Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys

Re:Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the ... by card_zero on Friday April 24, 2026 @07:30AM (#47888725)

I'm disconcerted from the opposite direction, because it seems people feel uncritical compassion for anything with a face, and they want to prevent suffering but instead of caring about the complexities of human anguish they seem to define it as "pain signals in vertebrates", and they call this ethics, but they just base it on vibes, and so maybe all their morality is incoherent intuition.

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Re:Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the ... by tdb7893 on Friday April 24, 2026 @09:36AM (#47890093)

Maybe it's a cultural thing but I've never met anyone like you describe at all (certainly none of the vegans I've met). What you describe is obviously a dumb way to think about ethics but I'm also skeptical any significant amount of people think that way

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Re:Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the ... by NonHyloMorph on Friday April 24, 2026 @10:19AM (#47890691)

Can we please get back to the topic of palantir? The whole eating meat discourse is interesting but also distracts from the topic at hand: do people working at palantir pose themselves question what it means for them to work for palantir? What do we think should be a proper ethical norm regarding people working at palantir?

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Re:Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the ... by PearlRiver on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:05PM (#47892986)

Everything humans believe is based on vibes- which happen to change with the centuries.

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