I have talked with Palmer in the pre-Oculus Kickstarter era, even supported the crowdfunding campaign because we all believed that VR was ripe for a revolution (and it was).
However, seeing how Palmer has changed since, especially once he got the windfall from the Oculus sale to Facebook, I am regretting my involvement with any of this, never mind how tiny it was.
Palmer is an intelligent guy but he is being both dangerously naive if he thinks AI on drones won’t be used for bad things (as if we didn’t have enough history to show otherwise) and it is quite obvious that any scruples he may have had are gone, when he is playing this sort of game corruption game to obtain military contracts (don’t tell me that Pentagon would award a big contract to a totally unknown startup with no previous history or references unless there was a massive lobbying for it …).
And we aren’t even talking about his personal views and the whole alt-right BS he got involved in.
It really pains me to see an otherwise brilliant guy to fall this low. I guess money spoils people.
Sad.
