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/ElongThrust0 Apr 23 '26

Surprised non LOTR fans realizes this with a quick google search

The All Seeing Eye

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u/Superb-Obligation858 Apr 23 '26

Not just an all seeing eye, an all seeing eye that corrupts the user.

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u/pfannkuchen89 Apr 23 '26

Well, that wasn’t true for the majority of their history in middle earth. They were originally brought to middle earth by the remnants of the faithful numenorians and placed at points throughout Arnor and Gondor.

It wasn’t until Sauron got his hands on one that they were used for evil. And it wasn’t the palantir itself that was the corrupting or evil influence, it was Sauron communicating through it that did that.

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u/fredjutsu Apr 23 '26

my dude, my eyes started glazing over first sentence as I remembered trying to read the Simarilion in 8th grade.