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  "content_md": "Palantir might be winning to such an extent because they’re unironically adhering to the Boydian doctrine of “people, ideas, technology; in that order.” Everyone else seems to be betting on the latter two in the race to dent the universe.\n\n> Palantir’s approach to building software is, in some sense, a bet on the power of the intellect; a bet that the organization with the clearest real-time view of their internal and external world will be best suited to make positive expected value decisions within it, whether that’s the CIA preventing a terrorist attack, Tampa General Hospital detecting sepsis in a patient early enough to cure it, or Airbus being alerted that it has a defective part before continuing an expensive assembly run.\n\n[Forward Deployed ↗](https://arenamag.com/articles/forward-deployed)",
  "content_html": "<p>Palantir might be winning to such an extent because they’re unironically adhering to the Boydian doctrine of “people, ideas, technology; in that order.” Everyone else seems to be betting on the latter two in the race to dent the universe.</p>\n<blockquote><p>Palantir’s approach to building software is, in some sense, a bet on the power of the intellect; a bet that the organization with the clearest real-time view of their internal and external world will be best suited to make positive expected value decisions within it, whether that’s the CIA preventing a terrorist attack, Tampa General Hospital detecting sepsis in a patient early enough to cure it, or Airbus being alerted that it has a defective part before continuing an expensive assembly run.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://arenamag.com/articles/forward-deployed\">Forward Deployed ↗</a></p>",
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