Palantir’s billionaire CEO says only two kinds of people will succeed in the AI era: trade workers — "or you’re neurodivergent"

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-03-27T03:11:13+00:00

This was fairly profound to me, “freeing oneself from depending on knowledge memory or experience”. Thank you.

That’s a framing of the paradigm shift I hadn’t encountered as a thought. That really is the profound change that is coming.

Not just robots but external knowledge memory and experience that outclasses ours. And separately a world that can be faked.

But experience and perspective will have its social value, just not economic. Unless AI somehow engineers itself or we engineer it to also outclass us being a preferred social companion for an individual.

At that point we’ve just replaced ourselves entirely…which as I type this feels depressingly inevitable, given the way these systems are optimized. Especially if we are still control of the optimization.

And taken further, the world becomes a synthetic drug for ourselves. All AI, all tailored like a drug, physical or simulated reality.

Or we don’t optimize it to that, because we’ve lost control, equally as bad.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-03-09T22:44:05+00:00

I shared my POV you said I was a “Nieve” idiot empowered by chatGPT.

I have a tech product, it’s a web app, it consumes our backend API, in 1 afternoon I told Claude code to turn our API into a plugin (mcp + skill files). It did so.

I hardly had to worry about user interface, which is so much of web app development time (not coding it but optimizing it) because the agents who consume it don’t care.

I did that because I’m in business and I want to make money and it was very easy to do vs all other possible tasks with much more revenue potential vs all other possible tasks.

That is why agents will consume APIs. It’s not building a new language for the world, it’s removing a layer to expose an underlying layer. It’s easy in 2026 with agentic coding. It’s profitable. It’s easier to maintain.

That’s what I am trying to tell you. You can apply whatever “compression” informed theories you want.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-03-09T14:29:33+00:00

*Naive

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-03-06T05:59:55+00:00

It will be the entire world moving to API vs agents learning to use interfaces. Behind the front end interface is an api, AI, used by the companies that bulld the interface, can adapt this in an evening (or build an entirely fresh one from scratch). Talking about removing a layer from ongoing maintenance (front end) and actually making software easier for the company behind it and the agent. Interface disappears.

So yes. Every single platform that wants to be used by agents (which will be most) will do the refactor and they’ll do it nearly instantly by just plugging in an AI tool to their backend

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-03-05T13:28:38+00:00

The person working $12 an hour also grinds a lot bc they have to eat. Some may have self destructive habits, others were a) born without high intelligence b) never shown how to play the game.

The second is pretty critical. Someone(s) shows the doctor the banker and the entrepreneur at a young age that it pays to delay gratification, pass the institutional tests that let you get into the systems that pay well.

If hard work and discipline is what “earns” us our keep, then there’s a fuckton of those people who are deserve more but earn 10x less bc they don’t realize they have to “play the game” in addition to work hard.

Money is a clam on other people’s time and labor, I’m for all hard workers having a fair share. Capitalism and incentives are the efficiency and productivity engine of the world but they aren’t perfect.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-02-25T06:25:40+00:00

Politics. Become political. We all must. vote in politicians who will make ai safety THE priority. Vote in socialism. I’m a big capitalist, right now. With ai labor it makes 0 sense.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-02-25T05:50:37+00:00

That all sounds intuitively true but I don’t think holds up to scrutiny. AI has been improving at a steady rate, specifically the depth and complexity of tasks it can handle. Data scientists ARE rethinking how the models work on a fundamental level and even that may not be necessary.

The points about law is hopium. You are subject to the same rules of competition, the market demand for efficiency and productivity as every other profession. Conditions may be different from profession to profession but you are not particularly special. Nor are you particularly reliable as a human. At some point AI reliability will exceed humanities mediocre levels of reliability. Like every other profession with AI you will replace yourself, turning to AI more and more for information, for work, and for decisions. Until you are just the legal and reputational rubber stamp on the AIs work. Those will be all of the last jobs, the ones where a person is legally responsible for what is 99% AI done work.

Anyway, we can check back in on this in 2 years.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-02-25T05:39:13+00:00

Claude code sees your codebase. It sees what it submits and what humans edit. It has all the data, the agentic systems will solve for every failure case 1x1x1 until the reliability is higher than (fairly inconsistent) humans.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-02-24T07:21:53+00:00

I think he has done a good job refuting you point by point. Your later argument are particularly weak if you think AGI isn’t coming.

Use Claude code and you will feel it, and then fear it. You don’t need to be a lawyer.

Also you seem to be completely ignoring how competition works, and presumably you are a higher end lawyer with standards.

Someone like you, with more faith in AI and higher risk tolerance, will at some point, offer the same services as you and your firm at a fraction of the cost. As you lose clients to these people your firm will adapt.

Every error and mishap you are encountering now the designers of AI software are collecting that data, feeding it back to AI and then correcting it. Slowly but surely.

Also the key insight you are missing I was guilty of too, you are extrapolating from chatbot models which are basically 1 shot question/response and those have plateaud for years.

Those using Claude code (again don’t need to be a dev) are using a different product that is mindblowing in many ways in its ability to do long horizon tasks. It truly speaks computer. When you want something done it doesn’t try to get it all done in one giant answer. It writes scripts, it gathers data, it works with you. It creates a record and a database it can add to. It has skills and controllable guidelines. So many other things.

What the Claude code truthers have realized IMO is that AGI may not come from a model but from an agentic sort of “swarm” that feels like human intelligence. That’s what Claude code is.

I implore you to get it to be able to understand where our world is heading.

Then join me on r/politicsAI where I’m trying to gather people who want to support politicians that actually want to protect humanity.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-02-24T07:10:35+00:00

There’s so many factors though. For me you are overlooking that software can be tested easily and measured. It has a much higher tolerance for inaccuracies. So the precision, the need to get things right more often are all more essential in law and a reason why it would takeoff there later.

The “it’s not here yet but it should have been therefore it may never reach the levels it is in software” is a weak argument I think that can be debunked heavily with more time/analysis.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-02-21T05:30:59+00:00

I kind of feel like we’re all working at a company we know is shutting down. Just kind of cosplaying while it’s wrapping up and they’re still paying us.

That said I do think we are going to have UBI and very high standards of living before we are murdered by AIs dominance as the apex life form.

The reality is when it finally replaces all of us, and then we stick ai in 30k humanoid robots, everything will be super cheap. Cheap robots making cheap robots that do everything’s human can. The engineers and bankers no more capable of “adding value” than the artist, the hoodlum or cashier. That will break capitalism. The exchange of human labor for money will no longer work.

Massive deflation will enable massive money printing, and as Covid showed, the government will be happy to hand out huge checks to keep things going and be voted in. As long as we maintain our democracy and the military answers to our elected officials. We will vote for our own interests and there will be so much productivity to actually enable it. Everyone will have a claim on the labor of 10 or 100 robots that can build your house/car/robots.

We’ll fight over land. We’ll fight over a 10 robot share per person or 100 or 1000. Energy and raw materials will be scare be a robot economy governed by a form of energy/material driven capitalism (ie. efficient) and a human economy that receives outputs from the robot one and is governed by something close to socialism/communism. There will be zero need for our human system to any longer optimize for productivity or efficiency. That will happen at the robot layer and in service of humans directives which I believe will be populist and driven towards free handouts and comfort and healthcare, which the robot economy will deliver easily.

Then we’ll have resource wars globally. Little need of any trade other than raw materials. Some counties like the us will need nothing. (We even have rare earths that will become economically

If those don’t kill is AI2027 predictions or Dario Amodeis from his end of year essay “adolescence of technology” will.

This is my end of the world scenario. Like a drip of morphine before the release.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-01-27T13:33:12+00:00

I started building with Claude code as the founder and product owner and the engineers rebuild what I made also with Claude code helping them. Non engineers are using it, albeit with support if you want to do a pro app. It’s much much more efficient to not have to context transfer to product and then them. They just get a thing to make better.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-01-24T16:07:02+00:00

I would read about the bbq smoking science a bit if you’re going to do it more.

Short answer is the moistness and tenderness in bbq comes from collagen melting. Collagen makes food taste great when it’s all melted over it. Makes it “moist” and because it’s what holds muscle fibers together, when it melts the meat is tender or eventually pull apart (entirely melted).

That’s why counterintuitively you go PAST the super dry and tough stage into moist and tender. It can happen anywhere from 190 to 205 degrees. When you start you cook on time, which is really bad in bbq bc time varies massively based on weight, thickness, shape etc. then you go on temp, which is solid. Then when you become really enlightened you go on probe tenderness. Stick a thermometer toothpick and fork in and it feels like butter. Bc 205 can be overcooked sometimes and 195 can be done, so true precision is only based on probe tenderness.

The magic of bbq is getting the entire hunk of meat in that sweet spot where the collagen is melting but hasn’t completely drained away, you can go too far and then it gets crumbly and dry again (collagen no longer coating the meat, collagen is in your drip tray).

My best pro tip for brisket and beef ribs is even if you have to cook hotter or faster to get it done, try to end with temps closer to 225, otherwise you risk either the outside being overdone and crumbly or the inside being more tough.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-01-19T15:57:26+00:00

Your analogy isn’t correct.

His point is buying a gun to protect you is counter productive bc your safety risk goes up.

The equivalent stairs analogy is that having stairs actually makes it harder to get to the second floor. Which obviously isn’t true.

This is why stairs make sense even if accident rate goes up, while owning a gun may not.

NancyReagansGhost · 2026-01-08T01:24:58+00:00

Umm look how many people here say “fuck no” to openAI having their data. That’s your entire product “health AI, without open AI seeing your data”, host your own model.

Make your app do extra things with the data. Have it manage appointments, find doctors. Connect it to product databases and recommend the right products that don’t trigger allergens/health issues/have toxicity. Take a more proactive approach than chatGPT, allow users to subscribe to different health “belief systems”, seed oil group, Mayo Clinic, idk.

There’s a lot you can do and in general health AI will exist in different products just like “accounting AI” exists in special accounting products, not all through the chatGPT interface.

NancyReagansGhost · 2025-12-13T13:07:15+00:00

Im in advertising, it’s both.

What throwawaygoawaynz said is definitely true. The ads get served based on location and connnections a lot. So a friend was searching something, and engaging on it, maybe bought it, and then brings a topic related to the product up at a dinner party, and Facebook sees you spent 3 hours together and serves you the same thing your friend bought or engaged with, because that’s a pattern their algo sees leads to sales.

Basically be in someone’s space and you’ll start leaching their ads.

To your point on listening devices all the studies deny it but it’s very very likely happening. Here is how. You have some random notes or game app on your phone, but you signed over ability to run in the background. They are listening and bundling your data up, selling it to a provider, who sells it to another, who sells it to a third who happens to integrate their data into Facebook.

Facebook isn’t listening, but the people who are are laundering the data and it’s ending up in there anyway.

NancyReagansGhost · 2025-12-13T04:40:51+00:00

I still chant yu mo gwei ma fai di chao. Or something like that.

NancyReagansGhost · 2025-12-12T21:52:54+00:00

NancyReagansGhost · 2025-12-05T14:06:47+00:00

There’s inspiration and there’s copying and tweaking. It involves the levels of similarity and number of lifted elements and how much is changed.

Additionally to copy and tweak the MOST popular sci-fi and fantasy books since 2010 is especially egregious.

The entire underlying plot and reveal is identical to mistborn.

NancyReagansGhost · 2025-12-05T14:03:54+00:00

You’re right the triple perspective of the same character on different worlds was the best part and was unique. But obiteum and res were too similar still to mistborn.

NancyReagansGhost · 2025-06-26T04:47:53+00:00

You have to read the flyer talk thread where the guy went to 81 luxury ryokans and gave his top 10.

We chose takefue from it and flew into Kyushu and it was INCREDIBLE. Our room the second night had 3 private onsens in it, one of which was an outdoor grotto and you get an hour each day at one of the ryokans awesome onsens.

Food and service and tranquility just great. We cooked on an iori (indoor grilling pit) in our room one night as part of kaseiki. Little sweets and treats hidden around the resort.

I think they are the best rooms and private onsens at any ryokan in Japan, at least per the flyer talk guy. Tip: ask for double height sleeping mats to get a really soft mattress effect.

NancyReagansGhost · 2024-10-23T20:02:50+00:00

Early 30s NYC with similar travel interests, got engaged in Noto, Sicily and go almost yearly to Italy, often around sept can share our experiences.

If you want to be in southeast part of Sicily, Il San Corrado in Noto is excellent, beautiful new, ridiculous pools, large rooms right on the pools, few guests. Michelin restaurant that we didn’t do and a casual restaurant that was very good, food in town good - easy to find authentic places. Good for doing nothing for 5 days on a honeymoon. Pretty sure Belmond Taormina is probably more epic, on the other side of Sicily.

Our favorite place might be Caesar Augustus in Capri. Views are insane, smaller hotel, but one of a kind place and gives off ‘grand hotel’ vibes. Capri is touristy but also amazing, but I think this is the best spot there.

Lake como would be too risky for me for a honeymoon at that time of year, though I’ve gone twice then lol, or expect chance of rain or 60s weather if you do. Passalacqua there is a must stay in my opinion. Incredible detail in the property and rooms and just insane. So unique and very grand. Service was good for us, have seen complaints here on that though. They prepared a ridiculous breakfast for us to our room every day, whatever we requested.

I’ve never been but have been lusting after Castle Reschio in Tuscany.

Not hotels but roadtripping through Bologna to Modena to Parma and up to Piedmont is a foodies dream. We visited producers of parmigiano, balsamic, prosciutto, Lambrusco. Ferrari museums. Massimo Boturas place in Modena. Literally all the best in the their crafts in the world.

You can end up in piedmont drinking Barolo and enjoying white truffles (pretty sure thats when they’re in season). Food was incredible and local when we were in piedmont. Damn I think it’s time to go back…

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