Palmer Luckey Will Change How You Think About War | #464 | The Way I Heard It

Palmer Luckey is the virtual reality guy who started a company called Oculus when he was in his 20s and sold it to Facebook a few years later for a couple billion dollars. He has since gone on to do a number of interesting things, including starting a company called Anduril, which manufactures state-of-the-art weapons and a variety of autonomous systems for the United States military. We had a fascinating conversation about a number of topics, including how to win future wars, deindustrialize our manufacturing base, and reinvigorate the skilled trades. And some Hobbit-related sidebars. Please enjoy. 00:00 How I met Palmer Luckey 04:34 Why seatbelts haven’t changed 09:42 The truth we want from pilots ️ 15:23 The Department of War 21:20 Palmer’s company, Anduril 26:02 Economic Irrelevance 29:48 The importance of population 33:27 A modern military ️ 39:56 Palmer’s take on reinvigorating the trades ️ 44:42 The age of atomic energy ️ 49:24 Scaling his company 53:54 The ethics of geoengineering 59:06 The effects of persuasion campaigns ️ 01:08:26 Palmer’s tribute to game consoles