Still can't believe someone decided to name a company Palantir.
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Would you explain why? I'm not familiar with any reference.
It’s basically a crystal ball from tolkiens works- they can be used to communicate or show different times/places, but they’re not really reliable. (Edit: they’re also specifically vulnerable to being manipulated and used to selectively show misleading but true things if they fall into the hands of very powerful wizards, and Sauron’s use of them has been broadly compared to wartime propaganda, which is actually especially relevant for the type of data mining they do.)
The unreliability is a reason not to name your company after them, but I don’t know if people would be as surprised by the names “crystal ball“ or “scrying pool” or other unreliable magical methods of seeing things.
Thank you!
Of course! It did also just occur to me that they’re also specifically vulnerable to being manipulated and used to selectively show misleading but true things if they fall into the hands of very powerful wizards, and Sauron’s use of them has been broadly compared to wartime propaganda, which is actually especially relevant for the type of data mining palantir does.
Really living up to the name.
It's like Palantir is actively trying to top the tech company bad karma leaderboard.
I mean, they named themselves Evil Corp
THIEL is obsessed with spying thats why he named after the scrying sphere in lotr.
I dislike the guy, but he's just obsessed with Tolkien in general. He's had multiple companies named after his works. Including Mithril, Rivendell, Lembas and Arda.
anduril, dont forget that one, i think that one was drone tech. just like conservatives, he co-opts perverts the meaning of words.
Would you kindly fuck that shit up?
Peter is autistic, openly, and considers it one of his strengths…
Does this have anything to do with the telepathy tapes?
Or iz my tin foil hat on too tight?
I'm just going to leave this completely unrelated article here.