Comment by kstrauser
1 day ago
I just had some otherwise nice-sounding recruiter pings from Palantir-adjacent companies. I couldn’t do it. I found another role that’s everything I wanted and I can look at myself in the mirror.
1 day ago
I just had some otherwise nice-sounding recruiter pings from Palantir-adjacent companies. I couldn’t do it. I found another role that’s everything I wanted and I can look at myself in the mirror.
On the other hand, you could aim for becoming a mole or whistleblower.
That’s a thing, to be sure, but there’s also the very strong possibility of becoming institutionalized and rationalizing the stuff you’re working on in the mean time.
You mean you are worried about personally causing harm in that job? Or you are worried about saving face?
The former. I don’t want to work on things that make the world worse in ways I care about.
So how did you make that determination of harm? Are you making the world worse being an accountant at palantir? What if the role was making systems safer and more secure?
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