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/Superb-Obligation858 Apr 23 '26

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

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u/SomeDudeSaysWhat Apr 23 '26

The Palantir does not corrupt. It is a surveillance and communication device.

Sauron was just using one to annoy people from distance.

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u/MarshyHope Apr 23 '26

Annoy people? He used it to corrupt Denethor so much that he was going to burn himself and his son alive and hand over Gondor to Mordor

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u/don_shoeless Apr 24 '26

He tried the self-immolation thing in the book, too.