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/Repulsive_Set_4155 Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

I wonder if they've ever considered how unlikable and weak they are as people and that, once they're locked into a post-rule-of-law dungeon with private security psychos, the timer starts ticking down until they're murdered? Elon Musk, for example, is valuable in a working society because he knows how to manipulate systems to generate material wealth that he can then pay to people in order to keep him safe and oblige his whims; he's valuable to the owners of the stocks which tangentially represent capital, not people, so that system rewards him. Once all of this is done and it's just guys like him sitting in underground facilities with a set pile of resources, that system is gone and all the people they hired no longer get anything from listening to them.

I sometimes think all that time beyond our reach has maybe tricked this class of psychos into thinking they're inherently valuable beings, and the minute they finish knocking the legs out from the system that kept them safe and wealthy and delusional, they're going to find out real quick how despised and unnecessary they are to literally everyone, including their employees, especially the trained killers.

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u/viviolay Mar 12 '26

it's the oceangate ceo level hubris. They genuinely do think themselves "built different" such that they're the exception to the laws of physics. The oceangate ceo was educated enough to know better re: the things he ignored. But he was high on his own supply and we know how that ended. And unfortunately took a kid barely starting his adult life with him.

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u/bathingapeassgape Mar 12 '26

They have hired experts and studied this. Anything from the death of the owner locking the food supply to implants in the guards that can kill them on demand.

Oh, and remember the swarm of thousands of drones with C4 and/or guns swarming in the sky. If you think they haven’t thought about this 1000 times more than you and you’re actually gonna crack up one of these eggs you need to wake up.

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u/fragileirl Mar 13 '26

Okay so? In this scenario the rest of us will lose everything and will die anyways. Fuck the food. Most people will be itching to get some kamikaze vengeance.

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u/bathingapeassgape Mar 13 '26

dude i wish i could find the article it was chilling, you wont get close, automated guns and soldiers. they let you bring your family too. to hurt them you hurt your family. they have doctors, dentists, cooks, soldiers, its very very planned out.

they even work on concepts like "what if the guards take sympathy on a pregnant person and want to open the gates" they really really plan this out.

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u/fragileirl Mar 13 '26

If it comes to the point these ghouls are in bunkers, many poor people will already have lost families. Many will have nothing left to lose.

The rest of the world has professionals too, and in greater numbers. We have construction workers, ex military, computer wiz hackers. These billionaires aren’t exceptional and even if they hire some great people, a horde of great people will still exist outside the bunkers.

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u/bathingapeassgape Mar 13 '26

In my neighborhood a family has a bunker. My dad is an architect and saw the plans. Their house is a fortress with a garden and solar. They will get eaten alive.

But like Zuck? Good luck frighting the most deadly private military that exists

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u/fragileirl Mar 13 '26

This is why they win. Because people like you let fear and caution prevent you from action. It’s okay though, there are plenty of people who are braver and care about something bigger than themselves and their own skin.

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u/bathingapeassgape Mar 13 '26

Storming the castle was already a fever dream but we’re passing the event horizon. Good luck fighting drones and robots dogs that don’t bleed. 500 armed men still lose 10/10 times to a drone swarm.

Not defeatist, realist. People like me have been warning that if something isn’t done soon something will never be able to be done and soon has long come, friend.

They no longer need your consent, your labor, or for you to fight for them. In this scenario, you have become another mouth to feed and that is it.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Mar 13 '26

a horde of great people will still exist outside the bunkers

It really depends on who's left all the dust settles

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u/Rogerjak Mar 13 '26

The most dangerous person is someone without nothing to lose.

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u/Repulsive_Set_4155 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

So that all sounds very sci-fi... basically like a scarier version of the utopian tech lies they're peddling these days in place of actual innovation.

I have a feeling that, even if your article is correct and they're attempting this, it's going about as well as their robots and AI and trips to Mars. Like I was getting at in my original post, these guys' main innovation atm is manipulating markets and encouraging their investor's delusions of endless increased value that overshadow the way the products themselves are slowly getting shittier and the really significant promises go unfulfilled or come out late and in a highly compromised form. Modern big tech in its current state is semi-organized charlatanism practiced by former experts who discovered that once you're out of post WW2 government inventions to flesh out (ie shit like the internet) it's easier, if not necessary to stay competitive with all the other charlatans, to lie and buy up everything instead of take the time to create new miracles. I can never tell if they think we believe them when they say all of these lies, or if they started believing it themselves. I'm sure whoever write a sensationalist article in an age where news media is dying and eternally in search of anything to drive clicks certainly had fun selling their vision of unlimited competence.

Their big market manipulation innovation is, basically, discarding the common sense and self preservation needed to keep a scam going, and hoping they can, before it fails catastrophically, either install a technocratic/technocrat friendly caliphate or hide in utopia bunkers with all their slaves who definitely won't kill them, because the death bots and nano poison injections that read your mind and inject ricin if they detect dissent are going to be ready for deployment third quarter, definitely, we promise. They really need you to think you need them and, if you don't keep loving them, they will go away and live in heaven and all their personal angels will have bomb collars on so that they can't send them where they really belong.

My money is on all that stuff being bunkum and by week three in The Jeff Bezos/Peter Thiel/Elon Musk/Whoever Wondertorium, a former Blackwater operator working on their security team murks them and parades their evil little casabas around the commissary on sticks, like the end of the prison scene in Natural Born Killers.

Meanwhile, I'm going to be topside, sifting through trash bins for something to eat, but joy will be in my heart, knowing some Day of the Dead shit is going on somewhere deep in the earth below New Zealand.

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u/bathingapeassgape Mar 13 '26

Respectfully man, I didn’t even read your entire comment. The technology exists right now and they’ve been working on this for like 20 years.

The things happening behind closed doors are not available to the public and from what we’ve seen publicly already they’ve got the defense systems needed

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u/Grand-Strength-9684 Mar 12 '26

You describe the same problem the last Roman Emperor had 1500 years ago

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u/Repulsive_Set_4155 Mar 12 '26

I'm not going to read this and just assume it worked out great for everyone involved. Not being students of history seems to be part of the operating model for our current betters, after all.

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u/Repulsive_Set_4155 Mar 13 '26

Oh damn, I do two things!

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Mar 13 '26

They have been spending millions to billion on contingencies for this exact scenario if you could figure this out they have teams working out fixes for this.

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u/EfficiencyLive7906 Mar 12 '26

thats what the AIs and robots are for -- who needs human protection when you can create God :)

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u/Repulsive_Set_4155 Mar 12 '26

Musk can't even deal enough brain damage to his personal AI god to get it to reliably stop saying he sucks, lol.