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Palmer Luckey raies $200,000,000 to genetically engineer dogs for war (dangerousminds.net)
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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.

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[–] 218 points 1 week ago (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 96 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Palmer Luckey’s partner at Oculus died under mysterious circumstances right before the sale to Facebook.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Damn, I didn't know about that. Guess I have a new rabbit hole to inspect.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Care to share more info? Couldn't find anything about it

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    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.

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