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Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft

6 hours ago
  • #Tech Ethics
  • #National Service
  • #Surveillance
  • Palantir released a manifesto advocating for mandatory national service, suggesting a move away from an all-volunteer military.
  • The manifesto criticizes Silicon Valley for focusing on consumer apps and urges tech companies to build weapons and enhance national security.
  • It calls for reverence towards public figures like Elon Musk while dismissing public political engagement by ordinary citizens as trivial.
  • Palantir's document promotes cultural superiority, arguing that some cultures are regressive and advocating for more value judgments against them.
  • The article critiques the manifesto as elitist, ultranationalistic, and contradictory, highlighting its support for surveillance and AI weapons.
  • Other news includes Reese Witherspoon's push for women to learn AI, criticized as vague hype without practical applications.
  • A Substack post discusses eroded Fourth Amendment protections due to outdated legal doctrines like the third-party doctrine.
  • An AI development notes that text attribution to authors is becoming reliably possible, raising privacy implications.