"You will own nothing and feel nothing"
Edit: link to palantirs manifesto
::: spoiler My thoughts point by point (1-4)
- Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation
Sure.
- We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible
What? The iPhone is fucking NOTHING. What are you, a 13 year old from 6 years ten years ago? Who even thinks like this?
Also, iPhones have apps. They just have apple apps.
My brain hurts from how unprofound this is juet 2 points in. Can we get to the fascism yet?
- Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public
Yeah so that's fascist. In a very lame capitalist way, too. Nobody has ever said or believed these things before, it's like fascist mythologising to justify extracting even more out of the workforce at the end of history.
- The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Translation: We will use warfare to crush non AI empowered societies.
You might say that they're proposing this because it's the only thing their AI has proven to be good at, but i'm pretty sure the AI fucked up when it decided to target primary schools in Iran over and over again. The alternative case - that Palantir staff/ the mikitary chose to target little girls, is much worse.
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Don't know if i can be bothered to give annotations to each point but i'll put all the other points in my next comment (nested under this) for readers convenience.