How is scaring away smart people going to help you against China?
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2025
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Every day that goes by I better understand what Ted Kaczynski saw.
His head on a pike would be preferrable to both.
Legalise it plz.
Breaking News.
Man with vested interest in selling his services, insists buying his services is the only way to save us from the evil foreign menace
If you read his book The Technological Republic, he calls for a « collectivist » ideology and the merger of corporation and state. A few historical examples to choose from would be Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia or Communist China to get an idea of his vision for America’s future.
he calls for a « collectivist » ideology and the merger of corporation and state
Collectivism my ass, neither he nor any of his fellow billionaires will ever relinquish ownership of their companies. They simply want to also own the state and rule like feudal lords.
...the 1984 Macintosh commercial...
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"Owner of surveillance apparatus reckons we should all just chill and accept total surveillance"
This fucking dude.
Like seriously, in what reality are these two things NOT mutually exclusive? Also doesn't palantir have contracts with China?
Man who is the CEO of a business selling mass surveillance beyond the likes of even George Orwell's 1984 says we should run head first into a surveillance state from which he will directly profit from.
False dichotomy, much?
Crazy fucks do that sometimes. I wonder why people still listen to them.
China WILL win the AI race and that’s because they invested in infrastructure and their power grid.
The US could have done that too, but we gave the money to billionaires instead. Building a surveillance state doesn’t fix any of the mistakes we made and they’ll still win the AI race.
Not to sound like a tankie but China has made smarter decisions with regard to power generation. The current shift away from renewables (and shift back to fossil fuel) AND more reliance on central power generation are great for billionaires but just dumb for every other reason. And with the what appears to be advancing in battery technology more distributed solar cells with local storage would free up more power for the power hungry data centers. Not to mention the AI programs there are not run by douchebags like Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman.
I also think the current path of AGI study via more advanced LLM research is the wrong path. A language generator is never going to be “smart”. But what do I know, I don’t have billions of dollars and lie constantly.
Yeah china made the selfish decision to completely ignore the climate change agreements and continue to scale fossil fuel infrastructure.
It's not Tankie to admit aspects of reality. China is doing some things well. China has spent the last 20 years investing in itself, America has spent the last 20 years investing in other countries for a possible ROI for the military-industrial complex.
What would be Tankie would be to then extrapolate from that and say they're actually the best state in the world and anyone who says otherwise is a imperialist brainwashed pigdog.
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just call him by his name ffs
Ahh yes. The only 2 options
Wow, they really are just gonna make you kill them eh, for like, no good reason.
I'd rather be a free and open society than win any kind of industrial race.
"A surveillance state is needed to beat china who is evil because it's a surveillance state"
"we need to win the surveillance state race"
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Palantir CEO will be among the first to be lined up against the wall when the revolution comes.
"When did Saruman the white abandon reason for madness"
The public needs public mass surveillance on CEOs and the top 1% only. They are the top threat to the world
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"It's just... We're named after the artifact the ancient evil used to peer on the world."
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Actual humans believe life without Palantir is preferable to China winning the AI race.
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a surveillance megacorp says surveillance is good and needed. cartoonish evil.
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to ~~China Winning the AI Race~~ Palantir shareholders not getting rich fast enough
Fixed it
Look at this unfuckable loser. He's like if someone glued Steve Bannon's pubes to Steven Miller's head. "Let us destroy all freedom in the USA so China doesn't win the race to economically out-compete the USA" is as bullshit a justification as there has ever been for anything in the history of everything.
Boy I wish we as a society would stop reporting on these sociopathic vampires spouting whatever nonsense just popped into their heads
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I bet you'd be able to get a great grip on his hair as you wind up with the other hand for that oh-so-punchable face.
us winning the ai race. china winning the ai race. who gives a shit i still wont care about ai.
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If you've never seen this guy giving a talk, it's worth looking at. This guy is a total tweeker. Can't sit still, and has insane thoughts he's just willing to say in public.
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What an absolute cunt
Can somebody please hack this guys socials and leak all his private info so we see him eat his words?
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I can't wait to see this guy hanging by his left nut while people take shots at him like a piñata.
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Let's put cameras in all his houses and monitor him 24/7. Maybe he'd like it though?
The what race? No one has been working on AI for a while... if he means LLMs and similar generative models there's only the race to see how long it takes for the models to be so poisoned by being trained on their own slop that they no longer can produce the illusion of giving useful results (seems like the current generation is almost there, already giving diminishing results), and the race to extract as much money as possible from the economy before the first one ends and the bubble pops...
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This is Bubble-101. Before the thing exists, imagine the future...
threatening that another country will get there first combined with pure players like Nvidia, the uncertainty of whether or not it could be a good investment and being able to convince governments and investors to pump money into it.
If AGI ever becomes what they are promising, everything after 2022 should be a case study for marketing and communications students because they are doing a piss-poor job inspiring confidence and just sound like grifters.
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False dichotomy.
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