autonox Robotics - breaking the convention of industrial robot arms *no legacy robot controllers here*
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Chandler Downing retweeted
if people want actual abundance we need to reindustrialize even faster. we need a hundred anthropic wet labs for manufacturing, but on a grand scale. the economy must shift towards becoming a replicator.
Chandler Downing retweeted
I posted a picture of my parent's village where the residents have managed to keep it free of road markings. I use it as a visual example of how overladen we are with bureaucracy that makes people's lives worse, in the name of making it better. It's very hard to argue against any regulation supposedly based on safety or performance that are used as a universal trump card to create an arms race of rules and our built environment is now full of them. ht @Alright_dot for the render with signage. Original on the right.
Chandler Downing retweeted
"Trunk or Treat" represents one of the most depressing examples of the breakdown of the traditional neighborhood and the rise of car culture.
In "trunk-or-treat," parents drive kids to a parking lot so kids can walk from car to car and grab candy out of the driver's candy bowl.
In a traditional neighborhood, kids set out from their homes, trick-or-treating nearby and walking up to greet neighbors at threshold of their homes.
Chandler Downing retweeted
But srsly I’d love to see a @ZacksJerryRig -style teardown of some robot hands
Chandler Downing retweeted
it’s really hard to overstate how much smartphones have ruined the experience of simply being present and enjoying things with other people
Back to 2011, when Avicii took over the Tomorrowland MainStage for the very first time and brought ‘Levels’ to the festival before its official release.
15 years later, the full set is finally available on YouTube. A legendary set, unforgettable memories, and music that still brings people together. youtu.be/IGaRF6dwRkQ
You can also stream this set in the Tomorrowland App, alongside his iconic MainStage sets from 2012, 2014 and 2015.
Chandler Downing retweeted
I think this is the right take. I think this will force the supply chain to localize here.
ABB, Fanuc, etc will want to source parts here.
Which could encourage US hqed companies to start here.
The critical thing is the engineers making design decisions don’t live in the US.
Chandler Downing retweeted
Young people:
Don’t get sucked into gambling.
These services exist because they take more than they give.
If thus doesn’t hit you as one of the most dystopian things imaginable…
think about the consequences for future generations. For the sons and daughters of people who become helplessly addicted to gambling….
A world where everything is financialized….
Everything is commodified….
Nobody makes a move without figuring out how to profit from it…
Every corner of the economy becomes another prediction market, another bet on what might happen, another opportunity to make quick money…
What happens to long-term thinking? To developing a thesis, committing to an idea, and spending years doing the work to make it happen?
What Kalshi and Polymarket are doing goes far beyond the fight over state and tribal gaming laws. And the CFTC under @ChairmanSelig is actively fighting state efforts to regulate these markets and to further fuck over native Americans
My concern is that they are breaking down the incentives to work and create things in America.
Keep allowing these companies to grow this way, and think about what happens to the next generation of entrepreneurs, dreamers, and builders…
People who want to change the world and improve it, whose attention, money, and ambition get sucked into betting on outcomes.
Why spend years building something when you’re constantly being sold the idea that you can make the money you want by betting on whether someone else succeeds?
The harm reaches way way beyond the person placing the bet. It reaches their family, their children, and everything they might otherwise have created…think about the young men this fucks up…
And the advertising makes it worse. These platforms accept people as young as 18, including young adults who cannot legally use conventional sportsbooks in many states…
@schwartzbWSJ and The Wall Street Journal has already reported that Polymarket paid creators to stage fake bets and fake wins…
Think about what that teaches someone just entering adulthood about money, work, and what is worth pursuing…
I believe the cumulative harm will be far greater than people currently recognize…
The losses will include businesses never started, ideas never pursued, families damaged, and years spent chasing the next outcome instead of creating something that lasts…
That is how this can destroy the very things that make a society worth living in.
And that is the point. \rant
Chandler Downing retweeted
It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist
oh yeah and we use this primarily for email
Chandler Downing retweeted
The problem isn’t that AI is intelligent. It isn’t. The problem is that too many adults (but not all) are at once mechanistic, imitative, unimaginative, stupid, formulaic, influenceable, & gullible, arrogant beyond their skill set, & too expensive to maintain.
Chandler Downing retweeted
塔勒布这段话骂得真狠。
他说，问题根本不在于AI有没有智能，而在于太多成年人活得像机器，机械、模仿、缺乏想象力、公式化、容易受影响，还傲慢得超出自己的能力范围。
最讽刺的是，维护成本还特别高。
我觉得他说得太对了。
尤其是很多大企业里的所谓精英，看起来聪明，满嘴方法论和行业经验，但很多时候，只是熟练掌握了一套旧世界的游戏规则。
他们把对规则的熟悉误认为智慧，把过去的成功误认为永远正确。
这也是为什么很多大企业会逐渐衰老。
一个人靠过去的经验获得地位，又不断被组织奖励，最后连重新认识世界的能力都丧失了。
这让我想起道格拉斯·亚当斯那句调侃：35岁之前出现的新技术是改变世界的革命，35岁之后出现的就是违背自然规律的异端。
人确实是会老的，但最可怕的衰老，是认知停止更新。
AI时代最残酷的事情，可能就是让很多人突然发现，自己引以为傲的专业、经验和聪明，其实没有那么值钱。
Chandler Downing retweeted
Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This post copies word-for-word a May 2026 post by @AdemLuz.
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Chandler Downing retweeted
less than five years ago, we were all typing queries into google, scrolling through endless ads, then ten blue links, clicking on websites full of more ads & pop ups, manually digging around for answers, hitting the back button, refining our searches, & repeating the whole process over & over again.
thinking about this makes me want to take a shower. it feels gross.
just imagine where will be in another few years?
Chandler Downing retweeted
YOUR BANK WILL NEVER TELL YOU THIS.
But a standard 30-year mortgage math breakdown:
23 years left if you make just one extra principal overpayment a year.
16 years left with two extra payments a year.
10 years left with three.
Warning: When you send the extra cash, write "PRINCIPAL ONLY" in the memo and confirm with the lender.
Otherwise, algorithmic payment processing will quietly apply your overpayment toward future interest and administrative fees instead of cutting down the principal balance.
They didn't design a 30-year loan to give you time.
They designed it so you pay for the house three times over before you actually own the title.
Chandler Downing retweeted
Ro, thanks for the Wisconsin history lesson. You skipped the ending.
In 1911 Wisconsin's income tax started at 1% on income over $1,000, about $18,500 today. Most people paid nothing. It was sold as a tax on the few.
Today Wisconsin taxes working families starting at 3.5% and tops out at 7.65%. Washington copied the idea in 1913, and fewer than 10% of Americans paid it as late as 1939. Now it's in every paycheck.
That's the real lesson of 1911... a tax on "the few" is how you build the machine that taxes everyone.
And California already did this before... Prop 30 in 2012 was a "temporary" tax on high earners. Prop 55 extended it to 2030. Temporary in Sacramento means forever.
Now look at Prop 40...
A 5% grab on net worth, which means paper wealth and private company stock valued by a state formula, not money anyone actually made.
Written into the state Constitution, with a clause letting the Legislature amend it by a two-thirds vote if it "furthers the purposes" of the act.
"One-time" money for permanent health programs. When it runs out, guess who they come for next.
Even Gavin Newsom says it "makes no sense" and is "really damaging to the state."
Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Peter Thiel didn't wait around to find out. The LAO warns the state loses income tax revenue every year after the ones who leave are gone.
And his chart makes the case against you... 5% "takes them back 31 days." So this wrecks California's reputation for capital, chases out the people who pay a huge share of the income tax, and doesn't even dent the "inequality" you claim to care about.
It's not innovative. It's the oldest socialist trick there is... promise it's only them, then come for you.
Vote NO on 40.
Chandler Downing retweeted
Codex prompt:
Once per 3 hours during the day 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. I want you to look through all my threads for a projects or tasks that I started that I may have forgotten about and either nudge them along or remind me and ask me what I want to do next with it
Chandler Downing retweeted
As a recovering SaaS GTM nerd, one of the most under discussed reasons why enterprise software is sticky is that implementations are painful and transferring to a better product is almost never worth the migration pain.
I think AI will take the rip and replace cost of large enterprise ERPs down to 0.
Most SaaS teams should be building AI migrators and doing free implementations ahead of contract signing to rip legacy competitors out.