I watched a video recently that briefly mentions Palantir, though only in passing. I only recall this because the video had some incredibly alarming tidbits about billionaires stating their goals of "corporation states" unironically
Reflections on Palantir
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#12Interesting article. I find it interesting that they recommended a book about acting to their employees. The book is called "Impro".
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#13I got Severance vibes from this blog about Palantir.
But it sounds like they are a consulting company and a sort of ConnectAll (for those who use Jira, Rhapsody, DOORS, etc).
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#14Interesting article. I find it interesting that they recommended a book about acting to their employees. The book is called "Impro".
Is it wrong to say that they are developing sociopaths in this fashion? Anyone ever read the book to say how it is applicable? If you were a client how would you feel about knowing that your interactions with your consultant were all an act?
“Being a successful FDE required an unusual sensitivity to social context – what you really had to do was partner with your corporate (or government) counterparts at the highest level and gain their trust, which often required playing political games.”
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#15It is relevant again, because one would like to know whether DOGE will install this in the US government. As for the article, I find it hard to understand what Palantir is actually doing. The article uses Airbus as an example, which ordered some kind of a software system for coordinating manufacturing. The article claims: "This ended up helping to drive the A350 manufacturing surge and successfully 4x’ing the pace of…
> Given that the US is now officially a potential EU enemy This is absolutely delusional
The Danes sure are taking the Greenland demands seriously
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#16It feels like the moral section ignores the elephant in the room which is Peter Thiel's hostility to democracy and the more general far right swing in America. There's a difference between working on morally gray tech during normal times versus during times when there is every reason to believe that it WILL be significantly misused.
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#17Maybe I feel this way because I am not a smart human, but why is being intelligent so important, at the cost of being kind, ethical etc? What is so special about Peter Theil’s philosophy if that man is part of the billionaire club who are using their money to make most people’s life miserable?
And how can people who read philosophy in their evenings (mentioned in the article) justify the work they do during the day?
I honestly do not understand why companies like Palantir and people like Theil are admired, respected etc
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#18It is relevant again, because one would like to know whether DOGE will install this in the US government. As for the article, I find it hard to understand what Palantir is actually doing. The article uses Airbus as an example, which ordered some kind of a software system for coordinating manufacturing. The article claims: "This ended up helping to drive the A350 manufacturing surge and successfully 4x’ing the pace of…
Airbus ex CEO and COO who was supposed to become CEO left (or got kicked out depending on who tells that story). One ended up joining Palintir EU and the other ended up joining the EU attempt at Palantir - Helsing.
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#19what i get is Palantir is mostly the USA's home-grown answer to SAP with an aerospace/defense slant, and since a lot of aerospace is ITAR export controlled, they get cloistered in the robe of government secrecy.
https://www.palantir.com/careers/
whole bunch of "strategists" and management types getting hired, and of course the usual truckloads of "backend" and "full-stack" engineers to make the wheels on the bus go round.
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#20Interesting article. I find it interesting that they recommended a book about acting to their employees. The book is called "Impro".
It's not about well-rehearsed acting to bluff clients (like conventional management consultants).
Impro is about improvisation: having a deep reservoir of experiences and reference points, but no pre-planned templates; empathizing with the client's situation; thinking fast; being open-minded and creative; challenging received wisdom; pulling disparate ideas together; assembling a synthesis; embodying a story; imagining a solution; presenting difficult concepts smoothly; having conviction in your ideas; high risk tolerance; be convincing; be committed to doing what you say and implement what you imagine; create a technical solution, an operational scenario, a bottom-up deployment plan, and a path to win strategic acceptance based on results.