The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception as a universal system for the sharing of knowledge without censorship. The Internet is not the property of any one government or nation.在互联网领域工作的程序员对全世界负有道德责任，而非仅仅对某一个国家负责。互联网自诞生之初，就被设计为一种用于无审查知识共享的通用系统。互联网不属于任何政府或国家。
The Internet enables mass surveillance at a scale unimaginable to the Gestapo and the Cheka. Far too many programmers have wasted their lives building surveillance systems under the guise of Web advertising. Today, these web tracking systems are being used to monitor, control, and even kill humans by companies like Palantir that seek to combine state violence with corporate efficiency, and thus create a new form of technofascism.互联网实现了规模惊人的大规模监控，其程度是盖世太保和契卡无法想象的。太多的程序员在网络广告的幌子下浪费生命，构建监控系统。如今，这些网络追踪系统正被帕兰提尔（Palantir）等公司用于监视、控制甚至杀害人类，他们试图将国家暴力与企业效率相结合，从而创造出一种新型的技术法西斯主义。
Surveillance justified by external national security threats will be turned against citizens inside the nation-state. Mass surveillance was once the exclusive domain of the NSA, but today it has been privatized to corporations like Palantir that are unaccountable to any democratic process. What begins as fear of external foreign nation-states turns inwards to focus on immigrants, dissidents, and eventually anyone that might challenge the status quo or try to exit an increasingly dysfunctional society.以应对外部国家安全威胁为由进行的监控，终将转向针对国内公民。大规模监控曾是美国国家安全局（NSA）的专属领域，但如今已被私有化给帕兰提尔这类不受任何民主程序问责的企业。起初是对外部敌对国家的恐惧，最终会转向内部，针对移民、异见人士，乃至任何挑战现状或试图逃离日益功能失调社会的人。
Everyone is a target. The “enemy within” continually expands until it encompasses the entire population of a nation regardless of their status and beliefs, justifying evermore paranoid and totalizing surveillance. The line between policing and military operations blurs, with legal frameworks being replaced by technological violence operating with total impunity.每个人都是目标。“内部敌人”的定义不断扩大，直到涵盖整个国家的人口，无论其地位和信仰如何，从而为愈发多疑且极权化的监控提供正当性。警务与军事行动之间的界限变得模糊，法律框架正被以绝对豁免权运作的技术暴力所取代。
Surveillance can only be defeated by building software and hardware to defend ourselves. Meek calls for regulation or moralizing demands for human rights are useless in this era. Any rights must be enforced by the hard power of code. Code, not laws, can be used to uphold the right to privacy by making surveillance difficult, if not impossible, even by nation-state adversaries.只有通过构建防御性的软硬件，才能击败监控。在这个时代，温和的监管呼吁或道德说教式的人权诉求毫无用处。任何权利都必须由代码的硬实力来强制执行。代码而非法律，可以用来捍卫隐私权，使监控变得困难，甚至在面对敌对国家时也难以实现。
We are ruled by a senile gerontocracy. Unlike the generations that fought in the world wars, most of our current rulers are degenerate pedophiles who would sacrifice the well-being of the youth and the entire planet due to their infantile desire for wealth and power. Technologies of surveillance and automated warfare reflect their increasingly desperate attempts to maintain archaic forms of domination.我们正被一群老朽的统治阶级所统治。与经历过世界大战的先辈不同，我们当下的统治者大多是堕落的恋童癖者，他们因对财富和权力的幼稚渴望，不惜牺牲年轻人和整个地球的福祉。监控技术和自动化战争反映了他们为维持陈旧统治形式而进行的绝望挣扎。
The American Empire is unraveling. Once, the United States of America presided over a globe where it could enforce its rule via the status of the dollar as a global reserve currency and a network of equally global military bases. Today, new regional powers directly challenge the United States as its empire dissolves in the face of internal economic stagnation, political corruption, and the inflation of the dollar.美帝国正在瓦解。曾经，美利坚合众国统治着全球，通过美元的全球储备货币地位及其遍布全球的军事基地网络来执行其统治。如今，随着内部经济停滞、政治腐败以及美元通胀，美帝国正在解体，新的区域力量正直接向美国发起挑战。
In a real war, fantasies of total technological dominance always backfire. When a faceless drone kills a child’s father, that child will one day take revenge regardless of the cost. This is something forgotten by those raised in comfortable suburbs. Going beyond zero-sum games, one can only truly win a battle against a people by demonstrating that your victory provides a better way of life, increased prosperity, and an inspiring philosophy.在真正的战争中，对技术绝对统治的幻想总是会适得其反。当一架无面孔的无人机杀死了一个孩子的父亲，那个孩子终有一天会不计代价地复仇。这是那些在舒适郊区长大的人所遗忘的事实。超越零和博弈，若想在与一个民族的斗争中真正获胜，唯一的方法是证明你的胜利能带来更好的生活方式、更高的繁荣以及鼓舞人心的哲学。
Oddly enough, proponents of fully automated warfare support a universal draft. Deep-down, these keyboard warriors know that their techno-fascist fantasies are a paper tiger when up against determined opponents that engage in asymmetric warfare. They also know none of their children will fight in a war for their state, but they would be happy to see other people’s children come home in body-bags.奇怪的是，全面自动化战争的支持者竟然支持全民征兵。这些键盘战士内心深处很清楚，当面对进行非对称战争的坚定对手时，他们的技术法西斯幻想不过是纸老虎。他们也知道，自己的孩子不会为国家而战，但他们却乐于见到别人的孩子装在裹尸袋里回家。
The problem is not whether AI weapons will be built; we must hold responsible those who are building them. No matter which country is deploying automated killing machines, no one is absolved from the murder of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure due to the parlour-trick of shifting the blame to AI.问题不在于是否会制造人工智能武器，而在于我们必须追究那些制造者。无论哪个国家部署自动化杀人机器，都没有人能通过将责任推给人工智能这种“障眼法”来逃避屠杀平民和破坏基础设施的罪责。
Atomic war is on the horizon. As various states descend into wars over increasingly scarce natural resources, the possibility of tactical nuclear strikes over Tehran, Kyiv, and other areas of conflict has returned to the historical stage. Increasingly geriatric and authoritarian rulers face less guardrails than before to deploying nuclear weapons, and may even be willing to sacrifice the survival of humanity to appease their own petty egos.核战争迫在眉睫。随着各国因日益稀缺的自然资源陷入战争，针对德黑兰、基辅及其他冲突地区的战术核打击可能性已重回历史舞台。日益老龄化且独裁的统治者在部署核武器时所受的制约比以往更少，甚至可能为了满足其卑微的虚荣心而牺牲人类的生存。
Our goal is a world of peace where every person can be empowered by the Internet. Modern war is the quintessential game of sending young people to the meat-grinder. Why die for the profit of corrupt rulers when one could build real wealth and power for yourself using the Internet?我们的目标是一个和平的世界，让每个人都能通过互联网获得赋能。现代战争本质上就是把年轻人送进绞肉机的游戏。当你可以利用互联网为自己创造真正的财富和权力时，何必为腐败统治者的利益而死？
We should fight for the world we want, and build the tools needed by future generations. Pacifism would be suicidal in this period of global turbulence and resource wars, but real hard power lies in technology: Programmers should be creating technologies to live a free life and prosper in a hostile society of surveillance and control. Decentralization is the only way these technologies will survive against the inevitable repression.我们应为我们想要的世界而战，并为后代构建所需的工具。在这个全球动荡和资源战争的时期，和平主义无异于自杀，但真正的硬实力在于技术：程序员应创造能够让我们在充满监控与控制的敌对社会中自由生活并繁荣发展的技术。去中心化是这些技术在必然的镇压中幸存下来的唯一途径。
The State will not help us. The state is a dying pre-Internet institution that increasingly resembles nothing but a Ponzi scheme fueled by taxes and debt. None of the youth alive today will likely inherit any benefits, such as welfare and health care. Technology can support an alternative: The decentralization of power to the individual and communities that they join voluntarily.国家不会帮助我们。国家是一个垂死的、前互联网时代的机构，越来越像一个靠税收和债务支撑的庞氏骗局。今天活着的年轻人很可能无法继承任何福利，如救济金和医疗保障。技术可以支持另一种选择：将权力去中心化，归还给个人以及他们自愿加入的社区。
Centralized and opaque algorithms are a danger to free speech. Propaganda is the flip-side of surveillance, as continual propaganda prevents anyone from even thinking of challenging the system. Social media monopolies promote propaganda to create a generalized idiocy while silencing those that would dare to criticize the reigning order before they can organize against it.中心化且不透明的算法是对言论自由的威胁。宣传是监控的另一面，持续的宣传使人们甚至无法产生挑战系统的念头。社交媒体垄断机构通过宣传制造普遍的愚昧，同时在那些敢于批评统治秩序的人组织起来反抗之前，就将他们噤声。
Building new forms of social organization with each other is vital to survival. The traditional mediascape of politics and entertainment exists to distract us from building networked solidarity and distributed autonomous organizations across borders. The hierarchical state is as relevant to us as the medieval church and kings were to the formation of the joint-stock corporation and the labor union.彼此建立新型的社会组织形式对于生存至关重要。传统的政治和娱乐媒体景观存在的意义，就是为了分散我们的注意力，阻止我们跨越国界建立网络团结和分布式自治组织。对于我们而言，等级森严的国家体制，其相关性正如中世纪教会和君主之于股份公司和工会的形成一样。
Digital identity is the next step in their system of control. Within the next few years, access to the Internet – including in Europe and the United States – will require biometric national identity cards, using the flimsy excuse of “protecting children.” The real goal is to gatekeep free access to subversive political content and halt cross-border communication in order to prevent new forms of self-organization and resistance from emerging.数字身份是他们控制系统的下一步。在未来几年内，访问互联网——包括在欧美地区——将需要生物识别的国家身份证，理由是蹩脚的“保护儿童”。其真正目的是限制对颠覆性政治内容的自由访问，并阻断跨境通信，以防止新的自组织形式和抵抗力量出现。
Only when one can be anonymous is one truly free. The freedom to express oneself without censorship and surveillance is a vital precondition for both the autonomous use of reason and the democratic evolution of society. Technology must enable the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves to the world – so that we can become who we want to be – by preserving the right to privacy over the Internet, including not just individual privacy, but also the right to transact and form contracts privately.只有匿名时，人才是真正自由的。在没有审查和监控的情况下表达自我的自由，是理性自主使用和社会民主演进的重要前提。技术必须赋予我们选择性地向世界展示自我的自由——以便我们能够成为想成为的人——通过维护互联网上的隐私权，这不仅包括个人隐私，还包括私下交易和签订合同的权利。
America created the first global surveillance state, but it will not be the last. Too many have forgotten, or perhaps taken for granted, the revelations of Wikileaks and Snowden. States across the world from China to Russia are creating even more powerful global surveillance systems and propaganda machines. Leveraging private defense contracts in countries across the world, Palantir seeks to make itself the operating system of a cross-border global secret state while it pushes its own farcical version of ethno-nationalism.美国创造了第一个全球监控国家，但它不会是最后一个。太多人已经忘记，或者说把维基解密（Wikileaks）和斯诺登（Snowden）的揭露视为理所当然。从中国到俄罗斯，世界各地的国家都在建立更强大的全球监控系统和宣传机器。帕兰提尔利用世界各国的私人国防合同，试图使自己成为跨国全球秘密国家的操作系统，同时推行其自身荒谬的民族主义版本。
Culture wars are a psyop. The “Epstein class” virtue-signals about morality and the superiority of their civilization, all while trying to return to the rule of hereditary elites, even in the United States. Rather than reverse the gains of the Enlightenment, we take the side of our ancestors who fought a centuries-long battle for individual liberty, scientific progress, decentralized markets, bottom-up democracy, and the emancipation of humanity from feudal monarchs and their make-believe mythologies.文化战争是一场心理战。所谓的“爱泼斯坦阶级”（Epstein class）标榜道德和文明优越性，同时却试图回到世袭精英统治的时代，即便在美国也是如此。我们不会逆转启蒙运动的成果，而是站在我们祖先的一边，他们曾为个人自由、科学进步、去中心化市场、自下而上的民主以及人类从封建君主及其虚构神话中解放出来而进行了长达数世纪的斗争。
New forms of technology can reshape the world. Technology is not just a tool, but the world we live in and an extension of our cognitive capabilities. The co-operation of humans with the collective intelligence embedded in AI could accelerate human progress and overcome planetary crises such as climate change and atomic war that threatens the survival of our species.新型技术可以重塑世界。技术不仅是工具，更是我们生活的世界，是我们认知能力的延伸。人类与人工智能中蕴含的集体智慧的协作，可以加速人类进步，并克服威胁物种生存的气候变化和核战争等全球性危机。
Live free or die trying. We must bear eternal vigilance in the struggle against fascism, and the battlefield is technology. There is no middle ground: Technologists must choose whether to work for the enslavement of humanity or to create new spaces for freedom.不自由，毋宁死。在反法西斯斗争中，我们必须保持永恒的警惕，而战场就是技术。没有中间地带：技术人员必须选择是为奴役人类而工作，还是为自由创造新的空间。

The Anti-Palantir Manifesto《反帕兰提尔宣言》（The Anti-Palantir Manifesto）