Articolo molto interessante sull'industrializzazione
della guerra (o meglio, della morte) e sul ruolo delle tecnologie
in questo processo.
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Questo passaggio illumina l'ideologia che sta dietro alla
killchain
come anche ai licenziamenti di Amazon trattati nel precedente
messaggio di Juan Carlos, e ne evidenzia la logica prettamente
industriale mirante al controllo e alla eliminazione di ogni
conoscenza tacita e non codificata:
In 1984, the historian David Noble showed that when
the US military and American manufacturers automated their
factory floors, they consistently chose systems that were slower
and more expensive but which moved decision-making away from
workers and into management. The point was not efficiency – it
was frequently extremely wasteful – but control. A worker who
understands what they are doing can exercise judgment the
institution cannot govern. Move that understanding into the
system, and the worker has nothing left to do but follow
instructions. Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, describes exactly
this achievement in his 2025 book, The Technological Republic.
“Software is now at the helm,” he writes, with hardware “serving
as the means by which the recommendations of AI are implemented
in the world.” His model for what this should look like comes
from nature: bee swarms and the murmurations of starlings.
“There is no mediation of the information captured by the scouts
once they return to the hive,” Karp writes. The starlings need
no permission from above, they require “no weekly reports to
middle management, no presentations to more senior leaders, no
meetings or conference calls to prepare for other meetings”.
This sounds liberating, even utopian. But the signal that passes
without mediation is also the signal that nobody can question.
Karp thinks he is destroying bureaucracy. He is encoding it. The
contempt for meetings and weekly reports and presentations to
senior leaders; he treats these as the bureaucratic process
itself. They are not. They were where people interpreted
procedure, the place where someone could notice when categories
no longer fit the case. The targeting doctrine is still there.
They are columns on a workflow board now, stages a target passes
through on its way to being struck. What Karp eliminated was the
discretion the institution could never admit it depended on.
What remains is a bureaucracy that can execute its rules but
with no one left to interpret them. Bureaucracy encoded in
software does not bend. It shatters.
Ciao,