Tf is this sentence.
I can’t parse it. But even if I could, I know there are a lot of people with a lot tighter connections to wealth and power than this, who haven’t done nearly as much.

The entire Leopold story is marketing BS. And you fell for it.
Dwarkesh Patel's assistant is the brother of Leopold's fiancée's boss, who is Anthropic's chief of staff.
Every investor he "attracted" had a pre-existing, years-old personal relationship with him built inside the EA and Stripe social graph before his essay existed.
Every dollar was raised from billionaires he already knew who were behind the deals he "picked".
Carl Shulman, who actually heads research, is 45 years old, formerly at Peter Thiel's macro hedge fund Clarium Capital, and has deep roots in AI forecasting and the EA safety world.
Clarium was itself a concentrated macro fund built around a single big thesis (peak oil, dollar collapse). It blew up spectacularly in 2008–2010, losing roughly 90% of AUM.
You didn't watch a prodigy go viral. You watched a controlled fund launch.














