Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday. “And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I forget that there are Americans so dumb that the working-class votes Republican.

    This is like a woman voting Les Republicains or a healthcare worker voting Tories. Just voting to be fucked.

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      2 days ago

      It doesn’t matter who you vote in the US, the minimum wage hasn’t changed for decades. I guess that’s why barely anybody votes anyway

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        24 hours ago

        Yeah, pushing the “both sides are just as bad” bullshit is designed to do exactly that when anyone with brains can clearly see that Republicans are clearly more pointedly anti-working class and more pro-billionaire class than Democrats. Could the Democrats be better? Of course, but voting by abscension because the party that most closely represents you isn’t perfect is what gets you into fascism. The two party system sucks, but we have to work within it until we can change it and this “both sides bad” stuff is fucking poison. Run on a pro-labor platform if you want to make actual change.

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          12 hours ago

          I don’t care, I’m not going to play a rigged game. Let the idiots elect their fascist and let them suffer the consequences.

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          14 hours ago

          I don’t know I pretty much say both sides are bad all year and then I walked to the voting booth and vote for the Democrats because they are not as bad. A two party system deprives you of actual choice. The parties have become so entrenched and top-heavy they do not function democratically anymore. They don’t even pretend to function democratically anymore… both sides are equally bad because they deprive you of a better option. When faced with only two options then yes one of them is clearly less evil…

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      2 days ago

      Be that as it may, voting democrat doesn’t change it, democrats are captured by the oligarchy, since before most of us were born. Until we fight under credible leadership we are doomed to fail.

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        23 hours ago

        Better to not vote and let the radical fascists take over, right? I’m sure the exact same things would have happened exactly the same way under a Harris presidency.

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          23 hours ago

          How do you know how anyone voted? What we do know is that the status quo was going to lose and we went with it anyway. So until one with such an opinion crawls out of the ass of the billionaires and joins us in the sunshine, maybe they should stop parroting the shit noises they hear in there.