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.
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.
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.
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
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 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.
I hope when he’s showing them off someday, the dogs attack and maul him. Bonus if it happens on stage with hundreds of cameras filming him and people laughing.
Something akin to when Musk showed off the bullet proof glass on the Cybertruck.
So this is awful and stupid, but what I really want to know is what they think they can genetically engineer that can out perform a Belgian malinois for energy and physicality or a bloodhound for scent work. Like working dogs are already incredibly finely tuned through massive breeding programs.
They’re not looking to make a better dog, they’re looking to make a patentable dog.
And the precedent’s already set by big ag companies patenting genetically modified crops.
Society says we can do human eugenics, so we’ll just do dog eugenics as a treat
Dude could have used that money to fund animal shelters across the world and received a standing ovation.
It takes a special kind of fucking loser to come up with this idea and follow through on it.
BrO tHe OcUlUs RiFt Is ThE bEsT vR hEaDsEt.
Thanks dickheads
Where the fuck did this guy come from
Some dank crevasse under the seat of a taxi cab.
So much animal abuse
TF is it with these tech lord trash taking LOTR names for businesses? Anduril, Palantir, etc?
“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.
Same thing with the Metaverse. Zuck definitely thinks he can be Hiro Protagonist if the global economy falls apart and everything is controlled by corpostates.
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
Yeah. Good point. They tried rewriting them to fit their narrative, though.
Seems kind of the same here no?
Turns out nerds liked LOTR when younger or perhaps still do, who’d’ve thunk it
Do they still qualify as nerds if they’re the antithesis to the morals in the story they nerdrd over?
Honestly, good question. Does having to be an X nerd mean you should agree with the morals of X and if you become a millionaire, does that invalidate nerddom?
No. A nerd is a nerd, but they can be socialized in optimal and suboptimal ways.
If you’re the one supporting ripping up the forest of Ents to make room for a datacenter…yes, you lose your nerd card. You are now Saruman, corrupted to the will of evil to further one’s own power.
$200,000,000 to get dogs into war who will be killed by some $20 drone with a bomb
cant they leave the dogs alone, dont they just want to be loved and get tummy rubs?
Yes. Can confirm. Mine also likes snacks.
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 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.
That’s such a fucked up thing to do to make dogs that are as aggressive as possible. These are not going to be happy animals.
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.
In my opinion, police dogs, in the US at least, are a vestigial cultural holdover from law enforcement’s slave catching past. There isn’t really a good tactical reason to be using them that couldn’t be performed by other equipment. They are unreliable, expensive, and get shot surprisingly often. If you really interrogated why they still use attack dogs, their answer would be that those people are scared of them.
Other than that, scenthounds are just probable cause generators which are all probably trained to alert on command.
I’d been tracking detection dogs more than attack dogs, and yeah police dogs in use have false-positive rates sometimes 90%+. US precincts call them probable cause on four legs.
The sad thing is there’s a detection dog sector that resents the current misuse culture since its delegitimizing good faith uses.
Maybe once we can overhaul how policing and investigation are done, we can restrict detection dogs to instances where high false positive rates will be counter productive. Say, sniffing for explosives at an airport at a long line of luggage.
Police dogs are analogous to whips, in that they are an ineffective weapon against an equal enemy but good at reducing the morale of slaves.
(sorry if I’m just restating your point, I think it’s an important one)
Regardless of what they tell you, these aren’t gonna be used overseas. These are gonna be deployed domestically, as terror weapons in occupied territories.
Seriously I’m sure ICE would be happy to buy them
they switched to use malinois now, because they are more bitey than A gsd, and also more aggresive when trained to do so.
