[FRIAM] The whole story about Palantir

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*If* it will be misused? My guess is the overwhelming majority of people on this list are tech-savvy. And if that means *anything*, it means we know it *will* be misused, if not by PLTR, it's people or customers, then by some hacker who manages to get the data. Most likely all parties will misuse the system, once collated.

Is hacking Good or Bad? Even if the data is stolen by nefarious misinformation-peddling, pro-Kremlin hackers in Russia, that could be a good thing ... a pro-democracy thing because it puts our US Oligarchs on their heels playing defense.

And what is "misuse" anyway? Didn't we just recently reaffirm the Myth of the Objective w.r.t. evolutionary processes?

Remember that all new tech is first/best used by porn or gambling (or their less salacious proxies). And Peter Thiel demonstrated this clearly by putting Gawker out of business because they outed him as gay. Does anyone actually think Thiel won't "misuse" PLTR? If so, I have a bridge you may want to buy.

Optimism is kinda gross and sticky.

On 6/24/25 2:36 AM, Pieter Steenekamp wrote:
> Yes, if misused, a system like this could go very wrong. It could profile people unfairly, spy without oversight, or just drown in its own complexity. But — and here’s my cautiously optimistic side talking — it could also make government less clunky and a bit smarter. Which would be a plot twist, right?

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