I've seen that sentiment spread through these threads a LOT. However, if you review the full set of definitions of "bridge," I am not quite sure which of them folks are applying to Palantir.
If I was forced to choose one word to describe Palantir, "bridge" certainly wouldn't be in the running. My one-word choice for a functional description would be "synthesizer."
If you look at what Palantir (and other similar products) does functionally, is it provides a synthesized view of target sets (which can then be analyzed in a number of ways).
I am interested in understanding which definition of "bridge" is being applied to Palantir.
Maybe ‘bridge’ means how they get around 4th Amnd. roadblocks in synthesizing data the donaters don’t know about, and conjectural meta-data assumptions.