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Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

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Re: Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

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Why?

Because they are a communist country aligned with Russia.

They are no longer communist. Its state controlled capitalism with a tendency to personality cult, racism, and the destruction of minorities and the systematic destruction of minority cultures.

Re: Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

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How did Palantir break in? What's preventing a Canadian competitor from doing the same?

Lack of investment probably. No one is investing in Canadian companies. A stupid amount of Canadian investment is in America or overseas, very little is domestic

Canada should make some rules to fix the lack of investment. If Canadians were not allowed to invest in American companies the problem would be solved.

Re: Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

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> least worst super power in terms of imprisoning minorities It's amazing how fast everyone forgot about Xinjiang. These things don't stop simply because journalists get bored.

>It's amazing how fast everyone forgot about Xinjiang. These things don't stop simply because journalists get bored. Havent forgotten. Its not that China got better, its that its competitors got worse.

Worse to the level of Xinjian?

Re: Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

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post #49

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Because govtech is notoriously difficult to break in to.

How did Palantir break in? What's preventing a Canadian competitor from doing the same?

Time, money, and size.

Government procurement takes a lot of time to see through to completion; Palantir is not a new company, they're over 20 years old now. To succeed you also need money for lobbyists; regardless of what you feel of them they are a necessary part of the system. Also at the government level, especially at the level of federal governments, you are competing with Oracle, IBM, and other similarly large companies which is difficult to do if you are a new, small company.

Re: Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

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I mean no public strategy should include secret bills, Palantir or no Palantir. If you're idealogically opposed to Palantir, how will a home-grown Palantir help? It would likely do the same things Palantir does but with a Canadian Alex Karp

There likely isn't a Canadian Alex Karp. Karp is a unique byproduct of American culture. The specific brand of arrogance, hunger for war, and callous disregard for human life, all in service of a right wing ideological project, is simply not as present in Canada because Canada is a middle power with more liberal values who prefer diplomacy over war.

He fills a niche, particularly successfully ,but the required substrate exists in every society. In societies that superficially reward other qualities, these people mold themselves to fill other niches that provide power: politics, tech, press. When the niche appears in Canada, or Germany, or the UK, these people will come out of the woodworks wearing whatever face they need to at the time.

Granted, America's been leading on encouraging the worse angels of our nature for the last, what, 70 years? But these personalities exist everywhere.

Re: Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

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>It's amazing how fast everyone forgot about Xinjiang. These things don't stop simply because journalists get bored. Havent forgotten. Its not that China got better, its that its competitors got worse.

Worse to the level of Xinjian?

The recent real war crimes of the US-Israeli entity are only comparable to the fake war crimes they conveniently accuse their opponents of while carrying out the real war crimes.

For example, it's okay to butcher 160 Iranian school girls because Iran just butchered 100,000 innocent protestors in a single day (trust me bro).

Re: Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills

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are you seriously believe in that? when was last time they produced a model, that is at least in top 20?

You know Palantir is not an LLM company, right? Their core product is just data integration systems.

it is not an llm company, but it's part of independent ecosystem. one of two. canada is not part of it. it's part of very dependent ecosystem. isn't that 2+2?
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