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Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by lioeters »

calgoo wrote: post #329
notadoomer236 wrote: post #321

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There has always been high immigration in the US, its a country built on immigration!! Like others have said, the current levels are not higher then in the past, its just the political parties that are using it to hide the real problems of ultra rich and corporations abusing the country. In regards to changing society; what is changing? The language? Again, the US is built on immigrants. Are the Italian - Americans i…

> political parties that are using it to hide the real problems of ultra rich and corporations abusing the country

Yup, same in Europe. There's constant fear mongering with racist undertones in the media about illegal immigrants and refugees, it's driving people crazy and violent against each other. All the while they're conveniently distracted from the root of their social ills.

Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by bookaway »

cambaceres wrote: post #388
clircle wrote: post #374

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> We need to teach our students... Teach your values to your own kids, man

The perfect response to this kind of preaching.

You should write a book about how a society composed entirely of pure-bred mercenaries outlasted all other competing civilizations on the planet. I'd be very interested in reading it.

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Post by derkster »

moolcool wrote: post #400
cambaceres wrote: post #388

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The perfect response to this kind of preaching.

I don't think it's preachy at all to say "Hey, the work you do has impacts on the wider world"

who are we to hold others accountable for their actions when money is at stake?

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Post by gnmlaxr »

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> The Biden administration had authoritarian, Russian style COVID policies. During the pandemic I read various descriptions of what disease outbreaks were like during various times. Including descriptions of the plague of 1665. What is interesting is that the approach to managing outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases hasn't really changed that much. Because we discovered relatively early on what helps. (Though w…

Either the lockdown policy before March 2022 was correct or the sudden "back to normal" after March 2022 was correct. The virus was still there and does not care about presidential edicts and speeches.

Given the the world still exists, I think the pre-2022 policies were a gross overreach and the cancellations of the likes of Malone are an eternal shame for the U.S. that is comparable to what happened in the Soviet Union.

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Post by danw1979 »

> These were seriously intense, competitive people who wanted to win, true believers; weird, fascinating people who read philosophy in their spare time, went on weird diets, and did 100-mile bike rides for fun. This, it turned out, was an inheritance from the Paypal mafia.

Sounds like a fucking awful place to work.

Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by nova22033 »

the company was founded partly as a response to 9/11 and what Peter felt were the inevitable violations of civil liberties that would follow,

Peter Thiel, supporter of Donald Trump....supporter of civil liberties, I'm sure...

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Post by ninetyninenine »

bongodongobob wrote: post #337
ninetyninenine wrote: post #189

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I agree, the business use case was zero. Was it impressive though? In the sense that Palantir found out information that you guys already knew... but how much time did it take? How much man power and how much money? What is that compared to the resources your company spent to build that internal knowledge? Also what company was it if you feel comfortable revealing?

It was nothing more than a handful of interns couldn't come up with in the same amount of time. Along the way they just asked obvious questions about how we used and wanted to see our data. There wasn't any magic, there was nothing new. We can make our own reports. We were told they were going to find new insights, there weren't any.

Ok. If that’s the case they failed.

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Post by lioeters »

tucnak wrote: post #397
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #325

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I have seen the same from Marc Andreessen. They do not know the Faustian bargain they have struck. It will consume their very souls.

What does it have to do with Faust? Israel is not a superhuman thing of any kind, and it doesn't possess superhuman knowledge.

Peter Thiel is enriching himself, fully aware that he's participating in ethnic cleansing, violence, and mass murder. If you see the video in the sibling comment, it's clear that he knows the evil he's working for, he is trading in the suffering of humanity for his own profit. And he knows we know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil

Re: Reflections on Palantir

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Post by nova22033 »

ak_111 wrote: post #173

Note that Palantir's moral stature isn't as grey or debatable as made in the article, it is basically clearly complicit in the genocide in Gaza. In other words, if you read the article I would add one more bucket to the three categories the author provided to classify palantir's work - genocide assistance. from https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-jd-vance-peter-thiel-f... """ Not only did it provide information to…

Not only did it provide information to the US military

Palantir can not provide information. They can give you insights into your data. They're like splunk..and equally expensive.

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