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Critics Call Leopold Aschenbrenner Story Marketing From EA Insider Network

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Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart

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.

James Thomason@jamesthomason

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.

11:36 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 108.7K Views
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Negative users dismissed the critic's take on Leopold Aschenbrenner's viral story as AI slop or empty, while accusing figures involved of being plants with unearned elite ties.

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toucan@distributionat

@TheStalwart It's trolling. the sentence it's referring to is this

from this https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/business/dwarkesh-patel-podcast-ai.html

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Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart

@distributionat Ahh thank you

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James Thomason@jamesthomason

@TheStalwart It’s just funny. Write 70 essays and articles in a year. Not a peep. Half-ass a tweet, it detonates, and now you have a grammar riot. Lesson learned. Write unintelligibly for maximum engagement. ✅

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M@ohquaintrelle

@arthurcolle @TheStalwart You ain't got connections to rich and wealthy larena. Thats why ur a crackhead. Your a flight risk to all living beings and u fucking smell like a wet moldy mop bucket

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Joe Hammon@joehammon

@TheStalwart

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r@TraderRobJ

@TheStalwart One exec assistant is related to another exec asst?

Literally, chief of staff == ceo assistant… why is it necessary to point that out if not to obfuscate a more obvious point/connection

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Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart

@TraderRobJ It’s 2:40 PM HKT

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Robert Harrison@RobertHarrisonv

@TheStalwart It’s not even correct

His fiancé IS the chief of staff at Anthropic

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r@TraderRobJ

@TheStalwart It is 2:30 why are you awake @TheStalwart

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Arthur@arthurcolle

@TheStalwart Fundamentals remain strong, risk to Americans remains low

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James Thomason@jamesthomason

@the_sigh_op2 @TheStalwart Since AI slop is generated from the totality of human knowledge, perhaps the slop is but a mirror reflecting the slop back at itself, and now the collective slop dislikes what it sees.

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Michael Sanislo@the_sigh_op2

@jamesthomason @TheStalwart Honestly it otherwise reads like AI slop.

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Marxist-Ronaldism@evisu_gorilla

@TheStalwart Idk but this Dwarkesh Patel guy seems like such a plant. No organic fanbase but somehow gets connected with huge names in tech while also platforming DoD and state department stooges. Total op if you ask me

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Chris Harig@chrisharig99

@TheStalwart I like how the post doesn't actually say anything

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Cody@breenemachine

@TheStalwart I think people forget funding typically comes before enormous success

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James Thomason@jamesthomason

@distributionat @TheStalwart 💯

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Sandy Kory@sandykory

@TheStalwart Most of that is bs.

Tho the sentence about Clarium is basically right. My bank account has scars to prove it.

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hsdhcdev@hsdhcdev

@TheStalwart Patel is one handshake closer to Ashenbauer than to Hitler or smth

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Jason@ExPostGigaChad

@TheStalwart okay, thank you, i thought it was just me.

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Behrad Khodayar@behradkhodayar

@TheStalwart Parse helper:

Anthropic Chief of Staff │ │ is the boss of ▼ Leopold's Fiancée │ │ is engaged to ▼ Leopold │ │ is the brother of ▼ Dwarkesh Patel's Assistant

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