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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: 0s | 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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clircle ◴[17 Oct 24 10:38 UTC] No.41868249[source]▶
> We need to teach our students...

Teach your values to your own kids, man

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cambaceres ◴[17 Oct 24 11:54 UTC] No.41868777[source]▶
The perfect response to this kind of preaching.
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moolcool ◴[17 Oct 24 12:19 UTC] No.41868954[source]▶
I don't think it's preachy at all to say "Hey, the work you do has impacts on the wider world"
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next_xibalba[dead post] ◴[17 Oct 24 12:27 UTC] No.41869008[source]▶
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1. webdood90 ◴[17 Oct 24 13:02 UTC] No.41869276[source]▶
This is a great example of the toxic individualism our society suffers from. There is no sense of community or doing what's right for the greater good because people think they always know better.
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2. tolerance ◴[17 Oct 24 13:35 UTC] No.41869540[source]▶
The sad thing is that there is some truth to the parent comment.

For the most part it's an accurate representation of how morals are appropriated into institutions like academia.

As important qualities like community and a shared notion of a common good in humanity are, the system as it stands will render them according to its own interests and students will exit none the wiser. Character becomes standardized into a set of "values" of an entirely different sort.

The problem is that Students inevitably become parents, and some inevitably branch out into "other institutions" professionally, espousing Moral Character® and we're left to figure out who contaminated what?

The baby or the bathwater?