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Salt Lick's avatar

Palantir has positioned itself as the ultimate disintermediation tool between the killer and killed.

They adapted the business model of internet commerce to war and surveillance. They have installed themselves into the supply chain of military expenditures as an intermediary that applies methods and means to reach the goal of total domination. Every dime spent on defense now must be run through them before an acquisition can take place to insure their master planning objectives are fulfilled. It is the ultimate Orwellian business plan that no one knows exists or understands among the general public.

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Johan Grillo's avatar

It's William Gibson's world being realized. This will not end well.

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Alan Smith's avatar

Welcome to the Nazi regime brought to you by Peter Thiel…born in Germany, raised in Aoartheid South Africa and buddy and childhood friend and business partner of Elon Musk. This is why Musk wanted access to our nations computer data at Social Security and Dept of Labor and the IRS and all of it. They’re trying to create a complete AI and technology driven authoritarian state.

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Thomas Neuburger's avatar

Exactly. Their magic phrase is 'an operating system for the government.' And by government they mean more than one. The deep in the UK as well.

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Johan Grillo's avatar

Correct. Problem is, no-one actually understands this...

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Alan Smith's avatar

The kicker is, the governments that buy this stuff and use it probably don’t realize that anything in that system won’t be so secret or private that Theil and his cohorts won’t have access to it themselves somehow. They’ll be able to know so many state secrets and business interest secrets that they’ll be able to take advantage of advanced knowledge and get even richer and more powerful. They’ll know everything that everyone is thinking and planning. I say destroy it all before it can be weaponized against all of humanity.

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Johan Grillo's avatar

It's too late. Elmo gave them all our data.

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Joma's avatar

Scary shit

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You’re Right's avatar

Gaslighting catholics….

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Feral Finster's avatar

Somewhat like Sheriff Buford could on the one hand claim to The Law In Dis Heah County, when it came to arresting civil rights protesters on any pretext, but just a private citizen exercising his God-given right to assembly when it came time to preside over the local Klavern.

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the suck of sorrow's avatar

Palantir seems willing and able to lead us into a distopia.

I do question the military AI side of their business. It seems predicated upon the assumption of its users possessing air superiority. For small defenseless populations that assumption is unfortunately correct. Peer adversaries will provide no cooperation in that regard. As well, satellites are not endowed with God given rights to remain in orbit.

It seems that Karp has read McCoy. What sickens me (and I've just started "To Govern the Globe") seems to fuel his rapacious appetite for cruel domination.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Palatnir is far more useful at rooting out domestic dissent than it is at foreign enemies.

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DamnFineHaggis's avatar

This shit is the true face of evil. What a fucking world. Smdh

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