Discussion

• @deliprao @deliprao on x

  Saying this without being sensationalist: We should be more worried about Palantir than the Chinese citizens about CCP domestic surveillance.

• @philippanass Mad Milton on x

  How many Ivy League graduates have every company turn them down except Palantir? I'd wager the number is small enough to count on one hand. [image]

• @jrrosenb Jacob Rosenberg on x

  “It will not be AI in government. It's going to be AI as governments.” [image]

• @econ_marshall Marshall Steinbaum on x

  What's so good about this piece is its narrative of the road to complete fascist takeover: only Palantir is hiring thanks to its tight alliance with the regime, so that's where the Yale students go when nowhere else offers security and prestige. That's game over.

• @camkasky Cameron Kasky on x

  Wow! A tremendous piece for @NYMag on Palantir coming to Yale from the 19 year-old Alex Bronzini-Vender. It finally answers the question: what would happen if Palantir came to Yale?

• @metacurity.com Cynthia Brumfield on bluesky

  JFC, one of the supposed “intellectuals” at this Yale “salon” cited the Bible to justify the obscene wealth that has ended up in the hands of “like 19 people in Silicon Valley” by saying “I mean, Jesus said, ‘The poor you shall always have with you.’” [embedded post]

• @sixfouronea.net Aaron Martin on bluesky

  'There might eventually be “a kind of aristocracy of the intellect”: “the people who wind up feeding the new thoughts to the LLMs” at the top and then everyone else would be “just consumers.”  Looking around the room, there's no need to worry where folks here would end up.'  —  n…

• @jmijin J. Mijin Cha on bluesky

  This is frightening.  Their disdain for the humanities- the disciplines that help people understand why all of this is bad- is telling.

• @theahaykid @theahaykid on bluesky

  “The Republic was ‘decaying,’ Ball said”  —  [insert Tim Robinson in a hot dog costume]

• @jacobrosenberg Jacob Rosenberg on bluesky

  “It will not be AI in government.  It's going to be AI as governments.”  [image]