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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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[–] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

$200,000,000 to get dogs into war who will be killed by some $20 drone with a bomb

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child)

    If they can make 10,000,000 attack dogs to get blow up by those drones, and somehow avoid having any variable costs, then the dogs will be cheaper than the drones.

    I think that's within a practical scale.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I can't think of a reasonable scenario where, even given the drones are in short supply, dogs would be a necessary target over higher priority like the dog handlers. Maybe if you strap a bunch of bombs onto the dogs, but that would be really fucked

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