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Karp thinks extremely highly of himself above all. He has been outspoken for a while but he’s been becoming increasingly unhinged recently. We just had a post a
by SilverElfin 6mo ago
Karp thinks extremely highly of himself above all. He has been outspoken for a while but he’s been becoming increasingly unhinged recently. We just had a post about how Palantir is basically advocating for mandatory military service (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828218). He’s also been sharing his views about how neurodivergent people - as vague as that term is - are superior to others. He thinks they will be the only people who can be successful outside of trades (or something weirdly supremacist like that).
To some extent I understand and am okay with people sharing their views even when they’re drastically different from others or plain unhinged. But this is a person whose company participates in surveillance and holds many government contracts. That makes me less comfortable.
- techblueberry 6mo agoThe thing I can’t get over is how sort of non-specific and unideological it is. Someone somewhere is dangerous and/or not as good as us therefor we need to be prepared to kill millions of people. This seems exemplified in practice by going into Iran to support the civilian resistance than transitioning to, we’re going to kill them all and turn Iran into a sheet of glass. I don’t have a problem with the idea of national service (though maybe we should start with domestic service). But this ideology that’s like, we’re libertarian billionaires who want to rule the USA, but you should sign up to die for your country? Maybe in a Democracy.