Ami.tt

Entrepreneur. Inventor. Philosopher. Artist. Futurist. On my quest to make the world a better place.

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

Concentration makes wealth, diversification preserves it

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream

[Don Van Natta Jr. @DVNJr]

The greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time.

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is what will matter 1000 years from now.

Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.

This guy reignited the Space Age.

He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level.

This is history happening before you.

If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in.

We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well.

Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of.

Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed.

Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space.

Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat.

Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them.

Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe.

None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China.

More important, in the long run, than the United States of America.

America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this.

Because this changes everything.

All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood.

All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels.

Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down.

But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star.

You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when.

But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things.

If the puddlefish don't get in the way.

Don't be a puddlefish.

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

Welcome to the future - built by just one guy @elonmusk and his incredible team @SpaceX @Tesla

[Tesla Hype @TeslaHype]

What did you get done this week?

Elon Musk: hold my beer

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

How people got around in 190 BC:
horseback, horse-drawn carriage, sailboat

2,000 years later...

How people got around in 1810:
horseback, horse-drawn carriage, sailboat

160 years later...

How people got around in 1970:
bike, train, subway, car, bus, airplane, spaceship

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Biological systems at the molecular level are impossibly advanced nanotech that we are hopelessly far from engineering ourselves from scratch.

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

Advanced voice mode on chatgpt plus is a game changer - we will be more engaged with AI now that it is almost human like to communicate and exchange our thoughts with it

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

@GaneshKompella Increase the luck surface area

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

Life is so fragile

[Dr Penking™ @drpenking]

A human heart awaiting transplant . This is how it beats inside your body, 24/7. The moment it ceases, you are dead.

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

The only limits you have are the limits you believe

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

One of these days, a large comet will hit Earth and destroy almost all life, as has happened many times in the past.

Eventually, the Sun will expand enough to boil the oceans and destroy all life.

Either become a spacefaring civilization or die – those all the two choices.

[maharshi @maharshii]

dude how tf did we take sand and make it into 3nm chips that can do numerical computations billions of times per second, and we use those chips to make machines "learn" !?!?!?

magic does not exist in the real world because this is what real magic is.

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

@ShashvatDesai @dyavagal @AshuPJadhav MILES study seems to hold true for other primates too :)

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

A new record has been set for the most people in Earth orbit at one time: 19

International Space Station:

Matthew Dominick
Michael Barratt
Jeanette Epps
Alexander Grebenkin
Oleg Kononenko
Tracy Caldwell Dyson
Nikolai Chub
Butch Wilmore
Suni Williams

Soyuz MS-26, en route to ISS:

Don Pettit
Aleksey Ovchinin
Ivan Vagner

Dragon Resilience, free-flying Polaris Dawn mission:

Jared Isaacman
Scott Poteet
Sarah Gillis
Anna Menon

Tiangong Space Station:

Ye Guangfu
Li Cong
Li Guangsu

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly

— Reed Hastings

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward

[Ami.tt @4mitsh]

I see now that the circumstances of one's birth is irrelevent, it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

— Mewtwo : pokémon the first movie