#news #video #interview of #Palmer-Luckey from two weeks ago. Apparently he’s mass-producing robotic "Ghost Shark" submarines in #Australia now, delivering the first submarine a year ahead of schedule. He describes himself as a “caricature” and a “larger-than-life character”, and says that gets him retweets, which is only helpful for recruiting. Only about half of #Anduril’s products are public, he says, choosing to single out Fury, the autonomous fighter jet. The first Arsenal-1 production lines are going live in a few weeks, so, I guess April, rather than the planned June, and will be making Barracuda, Fury, etc. He expects it to be in full-scale production by Q2 02027. Oh, and he says he has prototype autonomous #subterrenes. #weaponry
on 02026-04-04Cyan Banister explains why she invested in James Proud of #Substrate on April Fool’s Day in 02022, and got their logo tattooed on her spine (in addition to the #Anduril logo on her left shoulder). This article also looks like AI slop: “This isn’t Chick-fil-A. This isn’t Hobby Lobby. This is the company that holds Western civilization together through its semiconductor monopoly, saying atheists need not apply to their scientific positions.” Also talks a little bit about the failure of Proud’s previous startup, Hello, the one that was going to revolutionize sleeping by gamifying it.
on 02025-12-11#Nix drama due to people taking issue with a lot of the founders going to work at #Anduril
on 02025-10-16#Palantir and #Anduril are collaborating to build the communications platform "NGC2" for the #USA military, but it currently has serious flaws in early testing
on 02025-10-02#Anduril #Anvil #weaponry demo #video, showing that it’s a brick-shaped battery-powered quadcopter designed to knock down low-altitude #drones
on 02025-09-12#news #toread about #Anduril, #Palantir, etc.
on 02025-08-06#Palmer-Luckey just did a #TED talk #video on #Anduril
on 02025-04-30#Anduril recruiting
on 02025-02-26#video #interview with #Palmer-Luckey from 02023 (though released only three months ago) about #Anduril and other #weaponry, a foursome by Erik Torenberg ("Upstream" on the podcast network "Turpentine") with someone from #Varda. Lots of belligerent rhetoric attacking #China, proposing “defector visas” and citizenship under the illusion that many people are desperate to leave China. Luckey proposes that the PRC might blockade #Taiwan as a way to force capitulation to reunification without shooting. Describes Chinese immigrants to the US as “traitors to their country”, approvingly.
on 02025-01-30#video of #pmarca saying it’s “morning again” in #USA #politics due to #Trump, 74 minutes. I didn’t realize Al Gore sponsored the legislation that created NSFNET; I thought his advocacy started with the com-priv era.
He mentions the end of Chevron deference, which he argues means that executive agencies should abandon their quasi-legislative functions. He also questions the idea of “independent agencies” in the executive branch, like the FTC and NRC. The interviewer, the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson, argues that the CFPB's director not being fireable by the president is “unconstitutional on the face of it”, prefiguring the Slaughter verdict (I’m writing these notes in 02026).
Cites #Yarvin approvingly at 25'54" saying that we’re 80 years into FDR’s personal monarchy.
Also mentions #Elmu has been “living at” Mar-a-Lago.
Also mentions the #history of Nixon’s “Project Independence”, which I hadn’t heard of, to build 1000 #nuclear #energy power stations in the US, which turns out to be at best a very incomplete description of Project Independence.
Describes #Anduril’s original business plan as “We have to invest in this company, and his business plan is to hunt Mexicans at the southern border in 2016. And we’re just like, oh, God, we just basically have a heart attack.” So Andreessen Horowitz didn’t invest, and Trump didn’t want Anduril to do it, so they switched to military systems, which became accepted in Silicon Valley with the tragedy in #Ukraine.
Robinson claims that the US’s “only sustainable advantage over the Chinese is going to be technological innovation”, since they’re more numerous and richer, which doesn't make sense to me — how are they richer if they’re dumber, as he’s implying? Pmarca doesn’t disagree, citing the Pentagon’s new COO, Steve Feinberg, as someone who can make this happen.
At 56'40" he says the Ukrainian sea drones are built out of commercial jetskis.
At 60'40" pmarca makes the very reasonable points that productivity growth in the US has been low since about 01970, and that low growth creates zero-sum economics, which creates zero-sum politics, “where the only way for anybody to get anything is to take it away from somebody else.”
on 02025-01-29#video #interview with #Palmer-Luckey by Jim Gash, the president of Pepperdine; Luckey wears a NERV jacket (from Evangelion) and describes himself as “a propagandist” and says he’ll “twist the truth”. Really interesting insights about the #history of Oculus, like fixing geometric distortion and chromatic aberration in software instead of optics. Says he’s “still extremely bitter” about his ouster from Meta. #weaponry #Anduril
on 02025-01-29#Palmer-Luckey gearing up to go to war with #China in 02027 with his billion-dollar Arsenal-1 Ohio factory is disquieting. #politics #Anduril #weaponry #video
on 02025-01-28#Anduril wrote an ad brochure to try to convince people to found Anduril competitors
on 02024-10-15#video from three days ago about #Anduril’s Barracuda cruise missile #weaponry #drones. #Palmer-Luckey describes #China as an “expansionist dictatorship” and claims that Anduril’s autonomous drones in #Ukraine have been crucial to destroying Russian hardware. He pronounces it ['ænd ɚ ,ɪl]. “I don't think the United States needs to be the world police. We need to be the world gun store. (...) Ukraine has really exposed this weakness in the United States' foreign policy strategy, where we say we support all of these people, but they look and say, ‘They can’t even manufacture the basics, like artillery shells or, you know, small missiles.’” They just raised money on a US$14 billion valuation to build “Arsenal One, a five million square foot factory that we’re building”. Refuses to comment on possible deployments in Israel, but says, “We have a very strong relationship with #Taiwan,” and says Anduril was recently sanctioned by the CPC.
on 02024-09-16#video #toread about #Palmer-Luckey and #Anduril #weaponry #toread
on 02024-09-05#video on #weaponry #drones in #Ukraine, and in particular Ukrainian company Saker’s autonomous target identification software, which has reportedly already destroyed Russian targets in autonomous mode. And then #Anduril. “The cost of killing is getting scarily low.”
on 02024-08-27promo #video on #Anduril’s Pulsar #weaponry
on 02024-08-27