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Yea, the same innovations that enable freedom can also be used for control. What else is new?

Palantir enables freedom in the same way salt water quenches your thirst.

It doesn’t.


Salt water totally quenches thirst if under 0.5%. Sea water doesn't.

This isn't surprising. This will happen at every tech company first, then every other company afterwards. All jobs will get automated, then all companies will be ran by one person: their owner.

So is everyone going to run a company? Or what will the rest of the people do? If they don’t run companies, and they don’t have jobs, how will they buy anything, and who will the people who do run companies find customers?

Ah yes so 8 billion (at least) companies are supposed to pull financing out of their rear-ends? You've re-discovered freelancing!

Which is better GPT-5.5 or Opus 4.7? And for what tasks?

As a creator and founder, i've observed that having an established long-form video presence (on YT) is literally the greatest distribution channel. if someone's willing to sit through a 15-60 min video of yours, they're probably willing to at least check out whatever product/service you may be selling in your videos.

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