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I got Severance vibes from this blog about Palantir. But it sounds like they are a consulting company and a sort of ConnectAll (for those who use Jira, Rhapsod

I got Severance vibes from this blog about Palantir. But it sounds like they are a consulting company and a sort of ConnectAll (for those who use Jira, Rhapsody, DOORS, etc).

mikhailfranco 2y ago
You are describing GOFSI - Good Old Fashioned System Integration. I promise you Palantir does not use UML or Rhapsody, and would not recognize DOORS if they slammed in its face. GOFSI: "There are decades when nothing happens" Palantir: "There are weeks when decades happen"
- firesteelrain 2y ago
  Sorry I didn’t mean to imply that they use standard systems engineering practices or tools. I was equating their data integration efforts like that ConnectAll tool you can buy.
noch 2y ago
> I got Severance vibes from this blog about Palantir. If our most immediate means of understanding the world are by relating it to fiction rather than history then it's likely we have a poor understanding of the world and reality.
- madeofpalk 2y ago
  No? What do you think the point of fiction often is? Finding similarities between Severance and the real world (and vice versa) is the whole point of that work of fiction.
  - noch 2y ago
    > What do you think the point of fiction often is? Fiction is not obligated to reveal anything about reality. Mainly it's escapist. But I'm not trying to have some big debate. Clearly you're passionate in your belief. Ultimately, how to understand the world is something one figures out with life experience and time at which point history becomes your best source of instruction. When you're young it may seem to make sense to get your morality from Harry Potter and Star Wars. But that's usually just availability bias and the fact that fiction is easy to consume. But then you discover that the map is not the territory, sometimes that discovery is painful or brutal or destructive and the consequences of having misunderstood the world are permanent for you and those around you. Anyway, not an argument. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, merely pointing a fact about competence in understanding the world.
chillingeffect 2y ago
https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- firesteelrain 2y ago
  This may be a little on the nose. I am slow. I read this but not sure what it means for me.

I got Severance vibes from this blog about Palantir. But it sounds like they are a consulting company and a sort of ConnectAll (for those who use Jira, Rhapsody, DOORS, etc).

mikhailfranco 2y ago

You are describing GOFSI - Good Old Fashioned System Integration. I promise you Palantir does not use UML or Rhapsody, and would not recognize DOORS if they slammed in its face. GOFSI: "There are decades when nothing happens" Palantir: "There are weeks when decades happen"

firesteelrain 2y ago
Sorry I didn’t mean to imply that they use standard systems engineering practices or tools. I was equating their data integration efforts like that ConnectAll tool you can buy.

noch 2y ago

> I got Severance vibes from this blog about Palantir. If our most immediate means of understanding the world are by relating it to fiction rather than history then it's likely we have a poor understanding of the world and reality.

madeofpalk 2y ago
No? What do you think the point of fiction often is? Finding similarities between Severance and the real world (and vice versa) is the whole point of that work of fiction.
- noch 2y ago
  > What do you think the point of fiction often is? Fiction is not obligated to reveal anything about reality. Mainly it's escapist. But I'm not trying to have some big debate. Clearly you're passionate in your belief. Ultimately, how to understand the world is something one figures out with life experience and time at which point history becomes your best source of instruction. When you're young it may seem to make sense to get your morality from Harry Potter and Star Wars. But that's usually just availability bias and the fact that fiction is easy to consume. But then you discover that the map is not the territory, sometimes that discovery is painful or brutal or destructive and the consequences of having misunderstood the world are permanent for you and those around you. Anyway, not an argument. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, merely pointing a fact about competence in understanding the world.

chillingeffect 2y ago

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

firesteelrain 2y ago
This may be a little on the nose. I am slow. I read this but not sure what it means for me.