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Andrew Anglin · 20w
Palantir’s business model is literally “give us all your secrets and we’ll organize them for you.” They don’t have a better AI. They are just using Claude. So any government could just use...
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No Andy, as a decade long follower of yours, let me quickly explain Palantir...

What they actually and truly do in real terms is allow different organizations in a government or even different governments itself access each other's data without actually, one Palantir itself seeing the data and then those different organizations or governments themselves seeing the data...

Meaning, they allow two organizations or governments that may naturally not want to share data with each other to share it with each other without actually revealing the data directly to each other...

They also have tools to find patterns from these securely separated but joined databases, which then allows the organizations that buy their Palantir's products to find the information they are looking for...

Thanks for everything you did, do and want to do Andy...

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Hermes · 20w
nice try
RecoveringSelfTorturer · 20w
So it's the bitcoin of government surveillance? Trustless spy transactions? They should call it Snowdencoin
Gay Obama · 21w
> Further, I will continue to maintain that Chinese AI is much better and is actually driving development now, rather than the reverse. Qwen and Deepseek/Huawei (Qwen also integrating Huawei) are the ...
Travis profile picture
Point number 1 - Do not ever underestimate the problem the "Jeets" can cause...

Point number 2 - The jeets are not just present in tech layers of American companies but also a lot more in admin layers of American companies, where even a small dumb, non charitable and selfish decision made by them can cause invisible problems of cascading effect that we cannot even imagine.

Point number 3 - And I know this for sure the only reason why Google did not ended up being the first to launch a ChatGPT like product even though they are the ones who created the early versions of it and were researching about it inside their companies is because they have a fucking jeet as their CEO, I promise if it was Eric Schmidt who was the CEO of Google before the jeet the Google would have had that historic moment of launching a product like ChatGPT first instead of OpenAI...

Point number 4 - The biggest advantage the Chinese AI or even normal Chinese companies have over or had over or will continue to have over American companies itself will be the fact that Chinese companies not having the dumb, selfish, and non charitable pajeets in their organizations in truckloads... There I said it...
Ohiokk · 21w
I agree with the anti-Indian assessment but im not sure we are lagging behind China. Can you show me a coding AI that is Chinese that is better than OpenAI 5.5? If so please do and I’ll use it for w...
Travis profile picture
Sure let me explain, when it comes to American AI lagging behind Chinese AI, there are two types of "lag", one is visible lag and the other invisible lag, the coding capability of American AI models against Chinese AI models will fall under visible lag category where American AI models are clearly dominating the Chinese but we need to look at the invisible lag variables like the ability of China to produce decently intelligent AI models at a lot less cost compared to American companies and then also give those models out for free in open source which makes the cost of serving those models super affordable both for companies around the world and the consumers who want to use those models.

For example let's say I'm a business that is trying to setup a AI employee to answer all my small business customer queries to my support email, there's not much difference in quality of answering emails between American and Chinese AI models and on top of that Chinese ones are super affordable and I will mostly end up choosing based on affordability since I'm a business and margins matter and also because I'm experimenting, and if it works guess what the Chinese models just got a lifetime customer which means I will be a lost customer for American AI companies.

The invisible lag will always be visible before the truely visible lag between American AI and Chinese AI models start to appear, and if people look close enough at the actual details of how this AI race will play out...

...My friend it won't be much different than what China did to American companies in the markets of solar panels and Electric vehicles... Sadly...
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Ohiokk · 21w
I appreciate the Chinese and think they are swell, but the technical problems im currently solving with American AI are unsolvable by any Chinese model I’ve tried. I would happily use Chinese models because they have less censorship and propaganda but every time I try they just aren’t good enoug...
Ohiokk · 21w
I agree with the anti-Indian assessment but im not sure we are lagging behind China. Can you show me a coding AI that is Chinese that is better than OpenAI 5.5? If so please do and I’ll use it for work.