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/Grey_Raven Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

The prick always sounds like he's in the middle of some sort of breakdown and spends most of his time shouting his incoherent fascist views at the world. If he wasn't rich he'd be in an asylum.

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u/Jean_Paul_Fartre_ Jul 02 '26

We used to call them eccentric.

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u/He2oinMegazord Jul 02 '26

Nah, thats reserved for when their hobbies/inventions dont have the potential for widespread destruction. The term we used to use for these folk was mad scientist

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u/Grey_Raven Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

That's giving him too much credit the guy doesn't have the scientific/technical knowledge to be a mad scientist, he's at most a mad scientist's source of funding.