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by electronvolt 4106 days ago
From the recruiting presentations I saw while at university: they primarily do large scale information grouping and retrieval. It seemed like their systems (at least the ones they were public about while trying to recruit from undergrads) were aimed at taking large numbers of random facts about actors ("this person has made a lot of phone calls to this person", "this person was seen in place a", etc.) and making them all traversable as a sort of information-visualization graph. It seemed likely rather math-y and very interesting.

So basically the "information collation and noise reduction" part necessary for any mass surveillance system to be actually useful.

Palantir for doctors would basically just be Palantir with people's medical information and medical research plugged in, and maybe family connections, instead of "Person a called person b", "Person b has known terror connections.", etc.