YC is seeking startups for
"NEW WAR TECHNOLOGY" Killing is our business. and business is good.
Yes, what we need are startups focused on killing people in ever more efficient ways, with the least amount of threat to our own people.
Hopefully, we can invent a even more efficient way of genocide by inventing something much stronger than a hydrogen bomb, but with less radiation. Friendly and looks good on TV.
The future so bright. I gotta wear shades.
Many years ago, when the state was more honest the US had a "Department of War".
Which it ought to have kept given that few wars ( or "military conflicts") that the US engages in is about Defense of our home country. Our patch of dirt. Easy to see since they usually take place on a different continent.
In 1984 they call it "Department of Peace".
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>NEW DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY - Jared Friedman and Gustaf Alströmer
The US is now engaged in large-scale conflicts in several regions that threaten to change our world. While the US has historically led the world in defense technology, the defense contractors it depends on have grown slow and inefficient, bloated by decades of cost-plus contracts.
SpaceX showed the world that a private space company could be vastly more effective than the publicly-funded United Launch Alliance. New companies that sell to the DoD like Palantir and Anduril are showing that the same thing is true for defense tech.
Silicon Valley was born in the early 20th century as an R&D area for the US military. Early Silicon Valley companies were largely funded by the DoD and played a key role in WWII by building military radar, code-breaking equipment, and components for the atomic bomb.
This decade is the time to return Silicon Valley to these roots.