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- Comment on necessary read 6 days ago:
Tautologous
- Comment on necessary read 1 week ago:
Orwell wrote openly about the things he did throughout his life, both in casual letters and widely read short stories
- Comment on OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024 1 month ago:
I don’t know the answer but my experience with venture capitalists is that they’re everything from absolute buffoons to incredibly data-centric in decision making
So if Y combinator cares about revenue then I think the answer to your question is no, in aggregate, but that’s just a guess based on an assumption of information that I don’t actually have
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 1 month ago:
I agree with you
I would just say that the incentives aligned in America for law enforcement to choose “predictive policing”, whether they call it that or something else
Personally, I think the black mirror conversation is a false dichotomy and the argument that it only gets worse is a slippery slope fallacy
Predictive Policing is here if we like it or not, it’s not new, the feds have been studying how to profile people since before the web was even a thing
I do think the Patriot act was an abuse of power and it continues to be abused but I’m not convinced that we’re necessarily worse off (tactically speaking), I just think the law should be just and upheld appropriately
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 month ago:
Some random goon you met in a 5 person discord isn’t “astroturfing”
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 1 month ago:
I’m an American living in London and I’ve been extremely impressed by the quality of policing here compared to America. And part of that quality no doubt has to do with the police dealing with overall less severe crime. So I suppose it’s a bit circular
But nonetheless, crime is essentially unsolved in East London and other parts of the country
So I agree that there’s a better version of policing but I reject that the solution to crime is just better police training
Do you see it as an unsolvable problem?
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 month ago:
I read them and there were some interesting parts scattered amidst poor journalism and FUD
Is your position basically just ACAB?
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 1 month ago:
I think one of the main points of the outrage is that it makes it more concerning, not less
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 1 month ago:
You seem well informed, can you help me understand this a bit? Is this basically just ACAB, so any kind of helping the cops is Bad too?
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 2 months ago:
I’m no big balls sympathizer but this is a terrible summary of what he did and didn’t do wrong
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 2 months ago:
Astroturfing is definitely a thing that exists but what evidence is there that palantir the company is spending resources that way?
Most companies have marketing and PR departments, not GCHQ and IDF veterans
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 2 months ago:
What fantasy are you larping here
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 months ago:
Coastal vacation 💀
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
Sorry I thought this was more common, it’s definitely wall Street bets
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
To me, spying and spying on the public en masse are very different things
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
I think we should all care about what misinformation is spread to what people
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
Put me in my place if this is nonsense but doesn’t it make way more sense if the astroturfing is done by WSB goons? I just don’t see corporate entities coordinating this kind of thing
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
What kind of ways, can you explain?
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
Is there any evidence that Palantir the company aggregates data across contractual boundaries? Everything I’ve seen indicates the reverse: it’s a glorified hosted data storage solution with workflows built on top
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
Source? I’ve never heard about pal being used for disinformation
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
Ex pal people are on slack, not discord. This is probably an investor server
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
If I’m reading this right, you would basically say that any company that helps government institutions spy on people is awful, is that right?
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 months ago:
What shady stuff are you talking about may I ask?
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 4 months ago:
I gave you the up vote because it’s a good take, but this really has nothing to do with the article, so I can tell that you and a bunch of your 58 up voters didn’t read it
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 4 months ago:
This guy (a founding engineer of fly.io) isn’t claiming his 10x status in the article on the grounds that he uses AI
Indeed, he’s claiming that he gets value from AI despite being a 10xer without it
- Comment on Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude 4 months ago:
I have to say that you just have to sayed something up
- Comment on OpenAI's annualized revenue hits $10 billion, up from $5.5 billion in December 2024 4 months ago:
Revenue is a standard unit of measurement for any venture backed business because it gauges interest and growth better than profit does
- Comment on Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude 4 months ago:
- I’m not really interested in trying to burn anyone and despite my nuanced understanding of the Luddites, I do think dismissing a Luddite take in the context of technological progress is legitimate
- I care about ethics and governance too but I live in a capitalist society and I’m here to discuss the merits of a technology
- Comment on My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 4 months ago:
This is a pretty good take imo
Like AI, IoT is an important and lasting technology
But too many businesses and products jumped on a misguided bandwagon to pull stupid uniformed VC money
- Comment on Cloudflare built an oauth provider with Claude 4 months ago:
You should look into how Dieselgate worked
I don’t think you understand my take
I guess that makes it a bad analogy