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What were NHS execs thinking signing a contract with palantir? Either they are completely ignorant about what palantir is and who it's owned by (would be very
by i_love_retros 7mo ago
What were NHS execs thinking signing a contract with palantir?
Either they are completely ignorant about what palantir is and who it's owned by (would be very concerning) or they are corrupt and were bribed.
- chrisjj 7mo agoOr those execs are ignorant about their staff's concerns.
- imdsm 7mo agoReductive take
- stevesimmons 7mo agoThere have been recent articles in the FT about a man (who surname, funnily enough, sounds like swindle) who was an advisor to Palantir while also being chair of 4 NHS Trusts and pushing the trusts to put more of their data into Palantir. Definitely not a conflict of interest...
- i_love_retros 7mo agodown voted by all the tech bro billionaire wannabes on hackernews no british person would down vote this - at least not one with any integrity
- basket_horse 7mo agoOr, the non politicized take is that they think the software could improve the data landscape of the NHS, which, if we are bring honest, has a lot of room for improvement.
- georgemcbay 7mo agoI am an American so the plight of the NHS has no direct impact on me, but I'd argue that Palantir is a fundamentally political company and thus there is no room for non-politicized takes.
- orochimaaru 7mo agoHave you used Palantir or know the infra on how it provides services? Or just giving sound bites you’ve read on media? You can mandate an installation on self managed infra. We install / use it on a completely self managed cloud install with pretty solid exfiltration protections. It’s a data platform, provides interesting connections in the data. But that’s where its utility ends. Do they work with US defense and govt? Sure they do. But you don’t have to share your data outside of your cloud infra.
- georgemcbay 7mo agoWhat I am talking about has nothing to do with their technology. To know Palantir is an inherently political company you just need to hear Alex Karp speak.
- orochimaaru 7mo agoThey’re all political animals. Alex karp Is just gunning for a bigger share of the govt and defense data market. When you read the Anthropic and DoD (or DoW) saga, Anthropic ceo was happy to provide exceptions for use of clause.
- tt24 7mo agoBoring comment. Let’s say things that add value to the conversation please.
- IAmBroom 7mo agoAn almost literal "No True Scotsman" fallacy, IRL.
- next_xibalba 7mo ago> completely ignorant about what palantir is and who it's owned by Perhaps you could give your take? When I look at the facts, I see a fairly humdrum data integration company that was a slightly early adopter of applied machine learning.