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It's totally reasonable to be skeptical of palantir without knowing the exact product in question, given their record.


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Not really.

They have a track record of failed IT projects, because they have a very high bar for handling data properly.

Palantir have a track record of successful IT projects, because they do what they want and hope there's limited blowback - they've modelled their biggest customer very well, there.

As somebody born in an NHS hospital whose life has been saved by the NHS on at least 3 occasions, I'm more than happy to defend their record.

Palantir, given what we know that has leaked about what they do and how they do it, considerably less so.


> Palantir have a track record of successful IT projects, because they do what they want and hope there's limited blowback - they've modelled their biggest customer very well, there.

What does this mean?


Perhaps you could research it, it sounds like a fun thing to do.


Research what? The claim that Palantir "just does what it wants to do and hopes there's no blowback?"

I literally can't even parse what that means. Palantir works in very close coordination with their customers' leadership and while the company and product "have opinions" about how to do things, it doesn't at all wash out to Palantir "just doing what it wants to do."

Such a claim doesn't even make sense in the context of a business that works the way Palantir does.

Do you mean sometimes customers pay Palantir to do things that other people or the public disagree with?

And who do you think "their biggest customer" is that they're modeling their own approach after?


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Every time I’ve heard Peter Thiel speak I’ve believed he cares about other things. I’m more concerned about his implementations of things.




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