I can't believe we live in a world where there's an AI company unironically called "Palantir," and it isn't a parody. It's a real thing. I remember seeing a picture of an advertisement on here and thinking, "This HAS to be a joke. This is too on-the-nose to be real. They wouldn't honestly name an AI company Palantir, after the Seeing Stones from Lord of the Rings that are supposed to offer knowledge, but famously also might be feeding you misinformation from evil sources because 'we do not know who else may be watching.'" But then here I am listening to the BBC News discussing why the CEO of Palantir just published a Manifesto that sounds like it was written by a supervillain.
Guys like Thiel & Musk don't read.
Or, they stopped reading in high school. Musk claims his favorite novel is Blade Runner by Philip K Dick, but also thinks that's the main character's name. Yeah, he tweeted that.
So of course Peter Thiel misremembers 'Palantir' from the books, because he read them once upon a time or maybe he just watched the films while poking around on his phone.
The point is these jerks want to project cool book nerdiness by naming their shit after famous fantasy & science fiction things, but they forgot the Death Star was evil and exploded. Twice.
