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Reflections on Palantir

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479 points freditup | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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xrd ◴[16 Oct 24 22:43 UTC] No.41864608[source]▶
As someone who has always dismissed Palantir, I really loved this. It's very powerful and makes me reconsider what I felt about them.

But, I'm really stuck on the point about Trump being a capable meme generator. I mean, this feels like someone saying that a monkey produces lots of BS. It is close to technically accurate, monkeys do produce feces, and the cosine distance between that and true bullshit is small. But, it misses the larger vibe-stench.

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1. vundercind ◴[17 Oct 24 05:12 UTC] No.41866604[source]▶
I found TFA to frequently juke in weird directions, and for the text to at times be at-odds with what I believed the subtext of what I had just read—a notable early one is where the author describes the intellectual atmosphere at the company in a series of examples that definitely read to me like performative, LARPing intellectualism… then sums that up by claiming you can’t copy their vibe by LARPing intellectualism, which is what I though I was just reading a description of.

The selection of the list of people and the reason they were being mentioned, in the section you’re referring to, was another point where the piece threw me.

I wouldn’t say it changed my mind about the company, but it, uh, gave some new shading to my existing impression.