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Ah, the coming age of Palantir's all seeing platform; and Peter Thiel becoming the shadow Emperor. Too bad non-deterministic ml systems are prone to errors that risk lives when applied wrongly to crucial parts of society. But in an authoritarian state, those will be hidden away anyway, so there's nothing to see here: move along folks. Yes, surveillance and authoritarianism go hand in hand, ask China. It's important to protest these methods and push lawmakers to act against them; now, before it's too late.

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I might be missing something but I don' think this article isn't about palantir or any of their products

You're absolutely right, Palantir just needs a different name and then they'd have no issues.

This comment has a double negative, which makes it a false positive.

Palantir is but one head of the hydra which has hundreds of them, and all concerns about a single one apply to the whole beast hundredfold.

It's still not helpful to wander into threads to talk about your favorite topic without making effort to provide some context on why your comments are relevant. When random crazy people come up to you spouting their theories in public places, the problem is not that their concerns are necessarily incoherent or invalid; the problem is that they broadcasting their thoughts randomly with no context, and their audience has no way of telling whether they just need to verbalize what's bothering them or have mistaken a passer-by for one of the villains in their psychodrama.

tl;dr if you want to make a broad point, make the effort to put it in context so people can appreciate it properly.

The article is about omnialert, not palantir, but don’t let the facts get in the way of your soapbox rant.

Same fallible systems, same end goal of mass surveillance.

That may be the case, but only one of them is actually responsible for armed police swarming this student and it wasn't Palantir. It seems very strange that you're so eager to give a free pass to the firm who actually was at fault here.

I'm pretty sure that some people will continue to apply the term "soapbox ranting" to all opposition against the technofascism even when victims of its false positives will be in need of coroners, not psychologists.

American, please, wake up. The masked border police are on the streets arresting citizens, the military is being paid as a client of the president, corruption is legal, and a mass surveillance machine unfathomable to prior dictatorships is being/has been established. You're fucked. Listen to the soapbox. It is very, very relevant. Wake up.

I dont think a guy who knows so much about the anti christ could be wrong.

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