I never went to J-school, but my suspicion is that an op-ed secret written by the CEO of Palantir that is simultaneously pro-"AI" and pro-atomic bomb might be bad.
You have to read insanely far down in this piece to get to *Karp* ID’ing himself as running Palantir. What is happening at this newspaper and its opinion section
At the end of the movie, Einstein tells Oppenheimer, and Strauss's aide tells him, "It's not about you." An important part of the movie, I think, and something all Silicon Valley might consider.
Unsurprisingly the op-Ed has pieced together semi-facts and distorted how the Manhattan Project was focused in even that short snippet in the screenshot. The point isn’t to be accurate of course, the point is to ask that we not pay too much mind until their work is sufficiently wrought. On us. Lort.
I don’t know why newspapers have op-eds at this point. It seems like basically giving people space inside the paper to destroy the newsroom’s reputation by loose association to opinion
Maybe if they were focused on amplifying the underrepresented and relatively powerless, you might be able to make an argument. But Senator Tom Cotton or Palantir CEO Alex Karp aren’t really examples of afflicting the comfortable
The Times is published to appeal to the most affluent segment of the northeast, and environs. The plebs are fed The Times to remind us to respect our betters.
Maybe the byline IDing him as the CEO of a defense contractor but not palantir is a hedge against providing him free advertising while still allowing him the bully pulpit of the NYT op-Ed page?
Two questions:
1) Have they done this for all other CEOs writing OpEds in the past?
2) What percentage of NYT subscribers are in a position to purchase *anything* from Palantir?
I haven’t sat down to read the NYT since I was forced to read it for English/Journalism class in High School, 1998. Just from the headlines and abstracts I can see how terrible it was and continues to be.
Comments
No, wait. I can in the next tweet.
“We are the Jordan Belfort’s of today!”
These guys always miss the fucking lesson.
1) Have they done this for all other CEOs writing OpEds in the past?
2) What percentage of NYT subscribers are in a position to purchase *anything* from Palantir?
(Also, the sculpture in the header on your blog is adorable)