acknowledge they create — are going to be solved by them, including human nature and disparities.”

“Enterprises are just fed up because they know this doesn't actually work this way. It's not working. And that basically drives our commercial business.”

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

@cafe_pinto_ dude get a life.

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

Terminally online Palantir conspiracy theorists in absolute shambles.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Florida hospital reveals Palantir software has cut sepsis deaths by more than half since it was installed.

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

At AIPCon 10, Palantir CEO Alex Karp shares our secret to sales:

“We’re hoping that you’ll go to a large language model company and learn that they don’t care about you at all.”

“What you will find is there are a myriad of problems that these very important models solve, and there are even bigger problems that they create.”

“We’re in the business of giving you the ability to solve those problems for yourself and own the means of production.”

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

I would not want to live in a world where self-appointed, unelected tech bosses can decide which government polices can actually be delivered and which can’t. Palantir is proud to support the UK’s elected government deliver for the British people, just as it does across the West.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

AI solved software creation.

Now comes software distribution.

The future will not run on blind deployment pipelines.

Apollo provides the Ontology Primitives for Software Distribution. Deploy. Patch. Rollback. Validate. Govern.

AI-native velocity with human accountability.

[Chad Wahlquist @chadwahl]

The AI era will not be won by the model with the best demo. It will be won by the organizations that can operationalize AI securely, govern it in real time, and make decisions faster than the threat landscape evolves.

As cyber offense becomes autonomous, defense has to become operational. That’s the shift happening now.

This is why what we’re building at @PalantirTech matters.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

The most important AI lab in the world isn’t in San Francisco. It’s in Kyiv.
27,000 Shaheds last winter. 80+ models trained on real battlefield data through Brave1. A 95% interception target.
Not a prototype. Not a pilot. Live, at scale, against a peer adversary.
Silicon Valley talks about AI. Ukraine fights a war with it.
Nobody in government understands what AI means for warfare better than @FedorovMykhailo. The next phase starts now.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

A good meeting with the CEO of Palantir Technologies, Alex Karp. Step by step, we are developing cooperation with the American defense sector. Palantir is a renowned global company with strong potential, and there certainly are areas where we can be useful to one another, strengthening the defense of Ukraine, America, and our partners. We discussed areas of technological development – both in the context of combat operations and civilian needs. We agreed that our teams will stay in touch.

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

A lot to do in the Palantir chore coat today. First chore down, a pineapple light fixture.

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

Mine will be arriving today. I anticipate it will forever change how i dress.

[Eliano A Younes @eliano]

LMAO

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

@flowmalicious

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

The only AI future you should want to live in is the one built on Palantir.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Read Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s Letter to Shareholders here: https://t.co/ndYsv8Gfxy

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

@eliano @mmazco @round America will be rebuilt by great men and women wearing Palantir chore coats. While they build, you will complain about a reality that actually isn’t real. Take care and good luck out there.

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

@alluringmedia shut up.

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

One day, all the Palantir haters will have to come to grips with the reality that the disinformation surrounding the company was deliberately created by our adversaries who feared its potential to strengthen and embolden the ability of free and democratic societies.

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

@jawwwn_ 100%. Drives me nuts.

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

These politicians know they are lying too. They literally just do it for clicks and cultural signaling.

[Tom McPhail @PensionsMonkey]

Turns out the populist Marxist grifter Zack is lying to us. I’m SHOCKED I tell you

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

@WinstonMay934 thanks, Winston.

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

America is better because of Palantir.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Palantir is proud to partner with the US Department of Agriculture to modernize services for American farmers, giving them the time and resources they need to secure our nation's breadbasket.

"Protecting America’s farmland is protecting America itself, and this work gives USDA the visibility and speed needed to safeguard our food supply,” said USDA Chief Information Officer Sam Berry. “Our farmers sustain this nation, and modern tools help us support them with greater precision. I look forward to working with Palantir as we continue serving the American farming community, which serves all of us every single day.”

https://t.co/UVzlg0WYgp

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

@dmbkparker @PalantirTech Congrats and welcome!

[Peter Todd @Petertodd]

@Cthulhu_Answers Thnx