Comment by can16358p
8 hours ago
Not working for any of them but given everything else equal, I'd pick Meta over Palantir under any circumstance, if I were to work for one of them.
8 hours ago
Not working for any of them but given everything else equal, I'd pick Meta over Palantir under any circumstance, if I were to work for one of them.
That's the most American comment. Inventing a 2 party idea when there is none and justify their positions based on that.
False binary choice in one sense, but also living America invariably becomes a Hobson's choice or a Catch-22 between survival and morality. Where I grew up in the SF Bay Area, the income required is $390k/yr to afford a home mortgage.. and there are very few ethical and legal / productive ways to make that much money working as an employee. It's basically not possible without starting a business, becoming a criminal, and/or serving immoral businesses in war, financial trickery, or megacorps.
Sure. Between Meta and DOGE or the ICE, Meta seems the lesser evil. OTOH, why work for someone evil at all? Aren’t enough jobs out there with ethical organisations that prioritise, or otherwise favour, common good?
It's a false and unnecessary choice. Work somewhere else. There are always options.
I take it your answer then is, "There are worse places you could be working."
I'm curious, why Palantir as worse? As I understand it they are basically well very built data pipelines + dashboards + marketing. See here for example: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-what-the-company-does/
Not try to defending them, but I do believe Meta is doing much more harm, purely based on Instagram for children.
Palantir's entire purpose for existence is to implement the Total Information Awareness program that US citizens rejected. They're domestic spies.
Are they worse than Meta? I don't know, a strong argument can be made that both organizations are very harmful and there's no point in trying to rank which is worse.
Not much worse. I would wager that governments around the world buy data from data brokers and from Meta to be processed with Palantir to target journalists, protesters, political opponents, and random innocent people inadvertently between deliberate intention and sketchy AI correlation without real evidence.