Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  he has several companies named after lotr things, ANDURIL,mithril i think, lembas,etc.

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  • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s my point. He is enough of a fan to know the connotation. He knows what the name implies, and company names are a deliberate choice that imply things about that company.

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    • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.

      I mean it probably isn’t, but it also wouldn’t surprise me to find out that the whole deeper meaning of the entire thing was entirely lost on such a shallow excuse for a human.

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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Peter Thiel explicitly sided with Sauron in an interview, because “things work in Mordor, while outside Mordor it’s all wishy-washy and environmental”.

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.

        That is exactly what this is, conservatives pride themselves on having a toddler’s sense of media literacy, especially the men.

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