Peter Thiel's Palantir to provide tech for Israel's 'war-related missions'

Just like NSO/Pegasus is only used for "good"

Look - I worked for Lockheed... My brother was personal flight surgeon to the Joint Chiefs. Dad was also in air force. Grandfather was a nuclear engineer for GE... Pretty well know the military

But one does need to pay attention to how tech and defense work together - especially when the defense eng of the equation is an opaque foreign military.

(When lockheed bought savi (rfid tracking systems for supplies/equipment/weapons/chemicals) - we had a several great engineers, of muslim/middle eastern descent, who quit over protest)

That's not to say AI isn't used in warfare; computer vision has been an enormous part of recon and targeting pipelines over the past decade. But LLMs themselves are going to take a looooooot of fanangling before it sees active duty. Think Hololens, not M4 carbine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU (Palantir AIP | Defense and Military)

I feel like starlink is underappreciated here. It seems to be a game changer in terms of communication about live targets and intelligence in a way that traditional satellites just aren't. Due to that, it seems obvious that SpaceX would make the most money in military contracts related to it. I don't think the military is blind nor is SpaceX to the potential here - so why haven't we heard more about that kind of partnership?

China being a manufacturing superpower in the same way the US was during WWII makes me feel like they are underestimated essentially because industrial production is such a big deal for military capacity. I think other capacity of China is overappreciated. But industrial capacity for every part of the drone/shell production chain seems like how the most recent modern war has been fought.

The US seems to only have grown in the informational space - not production capacity. If those gains are not being realized in military, then the US's position would be slowly receding. It could be that the miliary has not been able to make use of the information space or not. We don't know.

Military position is about capabilities and (hopefully) not hot trial of those capabilities. Great powers each thinking they have vastly stronger capabilities than the other could make hot trial of the capacity more likely. That's not a good thing. Capabilities need to be more obvious to avoid war.

I guess what I am saying is - I'd like to know too. Mostly this topic is a lot of hot takes and chest beating so it's hard to get a more indifferent look.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/09/middleeast/israel-genocide-ca...

Does Palantir sell to Myanmar?

If Israel actually gets convicted of breaches under the convention, of which there is a chance, would you be comfortable selling technology that is aiding in their "war-related missions"?