Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp's new book, co-written with Nicholas Zamiska, is called "The Technological Republic." After claiming "because we get asked a lot", Palantir posted a 22-point summary of the book that reads like a corporate manifesto. It evokes both weird reactionary shit and also trilby-wearing Reddit comments from the early 2010s
Palantir's summary of the book is ominous. But even the company's name is unironically ominous. The palantiri are crystal balls in Lord of the Rings that let Middle Earth's worst tyrants spy on the heroes of the stor …
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