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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

His head on a pike would be preferrable to both.

[–] passwordforgetter@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 hours ago

Legalise it plz.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 5 hours ago

"now if you just sign here to buy our Stasi-Bot..."

[–] bravesirrbn@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

What an absolute cunt

[–] awful_neutral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 12 hours ago

Ahh yes. The only 2 options

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Breaking News.

Man with vested interest in selling his services, insists buying his services is the only way to save us from the evil foreign menace

[–] MrSmiley@lemmy.zip 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you read his book The Technological Republic, he calls for a « collectivist » ideology and the merger of corporation and state. A few historical examples to choose from would be Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia or Communist China to get an idea of his vision for America’s future.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

What? The man who rivals the spying ability of many nations isnt totally on the up and up? Whuda thunkit!

[–] percent@infosec.pub 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

How would a surveillance state even prevent that?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

If you beat them at it, they can't do it themselves! Duh! Oh, wait.

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Look at this unfuckable loser. He's like if someone glued Steve Bannon's pubes to Steven Miller's head. "Let us destroy all freedom in the USA so China doesn't win the race to economically out-compete the USA" is as bullshit a justification as there has ever been for anything in the history of everything.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 19 hours ago

Man who is the CEO of a business selling mass surveillance beyond the likes of even George Orwell's 1984 says we should run head first into a surveillance state from which he will directly profit from.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DamnianWayne@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago

Let me second that... Oh hell, no

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago

Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to ~~China Winning the AI Race~~ Planatir shareholders not getting rich fast enough

Fixed it

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 42 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The public needs public mass surveillance on CEOs and the top 1% only. They are the top threat to the world

[–] voldage@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There is that quick and funny operation that you can do using guilotine (or anything you can get your hands on if you're creative enough!) that significantly reduce the need for oversight. I agree we should put monitoring around the mass grave in case those ghouls can actually get up. It's a stretch, but better safe than sorry.

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[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 6 points 20 hours ago

1000% this.

They're predators, both sexually and economically, and society has let them get away with their plans for far too long.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 84 points 1 day ago (2 children)

China WILL win the AI race and that’s because they invested in infrastructure and their power grid.

The US could have done that too, but we gave the money to billionaires instead. Building a surveillance state doesn’t fix any of the mistakes we made and they’ll still win the AI race.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Not to sound like a tankie but China has made smarter decisions with regard to power generation. The current shift away from renewables (and shift back to fossil fuel) AND more reliance on central power generation are great for billionaires but just dumb for every other reason. And with the what appears to be advancing in battery technology more distributed solar cells with local storage would free up more power for the power hungry data centers. Not to mention the AI programs there are not run by douchebags like Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman.

I also think the current path of AGI study via more advanced LLM research is the wrong path. A language generator is never going to be “smart”. But what do I know, I don’t have billions of dollars and lie constantly.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 12 hours ago

It's not Tankie to admit aspects of reality. China is doing some things well. China has spent the last 20 years investing in itself, America has spent the last 20 years investing in other countries for a possible ROI for the military-industrial complex.

What would be Tankie would be to then extrapolate from that and say they're actually the best state in the world and anyone who says otherwise is a imperialist brainwashed pigdog.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago

Both CCP and US Republicans are evil, but republicans are also stupid.

Evil would obviously win against Evil+Stupid

[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Actual humans believe life without Palantir is preferable to China winning the AI race.

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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 72 points 1 day ago (27 children)

"A surveillance state is needed to beat china who is evil because it's a surveillance state"

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[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 22 points 23 hours ago

I bet you'd be able to get a great grip on his hair as you wind up with the other hand for that oh-so-punchable face.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

If you've never seen this guy giving a talk, it's worth looking at. This guy is a total tweeker. Can't sit still, and has insane thoughts he's just willing to say in public.

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[–] FarrellPerks@feddit.uk 145 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Owner of surveillance apparatus reckons we should all just chill and accept total surveillance"

This fucking dude.

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[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 14 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

This is Bubble-101. Before the thing exists, imagine the future...

threatening that another country will get there first combined with pure players like Nvidia, the uncertainty of whether or not it could be a good investment and being able to convince governments and investors to pump money into it.

If AGI ever becomes what they are promising, everything after 2022 should be a case study for marketing and communications students because they are doing a piss-poor job inspiring confidence and just sound like grifters.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago

Fuckin lunatics with money, power and agenda.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 18 hours ago

Alex Karp thinks people only care about one kind of surveillance. And he thinks he will alleviate our fears if he gives us a pinky promise not to surveil us in that one way.

That way is cheating.

He later brings this up again, saying that most surveillance technology isn’t determining, “Am I shagging too many people on the side and lying to my partner?” Your guess is as good as any as to what that’s all about.

Well, thanks for clearing that up, Alex. That was indeed my sole concern.

(The rest of the article is full of indecipherable quotes from Alex, which demonstrates you don't need to be smart to be rich.)

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can somebody please hack this guys socials and leak all his private info so we see him eat his words?

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

anything is preferable to people like you

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I can think of one thing that's pretty fucking permanent...

[–] fletcher_bosom@lemmy.world 226 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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