Posting midway through read, will edit to add more thoughts as this is a great essay thus far:
On point 4 of the Palantir manifesto: the tech bros have not yet won a war with their any of their software and our drone fleet is both more expensive and operationally inferior to those of our peers and non-peer competitors. If anything, over-reliance on their software and "assisted reasoning" has led the US into blunder after blunder, to say nothing of the second order effects of Israel's use of Palantir targetting software on the civilian populations of Gaza.
This seems premature on their part. However, even if they can't use their toys to win wars abroad, I can absolutely see it being effective enough to displace the boomers holding the levers of power. I suspect we'll see a lot of elite reshuffling over the next decade.
Edit: finished up. I just don't see any way their planned future is possible under incoming resource and energy constraints. I think this was an elegy for a future that died on February 28th.
I'm also a collapsnik, but I'm afraid that during an energy crisis, those systems will be much cheaper to operate than the traditional fuel-hungry state forces.
Read it while listening to Satie’s Gnossiennes, as prescribed
Posting midway through read, will edit to add more thoughts as this is a great essay thus far:
On point 4 of the Palantir manifesto: the tech bros have not yet won a war with their any of their software and our drone fleet is both more expensive and operationally inferior to those of our peers and non-peer competitors. If anything, over-reliance on their software and "assisted reasoning" has led the US into blunder after blunder, to say nothing of the second order effects of Israel's use of Palantir targetting software on the civilian populations of Gaza.
This seems premature on their part. However, even if they can't use their toys to win wars abroad, I can absolutely see it being effective enough to displace the boomers holding the levers of power. I suspect we'll see a lot of elite reshuffling over the next decade.
Edit: finished up. I just don't see any way their planned future is possible under incoming resource and energy constraints. I think this was an elegy for a future that died on February 28th.
I'm also a collapsnik, but I'm afraid that during an energy crisis, those systems will be much cheaper to operate than the traditional fuel-hungry state forces.
That's inarguable, but that cuts against Palantir who is taking the nonsensical task of reforming the systems from
the inside, rather than just coopting the interface layer.
Drones are the new revolver: they make everyone equal, goverments and gangsters and gamers.