Pinned Tweet
I'm always excited to meet people who are optimistic about the future, think that we can be so much more than we are now, and have experience with bringing dreams into the physical world.
hyperturing.com
4
2
85
18,272
1.068 PB for a meaningful fraction (maybe the majority?) of all text written by humans
56
534
12,691
560,769
I started at SpaceX between starship flight 1 and 2, right after finishing university. We’re incredibly, incredibly early. There’s a lot to do.
I started at SpaceX just after flight 2. I remember telling my boss “I feel like I’ve missed everything”. I missed star hopper, flight 1, the belly flops, and most of the tent builds. I’ve come to realize that we’re still just at the beginning. Still.
143
339
4,734
990,779
I’m going insane right now. We could be living in a block of ten-twenty years during which we get:
- AGI
- commercially viable fusion
- humans landing on mars
- room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor
what
184
288
3,497
455,961
> i see a video of a floating rock
> i ask if it's a superconductor or just diamagnetic
> they don't understand
> i explain the difference between the meissner effect and diamagnetism
> "it's a good floating rock"
> fine, i'll wait for it to be replicated
> it's a superconductor
10
127
2,552
141,314
we could be spending 500 billion on fucking desalination plants or nuclear reactors or on many, many moonshots. 500 billion is land on the moon when you just invented the rocket engine kinds of money
Announcing The Stargate Project
The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.
The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.
Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.
As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.
This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services.
All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.
202
132
2,583
176,335
what about the modern world would actually be difficult to explain, at a high level, to someone from the 1200s?
707
39
2,171
560,264
> someone posts about a new type of fusion reactor
> I ask if it’s actually new or just a steam engine
> they don’t understand
> I show them a chart of what’s a steam engine and what’s not
> “it’s a good fusion reactor”
> fine. I read the paper
> it’s a steam engine
33
105
1,661
85,893
i’m the software responsible engineer for this one guys, she’s beautiful, i love her
53
38
1,618
69,520
solarpunk is missing a defining piece of media. cyberpunk had blade runner, which kicked off the genre with consistent setting and art style. solarpunk is missing imagined worlds that feel realistic and complicated in the way that real life is.
163
60
1,574
926,333
i found a company that sells nanopositioners and puts the cad files on their website
21
40
1,156
122,833
there is something so alluring about naming organizations in the style of “Standard Oil,” “Berkeley Graphics,” “Aerospace Corporation,” “Space Exploration Technologies Corporation,” “U.S. Enrichment Corporation”
58
54
1,073
193,358
mechanical engineers don’t realize how much more productive they’d be if CAD software supported git
68
48
1,002
90,931
the fact that no cities in the states look like this is a huge failing on our part
58
51
978
143,305
Every time this line moves back, I get more and more convinced that either we’ve gone through a number of pre-technological civilizational cycles or that the great filter is purely motivation. Does it make sense that it took 475,000 years to go from carpentry to steam power?
quite the jump!
ALT Rarely has a single find changed scholars’ views of the capabilities of people of the past as radically as the discovery of the world’s earliest known wooden architecture, which dates to nearly half a million years ago. The pair of interlocking logs joined by an intentionally cut notch was unearthed beneath a bank of Zambia’s Kalambo River by a team led by University of Liverpool archaeologist Larry Barham. Researchers believe the logs may have formed part of a walkway or the foundation of a platform built over wetlands. Prior to this discovery, the oldest known surviving wooden structures were built by people living in northern England around 11,000 years ago. The 476,000-year-old log structure predates the appearance of the first modern humans by some 150,000 years and was likely the handiwork of the archaic human species Homo heidelbergensis.
98
44
981
233,728
in 2073, some 20-some year old asteroid miner is going to be using a pirated copy of excel from 2031 to calculate fusion torch yields
16
77
1,010
19,527
this is the product of many, many people making enormous sacrifices because they believe that humanity can become more than it is now. I'm so proud to call them my friends and coworkers.
Starship preparing to launch as early as November 17, pending final regulatory approval → spacex.com/launches
8
36
908
109,210
I wrote a big chunk of the early flight software for direct to cell’s phased arrays! feels so wonderful knowing that these are up in space
The six @Starlink satellites on this mission with Direct to Cell capability will further global connectivity and help to eliminate dead zones → direct.starlink.com
31
14
864
112,469
i don't know if VCs are thinking at this level, but funding a startup to build open-source parametric CAD software akin to solidworks/nx would pay dividends for basically every other company that's designing hardware.
Maybe each of you should put a few pennies in a jar?
79
53
858
226,309
I think proof of life in another solar system would be first-page news for maybe three days
35
23
721
51,573
i think designing a part like this on starship would get you fired
Thin, two-sided parts can be tough to machine — flexing/vibration, fixturing, avoiding bowing...
Here's how we at @Astranis approached machining this part that will soon head to space:
13
12
759
67,336
universities should obviously just be completely vibe driven. hang out with people, build stuff, read a lot, learn from people who have a lot to teach. The commodification of education at all levels seems bad — seems like majority of people in universities don’t want to learn
34
29
553
33,117
I think Kerbal Space Program measurably moved the needle on timelines for interplanetary humanity
19
22
521
38,363
No other task will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. Do I think we will succeed? Yes, but it’s far from guaranteed. Maybe you’ll make the difference. Hiring in every role; DMs open.
16
24
564
34,388
asphalt seems like one of the worst possible materials for roads. it’s soft, made of particles that tear off, turns into dust that we breath in
41
8
494
45,453
if you’re not working on AI or space-tech, please please drop everything and work on automated manufacturing cells of any sort
54
23
492
141,261
it would take ~30 superheavy launches that each inject 1800 mT of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to offset the entire planet's annual carbon dioxide emissions
59
14
429
48,080
that nasa and spacex will be able to land humans on the moon with a small fraction of the people and funding available to the apollo program is proof of the massive increase in individual and organizational agency over the last 60 years
11
14
396
39,113
wild how some taiwanese researchers basically solved nanopositioners last year except in niche use cases and no one really knows about it
12
15
403
81,957
“we grow a lot of food so it’s cheap and there are central places where you buy it from”
5
345
16,334
the idea of dropping everything and working on decentralizing semiconductor manufacturing is very seductive
19
13
336
25,786
I think a lot of people interpret this as, like, ecoterrorism and a smaller number of more interesting people interpret it as geoengineering, building nuclear reactors, sunshields, etc
19
27
335
33,860
my roomate’s friend just told me “living by yourself is like python, living with a girl is like java”
16
16
313
41,442
You shouldn’t go into a career you’re not passionate about. This should be obvious. Don’t spend ~50% of your waking hours on something you don’t enjoy.
35
17
310
31,584
Should brains be in the ribcage? Additional vibration isolation and protection would go a long way
84
6
291
39,355
Go back to the moon? No, we need to slingshot a robot through the sun’s upper atmosphere so it can haul ass out of the solar system to catch up with the fastest rock
Project Lyra explores the possibility of sending a spacecraft to chase 'Oumuamua using an Earth gravity assist to reach Jupiter, which robs the craft of almost all its speed, causing it to drop to the Sun for an Oberth maneuver.
Thanks @hibberdadam994 for the trajectory data!
7
36
296
23,697
It is very easy to be in the 99th percentile at nearly anything with very little effort.
11
7
292
41,453
how can a species conceptualize itself as being in the world if it can’t change it? are the oceans full of vast cetacean brains dreaming of civilizations they’ll never be able to construct?
59
11
288
39,581
C++ is the worst fucking language I’ve ever used. Why are references like that and not just non-nullable pointers semantically?
43
11
269
31,983
A friend of mine set me up on a more-or-less blind date this weekend and literally only sent me a coordinate tuple and a time.
14
1
263
16,777
A somewhat spicy opinion of mine: there is a significant difference between software engineers and programmers/developers that’s not strongly reflected in title or pay. Most people who write software are more akin to technicians than engineers.
18
5
260
13,347
rivers of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into these engines and much more remains to be spilt.
7
3
263
8,696
woah
i'm running a bunch of brainfuck programs that get paired up, modify each other, and then returned to the foam. after a few hundred epochs, the number of unique (position, opcode) tuples drops precariously — which means a small set of self-replicators win out
19
5
251
17,612
F1 should have fewer rules and should just be about going as fast as our technological ability allows
27
5
248
22,218
There could be countless highly-intelligent sentient species out there, stuck in backwater civilizations with no cultural drive to move beyond the sharpened rock.
8
2
246
8,583
I’m designing a 6DOF, sub-$1k BOM nanopositioner that I will open-source when it’s ready, hopefully by the end of the year or early next.
I think a civilization with nano machining fabs and vacuum chambers no less common than 3D printers are in ours can do anything.
18
13
252
22,882
