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tomlockwood commented on What does Palantir actually do?   wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil
cookiengineer · 10 days ago
Don't forget that Lavender AI, the "cool system" that automatically targets all Hamas fighters (with probably 1000% civilian casualties because it destroyed all hospitals, churches, mosques and schools along the way) was developed by Palantir.

The irony is that this really bad SIGINT graph flags also relatives, e.g. cousins of cousins of fighters, just because they had e.g. family events where they attended together, even though all other intelligence data would point to the contrary. The documentary that got banned from BBC highlights this with a lot of stories where e.g. hospital workers were specifically targeted because a distant relative was associated with hamas.

Palantir had a video on YouTube where they were even bragging about this graph, though not under its now-leaked codename.

tomlockwood · 10 days ago
It's funny (horrifying) coming from an advertising background - this sounds exactly like the tech that allows advertisers to take credit for conversions that are wildly unrelated to ads, in reality.
tomlockwood commented on Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police   nytimes.com/live/2025/08/... · Posted by u/Tadpole9181
jmward01 · 13 days ago
I was in a very negative space earlier this year due to the current direction the US is heading. Mostly because I am someone that doesn't want to hear problems without a call to action I can actually engage with. The things that are happening at the national level are very hard to do anything about but I did realize that I could engage at my local level so I decided to just start showing up. I now regularly attend my local city counsel meetings. I don't go and make a bunch of remarks but I have, on a few occasions, added to the public comments and, I think, I was listened to. If you want to effect change my recommendation is to show up. At a minimum you will get far more informed but you may just find that you can actually make a change too.
tomlockwood · 13 days ago
I absolutely applaud this. I doorknocked a thousand doors for my local state election and came out of the experience more optimistic than ever. Real people, listen. Real people want to make the world better. Getting out there is the antidote to doomerism.
tomlockwood commented on Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)   founders.archives.gov/doc... · Posted by u/freediver
shermantanktop · 18 days ago
I dunno about every scenario. But it’s a pretty obvious lesson for Pax Americana, which has been based on both hard and soft power, both of which are in the hands of someone who doesn’t seem to share the premise that they should be used at all the way they have been in the past.
tomlockwood · 18 days ago
Also I reckon it reads as a good lesson for managers too!
tomlockwood commented on GPT might be an information virus (2023)   nonint.com/2023/03/09/gpt... · Posted by u/3willows
tomlockwood · a month ago
I want to suggest that the virus is even more insidious, and is an organism that feeds on VC money, and it is evolving via a substrate of human programmers to become more efficient at consuming it. And like an organism evolving towards survival, it gives no shits about the utility generated in return for the thing it eats.

And, as time goes on, it'll get more efficient at the consumption and waste less and less energy on the generation of utility. It is an organism that needs servers to feed and generates hype like a deep-sea monster glows its lure.

tomlockwood commented on How Anthropic teams use Claude Code   anthropic.com/news/how-an... · Posted by u/yurivish
bdangubic · a month ago
That's easy to say when the employee is not personally paying the massive amount of compute running Claude Code for a half-hour.

you can do the same for $200/month

tomlockwood · a month ago
Yeah sweet what's the burn rate?
tomlockwood commented on US AI Action Plan   ai.gov/action-plan... · Posted by u/joelburget
landl0rd · a month ago
Sigh. That old line. Look man, I don't know if it was a crack or a serious comment (this being the internet) but I'll assume it was a comment in good faith.

Journalism and academia tend to attract people with more of a liberal bent. I'm not even accusing them all of being partisan hacks, but as y'all like to say, subconscious biases influence us.

This is like me saying "economic productivity has a well-known right-wing bias" or something goofy like that.

tomlockwood · a month ago
This is an incredibly funny thing to say in the face of Murdoch.
tomlockwood commented on Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody's ready   old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI... · Posted by u/ubj
joshdavham · 2 months ago
> I honestly think we’re being played.

Supposing this is true, who is playing us and why?

tomlockwood · 2 months ago
Sam Altman and the money.
tomlockwood commented on Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody's ready   old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI... · Posted by u/ubj
giantrobot · 2 months ago
Where's the 10x, 20x, or whatever increases in profit from all the AI "productivity"? Typing is not the challenging aspect of writing code. Writing boilerplate faster isn't the super power that a lot of non-technical people seem to think it is.
tomlockwood · 2 months ago
Yeah the current Vibe for me seems to be: Congratulations, you trained a giant machine that makes copying code from Stackoverflow marginally faster.
tomlockwood commented on Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody's ready   old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI... · Posted by u/ubj
gwynforthewyn · 2 months ago
It’s only a feeling, but I’d swear I’ve seen variations on this post across a half a dozen software-adjacent subreddits every day for the last month. The common denominator has always been “Paying $200 for Claude Max is a steal” with absolutely no evidence of what the author did with it.

I honestly think we’re being played.

tomlockwood · 2 months ago
Agreed. Where's the code?
tomlockwood commented on Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody's ready   old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI... · Posted by u/ubj
tomlockwood · 2 months ago
Often see these glowing reviews.

Where's the code?

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