Andrew Côté

engineering physicist, writes about deep tech, physics, energy, sci fi and whatever. founder @hyperstition_x produces @deeptechweek

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Well well @deeptechweek has wrapped for 2026

It was a fun experiment to see how much I could grow it this year - went from 2 to 7 cities, averaging around 3k attendees per city and ~28 events per week. It went from a 'once in a while passion project' to a 'rapidly growing profitable business'

I'll be adding another 5-6 cities next year, each a recurring annual event. 3 in the US and a couple more international. San Diego, Boston, Bangalore, Tokyo, Sydney, Paris, Zurich, Denver, are all candidates.

Overall theres been 65k attendees, 9,400 founders, 5,500 investors and 8,000 engineers and scientists.

I think this makes it credibly the largest deep tech startup community on the planet, and, I think I can double it in 2027.

I will write up some thoughts on how I see the deep tech ecosystem evolving and what comes next!

And I'll start building out some more mcp surface area so attendees and hosts can fully leverage the social graph backend to find customers, investors, cofounders, startups, and so on.

Also theres like a hundred hours of recorded talks going up within the next week.

I think this is a reasonable "first product" for @hyperstition_x, there are two more in the works, more in the realm of sci-fi.

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@claydumas Lmfao

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@claydumas I meant for the croissant market.

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@Steph_Curdy yes i was thinking about energy when I wrote this, hah.

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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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The cost floor of a product is set by physics

But the price of a product is set by psychology of the buyer

All of economics is downstream of these two facts.

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@bscholl You should pre record sonic booms and play them inside the cabin like Ford does with their trucks to make people happy

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Correct.

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@yishan Events and media.

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@ltgiv @local16653909 @The_WGD @wwwLiveFarm @aphysicist @reindsummit @deeptechweek thanks broski

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@REK @robotsmasher1 @rekjapan awesome to see. inevitable really.

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@Jubal_Hardin I'm curious what is going on here because I was a big ww2 history fan as a young lad and this star seems new to me.

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@newtonlaw Oh yes!

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This is the Singularity Economy in a nutshell

It's not an economy of money but delta-vee, mass to orbit, megawatts, and silicon.

Money is not the bottleneck in such an economy but rather raw industrial capacity and basic physics.

I say let er rip.

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@Itchingmind Sure thing. I have a chalkboard in my apartment that is as long as twelve of your forearms.

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The strongest form of AI doom is some kind of novel self replicating nanobot that rapidly transforms the planetary ecology wiping out all previous life.

This has actually happened once before.

It is why we have an oxygen atmosphere today

Cyanobacteria killed 99% of all life

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@tszzl Call me old fashioned but socialism seems a lot more dangerous than AI

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@PalmerLuckey @UN_Women @UN We want gender equality in military casualties

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@JoshuaSteinman @adamscrabble I'll have to invest at IPO

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@newtonlaw Sf!