Sam
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Chamath Palihapitiya just said what Silicon Valley is terrified to say out loud.
On Joe Rogan. To millions of people. Without flinching.
Chamath: “The only person that we can trust is Elon.”
Not whispered at a dinner party. Not buried in a podcast nobody listens to.
Said on the record. Full weight behind it.
And then he told you why.
Chamath: “I feel like he’s the least corruptible. He’s the most independent thinking. And I think he’s the one that has an actual empathy for people.”
One of the sharpest capital allocators in Silicon Valley history looked at every founder building AI.
Every single one.
And chose the one the media spends the most energy telling you to hate.
That alone should stop you cold.
Chamath: “Then there are folks where there’s just an insane profit motive.”
He’s talking about OpenAI. He’s talking about Google. He’s talking about companies that swallowed billions from Wall Street and now answer to shareholders before they answer to humanity.
Chamath: “They’re less in control of the businesses that they run.”
The people building the most powerful technology in human history do not control their own companies.
Their boards do. Their investors do. Their liquidation preferences do.
And these are the ones we’re trusting with superintelligence.
Chamath: “He’s like, I need to get to Mars.”
This is the fracture line nobody wants to touch.
Every other AI founder is optimizing for the next earnings call. The next funding round. The next quarterly number that keeps the machine fed.
Elon is optimizing for the next planet.
One group builds to satisfy investors. The other builds to survive as a species.
Those aren’t different strategies. Those are different operating systems running on different hardware.
And it changes everything about how you build.
When your time horizon is 90 days, you cut corners. You monetize behavior. You trade safety for speed because the board needs a number by Friday.
When your time horizon is interplanetary, you can’t afford a single shortcut. Because shortcuts don’t survive launch.
Chamath: “Where is this going to end up?”
The only question that matters. And nobody in power wants you asking it.
Because the answer comes down to who gets there first.
If it’s a company owned by Wall Street, superintelligence becomes the most sophisticated extraction engine ever built. Every decision optimized. Every behavior predicted. Every market captured. Not for you. For the balance sheet.
If it’s someone who can’t be bought, pressured, or voted out by a board of directors, there’s at least a chance it bends toward something bigger than quarterly revenue.
History never remembers who built the most powerful technology.
It remembers who controlled it. And what they used it for.
The only founder in AI who cannot be fired by a board, leveraged by an investor, or replaced by a shareholder vote is the one they spend the most energy telling you not to trust.
Ask yourself why.
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@conspiracyb0t now what is this - isnt that the fact of life at one level --- you are born with nothing, you leave with nothing.
Now at another level - you are not born with nothing and you do not leave with nothing (but this is a very different level). And why am I seeing bot messages.
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@naticoineth Is this AI video or .. because there does exist a theory of invest in anything that helps the government track, surveil - you will make pretty good returns in the stock market.
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@redpillb0t are these made up things or -- wait, people actually talk like this? get rid of -- as in bring them prosperity to move them out of poverty or ..
What is this?
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@StealthQE4 People will not be buying those expensive items. No over the edge here.
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@abierkhatib How many children do you have - how is that any of his concern!
First I was like okay - what is this video about - then as I am watching I was like umm ok -- just some YouTube money maker - then the last question.
So your Brainwashing is referring to the YouTuber.
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@LePapillonBlu2 What is the point of having all the money in the world and not being able to walk peacefully on the streets.
think all the people with money should come together and just get rid of world hunger - I understand some will still complain, but others will say got rid of world hunger
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@raggedtag I think there are some countries, they live in their own la la land. But decency and cordiality - to a country which blocked petroleum products into a country during earthquake recovery phase? - I got thrown off by that last part. @DrSJaishankar can tell you more about it.
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@micah_erfan That is like Don Kim from NorthKorea move - bam, you change the law because the law turns out to not work for you.
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@MrSausageGet @PMOIndia - when are the hindus and muslims going to stop fight in India?
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@athiestboi humans. when you have millions and billions of humans, you need a guiding star, else they start doing things which will cause havoc. school is where it is easier to teach those things, no ?
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@LeadingReport You have any reports / estimates on when the muslims and christians and jewish people will stop the nonsense of enemy stuff and fighting? When is this religious fighting going to stop? I understand it will not happen in 2026, but any estimates?
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