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Reflections on Palantir

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479 points freditup | 2 comments | 16 Oct 24 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.78s | source
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austinjp ◴[17 Oct 24 07:50 UTC] No.41867353[source]▶
The article reveals depressing reasons why someone might choose to work for the lines of Palantir: lots of talented people working on hard problems. That's pretty much it. No problem with the business model, just intellectual hunger. I'm sure the pay didn't hurt.

We need to teach our students that the employment they take doesn't exist in a vacuum. Your choice of employee can impact not only yourself but the wider world. There's more to life than intellectual satisfaction.

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1. andsoitis ◴[17 Oct 24 13:00 UTC] No.41869268[source]▶
> The article reveals depressing reasons why someone might choose to work for the lines of Palantir: lots of talented people working on hard problems. That's pretty much it. No problem with the business model, just intellectual hunger.

That seems like a very uncharitable take. For instance, don't you think the section on morality[1] addresses this head on?

[1] https://nabeelqu.substack.com/i/150188028/morality

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2. pell ◴[17 Oct 24 16:37 UTC] No.41871210[source]▶
This section is definitely interesting to read but also leaves me a bit hungry for the supposed intellectual "intensity" earlier paragraphs promised about the company and its (ex) employees. The model proposed for thinking about the morality here is incredibly limited.