Is this a fascist piece or a neocon one? I can't decide. Makes sense that he's from Palantir though.
I'm the CTO of Palantir. Today I Join the Army
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#12Army press release: https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...
> The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.
Oh, great, vertical integration between the violence organizations and the three worst and most amoral companies in tech. I’m sure nothing bad will come out of this.
Where’s Luckey and Anduril? Did he not pass the drug test?
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#13The author writes as though this is the first time that Silicon Valley and the military meet.
Let's not forget about the Defense Digital Service [1]. Of course I'm not sure how much of that is left under the current administration.
[1]: https://www.dds.mil/
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#14Just 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.
Isn't this the sort of thing that warrant officers were created for? Why wouldn't they give him a high warrant officer rank rather than a commissioned rank?
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#15Just 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.
Yes, I believe some folks who joined the Defense Digital Service received similar rank.
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#16This 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.
It's always good to remember that the "arsenal of democracy" was matched by an "arsenal of fascism" on the other side of WW2 made up of companies like Bayer, IBM, Coca-Cola, Ford, and Mercedes.
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#17> Twenty years ago, that calling brought me to Palantir, a company founded in the aftermath of 9/11 to answer the challenges of our generation.
Ah yes, the "challenges" of sucking up as much data as possible on people around the world (including U.S. citizens) to stop "terrorism"
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#18Just 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.
Manhattan Project scientists were civilians. Doctors were often drafted as captains, I'm led to understand (via MAS*H).
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#19Oh, look. The surveillance capital complex that was always unofficially part of the US state is now officially part of the US state.
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#20This feels disingenuous to the max. I have a younger brother who went through USAF Basic, and these tech bros just get bestowed a high rank? It smells of stolen valor.
I mean nothing ill towards the 'mud hut', but seriously? All these listed names seem like people who've never had to roll in the mud with the rest of the grunts.