Ben Underwood

Co-founder and Co-CEO of @resonant_energy | distance over speed | (i/dec)

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

Say what you will about Late Capital, at least it’s given us rustic urban chic

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

@zazmic_inc @johnarnold https://t.co/iXWOS5L64q

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

There are several reasons software was likely disrupted first:
1) The work is already digital and performed through text
2) Coding has tight feedback loops that allow for easy testing of whether the AI output worked
11/n

[Sasha @servingcapreal]

could a country in severe decline do THIS?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

@Liamjsm @magdajtaylor @delia_cai Came here to make the same joke 😖

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

They’re calling it “strolling”

[Magdalene J. Taylor @magdajtaylor]

walking around outside is like scrolling with your body

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

@rando_scrolling @robinsonmeyer @nytopinion Right, so the cost of residential electricity has increased faster than CPI

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

@officialmattsny @Sportsandgamin1 @dasanil @grok Hm, but 72 / 72% return implies it would double every 1 year, which should be a 100% annual return instead?

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

@mags_mclaugh It used to happen much fewer

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

This may explain why @pmarca’s head just keeps getting bigger and bigger: Information goes in, but has no way to get out.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Great men of history had little to no introspection.

The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.

@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:

David: You don't have any levels of introspection?

Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.

David: Why?

Marc: Move forward. Go!

I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.

David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.

Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.

He just woke up and was like:

I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.

Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.

All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.

Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.

The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.

And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.

We need to criticize the individual.

The individual needs to self criticize.

The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.

It never resonated with me.

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

@Ethan_is_online Not the log scale

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

The web is losing its dialects. Mass-produced LLM text is a beige fog rolling over a once-fractured vista.
If we do not resist its homogenizing drift, the future of online discourse will not be noisy or chaotic or dangerous—it will be uniformly, impeccably, forgettably the same.

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

Mass-produced LLM text is not a harmless drafting assistant.

It is flattening the topography of the internet.
It is smoothing every idiosyncrasy into median tone.
It is converting lived experience into statistically probable phrasing.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

[[Topic of discussion]] is not [[analogy]].

[[Dramatic fact given own line]].
[[Dramatic fact given own line]].
[[Dramatic fact given own line]].

[[Dramatic summary sentence.]] [[Topic of discussion]] is [[different analogy]].

[[Implications delivered with certainty]].

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

@gocowboys817 @thomasforth https://t.co/VD7pp0Tq5V

[Rodney @Balls2Fat]

@thomasforth This quote comes from a French artist. Henri Matisse

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

Can someone else confirm this for me, or am I finally losing it: Instagram automatically turns up the brightness of your phone screen when you scroll over an ad?

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

@bhalligan I’d love to attend and speak to my experience building @Resonant_Energy and the climate investment opportunity in Boston

[Tyler Norris @tylerhnorris]

Imagine you own a paid-off heavy-duty pickup truck that gets 12 MPG. You decide to buy an e-bike for your daily commute.

The critic: "That's wasteful! Now you have to maintain two vehicles instead of one."

Reality: you keep the truck for heavy lifting (reliability), but use the bike for 90% of trips (cheap energy). Even with "two systems," your total costs drop because you stop burning ~$100/week in gas.

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

Which begs the question: How much higher would our bills be today if we had not avoided grid infrastructure upgrades by making EE and DER investments ten or twenty years ago?

[Xiao Wang @xiaowang1984]

Of course the real world is more complicated in that if you spend in efficiency you also can defer future upgrades. The fairy may not be able to do much about costs already incurred but it can definitely reduce future investment

[Ben Underwood @Benunde]

@PostMusk @RichardMeyerDC It is

[Michael Thomas @curious_founder]

@RichardMeyerDC The turbines are going to be used as backup power. Crusoe chose the location because of the abundant and cheap wind energy in West Texas.