.@elonmusk on the likelihood of a SpaceX and Tesla merger: "Some people assume a SpaceX and Tesla merger is a certainty. I think that would be overstating it." "Do I think it's a good idea? Yes."

How @MollySOShea reacted to seeing Alex Karp’s sword: “I thought we were just going to take a picture and then he starts using his skills.” “@eliano was like 6 feet in front of him. Eliano was like [backing up].”

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on hiring: “Palantir over a 20-year period has gotten the best people.” “Silicon Valley hated me. You know why?” “They’re like, ‘The circus cult leader Karp is marching people away from to helping the US government be superior.”

Life advice from @elonmusk: “People should be nicer to each other.” “Give more credit to others. Don’t assume they’re mean until you know they’re actually mean.” “It’s easy to demonize people.” “You’re usually wrong about it.” Via @joerogan

How @MollySOShea reacted to seeing Alex Karp’s sword: “I thought we were just going to take a picture and then he starts using his skills.” “@eliano was like 6 feet in front of him. Eliano was like [backing up].”

Palantir CEO Dr. Alex Karp was right: “The Palantir degree is the most valuable degree in the US. Bar none.” “20 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago—that was not the case. It is the case now.”

Palantir cofounder @JTLonsdale: “If you wanted more jobs, ban farm tools. We’d all have to be farmers. We’d all have jobs, and we’d all be really poor. “Every 90 years, we kill about half the jobs. That’s a good thing.” “You couldn’t make society wealthier if you didn’t get rid of jobs because what that means, is you’re raising productivity.

.@elonmusk on the likelihood of a SpaceX and Tesla merger: "Some people assume a SpaceX and Tesla merger is a certainty. I think that would be overstating it." "Do I think it's a good idea? Yes."

Stanley Druckenmiller: “Palantirians, a term I’ve heard for many years as being a cult.” Palantir CEO Alex Karp: “A cult where I get no sexual benefits by the way. Just to be clear.” “It’s a rare cult with no sex and very little drugs and we’re not poisoning anyone but… yep.”

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on hiring: “Palantir over a 20-year period has gotten the best people.” “Silicon Valley hated me. You know why?” “They’re like, ‘The circus cult leader Karp is marching people away from to helping the US government be superior.”

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says the AI labs want you to buy into a future where you: "Have no job, adversaries win, and everybody who does win is a small, tiny group of people living in a tiny place that believe because they eat vegetables and don't support war fighters, they deserve to have the total means of production of this country—and the rest of us should just sit back and absorb the cost of that revolution, which we're paying for."

Alex Karp was right again. “This is to Friedberg’s point about what is the potential downstream productivity gains that everybody can have theoretically with AI.” “What this shows you is that Microsoft’s revenue went from 198 billion to 332 billion in the last four years, while staff only increased by 2,000 people.” “And so just the scale and the impact on the productivity, to your point, this idea that it creates job loss, I don’t think is true. It’s more that you’re seeing productivity gains at the same number of human input, and I think that’s interesting.” @chamath @theallinpod

.@WalterIsaacson on @elonmusk's 𝕏 post last night saying if democrats clean sweep the House, Senate, and Presidency, it would be "game over" for America: "I talked to Musk, and he said that he was too out front. He felt he was doing way too much showmanship last time he got involved in politics." "What he's doing now is spending twice as much money, but more quietly behind the scenes, especially on things like get out the vote, targeted ads—things he did so well in Pennsylvania 2 years ago to help President Trump carry that state." "He is deeply, deeply political right now, and he feels especially that in Texas he wants to defeat Talarico." "He's the type of person who's an all-in person. He doesn't see nuance that well. He doesn't see black and white. He sees this as a crusade he has to get on because he's all-in now for the Republicans." "On many things, he can be all-in or he can change. There was a while when he left the Trump administration where he said he was going to fund independents." "He has changed, but it doesn't surprise me because he is mercurial. He's somebody who, as the mood changes, he can suddenly put on his superhero cape and go back into the breach." "If there's a sweep of the Democrats... it's certainly not going to be great for his ability to work with the US government. But that's not something that I think motivates him." Via @CNBC @andrewrsorkin

Stanley Druckenmiller: “Palantirians, a term I’ve heard for many years as being a cult.” Palantir CEO Alex Karp: “A cult where I get no sexual benefits by the way. Just to be clear.” “It’s a rare cult with no sex and very little drugs and we’re not poisoning anyone but… yep.”

Palantir CEO Alex Karp in 2023: “If you want to find an object the size of a coke bottle in a desert the size of Texas and need to do it quickly… that is a problem that you will need algorithms and what laypeople call AI to do.”

Palantir cofounder @JTLonsdale: “If you wanted more jobs, ban farm tools. We’d all have to be farmers. We’d all have jobs, and we’d all be really poor. “Every 90 years, we kill about half the jobs. That’s a good thing.” “You couldn’t make society wealthier if you didn’t get rid of jobs because what that means, is you’re raising productivity.

Peter Thiel (reportedly) ripping Bill Gates to shreds in a leaked copy of the Antichrist lectures: "One of my friends was telling me that I should not pass up on the opportunity to tell those people in SF that Bill Gates is the Antichrist." "I will concede that he is certainly a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-type character. The public Mr. Rogers, the neighborhood character — but I saw the Mr. Hyde version about a year ago, where it was just a nonstop Tourette’s, yelling swear words, almost incomprehensible what was going on." "Certainly, of course, there are a lot of people who are wannabe Antichrists." "They sort of want peace and safety. [He] definitely wants a Nobel Peace Prize." "He would give his soul for that, no question about it." Per @verge

Palantir CEO Dr. Alex Karp was right: “The Palantir degree is the most valuable degree in the US. Bar none.” “20 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago—that was not the case. It is the case now.”