DoingIsLearning

I disagree, the moat will be of those holding rights for valuable problem domain specific training data. Examples I can think of:

Adobe sits on a treasure trove of:

- Copyrighted multimedia

- Years of telemetry on content creation

Zeiss sits on decades of data:

- Medical imaging, and surgical footage.

- Silicon waffer inspection.

These embody a training corpus that is de facto (lawfully) out of reach of the crawler scrapper approaches of Google/Meta/OpenAI/Anthropic (even if they pirate the seas for torrents like before).

Neither Adobe or Zeiss are an AI power house but the barrier to entry has also dropped with all the movement in the field.

> This capability virtually guarantees that the next generation of Nelson Mandellas [..] gets nipped in the bud long before they become an actual headache to the ruling class.

They are way ahead of you. The intent is not just to monitor, it's also to predict/preempt and to shape.

The whole sales pitch of Palantir is effectively marketing talk for pre-crime. And if we see what the russians and the chinese are doing online to shape our opinions I can only imagine what the US capabilities are in this realm.

This is not just about stopping the next Mandela. This is about knowing who the next Mandela is before future Mandela even knows it. And this about shaping the opinion of all potential future Mandela's into a neutered state.

1. This a claim from Microsoft not a peer reviewed study on pubmed. So it's a marketing title nothing more

2. Even some ideal frontier model is only as accurate as the inputs given for diagnosis, and will typically bias towards said inputs.

3. Multi-modal can handle images but are terrible at image classification unless using dedicated models for each pathology.

4. The very large majority of traning corpus with these companies is in English. There is zero guarantee that said mythical performance is preserved across languages.

5. The very thought of companies with the moral compass of most AI companies accessing and training on your medical records should make anyone pause.

> Barclays also revealed it made £2.3bn profit in the three months to September, higher than the same period a year ago, but slightly less than forecast.

This is the critical piece of information, everything else is C-level noise and smoke.

> These memes make me nostalgic for the pre-9/11 era. I remember being taught to consider myself as a “citizen of the world.” That seems exceedingly quaint now.

That resonated with me. As someone not even in the US, I think about this a lot.

But I think the timeline change was the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore (2000), which halted the Florida recount.

If Al Gore had won, so much of our timeline would have remained in the realm of the unfathomable/impossible. Pax Americana would have continued possibly for a few more eons who knows.

I'm not gonna claim it would be star trek but I would likely be a lot less worried about my kids in that world than what I currently am.

> No one would for sure arrest you for being critical of a foreign government.

Does _not_ need to be foreign.

People in Western Democracies assume we are immune to dictatorships.

Plenty of dictatorships in our modern history were regressions from at least some form of functional democracy, many even regressed from long lasting robust democracies.

So much of the UK, EU comission, Palantir moves is straight up Stasi playbook.

It is almost disrespectful of German History and collective suffering for VDL to stand on the wrong side of history with this corporate puppetering.

I wonder what is the risk analysis here?

Without knowing more details it would seem to be a lot less risk to transport wounded soldiers in those MAUL armored sarcophagus type of containers, than to be airborne and exposed to enemy fire.

> In many non-Anglo-Euro countries, drinking is seen as moderately aberrant behaviour akin to frequenting sex workers or doing drugs.

That was your experience but is simply untrue as a generalization.

Arguably what is frowned upon is uncontrolled binge drinking and asocial behabiour of people who cannot hold a drink.

Wine and beer culture are still very much a part of social and family life in quite literally the whole of Europe.

> This one is EU I think...

You misspelled Palantir.

> learning is doing;

I could not agree more.

Palantir.