>Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
>“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. “And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”
>This sounds like a direct, long-term pitch to the GOP from a CEO whose tech firm already has numerous government contracts and is deeply embedded in the Pentagon. Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you. He’s aligning his technology with both GOP political strategy and the larger male-centered culture war that the right has been waging for the better part of a decade now. And how exactly would his technology only hurt Democrat women?
pchs26 on
Well yes .. and Thiel is the guy who put Vance in as VP and has his hands in a lot around the world and is one of the people behind the scenes with our current administration. The faces we see may be bumbling fools but the goal isn’t to invest in making us feel good, it is to take over everything so our thoughts and opinions don’t matter. We should not underestimate what is occurring and should take every threat (including things like the SAVE Act vote coming up in the night, the riffing about nuking the filibuster) seriously.
1cl3nstd4yt on
Everyone should go to college. The brain is still developing for 7 years after high school.
But these assholes don’t want Americans to be educated.
Megaphonestory on
Karps concept is essentially that we need to destroy the best parts of America before a foreign adversary does first. This isn’t a product that acts as a defensive counter to a similar product, it is there to fundamentally destroy what they don’t like.
Agressive-toothbrush on
Tech Bros dream of a techno-utopia where they direct society like dictators hiding behind algorithms. They hate Democracy, they hate that people, who they deem inferior, have a right to vote.
They think of themselves as living gods, think they are the smartest ones and the only ones worth listening to…
Fact is that those tech Bros are far less intelligent than people think, they are only good at convincing themselves and others that they are intelligent. In short, most of them are frauds.
Athleticsbaby on
>Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.
I wish I believed in hell.
darkhorsehance on
I don’t understand how AI will be smart enough to cure disease, manage software, run robots and direct military operations, but it won’t be smart enough to design a plumbing or electrical system that is completely DIY?
My prediction is that the invisible hand is going to bitch slap the shit out of the people who think they can predict who AI will affect and in what ways.
chickenknickers on
This college drop out, who has worked in the trades for 35 years would ask that Plantir fuck right off. Most of the hard working people that I know, be they educated in the humanities or apprenticed in a trade, actually care about democracy and have no wish for tech overlords. It is time to starve the beast and take our power back.
jugnificent on
How exactly is AI going to increase the economic power of trades workers? I can see where AI will hurt a lot of white color jobs (particularly in some sectors) but it seems like people who do physical jobs will primarily benefit in that they are less likely to lose their job. As usual the main benefactors will be the corporation owners. But I guess this message is pretty consistent with the standard republican playbook of promising benefits to the working class while actually giving benefits to the ruling class.
ennuiinmotion on
This is more “oligarch thinks he’s smart” than anything else. AI will disrupt the trades just as much. The only job AI won’t streamline (yet) is full physical labor which fine, is mostly men, but it’s also not a growing field, and flooding the market with people desperate for work will drive down those wages, too.
HailToTheKingBabyy on
Nothing this weirdo says is shocking. Thiel is a fucking ghoul who would gladly sacrifice all of us for more power. Anyone who works for, or is associated with him, is also a piece of shit.
returnofthecursed on
This is the same guy who bragged about how his AI will kill people. He seemed proud of it. He’s a psycho motivated by greed, like most billionaires.
Ramoncin on
The problem is that I don’t find it shocking at all by now.
Huckleberry199 on
Nazi gonna do what Nazi’s do.
Photon__Sphere on
Regulate AI into the ground, now!
AI shouldn’t be allowed to take people’s jobs, and it damn well shouldn’t be used in a fascist takeover of our government.
It’s bad enough that it’s further being used to lay off millions, crush the middle class, and further concentrate wealth to the top 1%.
Flimsy_Flounder7310 on
It’s not that shocking.
Fartina69 on
It seems to me that the easiest job to automate is CEO.
MidStateMoon on
I believe the phrase is: come and take it pussy
mattgen88 on
Isn’t this a very old article? I know it says it was recently updated but I’m pretty sure I’ve read this several times
illram on
It’s like all the assholes I was arguing with about politics on Compuserve forums when I was 14 are now running the military industrial complex.
TransiTorri on
We need to take the Epstein Class to the point that they no longer have the resources for this kind of crap.
VOIDsama on
Sounds like treason to me. He’s directly saying he has technology to disenfranchise a demographic and give that power to another. This goes against everything democracy stands for even with your broken system.
Actual__Wizard on
Alex Karp is a contrarian, the scientific consensus is the opposite.
Increasing availability and decreasing the time it takes to access this type of information will “do the opposite of what he thinks.”
He’s a “typical fascist.” It doesn’t really get more textbook fascist than Alex Karp (notice I did not say Nazi. There’s a big difference.)
JMDeutsch on
As if I need a reason to further dislike this disgusting santorum golem.
wdomeika on
Part of Peter Thiel’s future vision of dumbed down automaton workforce designed to meet the needs of the billionaire class…
pdx503 on
This dude is so high on his own supply. If he were a movie character villain, he would be called out for being too formulaic. Something out a Pierce Bronson Bond movie.
waterdaemon on
I think he’s pandering to a specific audience. AI affects jobs in many sectors without much regard for party or gender.
In addition, AI can only reliably do a fraction of what it’s touted to do. Advanced pattern matching is obviously impressive and useful, but it’s not intelligence.
Strange-Effort1305 on
Palantir is an Apartheid South African company ran by a pedophile. Of course they hate American Democracy.
GestureArtist on
Karp is a psychopath and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the military.
kev11n on
Hopefully everyone has already seen this but if you haven’t be sure to watch
**DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America:**
Nuremberg 2.0, prosecute everyone involved in disrupting our democratic, rules-based society. Conspiring with law-breaking traitors is not legal.
If Trump can commit crimes with abandon and ignore court orders, we can prosecute and punish criminals even when the thugs on the supreme court say they’re allowed to poison our country with their money and lies.
Cautious_Condition82 on
This guy’s a fucking psychopath
nodesearch on
These psychopaths need to be stopped.
Philo_Publius1776 on
Dude working in the humanities here. AI has done nothing but increase the value of us humanities folks. Like most tech bros, this dude doesn’t understand social…*anything.*
My female colleagues and I fancy our chances.
MiddleAgedSponger on
Democratic power is just code for Average citizen for people like this. To them we are just bodies to be harvested and thrown into the meat grinder.
DarkeyeMat on
Peter Thiel is a piece of shit.
TKK2019 on
Anyone that works in the male dominated tech sector knows that it’s dominated by this mindset. Many have little to no understanding of empathy as it’s just not in their brain.
anemic_royaltea on
The confidence with which these people say these things, out loud, for the benefit of a global audience that will record and disseminate, without any ounce of fear of reprisal, chills me to the bone. They have backup plans upon backup plans and it’s clearly so much later than we think.
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>Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
>“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. “And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”
>This sounds like a direct, long-term pitch to the GOP from a CEO whose tech firm already has numerous government contracts and is deeply embedded in the Pentagon. Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you. He’s aligning his technology with both GOP political strategy and the larger male-centered culture war that the right has been waging for the better part of a decade now. And how exactly would his technology only hurt Democrat women?
Well yes .. and Thiel is the guy who put Vance in as VP and has his hands in a lot around the world and is one of the people behind the scenes with our current administration. The faces we see may be bumbling fools but the goal isn’t to invest in making us feel good, it is to take over everything so our thoughts and opinions don’t matter. We should not underestimate what is occurring and should take every threat (including things like the SAVE Act vote coming up in the night, the riffing about nuking the filibuster) seriously.
Everyone should go to college. The brain is still developing for 7 years after high school.
But these assholes don’t want Americans to be educated.
Karps concept is essentially that we need to destroy the best parts of America before a foreign adversary does first. This isn’t a product that acts as a defensive counter to a similar product, it is there to fundamentally destroy what they don’t like.
Tech Bros dream of a techno-utopia where they direct society like dictators hiding behind algorithms. They hate Democracy, they hate that people, who they deem inferior, have a right to vote.
They think of themselves as living gods, think they are the smartest ones and the only ones worth listening to…
Fact is that those tech Bros are far less intelligent than people think, they are only good at convincing themselves and others that they are intelligent. In short, most of them are frauds.
>Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.
I wish I believed in hell.
I don’t understand how AI will be smart enough to cure disease, manage software, run robots and direct military operations, but it won’t be smart enough to design a plumbing or electrical system that is completely DIY?
My prediction is that the invisible hand is going to bitch slap the shit out of the people who think they can predict who AI will affect and in what ways.
This college drop out, who has worked in the trades for 35 years would ask that Plantir fuck right off. Most of the hard working people that I know, be they educated in the humanities or apprenticed in a trade, actually care about democracy and have no wish for tech overlords. It is time to starve the beast and take our power back.
How exactly is AI going to increase the economic power of trades workers? I can see where AI will hurt a lot of white color jobs (particularly in some sectors) but it seems like people who do physical jobs will primarily benefit in that they are less likely to lose their job. As usual the main benefactors will be the corporation owners. But I guess this message is pretty consistent with the standard republican playbook of promising benefits to the working class while actually giving benefits to the ruling class.
This is more “oligarch thinks he’s smart” than anything else. AI will disrupt the trades just as much. The only job AI won’t streamline (yet) is full physical labor which fine, is mostly men, but it’s also not a growing field, and flooding the market with people desperate for work will drive down those wages, too.
Nothing this weirdo says is shocking. Thiel is a fucking ghoul who would gladly sacrifice all of us for more power. Anyone who works for, or is associated with him, is also a piece of shit.
This is the same guy who bragged about how his AI will kill people. He seemed proud of it. He’s a psycho motivated by greed, like most billionaires.
The problem is that I don’t find it shocking at all by now.
Nazi gonna do what Nazi’s do.
Regulate AI into the ground, now!
AI shouldn’t be allowed to take people’s jobs, and it damn well shouldn’t be used in a fascist takeover of our government.
It’s bad enough that it’s further being used to lay off millions, crush the middle class, and further concentrate wealth to the top 1%.
It’s not that shocking.
It seems to me that the easiest job to automate is CEO.
I believe the phrase is: come and take it pussy
Isn’t this a very old article? I know it says it was recently updated but I’m pretty sure I’ve read this several times
It’s like all the assholes I was arguing with about politics on Compuserve forums when I was 14 are now running the military industrial complex.
We need to take the Epstein Class to the point that they no longer have the resources for this kind of crap.
Sounds like treason to me. He’s directly saying he has technology to disenfranchise a demographic and give that power to another. This goes against everything democracy stands for even with your broken system.
Alex Karp is a contrarian, the scientific consensus is the opposite.
Increasing availability and decreasing the time it takes to access this type of information will “do the opposite of what he thinks.”
He’s a “typical fascist.” It doesn’t really get more textbook fascist than Alex Karp (notice I did not say Nazi. There’s a big difference.)
As if I need a reason to further dislike this disgusting santorum golem.
Part of Peter Thiel’s future vision of dumbed down automaton workforce designed to meet the needs of the billionaire class…
This dude is so high on his own supply. If he were a movie character villain, he would be called out for being too formulaic. Something out a Pierce Bronson Bond movie.
I think he’s pandering to a specific audience. AI affects jobs in many sectors without much regard for party or gender.
In addition, AI can only reliably do a fraction of what it’s touted to do. Advanced pattern matching is obviously impressive and useful, but it’s not intelligence.
Palantir is an Apartheid South African company ran by a pedophile. Of course they hate American Democracy.
Karp is a psychopath and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the military.
Hopefully everyone has already seen this but if you haven’t be sure to watch
**DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America:**
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no)
Nuremberg 2.0, prosecute everyone involved in disrupting our democratic, rules-based society. Conspiring with law-breaking traitors is not legal.
If Trump can commit crimes with abandon and ignore court orders, we can prosecute and punish criminals even when the thugs on the supreme court say they’re allowed to poison our country with their money and lies.
This guy’s a fucking psychopath
These psychopaths need to be stopped.
Dude working in the humanities here. AI has done nothing but increase the value of us humanities folks. Like most tech bros, this dude doesn’t understand social…*anything.*
My female colleagues and I fancy our chances.
Democratic power is just code for Average citizen for people like this. To them we are just bodies to be harvested and thrown into the meat grinder.
Peter Thiel is a piece of shit.
Anyone that works in the male dominated tech sector knows that it’s dominated by this mindset. Many have little to no understanding of empathy as it’s just not in their brain.
The confidence with which these people say these things, out loud, for the benefit of a global audience that will record and disseminate, without any ounce of fear of reprisal, chills me to the bone. They have backup plans upon backup plans and it’s clearly so much later than we think.
This guy and Thiel need to go, same with Elon.