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Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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https://archive.ph/lXw7j

If Cannot resolve archive.ph host Access the .is domain https://archive.is/lXw7j internet archive cannot resolve either

Find a better network service provider, you are being censored by yours.

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Palantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligence that lead to disastrous strategic decisions. Denethor committed suicide out of despair, after a palantir showed him the black fleet approaching, but he did not know that it was actually Aragorn who had captured the fleet and was coming wi…

I've pointed this out before, but there's an interview clip of Alex Karp saying that Trump won the election in a landslide[0].

If you look at the actual numbers, no one, with any idea of mathematics or statistics or even just basic analysis skills, would call Trump's election victory a landslide.

It calls into question the fundamental raisin d'etre of Palantir. It makes Palantir look like a pure propaganda tool.

Therefore, also entirely useless for strategic decision making.

Interesting analysis of Palantir and Alex Karp:

Part 1, Palantir: https://youtu.be/PpEg0XIeFtA

Part 2, Alex Karp: https://youtu.be/6YWFDhOps6I

[0]https://youtu.be/6YWFDhOps6I&t=1119s

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crazy that there's a weapons company called Anduril as well

Anduril is quite a positive name, it is a broken sword reforged later to save humankind. Quite a metaphor about western reindustrialization.

except of course that Tolkien, as a Catholic was quite adamant that he didn't write a story of Western chauvinism. The sword is not a metaphor for industrialization, which is quite literally the villain of the story, it's a symbol for restored kingship and hope.

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Palantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligence that lead to disastrous strategic decisions. Denethor committed suicide out of despair, after a palantir showed him the black fleet approaching, but he did not know that it was actually Aragorn who had captured the fleet and was coming wi…

Its cellphones ? They show the rulers accurate predictions of human behaviour after the the fall of the towers proofed that the left only had enbarassing cofabulations to explain behaviour at scale. Thats the most valuable thing you can gain out of social network sensor data.

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Palantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligence that lead to disastrous strategic decisions. Denethor committed suicide out of despair, after a palantir showed him the black fleet approaching, but he did not know that it was actually Aragorn who had captured the fleet and was coming wi…

someone will name their company Ashnazg, probably an AI company

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anduril is quite a positive name, it is a broken sword reforged later to save humankind. Quite a metaphor about western reindustrialization.

except of course that Tolkien, as a Catholic was quite adamant that he didn't write a story of Western chauvinism. The sword is not a metaphor for industrialization, which is quite literally the villain of the story, it's a symbol for restored kingship and hope.

Right, and his concept of nobility and just kingship was about mercy love justice and a love of nature, good food, merriment, harmony, and treating others with respect. His works are full of cautionary tales of people who reached for immortality, power, self-aggrandizement, and control over others and fell as a result.

(Though he was obsessed with lineage and blood quotients and pale skin)

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Palantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligence that lead to disastrous strategic decisions. Denethor committed suicide out of despair, after a palantir showed him the black fleet approaching, but he did not know that it was actually Aragorn who had captured the fleet and was coming wi…

>I honestly can't think of a worse name for a company that provides intel for strategic decision making.

Yet the choice is very effective at telling those with eyes to see that the one who chose the name possesses only a surface-level understanding of what appears to be his favorite piece of literature.

Re: Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

except of course that Tolkien, as a Catholic was quite adamant that he didn't write a story of Western chauvinism. The sword is not a metaphor for industrialization, which is quite literally the villain of the story, it's a symbol for restored kingship and hope.

Right, and his concept of nobility and just kingship was about mercy love justice and a love of nature, good food, merriment, harmony, and treating others with respect. His works are full of cautionary tales of people who reached for immortality, power, self-aggrandizement, and control over others and fell as a result. (Though he was obsessed with lineage and blood quotients and pale skin)

It's very difficult to judge the attitudes and held values of people who lived in the past - I mean the parentheses.

We don't know how much of it is real flaw or corruption and how much is just the zeitgeist they lived in.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Musk's capital T today would end up becoming the beginning or turning point of a cautionary tale in the future. And, for better or worse, I know a lot of otherwise great and talented people who are still his fans.

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