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Palantir's technology, as its own name suggests, is inherently dangerous, regardless of who controls it. The right alternative is to simply not build capabiliti
by tsimionescu 7mo ago
Palantir's technology, as its own name suggests, is inherently dangerous, regardless of who controls it. The right alternative is to simply not build capabilities similar to Palantir in the EU - ideally, to legally forbid building them at all. This type of aggregated data flow simply gives too much control to whoever has access to it, and thus greatly harms democracy.
- simianwords 7mo ago[flagged]
- cindyllm 7mo ago[dead]
- text0404 7mo agoThat's a false choice. By investing in weapons instead of diplomacy, we've created this world of tit-for-tat violence. We can dismantle it too, it's not necessary to continue escalating until we exterminate our species.
- simianwords 7mo ago"We've" wdym? You don't get to decide the rules. Your adversary is not signing a legally binding contract.
- text0404 7mo ago"We" as a species with common interests like "not eradicating ourselves through violence."
- simianwords 7mo agoI agree with you, but your adversary may not think in a sufficiently developed way. Which is why we had such destructive wars in the past..
- text0404 7mo agoMaybe we should leverage all of this supposedly world-changing AI to move on from primitive wars instead of using it to build more weapons. At a certain point, our species will be faced with a choice between maintaining the status quo (climate destruction, mass casualties through violent conflicts, food/water shortages, extinction-level events, etc) or working together to forge a sustainable path forward for the benefit of the species. An argument that this current world order is just how things are and there's nothing to be done but escalate is just a vote for the former.
- simianwords 7mo agoI definitely don't think that the current world order is just how things are. That does not mean you should act now in terms of how the world order _would be in the future_.
- XajniN 7mo agoYou are not aware of the interests of your enemies.
- danny_codes 7mo agoSuch a sad worldview. Unfortunately thinking like that is self-fulfilling. By building weapons you encourage everyone else to build weapons, and everyone is poorer in the end. Some silly aspect of human nature I guess. I notice it's worse in men on average.
- simianwords 7mo agoWhat's your suggested alternative? This is exactly kind of shallow virtue signalling I was pointing at. While you make dismissive remarks like this, your government or USA does the dirty work required to keep stability.