Technological RepublicAlexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska
Technological Republic
by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska · first published 2025
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…someone nazi or fascist is not trivializing Holocaust. These are clear terms and both Palantir and Karp often publish texts with fascist ideological elements and views. Read something they published like Technological republic. They are not hiding it. It's not even some radical view.
on “Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies” ↗…case that our culture has failed to articulate the things that make the west great (and worth defending) and as a result it's creating a lot of political and cultural problems. https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Republic-Power-Belief-F... Religion (particularly Judeo-Christian) has a lot of issues with empirical historical / scientific claims, but one thing it was good at is it's culturally adaptive. A lot of the cultural…
on “The Who Cares Era” ↗…are wrong. Religion is in some ways a battle tested cultural technology, throwing it away will have unintended consequences for most people. Alex Karp touches on some of these ideas indirectly in The Technological Republic which is worth reading anyway for other reasons. A lot of people in the west today grow up without a cultural core and end up aloof believing in nothing, or worse substituting some bullshit political…
on “Altoids by the Fistful” ↗I really enjoyed The Technological Republic by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska. It’s sharp, opinionated, and unusually concrete about how state capacity, technology, and institutional competence intersect in practice. Even if you don’t…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗…example they all have their own nuclear power startups and at least 2 - AMZN and SPCX - already have their access to space. One can mentally extrapolate things further or just read say Karp's book "The Technological Republic".
on “Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter” ↗…tools (ploughs, axes, knives), etc - and now you see how people immediately use it for better weapons crushing the ones who have still been using bronze. Or for example from the Palantir's Karp's book "Technological Republic" : " We make the case that one of the most significant challenges that we face in this country is ensuring that the U.S. Department of Defense turns the corner from an institution designed to fight…
on “Programming Still Sucks” ↗…from Starship to AI (including army of robots on the ground). The governmental power/sovereignty of US will be used as a stepping stone (that is the strategy described in the Palantir's Karp's book "Technological Republic") for such global techno-feudal regime establishment.
on “The US Is Winning the AI Race” ↗Karp’s new book “The Technological Republic” https://www.amazon.com/Technological-Republic-Power-Belief-F...
on “Alex Karp Wants Silicon Valley to Fight for America” ↗This aligns fairly closely with one of the main theses of “The Technological Republic,” Alex Karp’s new book. Basically, our abandonment of shared identities (national, religious, cultural) has allowed status and market forces to rush in to give people meaning and identity. Obviously…
on “The decline of deviance” ↗…company called Anom. I also read: "Digital Fortress" - Dan Brown (not strictly technically plausible but the suspense kept me hooked) "Never Enough" - Andrew Wilkinson (meh) Currently working on: "The Technological Republic" - Andrew Karp "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" - Martin Kleppmann I had a tendency of a lot of false starts on books this year. I picked up several recent LLM/AI books and would make it like…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗lol > In the 2025 book The Technological Republic, Karp and Zamiska argue that American technological dominance requires deeper integration of Silicon Valley and defense interests. Karp contends that China operates with fewer ethical constraints than…
on “Say No to Palantir in the NHS” ↗Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
on “The Technological Republic” ↗Have you read The Technological Republic recently? What you said is an echo of the Palantir CEO's thesis there. In the book he calls for discussion of what "the good life" is. I found it a bit ironic that you seem to come to different conclusions…
on “Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices” ↗