Palmer Luckey
speaker
1,661 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 9 Apr
Palmer Luckey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why don't we put hippos in Louisiana?
There was just this endless possibility.
Big thinking, but what's crazy is it's not even big thinking in the way that we would think of today.
When people think of big thinking, they immediately jump to really hard ideas.
Fusion power, and what if we could bioengineer ourselves?
The ideas they were having, they would have big impact, but they're actually easy ideas.
It's just, what if we brought some hippos, put them over there in that swamp?
The big idea is what could we do economically?
Would that be a good meat source?
Could we use that as a better protein source that is less damaging to environments that we're trying to preserve than what we're currently doing with cows?
And those types of ideas, they're not taken seriously today.
People treat you like a crank if you step outside the orthodoxy.
Probably give us a solid six.
It's one of those things when it comes to the talent, we've got really, really good talent.
On the volume of talent, we have a lot fewer engineers graduating than our strategic adversaries like China.
That's definitely counting against us.
I've heard this idea pushed forward that...
we'll still stay ahead because there's something great about American engineers and American ingenuity.
We're gonna stay ahead no matter how many people we have in these areas because we're just so much better, which I feel like, I don't say this lightly, it feels like a soft form of racism to say, hey, we're going to just be way better than them to the point where an American engineer is gonna have to generate 10x the value on average of this other highly developed advanced nation that graduates people from advanced schools.
I don't really buy into it in the long run.
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