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Well, I’ve got news. You’re going to get a US surveillance state AND China is going to win the AI race.
seems like the most likely scenario
The Bonegrinder says grinding the bones of starving children to powder is preferable to China something something.
It’s hard not to read Karp’s view of his own company as essential—to the government, to the world, to pretty much everyone—which has become something of a theme from AI company executives as of late. And there’s no denying he’s a very dedicated hype man for his company. On CNBC, he called it “one of the greatest businesses in the world,” and said it’s “doing a noble task.” On Axios, he chose a slightly different dialect to express that, calling Palantir “the most baller, interesting company on the planet,” with a “baller product” and “baller culture.”
“We told you China was bad for doing surveillance but we must do it 100x worse or else China will win.”
Remember this lie next time they tell you dprk threatens every generation of someone’s family in order to keep people in line. It’s not that the dprk is doing that, it’s that the capitalists are projecting what they’ve thought about and are willing to do themselves in order to win.
In retrospect maybe making fun of people worried about their freedoms to their face was a bad move, when the writing was on the wall (and in the news) that the bourgeois states would come for our freedoms.
It’s honestly been incredible to watch how the whole our freedumbs make us different narrative fizzled at the first signs of public discontent in the west.
It’s happened so fast too, they’ve very rapidly gone from accusation to demonstrating their own projection. Almost everything they accuse others of concerns me because it’s something that’s clearly been on their minds.
Absolutely, I honestly expected there would be more public push back in the west just because the whole freeze peach thing has been drilled into people as the core western value. So, all of a sudden people finding out that far worse things are happening in their own societies than anything that’s been thrown at China, and they just shrug about it.
I think people don’t believe it’s a problem until they personally feel it, and the only places they personally feel anything like that are social media online where they get censored or banned or temp banned for a period of time and that all gets blamed on liberalism, the solution to that experience becomes needing more conservatism. The rest they don’t really have a personal experience with so it’s less real.
I very much agree, when something is abstract it’s easy to ignore and focus on things that are more immediately relevant to them. Conservatism also has the benefit of neatly fitting with all the tropes people internalize, so it’s an easier transition from liberalism than going left.
How the fuck is the US going to win the AI race when the electric infrastructure is so old and badly maintained that even running the data centers at full capacity would cause brownouts and spike the cost of electricity to the point that it would become a luxury.
Every day, my “that’s not realistic” idea of just fucking off to Quebec gets countered by “well what choice do you have?”
Run the data centers, fuck the people.
they’re way ahead of you 🤣 https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/
But when I propose to shoot billionaires into the sun, I’m told to think more economically.
For the last 10 years redditors have been screaming about China’s “surveillance state” and they won’t say a peep about this shit.
They also love to ignore what the UK has done and what is happening in the usa by private companies and the police rather than being actually regulated
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a surveillance state is a good guy with a surveillance state
Well I’ll have you know that the Reddit /technology thread on this same article has a whole 6 top comment chains that are just about saying fuck you to CEO’s and billionaires… And then it devolves in some mix of that and sinophobic comments about how sure china sucks but so does Palantir… Before descending into complete China bad and evil for things that someone heard from another guy like down the road, and then others who totally live in China and can confirm they all work 14 hour days for pennies while xi is out there beginning DPRK mark 2, now with Chinese characteristics.
Do not go to Reddit.
They think it hasn’t happened yet
it’s ok when we do it
As a side note, Karp seems to think most people’s concern with surveillance is that they are going to get caught cheating for some reason. For instance, when giving an example of what he thinks is a valid skeptical question to ask about what Palantir is doing, he said, “Is this product being used to take away my right to go have a hot dog with a coworker I’m flirting with while being married? Which, honestly, I think is the god-given right of people in this country.” He later brings this up again, saying that most surveillance technology isn’t determining, “Am I shagging too many people on the side and lying to my partner?” Your guess is as good as any as to what that’s all about.
i think that man is cheating on his spouse
Setting the stage for “If you’re against us spying on you it’s because you’re unfaithful to your wife you hotdog sharing slut”
Damn, we really are back to the aughts. 4chan are some hell of propagandists to eventually make “nothing to hide, nothing to fear” the based, redpilled, “cool” position this time around.
It’s “We know you’ve got something to hide but don’t worry we promise we’re going to keep quiet about it” this time which is the biggest load of bullshit ever lmao who would even believe that, you don’t need to do any surveillance if you’re not going to use anyone’s secrets against them!
America is the burger land don’t commit treason by sharing hotdogs!!! Sharing = Communism btw,
most people’s concern with surveillance is that they are going to get caught cheating for some reason.
No shit, people don’t want to get caught in the ever expanding, baroque nightmare that is the legal system and penal code. It’s already inhuman, and the more the reins are in the hands of algorithms, the less human the system gets.
As the statistic goes, the average American commits three felonies per day. Most of them are frivolous and won’t be prosecuted. But if the authorities reeeeally want to charge you with something, they’ll find something to charge you with. Some examples:
- Donating to a charity that has received donations from a “terrorist” organization.
- Having a rock in your car/shoe from a national park and accidently taking it with you out of the park.
- Using marijuana in a state where it’s legal on vacation if you own guns in a state where weed isn’t. Each firearm is its own felony.
- Using someone’s password-protected wifi without their knowledge or explicit permission.
- Driving an ATV or dirt bike on federal land.
- Touching a bald eagle feather you found on the ground.
…and there’s hundreds (if not thousands) more. Abortion bans or HRT/GRS are the most recent examples of things that should be legal and normal, but were made illegal and now technology is being used to convict people.
The “three felonies a day” thing isn’t a real statistic. It’s just the title of a book by Harvey Silverglate and isn’t supported by any sort of evidence.
“average am*rican commits three felonies per day” factoid actually just statistical error, average am*rican commits 0 felonies per day, Felonies Georg who lives in capitol hill & commits over 10000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Guy who sells cars believes everyone should buy a car
palantir ceo should eat my whole ass hole
Palantir CEO wants to put 3 AI cloud connected cameras in your whole ass hole instead unfortunately
Hey look it’s the guy that wanted to spray “fentanyl laced urine” on pro-Palestine protesters using drones. I wonder what he has to say.
preferable
both are going to happen
both of those things are gonna happen regardless
Much like his namesake,this disgusting little man is a scum sucking bottom feeder that damages whatever ecosystem he’s introduced in
If this was a movie, this guy would get murdered for what he is saying, because he is clearly irredeemably evil.
