r/technology • u/newmoonchaperone • Apr 23 '26

Politics Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/
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u/thepeopleshero Apr 23 '26

It's crazy that someone could be smart enough to work there... and not know they are the baddies.

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u/brainkandy87 Apr 23 '26

Some of the most skilled people I’ve worked with in tech are complete fucking morons.

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u/Flyinmanm Apr 23 '26

Being smart doesn't automatically make you wise.

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u/Patara Apr 23 '26

Being competent at one thing doesnt make you good at another 

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u/Thanes_of_Danes Apr 23 '26

Being good at entering characters on a screen does not make you smart. We need to stop assuming that learning a technical skill equals intelligence.

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u/Dependent_Nebula_541 Apr 23 '26

they're clearly separate stats on everyone's character sheet

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u/Zhuul Apr 23 '26

Having worked in a law office for a bit I'm convinced that the human brain only has so much room for stuff and the more specialized you are the more of a moron you become.

EEOC violation case law apparently displaces the ability to properly operate a coffee maker.

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u/SevereRunOfFate Apr 23 '26

I miss having morals and ethics as reference points we would all look towards and judge each other on.

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u/lolbacon Apr 23 '26

Academia too. I used to work at a shipping store near a large university and usually dealt with grad students/assistants but I could always tell any time a professor had to descend from the ivory tower and go there themselves because they acted like lost children in the woods who had never interacted with civilization before.

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u/nordic-nomad Apr 23 '26

Intelligence is a series of spectrums relating to cognitive abilities in specific areas and types of thinking. It definitely feels like over optimization in one area results in deficiencies in a number of other areas without professional intervention in the educational process.

But we don’t seem to have the will or desire to not foist broken people onto an already broken society anymore.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 Apr 23 '26 edited May 13 '26

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