[FRIAM] The whole story about Palantir

[steve smith]

I'm a big fan of nudges, if only for the lower risk implied but maybe 
more fundamentally for the local vs global control implications.

I'm reading de Fillipi's "Blockchain Governance" right now and without 
it being central, the idea of distributed (self) governance lends itself 
to tiny piecewise refinements (in everything)...


On 6/24/25 10:59 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> 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
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 24, 2025 9:17 AM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The whole story about Palantir
>
>
>
>     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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