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Wishful thinking but it would be real great if an engineer poisoned these datasets with bait entries
by acc_297 8mo ago
Wishful thinking but it would be real great if an engineer poisoned these datasets with bait entries
- Analemma_ 8mo agoIt’s not gonna happen. The people who work at Palantir, if they’re not just there for the money, think they’re doing the right thing, they see themselves as keeping the country safe and improving government efficiency (and who could be against that?)
- mikelitoris 8mo agoNobody thinks that. They are there for money.
- direwolf20 8mo agoEven Peter Thiel?
- kakacik 8mo agoEspecially Peter Thiel. Now we are not saying he doesn't internally agree with many things that are happening (I don't mean this specific topic but rather overall direction of US society), we know he does.
- gunsle 8mo agoThat’s just not true. There are plenty of people in defense tech that clearly believe they are doing the right thing. Same with those in the military. Their version of “right” is just different than yours. To them, ensuring American hegemony is more right than whatever your definition is.
- rustystump 8mo agoThis is exactly right and why it is so dangerous. The bad guys dont think they are bad. The opposite is true. There is the expression the road to hell is led on good intentions line with the heads of bishops.
- tdeck 8mo agoThose material interests are very persuasive though. Without them, who knows what they might believe.
- nodra 8mo agoYou would be surprised how pilled some people are. It’s unfortunate.
- amelius 8mo agoMoney, or these IT folks derive pride from the technical challenge of building the tool, whatever its purpose. Or both.
- iso1631 8mo ago50% of the US think it's the right thing. Now sure, among educated urban people it was lower, but that's still a large number of people who think it's the right thing, and that executing american citizens for using their constitutional rights is at most "an unfortunate inevitability"
- dyauspitr 8mo agoYes. These are the same people that will cry about chat control while pushing heinous privacy violations for their right wing overlords.
- tdeck 8mo agoMany "libertarians" seem to be far more concerned about the age of consent than the size of the military or police force for some reason.
- iso1631 8mo agoWe need more René Carmilles and less of the typical HN techbro that champions the technology, and charitably, doesn't care what its used for.