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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    Spend money for gene engineering to cure cancers: ❌
    Spend money to genetically engineer dogs to kill people ✅

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    He thinks that life is a video game, that’s why his avatar looks like that. Also shitty video game ideas.

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    Just sucking up government cash under a veneer of credibility.

    All the army dogs propaganda was to white wash the military’s image dumbass.

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    investors have a mandate they have to follow. if it says “invest N% into AI” they will throw money at anyone who has “ai” in their mission statement. same for “Defense”.

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    cant they leave the dogs alone, dont they just want to be loved and get tummy rubs?

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    How do I get money? I got a idea lasers on freaking sharks!!! I’ll take my 200 million in cash please

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    Embarrassed to remember liking this guy as early VR adopter. Imagine trading priviledge of pioneering VR to building war machines. What a piece of shit.

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      if it makes you feel any better, i bet gabe newell and john carmack are feeling much worse 😹

      for God sake, facebook advised him to do damage control by donating to someone on the opposite side of the political aisle, and he sued them for it! (according to Wikipedia he got at least 100 million out of that).

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    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?

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    These fucking techbros are louder and trying to normalize unethical behavior under this regime being asked to remove regulation from all of their activities.

    That is what a corporate dystopia really is. Laws for all but not for them.