While you were busy wasting your time listening to podcasts and doomscrolling on your phone, one of America’s leading AI overlords was educating himself by talking to Nazis. “I spend a lot of time talking to Nazis,” Karp said, implying that this is an ongoing pastime of his. “Uh, but, um, and uh, and it’s like, it’s uh but” — the interview mercifully jumps cuts — “the thing that’s crazy unique about America,” Karp began to muse. Beyond his role as Palantir’s head honcho, Karp is known for his philosophical ramblings, his “eccentric” personality, and his affinity for German culture. Karp’s extensive and enlightening conversations with Nazis, in other words, seemingly haven’t endowed him with any self-awareness about all the evil he’s entangled in.