We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings

Source: The Verge

Overview

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 rhetoric and the trilby‑wearing Reddit comments from the early 2010s.

Palantir’s summary of the book is ominous. Even the company’s name is unironically ominous: the palantíri are crystal balls in The Lord of the Rings that let Middle‑Earth’s worst tyrants spy on the heroes of the story.

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