How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network

Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by solipsism on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:34AM (#13706221)

Thiel thinks that globalization of development without massive technological advancement will lead to a kind of slow Malthusian catastrophe

And yet he pretends to lack the sense to realize that there's nothing you can do about that! Globalism is the inevitable result of the capitalism and free markets which Theil purports to champion.

He wants to have his cake (freedom from coercion) and eat it too (the ability to coerce others). It's a perversion of libertarianism that's purely greedy and unprincipled to its core.

I think Theil knows this and thinks he's playing a masterful game of chess against us (the rest of the world).

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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by Anderkent on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:49AM (#13706362)

Where does Thiel ever argue for or request the ability to coerce others?

Adjusting the system so that other actions are incentivised is not coercion.

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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by solipsism on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:32PM (#13707835)

Supporting the governmental bureaucracies like the NSA is by definition participating in coercion.

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Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global... by Anderkent on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @05:15PM (#13709738)

That's redefining coercion towards meaninglessness.

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