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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.
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lachlan
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lachlan
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childhood’s end
- 1.068 PB for a meaningful fraction (maybe the majority?) of all text written by humans
- 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. - 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
- We still build cathedrals. They fly now.
My father-in-law is a builder. He is insanely gifted. We were in a cathedral together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.” - > 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
- 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 moneyAnnouncing 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
- what about the modern world would actually be difficult to explain, at a high level, to someone from the 1200s?
