Zoe Schiffer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's true.
Yeah, I'm waiting here for the iPhone replacement, please.
I have to say seeing SpaceX AI like actually written out whenever this was this week was, it was jarring.
Right.
That's the operative question.
I have to admit I haven't read it, but I have read way too many things about it.
Unfortunately, I feel like I've read it at this point.
The draft?
You gotta talk about the draft.
Yes, it's hard to not read every single point of this manifesto out loud.
By saying strong reactions ensued, though, we're kind of missing the big one, which is critics online called this fascist.
They were like, you are just giving us point by point of like Palantir's descent into fascism, basically.
We spend a lot of time talking about this company.
We don't really talk a lot about its origins and how it views itself in the entire American dream or whatever that means.
It was founded after 9-11.
It was supposed to be after this big national consensus where fighting terrorism abroad was the be-all, end-all.
The company was co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
Data aggregation analysis tool powers like everything from businesses to the U.S.
military's targeting systems.
And more recently, that's meant like targeting systems specifically on immigrants.