As I'm sure you know, the name is directly lifted from the Lord of the Rings. The Palantir was one of the "seeing stones" that Sauron used to corrupt Saruman, and my AI buddy tells me, "Palantir has been involved in various projects, including working with the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. Although its engineers and products don’t engage in spying directly, they function like a spy’s brain, collecting and analyzing information from various sources"
Additionally, Palantir was founded with some initial funding from the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. In-Q-Tel is a not-for-profit organization that invests in cutting-edge technologies to support the U.S. intelligence community.
Sometimes these guys don't even try to hide what they are, they will shove it straight in your face, I think it's vanity that makes them do it.
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, is quite open in his support of the USA and its military endeavors. And he has said that if anyone working at Palantir does not feel the same, they are working for the wrong company.
It's not even the support for the USA military and civilian espionage that really gets me. It's their self-congratulatory nature that really fries my potatoes. These guys could have been "Technosys LLC" or "Infoboing Inc." just another bunch of low-key nerds working for the man. But no, they have to be "Palantir" because actually they are all really Denethor, Steward of Gondor, Guardian of the free folk of the west, monitoring the distant lands from the White City of Minas Tirith.
not going to be able to get the image of the US gov as the Eye of Sauron out of my mind
Do you know of Peter Thiel's company "Palantir"?
As I'm sure you know, the name is directly lifted from the Lord of the Rings. The Palantir was one of the "seeing stones" that Sauron used to corrupt Saruman, and my AI buddy tells me, "Palantir has been involved in various projects, including working with the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan and Iraq. Although its engineers and products don’t engage in spying directly, they function like a spy’s brain, collecting and analyzing information from various sources"
Additionally, Palantir was founded with some initial funding from the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. In-Q-Tel is a not-for-profit organization that invests in cutting-edge technologies to support the U.S. intelligence community.
Sometimes these guys don't even try to hide what they are, they will shove it straight in your face, I think it's vanity that makes them do it.
Don’t get me started with Tolkien parallels/analogies - we’ll be here all day ;)
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, is quite open in his support of the USA and its military endeavors. And he has said that if anyone working at Palantir does not feel the same, they are working for the wrong company.
It's not even the support for the USA military and civilian espionage that really gets me. It's their self-congratulatory nature that really fries my potatoes. These guys could have been "Technosys LLC" or "Infoboing Inc." just another bunch of low-key nerds working for the man. But no, they have to be "Palantir" because actually they are all really Denethor, Steward of Gondor, Guardian of the free folk of the west, monitoring the distant lands from the White City of Minas Tirith.