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Founder • Engineer • Storyteller Working on human potential. Technology, ideas, art and somewhere in between.

@ third rock from the sun
Joined March 2008
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I made a meme. Some agreed, some strongly disagreed, some laughed and a few asked me to explain. Fair enough. Here's the thinking behind my AI optimism. I see enourmous possibilities in scientific discovery, medicine, food production and what people around the world can now learn, create and build. This expansion of human possibility excites me. My optimism rests on human agency: our ability to identify problems, test ideas, question decisions and build alternatives. These new tools give us new ways to contribute and shape the future we want to live in. This requires work, cooperation and finding common ground. There are risks that deserve attention. People losing jobs. Power concentrating in a few hands. Outsourcing ours skills and thinking to AI until we lose the ability to use them. Systems failiing and causing a global crisis. AI being used for warfare, terrorism and manipulation. We need to talk about responsibility, safeguards and the distribution of the benefits of these new technologies. History gives me reasons for hope. We have confronted profound technological changes and abuses of power. We have also built institutions that made progress more widely shared. These achievements took effort and some came after enormous suffering. There's so much to learn from both. I don't know how this will unfold. But I see enough worth pursuing and enough to stay optimistic and get involved. So yes, I think we'll be fine.
Replying to @waitbutwhy
so basically this
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A short story about young Carl Sagan, and how wonder can change the course of a life.
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This is what I think when they say art imitates nature.
A massive starling murmuration was captured flowing dynamically against a purple twilight sky. This mesmerizing phenomenon occurs because each individual bird constantly mirrors the speed and direction of its seven closest neighbors, allowing the flock to react instantly and move as a single, fluid entity.
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Here’s the advice from @NASAAdmin and @NASAMoonBase team on what engineering disciplines to pursue to build humanity’s first Moon base. "Follow exactly what captures your interest and love and joy of it and try to be the best at it, because we're doing so much more than we ever imagined" …civil engineers to materials, communication, electrical, power, distribution, surface mobility, building roads, building walls, 3d printing, chemical, propulsion, physics, astronomy… “Whatever you are interested in, follow your passion and if it’s in the world of science and engineering… we can accomodate your talents” Exciting opportunities ahead for curious minds.
Want to help build humanity’s first Moon base? We asked @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman and the @NASAMoonBase team at MAX POWER "which engineering disciplines will be needed most?" Here's what they had to say 👇
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Crazy optical illusion
The squares in this checkerboard pattern are aligned both vertically and horizontally, but they appear to form an undulating pattern.
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In the 60's government pushed us toward space to advance technology and win the space race. Now, the local governments are pushing us toward space by making it harder to build down here. Either way, we're going up 🚀
🤖 Made with AI
Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now
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What is the meaning in life? For Benjamin List, the 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, the answer became clear after a life changing moment. “…what is important in life. It’s definitely not the attainment of objects. Even if it’s the Nobel Prize… Don’t get me wrong. I so appreciate it. But deep down, I know that this is not the things we all crave for. It’s like being able to breathe, being able to enjoy life as it is. Having a coffee in the morning, the sun is rising. These are the things that really matter and makes us happy.”
What is the meaning of life? For Benjamin List, 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, the answer became clear after a life-changing moment – when he and his family were separated during a tsunami while on holiday. That experience reshaped how he sees his work, his purpose, and what truly matters. #WorldTsunamiAwarenessDay
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An obsessive creative genius: Eiichiro Oda, creator of One Piece. Another great episode of Founders by David Senra.
A few surprising things I learned from reading about Eiichrio Oda, the creator of One Piece: 1. He slept 3 hours a night for 15 years. 2. He created the most successful manga of all time with more than 600 million copies in circulation. 3. He said he would have missed his parent’s funeral because it conflicted with his work. 4. He is extremely private. He does not allow his face to be photographed and when he appears on video he has a giant fish avatar placed on his head. 5. When he hires a new editor the first thing he says to them is you need to be willing to die for One Piece. 6. His editor said he might someday encounter a writer more talented than Oda but he would never meet anyone who worked harder. 7. He doesn’t want ideas, he wants criticism. 8. He would hand draw entire Disney animated movies to learn how to give his characters emotion. 9. He said he only saw his family once a week because family time was too relaxing. 10. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author. 11. He is often described as a maniac due to his unbelievable work ethic and inhuman daily habits. 12. He believes in having the least number of people possible touching the work. 13. He says he gets his best ideas by not sleeping or eating. He says humans can only come up with truly new ideas when they reach their limit. 14. He started working on One Piece when he was 22. He is still working on it at 51. 15. He once spent 12 consecutive hours on the telephone discussing a single story with his editor. 16. He has an extreme tolerance for repetition. 17. Imagination is the organizing force of his entire life. 18. He's a perfectionist who has repeatedly admitted that he cannot make himself work in a more efficient way, even when he desperately wants to. 19. He never finishes before a deadline. He equates using every available minute with giving his maximum effort. 20. He believes it’s impossible to create something great unless you do everything yourself, attend to every detail, and test it exhaustively. 21. He believes the more experience he has the harder it is to create. 22. He was 4 when he decided to be a manga artist. He said he wanted to avoid ever having to get a real job. 23. He creates his work for an audience of exactly one person: himself at 15 years old. 25. He has dedicated his entire adult life to writing a story about freedom and adventure, while accepting an extraordinarily restrictive life in order to create it. 26. To this day he does not feel successful. -- Eiichiro Oda is a relentlessly obsessive creative genius who has devoted nearly every waking hour of his adult life to building one of the most extraordinary fictional universes ever imagined. You don't want to miss this episode:
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28 books on technology, philosophy and being human. Curated by @danshipper for the @every Thesis conference. Goodreads links added for easier exploring. Any favorites here?
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With all these futuristic scenarios becoming a reality sooner than expected, I’ve been asking myself lately: We built our calendars around Earth. What happens when Earth is no longer everyone’s home? How would we keep time in a multiplanetary civilization?
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Technology is opening up so many possible futures. It’s on us to choose what to build and create a better tomorrow for humanity. I’m optimistic.
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Jorge Ayala retweeted
Happy Hubble Halloween! This new image of the Cat's Head Nebula shows a star-forming region with an eerily feline resemblance. Dare to learn more? Start here: go.nasa.gov/4zvxKtu
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Jorge Ayala retweeted
👻 Meet the friendliest ghost in the galaxy - Carina. A new image from @chandraxray and @NASAWebb reveals a ghost-like cloud in the Carina Nebula that's actually home to a new generation of stars. Read more: chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/re…
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Jorge Ayala retweeted
We are not short on technology. What we need is leaders with the judgment to point the technology in the right direction.
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The future of #ArtificialIntelligence is not pre-determined. As a technology developed by human beings, its future depends on the choices we make. We therefore have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications. A reliable system that serves the human person is of greater value than one that is exceptionally powerful but whose consequences cannot be adequately foreseen or controlled.
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“The bottom line is that we are in a new world. "Programming" is dead. Engineering is not, nor is expertise. Your old job is gone. Your new job as a builder will let you do more and have more impact than you ever have, if you seize the opportunity…” “…The future is here - let's make it ours.” from Proton’s CTO’s AI Manifesto
Replying to @josephfcox
Here is Proton CTO's AI manifesto, that I obtained multiple copies of 404media.co/manifestos-fear-…
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An unstoppable force hits an immovable object. What breaks first?
0%The force
0%The object
0%Physics
0%The fourth wall
0 votes • Final results
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A touchscreen on a Macbook Pro. Would you use it?
0%Yes, finally
100%No, thanks
0%Let me try it first
1 votes • Final results
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Turns out, you can have it all. 
We’re glowing with excitement over the new MacBook Pro. You’ve gotta touch it to believe it.
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Wow. This app turns phone captures into high quality 3d worlds, ready to use for real estate, architecture, games, VR, film and much more. @SpAItial_AI
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