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Comment on Ask HN: Why is AI civil tech and not military first?

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Military industrialist Palmer Luckey orchestrated contemporary VR with his Oculus Rift so that consumers would subsidize the costs of his miltech projects. I believe this is the same thing. Push your miltech with the "gadgets and toys and digital assistants" angle so that regular people foot the bill.

Push your miltech with the "gadgets and toys and digital assistants" angle so that regular people foot the bill.

I wouldn't characterize it so uncharitably. We need this military technology and if we aren't getting the funding or efficiency we need from the government and private companies see the need (and there is a need) then this is just an example of the dynamism of our economy working well. In some other countries when such a conundrum arises they can't response - reliant only on the government to put together some big program that doesn't go anywhere and can't pay high enough salaries to attract talented people to make it work.

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