Post #1675847

2026-04-24 11:25 UTC

Crazy how long it takes for supposedly extremely brilliant scientists and engineers working at Evil LLC to realize that maybe their work is a net loss for humanity. It's almost as if... they just didn't care and pretended to realize their mistakes once everything was well exposed. It's like reading obviously satirical scientists' memos in Resident Evil. Except it's real life and they're not satire.

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@arrow74@lemmy.zip 2026-04-24 12:09

There's also the function of needing a job to survive and cognitive dissonance. I.e. "I'm not killing anyone I just do xyz and then other people use it to do bad things, not my responsibility" It is lying to themselves, but that's how it happens

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@tburkhol@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 12:38

Those companies have extremely well developed propaganda machines. They have to sell their technology and products as benefits to governments (i.e. society) and solutions to chaos (i.e. crime and terrorism), and they have extremely well refined language to describe themselves in positive term. If you don't look past the company line, it's easy to believe that the skeptics and warnings are all just FUD from haters, especially when the propaganda pays your mortgage. Then Palantir goes and publishes an actual fascist manifesto...

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