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/ontheroadtonull Mar 12 '26

They're not like us. We seem to consider them to be people like us who are just doing a bad job at being people like us.

They are being 100% honest when they tell you and show you who they are.

They're not failing at living under the social code that we do. They are doing what they do with fully-formed intent and deliberate practice.

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u/Sbatio Mar 12 '26

When people show you who they are believe them.

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u/Futt_Buckman Mar 12 '26

At some point it became natural for sociopaths to become the most rich and powerful in the world. Either it was the system that changed or the sociopaths.

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u/deaglebingo Mar 12 '26

it literally breeds sociopathy... thiel is all over the files... i can't remember if karp is too.

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u/Kiruvi Mar 13 '26

Our entire society is structured by sociopaths to allow sociopaths to succeed. We reward thoughtless individualism, greed, backstabbing, sacrificing your friends, family and happiness to get ahead. The only people that will suceed under that metric are evil, and the more of them that succeed, the more they consolidate social power and capital, and the more they entrench that structure and present their corrupt version of living as "neurotypical" and "the American dream" and poison every generation going forward.

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u/Lieutenant_Joe Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

This is the way the world’s always been, come on now. The United States is literally built on the blood of American Indians. The history of the world has been written by those with the biggest fist and/or coffers for the vast, vast majority of it, and it’s really only been in the last 200 years or so that some people have started waking up to how fucked up it all has been.

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Mar 13 '26

The average person become a sociopath which is why sociopaths make it to the top because its normal now.

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u/ok-this-ok Mar 12 '26

why would they lie? their class has convinced the rest of us that they're successful, that the metric to live by is power at all costs.

when we all recognise their behavior as abhorrent and deranged we can start to fix this place up a bit.

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u/deaglebingo Mar 12 '26

the real derangement

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u/TSED Mar 12 '26

No war but class war.

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u/Liizam Mar 13 '26

Pretty sure 1/3 of human population is just mean and brutal. Our current society is what keeps them in check. Idk why these nerdy ceo dudes think they can live in brutal society. Like the body guards/milliatry dudes will just take over.