I know that it’s very obviously a dangerous political tool if it gains any institutional power. And if you don’t understand that, watch the video. But even on a technical, non-social level:
There is no real explanation given as so how this system will supposedly determine truth. Just vague pointing to inapplicable abstracted concepts like scientific method and law.
There is 0% (not rounded down) chance that this system can do its advertised job. It is a censorship tool.
It’s backed by the CIA, large banks, and Palantir - it’s obvious and I have no doubt that that’s where they’ll get YOUR DATA from.
Investors like that will aid the company, greatly, because they have a financial incentive to see a return on their investment.
Seems weird to just be like; “Oh hey chums, don’t worry some-guy-online©™ is saying it will never work.”
Thanks for your optimism, but do you know anything about Palantir? That they started out as the fruad detection department of early Ebay? Figured out how to ID individuals from large quantities of anonymized data - then went to the CIA and US government to make similar tools for them?
“Don’t worry chum! It’ll never work!”
VERY optimistic.
That’s not what I said. I said it can’t do its advertised job, which is very different from its real job.
- This tool is obviously about building control. That’s why it has these investors. We both understand that. “It is a censorship tool”
- However, the tool’s marketing lies and gives the public a false premise for its existence - they claim this tool is made to combat misinformation by determining real truth. We both understand it’s not made to do that. But perhaps, there could be readers in the general public who take it at face value and might believe that’s the real purpose.
- My point is that, it barely even tries at building that false premise. I’m not saying it won’t be able to do its real job and censor dissent, if it gains institutional power.
I think the CIA and major banks ARE “institutional power”. I think your viewpoint is a little lagging (which is fine, it’s a lot to take in).
It’s a reputation destroying tool.
It’s advertised job does not matter if it can do it’s really job… If you understand it’s real job, why are pretending it has to achieve anything else to continue existing?
Extortion, control of narrative, politic construction and destruction. That’s power.
So like I’ve been suggesting, your optimism seems misguided.
The whole Tech VC model is to fund things for decades until they’ve captured the market (and killed the competition)… But in this case we’re talking the complete capture of dissent. I believe the situation is far worse than you’re allowing yourself to see.
It doesn’t matter if it can’t do it’s advertised job, it will still be fully funded (by investor money) for decades and escalating it’s stock price, not to mention destroying the world in a very socially violent, politically suicidal way.
Which is the point: Peter Thiel is part of a xenophobic Catholic cult (based on the works of Rene Girad), called the “The rad trads”. They believe causing an apocalypse will bring back Jesus Christ.
I’m not joking. This is a Hitler type situation. Many many people are likely to die.
P.S Thiel was raised in Swakopmund, South Africa, a Nazi town that praised Hitler.
TL:DW: Palantir are partnering with the CIA, and AI companies to make an algorithmic PR firm for everyone. Capable of using AI agents and decades worth of data collection to make and destroy public reputations on demand. Their first targets; journalists and activists.
