FORWARD DEPLOYED

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

Palantir vertically integrated deployment to build the capabilities and process knowledge required to make building institution-specific economic computers as easy to build as possible. Vertical integration is fine if it's the only way to get permissioned access to the ground truth knowledge needed to help customers and society uncover new, valuable secrets. However, used to rent-seek, concentrate power, or build your customers' or partners' replacement, it jeopardizes the whole promise of economic computing: making progress programmable in a way everyone can contribute to and own. It also reduces institutional fitness and creates a broader neglective selection pressure in society.