General Discussion

First, though, I'll have to ask you for a link for your claim... because I fact checked it and find nothing.
Google's DeepMind says: "Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, has never publicly stated that he wants to turn "surplus humans" into biofuel. There is no record of him making such a statement. The claim appears to be a fabrication.

While Karp is known for making controversial and provocative statements, they have focused on other topics:

AI and societal upheaval: Karp has warned that if the technology industry is not careful, AI could lead to "deep societal upheavals," particularly by displacing entry-level jobs and disrupting the economy.
Western superiority and geopolitical competition: He has been vocal about his view that the West has a "superior way of living" and must win the global AI and technology race against adversaries like China and Russia.
Support for defense and intelligence work: He has consistently defended Palantir's work with the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, arguing that tech companies have an obligation to support national security.

But I was also wrong about him being a bad guy. He's terribly mistaken that a technological republic should even exist, which makes him a smart bad guy.

I've finished The Technological Republic. To the good, he promotes Western values in the first half of his book. But then from Chapter 15 to the end, he loses that argument when in suggesting that changing a civilian government could use the Palantir business model. Those chapters are full of
-- mis-defined terms,
-- getting the political facts of history wrong,
-- telling stories of wealthy but compromised people to justify "more room for error" in keeping them in government,
-- using at last seven false equivalencies, then overall,
-- blaming The Left for where the country is at.
One overall theme is that the wealthy (tho' he's not a fan of Musk's destructions) have a greater stake in government and know best about how to get "good" outcomes. Every thinking humanist should read him and keep an eye on him, but no thinking humanist should take this man seriously.

If you're thinking of reading Karp, just read this book review -- different from my take, but mine is every bit as logical and more concrete in detecting Karp's logic flaws -- and save your money.

https://archive.ph/8kuW1

Thank you for your post. You got me reading another tech treatise.