I'm the CTO of Palantir. Today I Join the Army
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#3The people in that list all sound sketchy. Where are the "good guys"?
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#4Army press release: https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...
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#5> A decade ago, it would’ve been unthinkable for so many tech heavyweights to openly align with the U.S. military.
It still is. Don’t be fooled by propaganda pieces like this.
It is followed up by two blatant falsehoods:
> But a sea change has taken place in both places because of the urgency and seriousness of the moment.
> Wars in Europe and the Middle East and, above all, the threat of a war in the Pacific have focused the national mind and initiated a scramble for mobilization.
None of this is true in the sense he means it. Businesses have scrambled to have alternatives to China, yes, but that’s nothing to do with the military.
> The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps, under the direction of the Army’s chief of staff, General Randy George, is part of a larger effort by our military to transform the way it prepares for and fights wars in the 21st century.
Expanding the military-industrial complex is of no benefit to anyone other than those in the military-industrial complex (such as the author of this article).
Such transparent self-serving.
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#6If you work for an old army contractor, it might be time to find a job elsewhere.
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#7This article is clearly written with an attempt to frame this as a purely patriotic and yet somehow an apolitical ideological decision, but it reads as incredibly fascistic.
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#8What a joke - they couldn't 'serve' their advisory roles without playing dress-up and commissioning directly as Lt Cols?
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#9It is part time, they get a high rank immediately and will facilitate purchases from Palantir:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/army-reserve-tech-executives-meta-p...
This is just another part of the revolving door that also enables ex generals to get board positions at Lockheed. This time it is the reverse way.
Given that McKinsey ruined the German army, let us see whether this will even improve anything.
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#10Just jumping right in as a Lt Col? Is there a lot of precedent for that? I know that the armed forces have worked with a lot of scientists before, like in the Manhattan Project, but my understanding is that most of them remained civilians.