I remember the guy started working on military defense but i didn’t know he founded his own military defense company named after the lord of the rings with the help of peter thiel. Also i wasn’t aware his company is now producing an arsenal of surveillance weapons and leading the sector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anduril_Industries

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    3 months ago

    Has gone? More like had gone. Way back when he was still running Oculus. People just liked the project that he was working on. He still wasn’t a good person back then.

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    3 months ago

    Just look at that facial hair, screams evil villain wannabe

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    3 months ago

    I remember when got caught secretly funding a gang of racist trolls to harass people online during the first Trump campaign.

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    3 months ago

    Yea unfortunately the entire Gameboy community was re-introduced to this guy because of the modretro chromatic. You know things are fucked when you have an ethical dilemma about buying a Gameboy.

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    3 months ago

    Stuff like this should be studied in some kind of a medical facility. How do people flip their entire worldview overnight, and become colossal bigots, with the most aggressive and violent thought processes?

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      3 months ago

      The secret sauce is that most of them always were bigoted assholes. They just pretended not to be because that wasn’t socially acceptable. But showing their wretched true selves is cool under the new administration, so they are.

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    as a commemoration of the anime Sword Art Online, Luckey created a VR headset art piece that kills its human user in real life when the user dies digitally in the video game, by means of several explosive charges affixed above the screen

    Luckey blogged, “The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me—you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it.”[77] Luckey additionally described it as “just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design”. He also mentioned that while it is “the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill the user, it won’t be the last.”[75]

    … and his job is making autonomous weapon systems. I wonder what the future built by Jigsaw types like this is gonna look like