Not only your regular kind of defense contractor, of all things, Anduril is in the business of automated weaponry.
Palantir, Anduril. Does PL work in Thiel’s orbit, maybe connected at FB?
Was Tolkien right leaning himself, I would be surprised by that but I honestly don’t know.
Yes, but the small-c conservative Catholic sort of right-wing. He would have hated reactionary modernists like Thiel.
So he would hate Thiel and Luckey for their technology and control, who is like Sauron and the Orcs. Maybe more on Luckey, since Virtual Reality would be a horror show from a traditionalist mind, anyway.
But it's fine, since the entire point of the Sagas for Anglo culture is for the people in it to twist it the way they want to, after all.
Ukraine wouldn't exist if not for modern weapons systems.
If you love your peaceful life, you have war machines to thank.
America is secure, as is Western Europe, due mostly to terrifying war machines.
Keeping us all safe and at peace is something some might regard as truly noble.
I don't build weapons systems, but I would if I had the opportunity. It'd beat the shit out of predatory adtech and addicting kids to algorithms.
Moral questions aside, inertial navigation and guidance, fuze design, radar, multispectral optics etc are wildly more interesting problems to solve than "how do I hook whales for $700 in this shitty iOS game?"
Maybe we'll see an influx of new minds in defense now that Facebook and friends seem to be falling apart and firing everyone.
Maybe it'll make us all safer, happier, and richer (because war destroys wealth, and weapons can avert it entirely).