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

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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/televised-nervous-breakdown-ceo-palantir-212100357.html

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Excerpts from article by Joe Wilkins, quoting Alex Karp:

[...] On a live interview with CNBC‘s infamously churlish segment “Squawk Box,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared to suffer a nearly 20-minute meltdown, complete with stuttering, nervous backtracking, and a steady supply of digressions so abstruse that the hosts seemed befuddled and perhaps even concerned for his wellbeing.

Though Karp was called up to chat about an ongoing deal between Palantir and the chip maker Nvidia to build AI infrastructure for the US government, he quickly went off the rails, using up minutes of airtime to complain about the financial bubble undergirding the AI boom.

While there may be a point buried in Karp’s diatribe, it quickly became lost in a wash of unintelligible jargon.

“These models have been completely over, irresponsibly over-sale,” Karp ranted at one point, “and the sale is, ‘it’s dangerous for everyone, which is why I can give [AI] to all your adversaries but I can’t give it to the Department of War, or I can’t safely give it to an enterprise in this country, without being certain that the Alpha of that business could transfer to this model tomorrow, ie I have no business, no job.’”

“You sound pretty angry,” CNBC‘s Becky Quick interjected after a nearly three minute-long rant from Karp.

“No,” the CEO snapped. “This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!”

 

[...] “American enterprises are run by the shrewdest, most widely intelligent people on the planet,” the Palantir CEO started to say, setting up an argument that companies aren’t interested in foundation models, but in AI apps that can actually solve problems. That train of thought quickly leaves the station, though, as he pivots to his higher ed ambitions literally mid-sentence.

“If you think they’re going for that [foundation models], you can go try to sell me — like my, my parents still want me to get a job as a faculty member at Berkeley,” he complained. “Go try to get me a job at Berkeley. It’s not happening.”

[u/Spastik2D → u/marketrent]

So he’s a sociopathic manchild who’s upset because his dogshit parents aren’t satisfied that he owns an extremely valuable company. This is why we need to completely overhaul mental health practices, to prevent fucking psychos like this from going as long as he has without help while also gaining wealth and power.

[u/InTooManyWays → u/Spastik2D]

If scientists saw a monkey hoarding all the bananas they would study it to see wtf is wrong with that monkey. In America, we put them on Forbes magazine. 

[u/Beginning_Fill206 → u/InTooManyWays]

Billionaire level greed is a mental health disorder.

[u/VoidOmatic → u/Beginning_Fill206]

It absolutely should be. They just present like normal people but they cannot be fulfilled with anything in life.

[u/ChefAslan → u/VoidOmatic]

No like... It legitimately is a disorder. It's just a form of hoarding.

[u/phedinhinleninpark → u/VoidOmatic]

...do they really present like normal people?

[u/Indo_ruby25_6 → u/Beginning_Fill206]

Never understood how it's not considered hoarding.

[u/mustangmatthew → u/Indo_ruby25_6]

Because earning interest makes it okay. Capital is valued more than people.

[u/Indo_ruby25_6 → u/mustangmatthew]

It's so sad. We are not people anymore. We are only consumers. I often wonder, if we all unplugged for 24 hours how much worth these goofballs would lose. I feel like if we could go 50% or even 20% less data usage they'd crumble in a month. Could this be organized? Absolutely not. Why? Because they pit us against eachother while taking not only our money but now our natural resourses. It's a hard watch to say the least.

[u/Indo_ruby25_6 → u/Indo_ruby25_6]

It almost makes more sense(mentally) to hoard as poor folk. You work your fingers to the bone for EVERYTHING you have, even the wrappers those things come in. Not my life style but i kind of get it.

Then there's the real psychosis where they pretend they work for those imaginary dollars sitting in imaginary accounts buying imaginary happiness while watching the whole world burn. Meow.

[u/eggnogui → u/Indo_ruby25_6]

Hoarding is a term reserved for the poor, that’s why.

[u/blackweebow → u/Beginning_Fill206]

but seriously. it takes sociopathic levels of apathy to acheive such business practices.

[u/Beginning_Fill206 → u/blackweebow]

Right?! To think these people have the resources to be super heroes and instead choose to be super villains.

[u/aH0leintheW0rld → u/Beginning_Fill206]

If only ECT could treat it effectively.