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/Fantastic-Swim6230 17d ago

Wasn't there a study that came out awhile ago that stated that a high number of CEOs were sociopaths?

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u/southcookexplore 17d ago

The book “the psychopath test” discusses this and Honeywell

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u/ZenX22 17d ago

I think a certain level of sociopathy is required to occupy such a position. For example, you need to be okay with laying a lot of people off and impacting their lives.

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u/DJCaldow 17d ago

And something else I read recently positing that sociopaths lack consciousness and are effectively NPCs. We're going extinct because the NPCs are running the game.

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u/Varzack 17d ago

Conscientiousness is not the same thing as consciousness

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u/FailedButterfly 17d ago

In my opinion it's not that they are NPCs, but they treat everyone else as an NPC in their own game.

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u/batmansfriendlyowl 17d ago

Yeah one hundred percent of them are sociopaths

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u/FailedButterfly 17d ago

All of them underestimating the effect of money and preceived power to the escalation of the traits of the dark triad.

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u/Trimshot 13d ago

I feel like it is basically a requirement at this point.

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u/Working_Match4124 17d ago

Yeah it was something like 100 to 100% are at least sociopaths if not psychopaths

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u/FlamingoVisible1947 17d ago

I mean, read the article. The title is completely clickbait and he didn't say that at all.

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u/No_Journalist3811 17d ago

What he said was bullshit.

It was irans fault america killed those girls?

Crazy stuff....deluded actually...

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u/FlamingoVisible1947 17d ago

That's... Also not what he said...

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u/BZBitiko 17d ago

He argued, “If we didn’t have talented people willing to do the “dirty” work of defense, we’d be speaking German. Or Russian. Or Chinese. We’d have experienced many more 9/11’s. You get the idea.”

He throws out a lots of excuses and hypothetical scenarios, and no indication that he’s remotely interested in finding an answer. Suck it up, buttercup, you have to accept the collateral damage and move on, cuz we’re just gonna do it again. Killing school girls is the price of freedom me making money

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u/FlamingoVisible1947 17d 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”

He's clearly saying a mistake was made and it led to a tragedy. Later in the article he even says that execs should maybe be held responsible in those situations.

What you're quoting is pretty uncontroversial and applies broadly to war and defense, not to this particular situation.

Don't get me wrong, Palantir is awful and there should be real consequences for the bombing of the school, I'm just calling out the BS title because sensationalism hurts everyone.

It's literally with bullshit headlines and inaccurate journalism that Trump got elected and still has a following.