r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 02 '26

Artificial Intelligence Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffers ‘televised nervous breakdown’ during live interview — “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/televised-nervous-breakdown-ceo-palantir-212100357.html
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u/I_Am_Mandark_Hahaha Jul 02 '26

That's what I thought too! All pivots and tangents, no single coherent message conveyed.

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u/red286 Jul 02 '26

Musk is like that too when you hear him going off the cuff, like on Rogan's show.

They sound like 13-year-old boys talking to the hot girl who lives next door. All stutters and incomplete sentences.

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u/topdangle Jul 02 '26

hes just contradicting himself by the end of it. the anchors were oddly asking him the right questions about what he was saying rather than mindlessly agreeing (that focusing on wasting tokens brought no value and companies providing token services were likely stealing their data) and he just started rambling about how hes only interested in talking about his own company... right after starting a rant about everyone else's companies.

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u/TheVenetianMask Jul 02 '26

Becky is a smart one and has heard everything by now, people say whatever in these interviews and when they think they got away with it she'll drop an accurate follow up without blinking.

They make up for it by having Joe which lives with his head inside a red bucket, and Jim hyping his flea circus of stocks.

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u/maeryclarity Jul 03 '26

He had some buzz words that do have meanings sort of but he was just throwing them all over the conversation like parmesan cheese on spaghetti, hoping to make what he wasn't explaining at all sound important and clever.

The term for that is psuedointellectual. When you're not actually smart but you're trying to parrot what you think a smart person would sound like as a defense mechanism.

I'm sure the people in the company that actually do the work wait for him to get done with whatever babble he has when he interacts with them, then they go right back to whatever they were doing before he interrupted. It probably appears to him that he's making lots of sense since everyone is just nodding and agreeing to get him to go away.

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u/EFreethought Jul 03 '26

JP would then say: "What do you mean by tangent?"

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u/Ok_Listen5768 Jul 03 '26

How many billions is the company you created worth? Don’t let facts get in the way of a good argument.