It's been too many years since this last came up, maybe people forgot that former Spectrum Holobyte chairman Gilman Louie had (has?) a hand in Niantic and that, among other things, that dude ran a CIA VC fund. It's always looked like some kind of Special Project. www.alsop-louie.com/team/gilman-... - ThreadSky

jeffgerstmann.com • 118 days ago

It's been too many years since this last came up, maybe people forgot that former Spectrum Holobyte chairman Gilman Louie had (has?) a hand in Niantic and that, among other things, that dude ran a CIA VC fund. It's always looked like some kind of Special Project. https://www.alsop-louie.com/team/gilman-louie

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New: exec of Niantic, the company that makes Pokemon Go and is using user data to build an AI model, said he “could definitely see” militaries and governments buying the AI model, but had an issue with "adding amplitude" to war www.404media.co/pokemon-go-d...

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elmore.zone•118 days ago

What the shit

News to me, man.
I just went through Tetris Forever the other day, would have been good to have known about this! Woof. WOOF.

mrbob9000.bsky.social•118 days ago

Is that why you're not allowed to play Pokemon on Mount Weather?

kai.lucasbaradan.com•118 days ago

It would be kinda sweet to work for In-Q-Tel though

bugstyle.bsky.social•118 days ago

what the fuck

thefakepsychic.bsky.social•118 days ago

Gilman Louie was the one name in Tetris Forever I wasn't familiar with and when one of the first sentences on wikipedia was "Founded CIA Venture Capital fund" I definitely did a double take at that.

j-unit90.bsky.social•118 days ago

Same here! He definitely had a “vibe” about him in the footage that I couldn’t place, but it kinda makes sense now.

markshatraw.bsky.social•118 days ago

I know enough libertarians who play Ingress that Ingress being an op is the funniest thing I've heard all month

fry.bsky.social•118 days ago

He'll always be the original Falcon flight sim guy to me. I do remember hearing he went on to some weird government consulting shit afterward.

joshcallahan.com•118 days ago

more like Bay of Grumpigs

caseyminter.bsky.social•118 days ago

Love when C-level execs flatten language to make modern geopolitical warfare into an excel macro.

...I liked Frequency better anyway.

kunzopolis.bsky.social•118 days ago

smallupsetter.bsky.social•118 days ago

The words "CIA VC fund" make me feel like I've suffered a concussion, don't care how normal it is.

sulik2.bsky.social•118 days ago

Da fuck, how and why did that exist.

smallupsetter.bsky.social•118 days ago

Easy answer is that the CIA needs a way to come up with new spy stuff. The harder answer is a bunch of unhinged ranting about politics.

bartsutton.bsky.social•118 days ago

We can't enjoy shit anymore, can we?

dr-mel.bsky.social•118 days ago

For better and for worse, we are going to eventually lose the "is AI in this" conversation because it will just be embedded innocuously into everything. And before then, smart companies will simply stop making it public knowledge that they're using it.

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