I wonder if an enterprising prosecutor will charge members of this company with murder, now that they are fully aware of how dangerous their product is, yet continue to sell it. I hope so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I never made such a statement. But in markets where only companies that practice forcible sodomy can compete, those companies will predominate. In the words of a construction manager friend of mine: "If I'm not driving my subcontractors out of business, I'm not doing my job." He left construction management when he got the chance.

That was a good read, thanks. Nonetheless, if the company's behavior is incompatible with the bottom line, market forces will squash that company. The company with a constraint of "never behave like a sociopath" is at a competitive disadvantage to the company without that constraint.

Perhaps your brother was really awesome at doing his job, and that was a calculated risk on the part of his company. Perhaps they did it to make an example of him and raise the morale of everyone else there. But if they just did it out of the kindness of their hearts, then they violated their fiduciary duty to maximize their shareholder's profits. No one should ever mistake a company for anything but a profit seeking machine. They vary in their competence toward seeking this goal, and in the timeframes over which they expect returns, but that is what is at their core. Companies that don't behave this way just get eaten by those that do. It isn't even their choice.

How are they going to find enough pornographic images to properly train the system?

I thought about it too. Your post misleads because you compare ISS cost to the total public and private R&D spending of the US. Most of that isn't science. That's things like Charmin engineering a softer pleat of toilet paper. $100 billion over 17 years is approximately the money spent on the National Science Foundation over that time. We could have doubled the NSF budget for the last 17 years. That would have been something. NSF budget history: http://proposalexponent.com/NS...

>Just wait until the first air disaster, with numbers like "six hundred dead...".

People die in huge numbers from ferry disasters every few years. People still take ferries.