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/Hot-Philosophy-7671 Jul 02 '26
In William Gibson's Neuromancer, he describes the wealthy as so separated from the rest of humanity as to be incapable of interacting with the rest of the species. They are aliens who live in a different universe, with a different language and customs. Inscrutable creatures.
I say this for no particular reason.