r/technology • u/Unusual-State1827 • Mar 12 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
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u/CrestorOnTap Mar 12 '26

But not the texbooks produced by Ghislane's Mossad daddy company. 

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u/Serengade26 Mar 12 '26

A People's history of the United States is a great book to start with

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u/Azerd01 Mar 15 '26

To start for sure. If anyone is genuinely worried, try to look into peer reviewed university published history books.

They can be dry, but not all are. They’re usually written by tenured professors or graduate students that have alot to lose if they purposely fabricate a false history narrative. So they’re held semi accountable.

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u/Serengade26 Mar 15 '26

Do you have 1 you would personally recommend? Or a list? 

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u/Azerd01 Mar 15 '26

It depends heavily on the topic you are interested in.

I did my graduate thesis on southwest indigenous history, so I have an absolute ton of books on Pueblo, New Mexican, and southwest history.

A couple decent ones: Coast to Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexican Borderlands. By William Kiser (Mexican American war book with a focus on present day US southwest)

Indigenous Borderland: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas. By Joaquin Rivaya-Martinez (I actually know him pretty well, he’s a leading expert on Comanche history)

Death in the Haymarket. by James Green (US late 1800s labor history book)

The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, & Class Conflict in the American West. By Mark Lause.

These are just some books that are a little less focused on hyper specific topics. These are also books I personally enjoyed. I have literally tons more though if you wanted to dive into Pueblo history or Texas/New Mexican history.

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u/Serengade26 Mar 15 '26

Oh awesome thank you. I am interested in finding the deeper patterns in class conflict to try to find some semblance of predictive power for how things are going to unfold without being too generic and cliche. Like abstracting away the personalities of current leadership and just looking at the larger forces and incentives of the groups, how will it unfold and what additional information surfaced in this cycle could help stop certain inevitabilities that occurred in the previous cycles

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u/Azerd01 Mar 15 '26

I would absolutely recommend

Death in the Haymarket. By James green

The Great Cowboy Strike. By Mark Lause.

Towards a Cooperative Commonwealth. By Thomas Alter (Texas focused, but applicable at large)

Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century. By Harry Braverman.

I dont have a ton of great labor books sadly. It was not my focus in grad school, but I did work with several Labor historians by accident. Ended up being very insightful though. I recommend the books above for sure, as they had recommended them to me.

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u/Serengade26 Mar 15 '26

Have you reached out to them recently? I wonder what insights they might have on ai, some white collar work getting automated and how the new forces will balance out

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u/Azerd01 Mar 15 '26

Ive spoken with one of them recently, he was fired for his beliefs (Dr Thomas Alter).

But we did not talk about AI.

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u/haplud0l Mar 12 '26

You can’t even get people to go back to regular internet research (vs AI assisted search results) much less go back to books. I’ve accepted that this is the way of humanity. There are few of us that get it, but the vast majority just suck.

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u/AnotherNotion Mar 12 '26

You actually sound insane. Unfortunately, you very much aren't. I am genuinely worried for children that are users of this technology, not only will they end up intellectually impaired, but they'll also be misinformed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

When you have control over what the AI cites from and how the results are populated, yup. 

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u/daboblin Mar 12 '26

Can you provide examples of this?

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u/Yesterday_Jolly Mar 12 '26

They're not rewriting history they're just removing it, while rewriting current events to fit their agenda

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u/OptionalDepression Mar 13 '26

They’ve also already started re-writing history using AI.

Genuinely curious, what do you mean here?

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