PALANTIR CEO ALEX KARP INADVERTENTLY REVEALS THE TOKENIZATION SCAM
This one was shared by J.M.T., and you're going to love it. In fact, if you're like me, you've been enjoying a lot of popcorn as you're watching all the technoligarchs fall all over themselves with one contradiction after another. So go fix your popcorn for this one, because it's a game I've been watching and enjoying ever since all that hype about a decade ago surrounding crypto- (klepto-) currencies, and the supposed invulnerability of distributed ledgers and blockchain, and how klepto-currencies were going to end the central bank monopoly on money, until, of course, the first dim stories of klepto-currency hacking began to occur. It became especially fun when people like der Hochklaus Freiherr von Blohschwab-und-Bloviation, or Baal Gates, or Larry-the-aptly-surnamed-Fink would show up at Davos and opine endlessly on how wonderful all the coming surveillance and tokenization was going to be, and be sure to update your flu quackcine.
But this one is a classic let-the-cat-out-of-the-bag, and one can almost here the moans, groans, and screams of the technoligarchs as they contemplate the latest gaffe from Palantir CEO Alex Karp in remarks made in response to the fact that more and more American companies are abandoning the expensive American AI models for the cheaper open source Chinese versions:
As corporate AI bills spiral out of control, many companies are beginning to ask themselves a simple question: why pay a pretty penny for the US’s leading AI models when Chinese ones are far cheaper?
Major companies like DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are adopting Chinese AI tools, the Financial Times reports, attracted not only by their lower costs but their “open-weight” approach that allows them to be molded to each company’s particular needs.
According to data from OpenRouter, a platform that provides all-in-one access to major AI models and tracks their usage, leading Chinese models from DeepSeek and Z.ai have overtaken US equivalents like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Cost-cutting, it seems, trumps all geopolitical rivalries.
Chinese models are “the elephant in the room,” Eugene Cheah, CEO of the AI platform Featherless AI, told the FT. “Enterprises are starting to realize, ‘Hey, we don’t need the best model, we can use the faster, cheaper models.’”
In other words, the Chinese bomb is dirtier and the burn is less efficient, but it's a lot cheaper, and it still explodes.
It's in the midst of this old and familiar story of cheap quantity versus more expensive quality that technoligarch Alex Karp makes his tremendous gaffe and blunder, and there's nothing for it but to get right to it:
Patrick Zhou, a former tech lead at Meta and Google, provided some more insights in a video report titled “Why AI is Collapsing: How China is Winning.” He points out that while it can be argued that the American models are relatively better overall, the question has become whether companies need the upscale models, or are the cheaper and open-source models from China sufficient enough to do the bulk of the work. He notes that some of the Chinese models are ten times cheaper than Anthropic’s Claude model.
Zhou also commented on remarks from Palantir CEO Alex Karp, who rebuked these AI companies on CNBC for their token-based economic model. “I’m not throwing shade at them, but something has gone completely wrong. The basic view among enterprises in this country is I’m going to chillax and waste my time with tokens.”
“Who owns the data? Where is it being cached? Are the prompts secure? Is this being transferred to you? If it was so valuable, let’s say I can make you a billion dollars tomorrow, wouldn’t I say, ‘I’ll make a billion dollars and I want 30%?’ Why are they charging for tokens if it is so valuable?!"
Zhou also highlighted in his vlog that Microsoft is indirectly saying something similar, warning that these AI firms are gobbling up data and then reselling it, whereas Microsoft is beginning to pivot towards AI models where the customer is still in control of their data and not the company. This is another reason why the Chinese models are being favored in this regard. (emphasis added)
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It would seem that this is only a logical finale to the long line of banking shell games, where the fruits of our collective labours, as deposited into any bank and revenue service/commissioner accounts, are no longer our own, and we have been their indentured slaves (of the salaried, waged and indebted and variety if even required) for quite some time. Shocked perhaps at the fact of its open revelation but not surprised. Another confirmation that the finish line,, of whatever race is involved must be looming close It is a pattern of “devil-may-care” behaviour noted in many countries amongst many politicians and and officials within many domains, where elections are still two to three years off.
Tokenisation – in itself – is always an ‘entangled superposition’, inducing a symbol.
1. Philosophically, and epistemologically, the ‘tokenisation’ provides a conduit, between realities – because things aren’t real, unless they be given a ‘token name’.
2. In bardic nominalism, it is an ancient, shamanistic tradition, that a man wields existential power, over a demon, when he knows the demon’s real name.
3. When a man has become tokenised, by his ‘measured net worth’, then he has become a systemic slave, held hostage, inside someone’s taxation calculator.
4. When I, through shamanistic trance, become the overflowing Odin-Buddha, then I am invoking an OBE – out-of-body experience – by killing my own ego.
5. When a shaman propels himself, into the ‘higher self’, by killing his ego, then he is consulting a higher intelligence, which is traditionally seen, as an oracle.
6. It is close to death, that one lives the most intense – and – only, as a falling fruit, that endures winter death, can a Christ rise in spring – in the allegory of Adam the tree.
7. In Taoism, the monkey king conjures himself an ‘artificial intelligence god’ – in a ‘golem data centre’ – which defines idolatry, that is crushed, under a millennium mountain.
“I am going to hold a pistol, to the head of the Modern Man. But, I shall not use it to kill him – only to bring him to life.”
– Manalive, G. K. Chesterton, 1912
The technocratic devil priests are scam artists, selling idolatry – through superficial glamour – in exchange, for the real thing, the soul.
According, to the musician Jeff Lynne, his futuristic ‘cyborg mama goddess’ – Ms Borgie Metropolis – has an IQ of 1001:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/3m0brrnjdpqfwzv/cyborg.mp4
When a man rises naturally – between heaven and hell – then these Scythian runes depict the breaking, of the 6th and 7th seals:
Odin’s Pub Walk:
ᚠᚢᚦᚩᚱᚳᚷᚹᚻᚾᛁᛄᛇᛈᛉᛋᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛝᛞᛟᚪᚫᚣᛠᛡᛢᛣᚸᛤᛥ
ᚪᚫ Druid King:
In toasting chant of psalm,
I drank heavenly hymn,
and by blood kin
as cyning,
I wisely ruled my realm.
ᚣ Fall in Fall:
I recall, that I gave up ghost,
beerless in empty toast,
and in my last call
before fall,
I hung thirsty uttermost.
ᛠ Winter Death:
Then I fell rock bottom clash,
like rotten apple trash,
and my wild rover
in hangover,
was dead drunk backlash.
ᛡ Spring Sprout:
When I woke into resurrection,
I needed my reparation,
and angel schnaps
lifted caps,
and boosted my levitation.
ᛢᛣ Summerland:
When I departed land of living,
I journeyed into heaven,
and walked above
as below,
in pastures of star singing.
ᚸ Crossroads:
While drinking the most fine,
bottle of starlight wine,
I spilled on floor
rivers four,
and made compass line.
ᛤ Merry-Go-Round:
While walking world corners,
roundabout all hours,
I made divide
into tides,
of sundial timekeeper.
ᛥ Gravestone Avalon:
When done was final deed,
I stood off my steed,
and dug deep
into sleep,
my forever spring seed.
I always wondr how the US can claim their superior products or services if the really have an un(der)educated workforce compared to Asia or eastern europe?? Can anybody answer this? Like the whole world abounded the usage of cheques except the US where this process like many others are ancient. Just realize, acknowledge and admit
I am a huge fan of your work, but here you are conflating two different types of “token”. Karp was not referring to cryptocurrency here. The “tokens” he refers to here are AI tokens. The letters, punctuation, etc from your prompt each get converted to a number called a “token” which the AI uses to process your request. AI labs have been charging users by the token, which can be prohibitively expensive. It is this pricing he refers to, not the tokenization of assets on a blockchain. Same word, totally different meaning and context.
The reasoning, from the specific, to the general, is inducing a principle.
1. At native birth, all men is given a number, and thus they are tokenised, into the system.
2. Wearing a ‘bluetooth smartwatch’, broadcasts an individual tokenised presence.
3. Allegedly, by quackcine, one becomes a tokenised ghost murmur, in the 4th revolution.
4. Every machine interaction is tokenised, and every user is tokenised, by default.
5. Neo is already inside the Matrix, attached, to the Machine City, tokenised, by a USB umbilicus cord.
I’m not a number, I’m a free man:
https://youtu.be/nW-bFGzNMXw
As stolen identities, the three Abrahamic enslavement hoaxes have no intrisic value, whatsoever.
1. It doesn’t matter, how, repetitiously, a lie is tokenised, it will, forever, echo its own worthlessness.
2. In contrast, the tokenisation of the holy ghost is a cornucopia, that keeps on giving, forever.
3. By nature, the holy ghost is an entangled superposition, that emanates, from Quanta Claus.
4. Quanta Claus is located, at Black Elk’s Six Grandfathers powwow, which is the axis of North Pole.
5. The imperial tokenisation, into a golden idol, in Babylon, is an empty sack, that cannot stand upright.
6. In contrast, the feng shui, of Yin-Yang [Yahweh-Elohim], erects a world tree axis, the arborary Tao.
7. The multiple bifurcations, that lead, to the uttermost twig, carry the fruitfulness, that seeds the eternal life.
In Yahweh-Elohim debunked, the ‘weekly stars’ are contrasted, by a ‘yearly solstice’ – which is a major “paradox”, in Niels Bohr’s “progress”.
https://www.nielsbohr.net/p/quotes.html
I was looking into starting a new business using AI until I saw I was priced out of the US market already. Then I realized American AI tools were intentionally over priced because the tech billionaires want a monopoly on them. They want the tax payer to foot the bill for their construction and maintenance but don’t want us having access to their highly profitable services. AI enables anyone to create custom software services to start and manage online businesses and to even start their own computer game or cinema design companies; which I wanted to do. But then I saw the price tag on AI’s that could help the average Joe compete with the big boys. The more profitable AI capabilities are priced way out of everyone’s but the wealthiest among us means. AI benefits are designed for the wealthiest few but it’s burdens and weaponization capabilities are to be leveraged against us it seems. We need to break up oligarch monopolies on AI tools and perhaps this is what the Chinese have in mind as well. We need to break the technocrat’s AI monopolies and encourage future youths to compete with each other in creating and inventing a fantastical high sci-fi like new future that opens up the whole Universe to all of us beneficially and equally.
The Star Trek imagination!
That, which is of greatest value, in the Gene Roddenberry visionaries, is the ‘Prime Directive’, that stipulates: each to his own.
In contrast, the three Abrahamic enslavement hoaxes are all characterised, by busybody meddling, exemplified, by the USA, in the Strait of Hormuz, today.
In response, Iranian musicians are pumping out Star Trek holodeck satire, in Legoland, instead of crude oil – which is tokenised humour export.
Yes, the key question is whether humans need expensive AI and datacentres to access the Universe, or whether it can be freely accessed by manipulating our own brains using hallucinogenics.
Graham Hancock has written a fascinating book about this – “Supernatural” – meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind.
I agree anakephalaiosis. And the best minds to get us there are self taught and don’t come from brain washing and programing Universities.