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

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.

Palmer Lucky is one of the worst but MySpace Tom isn’t much better.

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).

I'm reminded of the lab scene in Alien: Resurrection with all the previous iterations of Ripley.

Something akin to when Musk showed off the bullet proof glass on the Cybertruck.

They're not looking to make a better dog, they're looking to make a patentable dog.

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.

Sounds like weaponized cyborg dogs is where this is going

Maybe they think they can combine all those desirable traits in one custom breed quicker than traditional animal husbandry?

Society says we can do human eugenics, so we'll just do dog eugenics as a treat

Some dank crevasse under the seat of a taxi cab.

$20 drones he sells.

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.

"The Palantir stones themselves cannot lie, but powerful users like Sauron can selectively control what is shown to trick or break the will of others (such as Denethor or Saruman)."

Almost like a confession. It is like some idiot read 1984 and decided it is in humanity's best interest to install the goverment in the book, completely senseless and sociopathic.

Tolkien would be spinning in his grave at the thought of this. It’s against everything he believed in.

When people mispronounce the names (as they usually do) I don’t correct them, out of respect for the Professor.

They think they are high elves while we are hobbits. They want to rule the world. They have actually proven that you can have a level of money that everyone will indulge your mental illness.

Anyone else would have been shot for infiltrating the government with plans to end the world but we live in HELL AND NO ONE GIVES A FUCK OR WILL DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

"Don't look up" was the most accurate portrayals of our stupid species ever written

And before everyone praises the glorious corporate Dems, Palmer Lucky and his gross company mostly support Democrats and Palmer and Musk are completely integrate in our Army with drones, ranks, and military units that have committed multiple suspicious suicides.

https://www.rawstory.com/new-right-jd-vance-tolkien/

NBC4 Washington nbcwashington.com › video › news › local › maryland › concern-fort-meade-cluster-suicides › 4164769 Concern at Fort Meade after recent cluster of suicides – NBC4 Washington

You know the Nazis were obsessed with esoteric fairytales? It’s like that

Turns out nerds liked LOTR when younger or perhaps still do, who'd've thunk it

And engineer Palmer to not live at all.

Yes. Can confirm. Mine also likes snacks.

The Nazis bred Dobermans and Shepards to be used by military. Coincidence?

Maybe he's just giving dogs testosterone.

No such thing. All dogs are good boys/girls

Bees is my favourite. No wait, Honey is. But Rex is so cute.

Dammit, now I have to read it again to decide.

I loved the world building of the trilogy at the end of the last book I was sad that there were only 3 books.

Ty! I scrolled so far but didn't need to post the book brologarch read badly myself

Making aggressive war dogs is something humanity tried before. Mastiffs and Chow Chows are two examples. They often attacked and killed their human masters.

Really I think we should extinct the practice of training attack dogs. In US police action they're abused to escalate to violence quicker than an officer would resort to firearms.

Armored dogs in war would be responed to like mechanized armor. A dozen of my cheap flying explosive drones will make short work of your expensive dog.

But then, the US hasn't caught up to the tech of cheap drones.

200 million earned by reselling an existing product.

You have a stray parenthesis in your link

Because billionaires are bored sycophants with zero empathy.

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.

Boston dynamics is thankfully mostly useless bullshit. Dancing robots won't run a factory.