After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry 'Marxist' | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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The CEO, who famously studied philosophy and earned a PhD in social theory, implied in Palantir’s quarterly shareholder letter that these were the kinds of capitalists who gave rise to Marxist socialism.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

If there were two of them he would only be half as dumb as he is.

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