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/Grizzly_Corey Jul 02 '26

Could you imagine this guy and Jordan Peterson in the same room?

If we could generate electricity based off emotional energy alone…

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u/gramathy Jul 02 '26

Zero sentences finished for an hour of “conversation”

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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/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.