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So Palantir sells a data management tool and deployment support. That shouldn’t really surprise anyone who knows the first thing about data science.

The interesting thing about Palantir isn’t what they sell but how they sell it and who buys it. They clearly market their unremarkable software as an autocrat’s wet dream.

And police and military departments across Europe and the US buy their shit, which says more about those police and military departments than about the software.

Anti-communism is a fancy name for fascism.

The request created a backlash online with many disagreeing with the practice.

Let me guess, Americans?

As someone who was forced to start using Windows again after ten years after ten years of exclusively running Linux: Why is it like this? Everything is so crappy and slow!

What AI revolution? All I get is fancy spellcheck and crappy image generation.

It’s hyperbole.

That’s true in a somewhat abstract way, but I just don’t see any evidence of the claim that it is just around the corner. I don’t see what currently existing technology can facilitate it. Faster-than-light travel could also theoretically be just around the corner, but it would surprise me if it was, because we just don’t have the technology.

On the other hand, the people who push the claim that AGI is just around the corner usually have huge vested interests.

We’re not even remotely close. The promise of AGI is part of the AI hype machine and taking it seriously is playing into their hands.

Irrelevant at best, harmful at worst 🤷