Comment by legerdemain
5 years ago
Case in point: Palantir. People would rather spread bizarre FUD they hear in the media than face the fact that they just don't know how much good Palantir does.
5 years ago
Case in point: Palantir. People would rather spread bizarre FUD they hear in the media than face the fact that they just don't know how much good Palantir does.
I got nothing against Palantir (disclosure: I'm a shareholder) but you do have to acknowledge that people have very different definitions of "good" that factor into their opinions.
Some people find that bringing technology into the government is of course good, others are vehemently against agencies like ICE or the military industrial complex.
What good does Palantir do? I'd be quite interested to hear about it.
They have a surprising number of humanitarian projects. For example, they're partnering with the World Food Programme to optimize food distribution.
That might be a corporate form of moral self licensing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing
Don't know much about them, but they do appear to support/do the development of pyls (python language server)
Do they build Autobahns too
Certainly more good than news media taking an occasional drive-by shit on them will admit. It behooves people who still read the news to develop a healthy skepticism about motivated negative coverage.