Palantir shared 22 points excerpted from CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, and they're troubling.

Palantir shared 22 points excerpted from CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska’s 2025 book, The Technological Republic, and they’re troubling.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    37·
    2 days ago

    You will be drafted… and like it!

    National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.

    And even if you are not, don’t worry, it will come visit you at home.

    Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime.

    This AI is pro-religion… so I guess any criticism, of let’s say the Pope, will become illegal?

    The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      This AI is pro-religion… so I guess any criticism, of let’s say the Pope, will become illegal?

      In essence, yes, but not only that. Palantir and co will really benefit from crackpot dictators financially, especially if they’re banning stuff they don’t like. The moment some dictator doesn’t like Disco music, get ready for getting falsely reported by the Palantir Disco-Stop AI for listening to something similar to Disco, then getting executed while being called a pedophile (the dictator is hyper-obsessed with a case, where a Disco musician had an inappropriate relationship with a minor).