Palmer Luckey of Anduril is teaming with Ben Lamm of Colossal Biosciences to launch Warhound, a startup dedicated to genetically engineering and cloning dogs for service in war, police work and first responder work.
Speaking to Wired, Lamm explained that the project was twofold. One part of the project would oversee the genetic engineering and cloning of the ideal dogs for war, and the other would develop tech for them to use on battlefields.
He also has a unhealthy obsession with the nuclear triad.
Palmer Luckey is such a loser. He makes absolute bank by selling Oculus to Facebook and then decides with all that money his time is best spent developing weapons to help kill people more efficiently. We need more people like MySpace Tom who, after making a load of money, stepped away and pursued his artistic interests and turns out the guy is a really good photographer.
Palmer Luckey’s partner at Oculus died under mysterious circumstances right before the sale to Facebook.
Damn, I didn’t know about that. Guess I have a new rabbit hole to inspect.
Looked into it and it doesn’t really seem like mysterious circumstances. From the article I read, he was struck by a car that was already fleeing police while he was crossing a crosswalk.
https://gamesbeat.com/oculus-vr-co-founder-killed-in-crosswalk-during-high-speed-police-chase/
mark zuckerborg probably took his brain to study humans.
Care to share more info? Couldn’t find anything about it
https://www.techdigest.tv/2013/06/oculus_rift_co.html
Died in an accident involving a police chase. The Facebook deal was closed several months later.
No information other than his name on Wikipedia, that’s crazy
It’s been scrubbed. The story I remember was that he was blocking the Facebook sale. One mysterious accident later, the deal is back on track.
After selling to facebook he got flack. And then became an open supporter of Trump. He became hated.
My guess is that he’s a narcissist similar to Elon Musk, so him hearing himself called a looser and asshole (like he is) triggers him to be worse. To go “I’ll show him”. To do a nazi salute or you know, engineer dogs for war to oppress people more efficiently. Any supporter of Trump is obviously a psycho with no moral center, but if they also have narcissism and money and power, well it can get much worse.
The likelyhood of him reading comments like this is incredibly low whereas other random people may come across it and not have any idea about how terrible he has shown himself to be. So I think talking about him like this is a net positive.
Edit: I don’t think him getting flack caused him to change to be the person he is today, if anything getting massive amounts of money freed him to be more open about who he truly is inside. Maybe catching flack online also helped him in taking off the mask so to say.
Yeah I agree with both points. Also I read that he was a long term Trump supporter long before he ran for president.
And treating these malignant narcissists with kid gloves is useless I agree. But they are obsessed with their image, with their false ego or mirror image. So he will read how he has seen. This is of course speculation and I’m not a psychologist, but that is what I think happened to Musk. He played this image of a good tech “captain of industry”, then when he got rejected because of his greed and lies he switched to a different persona. And there is no real persona. You can even see similar things with Trump, very far back he was a democrat / liberal, but these malignant narcissists don’t have a real personal.
Not sure how useful any of this is really. In the end we live in the age of monsters. And they are all across the political mainstream spectrum now.
Palmer Lucky is one of the worst but MySpace Tom isn’t much better.
I’m OOTL then I’ve only heard good things about him.
This guy looks like the personification of a 4chan message board and needs to be punched in the face. A lot.
There’s a reason for that. He’s literally a 4chan brony. If you really want to, you could Google Palmer Luckey brony pic and see for yourself. Yes, the picture is real and has been around much longer than AI has existed.
Palmer Luckey brony pic
Shit you weren’t kidding
Spend money for gene engineering to cure cancers: ❌
Spend money to genetically engineer dogs to kill people ✅CRISPR has raised tens of billions in money for cancer gene therapy. 2021 saw private venture investors spending $12.1 Billion, not including public funding which has totaled in the billions.
This still does not cancel out what i said, spending money to make genenetically engineered dogs to kill people is utterly stupid when you could finance more research to actual useful things that gene engineering do: curing genetic illnesses, discover if they can replicate axolotl’s regeneration on other animals, see why the heck some animals just have lower chances of gettin cancer, find out if we can speed up wound healing (or prevent scars!) And all this stuff
Well, it does lol. You said they don’t spend money on cancer gene therapy, when the fact is they spend hundreds of times the amount of this headline on it.
I think it’s morally bankrupt to fund genetic research on war dogs in general, but that’s a completely different argument and is irrelevant to the conversation about cancer therapy.
You could literally say the same thing about any money spent. Why spend money on battery research for EVs when you could spend that on cancer research?
The two are not related.
I was talking about this rich idiot not everyone, it also was the first thing that came in mind because you could use genetic engineering to combat some cancers
Edit:
Well if you read the community notes on it, this money isn’t even towards the genetic part. It’s to fund armor to protect the dogs in the field lol.
Very little of that $12B is for gene therapy, because very little of gene therapy is actually working.
cant they leave the dogs alone, dont they just want to be loved and get tummy rubs?
Yes. Can confirm. Mine also likes snacks.
The Nazis bred Dobermans and Shepards to be used by military. Coincidence?
So much animal abuse
Where the fuck did this guy come from
Some dank crevasse under the seat of a taxi cab.
These people are sick.
They really are. The hoarding of wealth isn’t seen as the disease that it is.
The ancient Greeks knew greed was one of humanity’s worst traits. Even Lycurgus knew money was a poison of the heart and banned the homoioi (spartan soldiers/equals) from owning money, they could keep goods (like food, bronze, iron, cattle etc).
Interesting, thank you.
I’m gonna say it, and I don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks.
This motherfucker, and anyone else with the same idea, needs to fucking die. In the most gruesome, painful way whoever manages it can achieve so that it’s a clear fucking warning to the next motherfucker
Similar to the guy who made all those dogs with breathing problems (pugs especially. They arent cute, they cant fucking breathe)
Sure, them too. But this guy created Anduril Industries to develop non-manned AI drones to kill whoever gets labeled a target by whoever buys his terror machines. This guy is a threat to humanity beyond the pug breeder. He and people with ideas like him deserve to die with much higher priority imo.
But we already have robodogs. Boston Dynamics has been soft-launching them for years, innoculating the masses into adoring them & accepting them before unveiling their full wrathful capabilities. Why breed & abuse living creatures when we already have terrifying robots to do bloodshed for us?
Because billionaires are bored sycophants with zero empathy.
Boston dynamics is thankfully mostly useless bullshit. Dancing robots won’t run a factory.
Boston Dynamics has been soft-launching them for years
Boston Dynamics made a robodog that doesn’t immediately trip over it’s own feet on gravel and has a thirty minute active runtime before it needs a two hour recharge.
Then they’ve dropped a fuckton on marketing and lobbying to keep the investment cash pouring in.
Then they’ve dropped a fuckton on marketing and lobbying to keep the investment cash pouring in.
Dancing robots jumping around. Show me a robot placing something into a box after it fell to the ground. I’m sure with another 50 million one can hand you a screwdriver.
I can’t imagine how many dogs this bag of diarrhea is going to kill for this project.
I’m reminded of the lab scene in Alien: Resurrection with all the previous iterations of Ripley.
Man, it’s such a good thing people are going hungry so we can have these things!
/s.
Palmer Luckey woke up and said:
That’s it, I’m inventing bad dogs!
Maybe he’s just giving dogs testosterone.
No such thing. All dogs are good boys/girls
Not if they’re genetically modified to be war dogs, though it’s not something they’re responsible for.
I hate Palmer Lucky as much as I hate Stephen Miller.
