I am petty and trivial and I want to do like ten posts on what the hell this guy looks like even though that is not appropriate, because: AI AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS ARE YOU KIDDING ME? - ThreadSky

harkaway.bsky.social • 17 days ago

I am petty and trivial and I want to do like ten posts on what the hell this guy looks like even though that is not appropriate, because: AI AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Reposted from 60 Minutes

By now, we've all heard about Elon Musk's efforts to reshape the U.S. government.

But 60 Minutes will introduce you to another tech billionaire, one who's set his sights on radically changing the way the Pentagon buys and uses weapons. https://cbsn.ws/3Fld1ll

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oisinmcgann.bsky.social•16 days ago

I hate everything about this. Even his name sounds like an annoying secondary character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

billbbillb.bsky.social•16 days ago

CTRL+F “Cuba”, “Guantanamo”, and “American Singapore” not found in the CBS webpage… Did they not try to ask him about that? Or was the interview recorded too long ago for that…

billbbillb.bsky.social•16 days ago

Re: https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1921258101262725226

brain-flood.bsky.social•16 days ago

He's AI generated

victoriadecapua.bsky.social•16 days ago

wait, do we now know what Type A pencilneck looks like?

victoriadecapua.bsky.social•16 days ago

This is the facial hair of a man who has no real friends.

adamroberts.bsky.social•17 days ago

One of the Three Billy Goats Naff

atomicovermind.bsky.social•17 days ago

Palmer Lucky is a piece of fucking work, and Anduril makes some sincerely scary military tech. Loitering AI-assisted murder drones, anyone?

thebrainofchris.bsky.social•16 days ago

I hate invoking Terminator in AI conversations, but remember how in Terminator 2 Skynet was created by a conscientious scientist horrified by the consequences of his creation and determined to stop it, and not a trust fund baby responding to the Terminator with "LOL. LMAO."

taberiusrex.bsky.social•16 days ago

"Do you want Terminators? Because this is how you get Terminators"

duncanbatey.bsky.social•16 days ago

You have ten seconds to comply.

amfisher.bsky.social•17 days ago

He's already suffered from autonomous facial hair, maybe he should look into autonomous razors? I also hate the name of his company. Aragorn would cut this guy in half.

mitchellg657.bsky.social•17 days ago

Someone who goes out in public looking like the adult version of the sidekick in a 90s childrens sitcom thinks he's beyond accountability. It's all part of the technofascist style book.

jonathanlhoward.bsky.social•16 days ago

Palmer Luckey, a man who sounds, looks, and acts like a character Philip K. Dick scrapped for being too cartoonish.

wmjones.bsky.social•16 days ago

A character that could fit directly into the Neal Stephenson novel Snow Crash.

scottagibson.bsky.social•17 days ago

What could go wrong?

boredaardvark.bsky.social•16 days ago

Ash Lives!!!

frankshallot.bsky.social•16 days ago

Does this involve him using his wizard stick to bring some suits of armour to life?

garethwatkins.bsky.social•16 days ago

This article is the longest and most detailed thing I can find on him, and contains:
a) So much Freudian stuff about poop.
b) Anime.
c) The world's most credulous journalist hearing that he pivoted to weapons from VR for revenge and being like 'yeah, seems normal'.

https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril

harkaway.bsky.social•17 days ago

This guy is sitting there going "What would be worse than building the Torment Nexus?"

forbesy.bsky.social•17 days ago

"You're right, my favourite movie when I was a kid WAS Terminator and T2! How'd you guess that?!"

harkaway.bsky.social•17 days ago

"Alexa, play Appetite for Destruction."

"Assassinating King Dominic now."

"WAIT WHAT CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL"

"Blues singer and tequila magnate Wat Candle has been added to the termination list."

jonlewis.bsky.social•17 days ago

Cliff from Singles looks great for pushing sixty.

harkaway.bsky.social•17 days ago

Seriously also before you unleash AI murder machines maybe get some kind of facial Roomba tech going because if you're not prepared to do even that I don't think we should allow your weapons tech

I PROMISED MYSELF I WOULDN'T I FEEL DIRTY

devival.com•16 days ago

where's Jack Price when you need him?

victoriadecapua.bsky.social•16 days ago

You're asking the wrong man.

victoriadecapua.bsky.social•16 days ago

You need to be asking the REALLY wrong man.

jeffabbott.bsky.social•17 days ago

he heard AI was a tool for fascism and decided to really, really make it true

andydiggle.bsky.social•16 days ago

Eventually the tech billionaires won’t need government contracts; they’ll just build their own weapons for their own use. Anduril vs SpaceX, battling it out for control of low Earth orbit.

kosmogrrrl.bsky.social•16 days ago

The great thing about war in low earth orbit is that fairly quickly it becomes impossible for anyone to have any satellites there at all!

I'm pretty hyped for it now tbh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

danwhitehead.net•16 days ago

Of all the movies I thought we'd end up living in, Moonraker was really far down the list. And yet.

andydiggle.bsky.social•16 days ago

Sociopathic billionaire eugenicist with a rocket company? Checks out.

danwhitehead.net•16 days ago

Something to look forward to?

kosmogrrrl.bsky.social•16 days ago

Grok draws a really good "sad Elon Musk being voted out the airlock", but I feel too bad about the pollution Grok creates to ask it to do it again

paneraiwearer.bsky.social•16 days ago

He's 32 and clearly has never heard of Terminator, let alone seen it.

Because if he had, he DEFINITELY wouldn't be advocating this shit.
FFS.😡

wabznazm.bsky.social•17 days ago

It is appropriate because someone who has made life choices like that shouldn't be in any kind of decision-making situation that could affect others

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