dying of fentanyl<\/a>, you can bet your last dollar the various jurisdictions would read the law so that you could stop that. But they\u2019re not.<\/p>\nThey\u2019re working class. They\u2019re mostly male, they\u2019re mostly white, and mostly people don\u2019t care. And we have to change that.<\/p>\n
We have to actually look at where the value is created and have empathy with people who really deserve it. And those people have not gotten enough empathy.<\/p>\n
And technology is about to change that, and it\u2019s going to change everything politically because it is actually real. The worker, the person on the front, the people that write the scripts that protect us \u2014 all those projects you saw are being done by people with vocational training in the military. They\u2019re creating enormous value, and they deserve the respect that they are going to ask for, and they\u2019re going to get. And all of us at Palantir are behind that.<\/p>\n
And then conversely, how do you get a situation in New York City where you just vote for someone who has no experience in doing what they\u2019re going to do? None.<\/p>\n
I view myself as classically progressive. You know what classically progressive is? The government has to work. You know what that means?<\/p>\n
You need the very best people \u2014 people who have experience running complicated organizations. They have ideas on how to run software. They understand the complexity of the law. They enforce it. If you\u2019re really serious about making things work for the worker, those are the people you vote for. Those are the people that need to be in charge.<\/p>\n
One of the reasons we are in a kind of a \u201cdoom AI circle\u201d is because you can only explain the promise of AI if you understand and embrace the superiority of America and its culture. Because there are dangers in AI, but the reality is there\u2019s only two cultures that are going to win in the next year. It\u2019s going to be the US or China.<\/p>\n
But Europe \u2014 I spent half my life in Europe at this point \u2014 when we talk about Europe, we do exactly the same thing as when we hear about educational programs led by mayors or safety programs in the inner city. We just say, \u201cI really hope it works out. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n
I want Europe to win, but we\u2019re on our own.<\/p>\n
Of course, there are dangers in AI. But we must embrace our ability to build it, our ability to own the chips, own the software, build the large language models, and run very, very quickly.<\/p>\n
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Because again, if we are not the ones controlling the violence, we will not be dictating the rule of law, the things we hold precious in this culture \u2014 I would say embodied by our Constitution and especially in our first four amendments \u2014 those things will not be the same if we are not the dominant technological culture in the world. And while we may have tons of disagreements on these things, those are really the alternatives.<\/p>\n
And most of what we can do, in my view, to counter adversaries is also to build the technology. And then, one of the lessons of Palantir is: no one\u2019s coming to defend you. You have to defend yourself. We used to live in a world where you could rely on experts to articulate our vision.<\/p>\n
But who showed up to articulate our vision in this last election in my hometown, former hometown? Like if we\u2019re waiting for people to articulate and fight for us, we are cooked. And so, the people who disagree with us are often better organized and better motivated. And that\u2019 s a huge problem we have to solve.<\/p>\n
At Palantir, half of the reason we succeeded is we are just motivated and very organized and very meritocratic. Meritocracy is the most underestimated, powerful, revolutionary tool that exists in any enterprise, ever.<\/p>\n
And the capacity to identify and advance people in America based on their capacity is the single most revolutionary tool. And my kind of thinking \u2014 it\u2019s been infected, meaning the progressive party, the Democrats, by people who do not believe in this.<\/p>\n
And by the way, to my Democratic friends here and whoever sees this, we must stand up.<\/p>\n
And as importantly, if you accept the logic that you can never vote for somebody because they have some belief structure you disagree with, you are empowering the radicals in your own party, and they will control everything.<\/p>\n
Whether it\u2019s immigration in Germany, which is functionally controlled by people that still believe in chain migration because you can never do a coalition with the right, or whether it\u2019s the Democratic Party that is functionally being torn apart by people who believe in anti-progressive, anti-meritocratic values as embodied by not having a border.<\/p>\n
No progressive ever has believed in an open border. None. Never has, never existed. Because that undermines the value of workers and their labor.<\/p>\n
And if you want to see what happens to a culture when you don\u2019t fight, look \u2014 who\u2019s standing up in my former party to say, \u201cThis is ridiculous\u201d? Who stood up in Germany to talk about migration? We cannot allow ourselves to become Europe. We really have to fight.<\/p>\n
And Palantir, I think, has been at the forefront of this. And I\u2019m most proud of the fact that we\u2019ve been able to shift the culture in Silicon Valley away from being skeptical of America to being pro-America.<\/p>\n
The idea that you would give tools to give Americans an unfair advantage on the battlefield was viewed as heretical until recently.<\/p>\n
Now it\u2019s viewed as common sense.<\/p>\n
We enforced meritocracy when we were getting sued by the DOJ for basically just hiring the most qualified people. And if you do that and you succeed, you can actually change the way people think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, Dr. Alex Karp, the CEO of software giant Palantir received the Herman Kahn Award at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,1767,727,74,1139],"class_list":{"0":"post-290545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-opinion","12":"tag-palantir","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}