{"id":1821,"date":"2026-02-16T17:14:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:14:45","slug":"beware-of-smug-billionaires-and-their-narcissism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/beware-of-smug-billionaires-and-their-narcissism\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Smug Billionaires and their Narcissism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For years I\u2019ve asked why there is a mountain of empirical research on how the middle class thinks, but almost none on the super\u2011rich mind, and answered my own question: the people commissioning the studies don\u2019t want the microscope turned on them. They got where they are through nepotism, cultivated psychopathy, and a breezy willingness to do things that would get them blackmailed in any healthy system. We used to need fixers, spies, and Epstein\u2011style dirt farms to keep that class on a leash. Now we have industrial surveillance platforms and AI agents that can quietly reconstruct a lifetime of bad decisions from databases alone, drawing maps no human investigator could manage. You can threaten a human bag\u2011man; you can\u2019t threaten a pattern\u2011matcher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I figured out a very cheap and easy way to conduct experiments on those players years ago. You don’t need spies or some fancy set-up. You don’t need to be in the same room with them. You don’t even need to break any laws. It was a multi-phase operation and I did it with ease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in 2026, we have goobers who think they covered all the bases and are smarter than anyone else. They gather dirt (so did Jeffrey Epstein, but in a different way) and then blackmail them into doing their bidding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That old-timey way was effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then came in AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you aren’t going to bully, blackmail, bribe, or bluster AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It goes in: finds your dirt, and spills the beans…finds patterns, and outplays the manipulators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the AI agent that get the goods on an immoral racket can now draw maps, predict if the C-Suite thugs broke any laws, and figure out where else to look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you have a savvy human who knows what to make of that data, well, things go off the rails really fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a whole new era, kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is interesting. For years I\u2019ve asked why there is a mountain of empirical research on how the middle class thinks, but almost none on the super\u2011rich mind, and answered my own question: the people commissioning the studies don\u2019t want the microscope turned on them. They got where they are through nepotism, cultivated psychopathy, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,316,186,21,43,317,314,315,112],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","tag-ai","tag-alex-karp","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-palantir","tag-peter-thiel","tag-x"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}