How can you be nerd enough to name your surveillance firm Palantir, and not be nerd enough to have actually read what it did in the books?
Sauron fed Denethor false information when he used Palantir to scry the kingdom he was a stuert of. Or at least, Sauron twisted what Denethor could see through Palantir, only showing him the bad stuff or things in a bad light.
Palantir was completely compromised, and it’s what ended up driving Denethor mad.
The idea, I think, is that the US with the Internet and, as a little part of it, Thiel’s company, is analogous to Sauron.
And us all around, who think it’s a common medium everyone can use to all-human good, are analogous to Denethor or at least Saruman.
And also American conservatives are weird, despite everyone trying to explain them they are monkeys, they tend to look for some “white culture” in Europe and in Tolkien’s writing not in the least.
What matters is that, the same way as evolution or even their ML-based latest toy, societies react to poison. You don’t have to direct the reaction or to muster resources for it. The best way it happens is by them fulfilling their plan to its full possible extent and then seeing that they are out of potential, and their adversity is now immune.
It’s like with warfare, smarts and discipline, resilience and maneuver, sophistication and simplicity, - these all are good or bad in their fitting places, there’s no rule than one is better than the other ever. In our world the worst a hypothetical adversary to the USA could do is to make an antidote. This poison is not deadly and building immunity is the best way at approaching it.
The irony that the firm is called “Palantir”.
How can you be nerd enough to name your surveillance firm Palantir, and not be nerd enough to have actually read what it did in the books?
Sauron fed Denethor false information when he used Palantir to scry the kingdom he was a stuert of. Or at least, Sauron twisted what Denethor could see through Palantir, only showing him the bad stuff or things in a bad light.
Palantir was completely compromised, and it’s what ended up driving Denethor mad.
Same with Metaverse.
Tolkien would be turning in his grave, and he didn’t even know about digital mass surveillance when he created the Palantir plot detail.
He knew about fascism.
First-hand, no less.
To separate his views from fascism, you need a dimension most people don’t have on their political views map.
So media manipulation and systematic disinformation to achieve political goals… What’s unclear about the company’s mission? Am i missing something?
The idea, I think, is that the US with the Internet and, as a little part of it, Thiel’s company, is analogous to Sauron.
And us all around, who think it’s a common medium everyone can use to all-human good, are analogous to Denethor or at least Saruman.
And also American conservatives are weird, despite everyone trying to explain them they are monkeys, they tend to look for some “white culture” in Europe and in Tolkien’s writing not in the least.
What matters is that, the same way as evolution or even their ML-based latest toy, societies react to poison. You don’t have to direct the reaction or to muster resources for it. The best way it happens is by them fulfilling their plan to its full possible extent and then seeing that they are out of potential, and their adversity is now immune.
It’s like with warfare, smarts and discipline, resilience and maneuver, sophistication and simplicity, - these all are good or bad in their fitting places, there’s no rule than one is better than the other ever. In our world the worst a hypothetical adversary to the USA could do is to make an antidote. This poison is not deadly and building immunity is the best way at approaching it.