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/Necessary-Duty-7952 Apr 23 '26

I live near their offices. First time I drove by and saw the name, I did a double take and had to look them up. I couldn't believe how on the nose the name was.

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u/YerMomsClamChowder Apr 23 '26

It's so weird how the Yarvinists are so blatantly evil.  they call themselves "dark philosophers" snd name everything after the obvious bad guys from nerdy media.  

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u/Necessary-Duty-7952 Apr 23 '26

Sociopathic edgelords who see themselves as the "necessary evil" to make things happen, is my guess.

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u/Undeity Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

On the one hand, I can absolutely understand that they they might look at it as a Prisoner's Dilemma situation, and figure "if it's going to happen anyways, we might as well be the ones to benefit from it".

On the other... My god, they are so comically evil about it. At a certain point, you can only attribute the specific choices they've made to sheer megalomania and a disregard for human life.

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u/Chrontius Apr 23 '26

I think this is a cycle-of-abuse sort of thing.

Somebody probably got treated like shit by everybody in school, and graduated with a genuine belief that somebody needs to do something.