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Referring to Palantir I once asked him if he ever had a Robert Oppenheimer moment - he did not answer. No more words were needed.
by oger 5y ago
Referring to Palantir I once asked him if he ever had a Robert Oppenheimer moment - he did not answer. No more words were needed.
- paisawalla 5y agoYou asked him whether he ever reflected on database visualization and query tools (that's what Palantir is) and considered that he had brought a previously unimaginable capability for destruction into this world? Non-answer seems about right -- how do you treat nonsensical questions?
- ASalazarMX 5y agoYou're speaking of a company named after the device that Sauron used to control the Middle Earth equivalent of the Internet. A user with sufficient will power could decide what the palantirs would show (and hide) to other users. The "Database Torturer" would inspire more trust.
- paisawalla 5y agoThis is a bad critique for two reasons: 1. Linking the name of a company to people and places that don't exist doesn't demonstrate anything. 2. You don't even know enough to know that the Palantiri were originally created and used by the elves, not Sauron.
- ASalazarMX 5y ago> 2. You don't even know enough to know that the Palantiri were originally created and used by the elves, not Sauron. I take offense to that. I know the Palantiri were originally made by the elves, with good intentions. Sauron just took hold of one and poisoned the network.
- paisawalla 5y agoSorry to have assumed ignorance on your part, but you see then, it's totally possible that the company name refers to their original positive nature.
- dwmbt 5y agoLOL, i would pay money to watch this in real time. another suggestive Thiel anecdote: after PayPal IPO'd the team threw a party to celebrate and he was said to have run a 10 game simultaneous (Thiel would play ten different games, moving through each board one move at a time, down the line) and was only beat by one person (David Sacks). after losing, he flipped the board and apparently responded to being called a sore loser with "show me a great loser and i'll show you a loser." [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSUM1mvw17w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSUM1mvw17w
- fknorangesite 5y agoSacks telling (a version of?) this story: https://twitter.com/davidsacks/status/1248028580245692417 https://twitter.com/davidsacks/status/1248028580245692417
- karmakaze 5y ago> Show me a founder who thinks it’s ok to fail fast and I’ll show you a failure. That's an interesting take. I've experienced both sides of it multiple times: failing over several years with the same strategy, and giving up too soon on ideas/products that were starting to gain traction, slowly--that later became clear market needs.
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- totesraunch 5y agoWhen you have multiple game running isn't the trick just to play the move your opponent plays from the previous board? Do in reality you're only playing one game and everyone else is playing each other.
- TearsInTheRain 5y agoThats a good way to lose half your games
- postpawl 5y agoHis Roth IRA certainly doesn’t regret it.
- joelbondurant1 5y ago
- belter 5y agoWas that before or after January 6, 2021 ;-)