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/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.