Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, is starting a no-fap movement for Silicon Valley. During an appearance on the OpenAI-owned TBPN during Palantir’s own AIPCon 10 conference, the always very quotable (when he can get a sentence out) executive said that tokenmaxxers are the gooners of the AI space. In one of his typical scattershot rants that can veer off in any direction, Karp described artificial intelligence as “real” but derided the “tokenmaxxing” movement that is burning through tokens just for the sake of doing so —a habit that was initially spurred on by executives who wanted to justify their investment in AI but have since scaled back on because it turns out that’s really expensive and doesn’t actually result in any productivity boosts. When asked about how Palantir handles token consumption, Karp said, “We have a product…internally we call it the ‘demasturbatory, get off masturbation’ thing.” First, you gotta hand it to the guy, it’s a great name for a tool.…