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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[-] aninjury2all@awful.systems 1 points 6 hours ago

During Trump 1 I toyed with making a Twitter bot that would call random things ‘Marxist’ (with a username like ‘marxmywords’ or a similar pun). Decided against it due to the issues with purging dog whistles or slurs, but thanks to Mr Karp I’m starting to reconsider…

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