Palmer Luckey
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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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Probably practicality.
It comes back to what I talked about earlier.
I want to make a big impact on the world.
There's not that many people who have made an impact divorcing themselves from the establishment and just doing their own thing.
And almost all the ones you can come up with are artists.
And I am, unfortunately, no artist.
I could do a lot of interesting things.
I know a lot of people in the maker community that are like this, the hacker community.
And they go off and they follow their little passion or their interests.
They're building cool, wacky things.
They're pursuing some novel technique for making a new programming language.
But they're kind of a purity test.
that dictates who they're willing to work with and how they're willing to slow themselves down, I think actually limits their ability to impact the world.
You can have a lot more impact as a person who says, I have out-of-the-box ideas and I am going to force myself to engage in the unpleasant task of trying to push these ideas onto conventional people and conventional institutions than if you say, I'm just gonna go and I'm gonna
do this on my own in my garage.
I'm going to put it on the internet as an open source project.
And we're all going to circle jerk about how novel and cool and high performance this technique is.
Because at the end of the day, that's not how you have a large impact.
Having a large impact means engaging with the people who are going to be able to get that into schools, the large software and hardware systems into policy.
I think if you're driven more by wanting to make an impact than wanting to be outside of the box, you will naturally end up where I am.
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