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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      I assume he’s going to show up with a Bully XL so inbred that it’s got a 6 month live expectancy. And this dog is going to be sold to the military for $40M/ea.

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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.

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    We already “genetically engineers war dogs”. And police work. And individual self protection.

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    This is the same Colossal Biosciences which has been outright lying about recreating extinct species to drum up cash from investors. And when you look at some of the stuff they’re pretending to do for this goal, e.g. artificial eggshells for dodos, it is quite obvious they have ulterior intentions.

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      He looks like a dumb fuck, how do investors see him and say yes give him 200 million? How do I get investors in my businesss? I can bullshit too.

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      It’s way cheaper to make an animal go blow itself up rather than build an entire robot to go get blown up.

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        Not if you just buy the cheapest parts and then harden the software and send a fuck load of them out there at once. Just as expendable as real dogs

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      Then they lose the dog hack. It’s both a police officer and a genetically modified wolf. If the police officer is biting you, then you need to stop resisting. What kind of monster would hurt a dog just doing its job.

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        “resisting” while actively being harmed/injured is and always will be a sadistic joke.

        “stop resisting!” while I break you shoulder. Nice.

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    If you ever wonder how 200M could be raised for this, just think to yourself:

    • Step 1: Dogs
    • Step 2: