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Palantir CEO Alex Karp has mental breakdown in front of reporters
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grrgyle slrpnk.net grrgyle@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2024-03-18
#52 · (edited) Quote Reply

So a tankie?

Like an authoritarian that doesn't people can self direct? I can kind of see the pipeline.

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-14
#53 · Quote Reply

My god... 😳

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☂️- lemmy.ml umbrella@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-12
#54 · Quote Reply

Which is nice. These assholes deserve as much stress as we can give them.

bullying works. just bully people who deserve it.

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sportsjorts lemmy.zip sportsjorts@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-02
#55 · Quote Reply

God that man sucks.

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Jackhammer_Joe lemmy.world Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-26
#56 · Quote Reply

God that man sucks.

There is no god.

That guy still really sucks

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minorkeys sh.itjust.works minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-04-22
#57 · Quote Reply

I hope he fucking dies for what he's attempting to do

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teolan lemmy.world teolan@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#58 · Quote Reply

Am I the only who thinks he looks drunk or high?

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orenj [he/they] leminal.space orenj@leminal.space
Joined: 2026-04-04
#59 · Quote Reply

Content of his words and character aside, he looks like such a huge asshole wearing a ballcap and a suit

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Avicenna programming.dev Avicenna@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-11-07
#60 · Quote Reply

And there's only one country that has this kind of AI stack China?

yeah would be really nice if they asked him that right there

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Avicenna programming.dev Avicenna@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-11-07
#61 · Quote Reply

Exactly the same way Trump answers questions he is not prepared for, by bullying his way out of it.

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lechekaflan lemmy.world lechekaflan@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#62 · (edited) Quote Reply

Putin and his buddies in the Kremlin must be laughing at how this bastard acts in public.

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thedeadwalking4242 lemmy.world thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-10
#63 · Quote Reply

Don't compitulate if he doesn't answer walk way, or immediately turn to the camera and go off on "as you can see the cock sucker refuses to answer"

Jesus

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Gammelfisch lemmy.world Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-05
#64 · Quote Reply

F'n oligarch.

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Duamerthrax lemmy.world Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-27
#65 · Quote Reply

Do you feel that AI is working for you?

No.

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Duamerthrax lemmy.world Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-27
#66 · (edited) Quote Reply

You call this a mental breakdown?

For someone who presumably had media training? Yes. Yes it does.

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lessthanluigi lemmy.sdf.org lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2024-11-08
#67 · Quote Reply

For someone who presumably had media training? Yes. Yes it does.

That makes more sense. I have had worse mental breakdowns

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tgcoldrockn lemmy.world tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-07
#68 · Quote Reply

that felt like a temu tarantino sketch

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Protoknuckles lemmy.world Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-17
#69 · Quote Reply

bullying works. just bully people who deserve it.

As long as you punch up, keep punching.

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edible_funk sh.itjust.works edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-01-06
#70 · Quote Reply

Truly one of the strangest people in tech. Imagine having been a Marxist and then turning into this? Deranged.

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

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altphoto lemmy.today altphoto@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-04-14
#71 · Quote Reply

Nah, he is the perfect example of how nepotism and who you roommate with in college gets you ahead of everyone else. Sadly, using these parameters to choose leadership may be great for the ownership class, but sucks for the rest of the world.

I have my own personal nepotism at my company where the future son in law of the CEO keeps making shit mistakes that my entire team has to fix. Then we all have to pretend he's not an idiot and dedicate most of our weekly team meeting to listening to his dumb ass shit.

So hmm yeah. Nepotism is hard at work.

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
#72 · Quote Reply

Okay I agree that he's a nutjob and likely a psychopath, but I wouldn't call this a mental breakdown...

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dan69 lemmy.world dan69@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-01
#73 · Quote Reply

Genuine question is in a manic state between or post drip or ‘ski trip’?
Like I get you have to hold the conversation to win but damn chill bra, this is the not personality or characteristic of someone I’d trust with anything let alone sophisticated products, military related data.

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PapaStevesy lemmy.world PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-18
#74 · Quote Reply

Oops, seems he mispronounced "that is the only question I prepared an answer for"

That's the thing, he could have answered the first question with the exact same answer he would have given to the question he wanted to hear, I don't understand what he was mad about.

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Echo Dot feddit.uk echodot@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-26
#75 · Quote Reply

Yeah I hate it when people refuse to answer questions they've been asked. Only really stupid person would do that.

Seriously though why is anyone asking this guy his opinion on anything, is a fascist and his company is basically a fascist incubator. It's not like he's going to have a insightful nuanced opinion or anything.

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Echo Dot feddit.uk echodot@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-26
#76 · (edited) Quote Reply

Am I the only who thinks he looks drunk or high?

He's definitely on something. Him and Elon have probably been hanging out, both give off the same energy.

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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#77 · Quote Reply

fuckhead hasn't had anyone with power tell him "no" for a looong ass time

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boonhet lemmy.zip boonhet@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-12
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#78 · Quote Reply

Claude didn't just target the Minab school; it double tapped it. Also nuremberg etc. etc. Seriously the sooner you guys stop giving any benefit of the doubt to these chess players, the sooner we can fix society. Any day now.

Claude didn't target shit, Americans did. "AI told us bad people were there" is an excuse and a shitty one. Even if it did (and you can get AI to agree with any viewpoint so it very well may have), an actual human being made the call to double tap the school, either knowing it was a school or not bothering to look it up on Google maps before even ordering the strike.

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boonhet lemmy.zip boonhet@lemmy.zip
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#79 · Quote Reply

Honestly imagine how much better the traffic for somewhere like greater LA could be made by an AI system using cameras and variable speed limit signs to control the traffic flow. If they used A.I to make our lives better in just a few ways I think society in general would be so much more tolerant of their shit.

Palantir mostly does government contracts. If they haven't done a traffic system yet, it means no government has asked them to. So this one is on the LA local government as much as it is on the AI companies.

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fdnomad programming.dev fdnomad@programming.dev
Joined: 2024-06-10
#80 · Quote Reply

Very insecure person

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Notso feddit.org notso@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-06-04
#81 · Quote Reply

Am I the only who thinks he looks drunk or high?

Whatever he is on, he needs to take less of it.

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bstix feddit.dk bstix@feddit.dk
Joined: 2023-06-09
#82 · Quote Reply

So this guy just woke up that morning and decided to boss around people on the street.

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Corkyskog sh.itjust.works Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-12
#83 · (edited) Quote Reply

Mr. Karp how are you still finding so much cocaine after Palantir has supposedly targeted all of the fishing boats carrying it to the US?

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toohotforsoup lemmy.world toohotforsoup@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-09
#84 · Quote Reply

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

I thought they were on the Full Horse treatment - Ivermectin and Ketamine

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Someonelol lemmy.dbzer0.com Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-16
#85 · Quote Reply

He just spouted all the AI talking points, desperate to get someone to parrot him because no one is believing the lies. It just sucks that no legislation is actually being worked on to curb the ridiculous amount of power and privilege these systems have over the government and common people.

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NEZ27 lemmy.zip NEZ27@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-07-20
#86 · Quote Reply

Okay I agree that he's a nutjob and likely a psychopath, but I wouldn't call this a mental breakdown...

Idk. If the manager at a local mcdonalds gave an interview calling people stupid as shit and then rambling nonsense, people might suppose the same. The only time I've had someone do that to me they were clearly unhoused with some kind of mental health condition.

This guy is the head of an international corporation, named after an evil entity, owned by a famous Billionaire who is frequently in the news about cartoon villainy. He should ostensibly have some media training that details why this little crashout is sad, pathetic, and embarassing.

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BeMoreCareful lemmy.world BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#87 · Quote Reply

A salesman that is not that great at selling.

Kind of reminds me of those sketches about self defense where you have to put your arm here, no here, NO here. Then it doesn't work anyway.

The mark already took the bait, just keep your mouth shut and act confident. I don't get it.

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TokesGirlDragon lemmy.world TokesGirlDragon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-06-05
#88 · Quote Reply

Why cant AI be gone for good?

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
#89 · Quote Reply

Idk. If the manager at a local mcdonalds gave an interview calling people stupid as shit and then rambling nonsense, people might suppose the same. The only time I've had someone do that to me they were clearly unhoused with some kind of mental health condition. This guy is the head of an international corporation, named after an evil entity, owned by a famous Billionaire who is frequently in t...

Yeah sure, sad pathetic and embarrassing. I agree. That's why I said psychopath and nutjob.

But mental breakdown? Come on. That just conflates people who have legitimate mental health issues with this guy's lunacy.

This isn't Shia LeBouffe masturbating in public, it's just some evil narcissist losing his shit on camera

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whotookkarl lemmy.dbzer0.com whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#90 · Quote Reply

Some people don't grow up they just get bigger and older, but they continue to act like children

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MrsDoyle sh.itjust.works MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-13
#91 · Quote Reply

Yes Mr Karp, I think you're the village idiot. Next question.

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lightnsfw reddthat.com lightnsfw@reddthat.com
Joined: 2023-08-15
#92 · Quote Reply

Do you feel like AI is working for you?

No, that's like .. the entire problem. This guy has brain worms. "Just ask me softball questions, wah wah wah". Bitch ass.

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lightnsfw reddthat.com lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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#93 · Quote Reply

Palantir mostly does government contracts. If they haven't done a traffic system yet, it means no government has asked them to. So this one is on the LA local government as much as it is on the AI companies.

Yeah, why should a company proactively develop ideas to bring to market and make themselves useful. Just wait for the customers to figure everything out for them...

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lightnsfw reddthat.com lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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#94 · Quote Reply

Yeah I hate it when people refuse to answer questions they've been asked. Only really stupid person would do that. Seriously though why is anyone asking this guy his opinion on anything, is a fascist and his company is basically a fascist incubator. It's not like he's going to have a insightful nuanced opinion or anything.

I long for the days where instead of asking these assholes questions people just stomp the shit out of them.

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boonhet lemmy.zip boonhet@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-12
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#95 · Quote Reply

Yeah, why should a company proactively develop ideas to bring to market and make themselves useful. Just wait for the customers to figure everything out for them...

Spend tens of millions of your own money developing something or get paid hundreds of millions to do it.

There are an infinite amount of things that could be useful, you can't develop all of them in anticipation of demand.

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lightnsfw reddthat.com lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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#96 · Quote Reply

Spend tens of millions of your own money developing something or get paid hundreds of millions to do it. There are an infinite amount of things that could be useful, you can't develop all of them in anticipation of demand.

They're not spending their own money, they're spending the venture capitalists money.

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NEZ27 lemmy.zip NEZ27@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-07-20
#97 · Quote Reply

Yeah sure, sad pathetic and embarrassing. I agree. That's why I said psychopath and nutjob. But mental breakdown? Come on. That just conflates people who have legitimate mental health issues with this guy's lunacy. This isn't Shia LeBouffe masturbating in public, it's just some evil narcissist losing his shit on camera

Fair enough. It is hyperbolic, but I'm not sure by how much.

I will give honorable mention to the pathological greed. If greed wasn't so celebrated, I'm sure there'd we'd have a proper diagnosis for their insatiability.

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
#98 · Quote Reply

Fair enough. It is hyperbolic, but I'm not sure by how much. I will give honorable mention to the pathological greed. If greed wasn't so celebrated, I'm sure there'd we'd have a proper diagnosis for their insatiability.

Oh I agree that it's pathological. Just doesn't reach my threshold for "mental breakdown"

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