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by basket_horse 8mo ago
Haha, as if Hex isn’t a clone
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
Tell that to the New Jersey transit trains that get delayed 15 minutes every time they go in and out of New York.
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
Yes, exactly
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
Comparing chatGPT to ICE and dynamite is reaching… my hunch is that most of the people who who killed themselves at the direction of an LLM were already mentally unstable. What about the people who were planning on committing suicide and we
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
Sure, but that’s presumes the output is something people want to buy, which presumes it is useful. Sure it can pump if useless, but the longer term dump if useless is what separates it from coins.
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
> If I were wrong, the whole charade would have been shut down after LLMs convinced people to kill themselves. I hate this argument, and every time I see it in the news it feels like propaganda to me. Everything has risk. People have bee
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
The government is notoriously terrible at tech. Are you debating that? Out of the top tech talent over the last 20 years, how many of them do you suppose work in FAANG vs the US government? I'm not saying Palantir specifically is neces
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
Palantir's ICE contract itself is 30 million over 2 years. Thats 15 mil a year, where this past year's total revenue was ~4B. Thats about .00375 of their revenue. I hardly think it's the literal contract money they care so de
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
I’m not defending the “bad guys”. The original argument was about moral culpability based on distance from the bad deed. Microsoft could have just as easily refused Azure for the ICE contract, but they didn’t, yet somehow they are just far
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
Haha, true, although I meant competent from a tech perspective. The reason Palantir is even in the building is because the government is notoriously bad at technology. You need to separate government institutions ability to use tech from Tr
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
So because they show people how to use their software they’re evil?
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
They are dual use. Palantir creates platforms (Foundry, Gotham) which are used by ICE but also thousands of other companies. Are you saying that just because ICE tailors these platforms to their workflows they’re not dual use? That feels ak
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
I don’t think it’s really this simple. Palantir is a major government contractor that enables it to be more tech savvy. It’s embedded through hundreds of teams / agencies. You can’t remain a credible partner if you play morality police
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
Sure, but in that case your rage should be directed at ICE / the federal government. Not a third party software vendor.
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
Not really. Palantir is data integration and analysis software that in some cases (like ICE) can be used for surveillance. There are also thousands of commercial clients who use Palantir for completely non surveillance workflows, as well as
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
> For most people Most people have no idea what a terminal is.
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
That’s the point. If any company would do it, it’s Palantir, and they don’t. In fact it’s quite the opposite. Their negative public image makes hiring more difficult causing them to accept what they can get. Also, I’m not saying they have t
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
Yeah this seems accurate, I just mean they aren’t looking at your google searches when deciding if they should hire you.
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by basket_horse 9mo ago
You’re over thinking it. Like all top tech companies, they just want the best engineers.
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by basket_horse 10mo ago
I disagree. I think it is an “accident” that stems from organizations rather than anything sinister. Companies generally want good parental controls, but let’s face it, it’s not the cash cow or particularly interesting. This leads to unders
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by basket_horse 10mo ago
The one sitting at the throne is the one with the content, not the one with the tech. People don’t care about frivolous features. There are like 20 different streaming services, I’m sure some have better tech than others but ultimately peop
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by basket_horse 10mo ago
Do you guys really think Gondor was a democratic society with privacy laws?
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by basket_horse 10mo ago
The problem with this in our current society is that staying anonymous becomes your whole identity. I have a friend who for the longest time didn’t use Venmo, Uber, etc. because of privacy reasons, but the lifestyle was just not sustainable
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by basket_horse 10mo ago
I empathize with you, but it’s also worth saying that not all firms are the same. Just as not all in-house teams are the same. There are good ones and bad ones. Even inside firms there are good teams and bad teams. Enterprise software is co
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by basket_horse 10mo ago
It’s engineering, not research
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by basket_horse 10mo ago
These companies exist because non-tech companies building in-house software for their complex workflows also tend to run millions over budget and create brittle, bespoke software. Also, I wouldn’t put Palantir in the same bucket as Workday
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by basket_horse 10mo ago
It’s not rocket science, but you’re vastly underestimating what it takes to run a modern university. Not to mention things like security and support, which a university is not setup well to handle in house. The phds should be spending their
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by basket_horse 10mo ago
Is this related to the Tank lab experiments at Princeton? I’ve seen this before with the practical application being that you can keep the animal stationary while it thinks it’s moving, in order to record brain activity.
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by basket_horse 11mo ago
Is no one going to mention fast Lightning’s sploogerito

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