Palmer Luckey
16 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 4, 2023 by Palmer Luckey · said 14 times in 4 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Apr 4, 2023
Apr 4, 2023 positive
Apr 4, 2023
Luckey considered founding petroleum-derived food and non-profit private prison companies
“I have a lot of things that I've looked at working on, and one of them was solving obesity through petroleum foods. Another was solving the private prison problem in the United States by running a non-profit private prison chain that out-competes all the other…”
Apr 4, 2023 negative
Luckey: Bad human actors using AI are a greater threat than AGI
“I think at the end of the day, we don't need to be worried about the AI nearly as much as people using AI as a tool to enact totally human perversions on the rest of the world. It's going to be religious extremists who decide that they're going to use this to …”
Apr 4, 2023 negative
Luckey: Police militarization stems from tactics, not surplus military equipment
“I think that there's a lot of fear mongering about militarization of the police, and I think that distracts from the handful of issues that probably are more militarization of the police, which is really not the equipment they're buying, it's the tactics.”
Apr 4, 2023 bullish
Luckey: Anduril was founded so moral actors have superior weapons
“We started this company because we think that there is no moral high ground in leaving the most moral people with the least effective weapons, because at the end of the day, wars start when bad players believe that they, when they incorrectly assess the risk.”
Apr 4, 2023 positive
Apr 4, 2023 neutral
Apr 4, 2023 bullish
Luckey says unreleased Apple headset prototype hardware is going to be great
“I've used things that are, I've used things that are not quite what it will be, but are better than what it was. And so you know, I can't say I've used the final device, but based on everything that I have seen, it's going to be great.”
Apr 4, 2023 neutral
Luckey: Meta's $13B spend only works if you believe in the metaverse
“They can't say it's only for gamers or it's specifically for these niche enterprise use cases and then spend thirteen billion dollars because it just doesn't spreadsheet out. It only works as an investment if you believe in this long-term vision of the metaver…”
Apr 4, 2023 positive
Luckey: Humanity should actively biologically uplift other animal species into sentience
“Are we playing God with AI? Maybe a little bit but I actually wish we were playing God more. I wish we were just straight up, you know, hauling other species up into sentience. Let's, like, humans have done pretty well. Let's bring some other guys along for th…”
Apr 4, 2023 positive
Apr 4, 2023 bearish
Apr 4, 2023 negative
Jun 3, 2025 neutral