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I mean look at the name of the company for pete's sake: Palantir? Sauron indeed..so much of the valley is enabling the surveillance state at all levels of socie
by AIorNot 1y ago
I mean look at the name of the company for pete's sake: Palantir? Sauron indeed..so much of the valley is enabling the surveillance state at all levels of society.
Silicon valley was supposed to do no evil, no wonder this generation hates tech bros
- anthem2025 1y agolol, Silicon Valley has always been evil.
- LastTrain 1y ago/Almost/ always
- themafia 1y agoSilicon valley is a place. Government contracting is an activity. The two should be very far apart and yet somehow they're joined at the hip.
- scottyah 1y agoGovernment contracting is the only reason silicon valley exists. It'd just be another valley.
- bruckie 1y agoAlways have been. In large part, government contracting is what created Silicon Valley. https://steveblank.substack.com/p/if-i-told-you-id-have-to-kill-you https://steveblank.substack.com/p/if-i-told-you-id-have-to-k...
- brianbest101 1y ago[dead]
- hn_acc1 1y agoFor certain values of "always". I feel many of the original tech startups were genuinely interested in research, pushing limits, etc. Intel/AMD weren't "evil" as far as I can tell - nor the EDA infrastructure. The social media era (Fbook) is when it started feeling like "majority of new companies are evil". Of course, if Palantir is Sauron, Oracle is Morgoth..
- chain030 1y agoYeah I think Thiel's fundamental basis for his investment in FB was not that it would generate a tonne of revenues from Ads - but rather - it could become a large scale surveillance tool. Which benefits his interests (it seems).