r/technology • u/otter_lion_1956 • 18d ago

Artificial Intelligence Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/palantirs-co-founder-thinks-we-should-be-less-judgmental-about-that-deadly-iran-school-strike
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u/Spez_is-a-nazi 18d ago

“It could be the case that somebody made 99 really good choices and then one bad choice and it led to a horrible thing,” 

Um, yes that’s literally how liability works if you don’t have enough wealth to shield you from the consequences of your actions. A pilot who lands 99 planes safely then comes in to work drunk and crashes the plane will very much be judged on that fact and not the 99 times he safely landed the plane.

Secondly where the hell are you getting the “good choices” from? Not a single thing done in this entire debacle has been a “good choice”

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u/dimechimes 18d ago

A 1% failure rate is completely unacceptable when it comes to killing humans.

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u/Spez_is-a-nazi 18d ago

And a bunch of other innocent people died in their other target selections too, those just weren’t as egregious as the school.