[FRIAM] The whole story about Palantir

[Marcus Daniels]

How about a gentle supervisor that nudges one out of local minima?   “Marcus, we need to stabilize your insulin response today.   As you can see, here is your blood chemistry report.  It’s time for a bike ride.  I’ll keep your colleagues at bay.”  

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of steve smith
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That said, a lot of the arguments feel like dot-connecting exercises where not all the dots are actually dots. We should watch out for our own blind spots — it’s easy to scream “Big Brother!” when sometimes it’s just a confused uncle with a clipboard.

"Big Stupid is Watching" - Taylor Meade

And our current crue of "confused Uncles" (and Aunts) are too often "Funny Uncles" and "Aunt Lydias" (Handmaid's Tale).  Their intentions need not be *bad* for their actions to yield damaging results on their vulnerable nieces and nephews.   See RFKjr taking his grandchildren swimming in "clear running" yet human-waste-disease-laden water?

glen's caution to "not mistake incompetence for evil" (bad paraphrase?) is relevant... but our current (US and elsewhere?) administration uses a gloss of "good ole boy" "plain talk" as camoflauge for some much less innocent intentions.   I'm not sure if there is a succinct contrapositive, but it does seem to be a strategy in some playbooks.

 

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