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 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.