Brad Carson: evaluation

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…probabilistic. But on the other hand, the the sort of prior binary categorization, I think itself was also a fiction. It's like, you know, you may have had your chain of attorneys and CIA analyst and whatever, looking at photographs and determine that this, you know, this building is a, you know, an enemy combatant, you know, location. And they may have made that determination definitively, but there was still error. Right? There was still uncertainty in that determination. It just wasn't quantified. Yeah. I think so. I think it was I think there was air. There's always going to be air. If could at least ask you, like, hey, Keith, when do you think that building is, you know, is a is a is the IRGC headquarters rather than a school? Tell me your reasoning about this. You know, right now, I just get a number. Hey, 0.81. That's an IRGC compound. And, you know, what what does that even mean? How did that get derived? And we know, and the social science comes out, you know, archive is filled with papers about how, you know, meaningful human oversight, even when you have human in the loop, basically means nothing operationally. Take it. That is truly a legal fiction. Operationally, it's vacuous. Because when the computer says, like, this guy's a Hamas terrorist, or this is an IRGC compound, we know humans accept it. It's like, Right? You know, the computer's right. Right. There's no second guessing of it. There's no interrogation of it. And so the old system, right, had many flaws. It took time. It wasn't as expeditious. They can't do 1000 targets in a day like we did on the first day of the conflict. But it had many advantages too. And in the end, if you really screwed up, Keith, or a bad actor, I could court martial you. I can't court martial Palantir, the foundry model. Right? My my my AI system. I can't do that. And that's just a radical change in the way war is being fought and not for the good. It's almost like, you know, the the TurboTax defense. Right? Like like, hey, you know, my my taxes were I just used TurboTax. I mean, what do do you want me to do? Like, I Yeah. And this is Well, mean, what's You're…

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