Solomon Ives

Structural Engineer / Prefab Housing Innovator

Innovate out human labor from homebuilding and we can make humanity vastly more wealthy.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

Many people spend a third of their income on housing. This can be 10x their 2nd largest expense.

Think of it: a massive chunk of humanity's creative energy is consumed with paying for this.

The world doesn't know how badly it wants this to change.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@Robotbeat If you dont want Elon to be a trillionare, its very simple and no laws needed: Just create better rockets, cars, satellites, & ai than him. All his customers will start giving you money instead.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@peterrhague @grok what is the anthropic rugpull?

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@Marian_L_Tupy And some need professional and business licenses in multiple jurisdictions for each city for each state. For me, I need maybe a dozen licenses. They'd cost maybe $2k per year to maintain. This goes to pay the salary of people whose only job seems to be to count my money.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

They say humans can't compete with the beauty in nature. I wonder about that.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@peterrhague Yes but we also need to better understand why people like greenery so that we can design comfortable places without it.

Why do you think people prefer "natural" building materials, and "real" plants?

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@Austen This is a campaign video. I dont think people like this expect to achieve political goals.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@jackprandelli @Tylergroce Awesome!

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@engineers_feed Engineers bend reality to their will

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@Robotbeat Even housing is close:

1940
Median home price: $2,938
Median wage: $0.67/hr
= 110 weeks labor

2020
Home price: $303,000
Wage: $32.54/hr
= 230 weeks labor

2020 is 2x higher but in 1940 you had to pay 20% down and 6% interest. And today you get toilets, A/C and 2x the home size.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@_brianpotter Enzymes and molecular-level machines. They built most of the intelligent structures on earth for free from air.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@peterrhague How can people think your family will be OK if you pick red and red wins? If Red wins its almost guaranteed to cause a major depression and food shortages. Even if only 10% picked blue.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

In my teens and 20's I would spend way too much time playing Starcraft and Civilization. Harvesting resources, building things, and expanding was super addictive to my brain - to an almost unhealthy degree.

Later I realized that entrepreneurship and business is the ultimate game. It scratches the same itch for me (resources, building, expanding), but you're actually contributing to humanity at the end of the day, which can be much more fulfilling.

Business is also much more positive sum than video games. In Starcraft, the other player has to lose for you to win. In business, there is competition, but in a growing market there can be multiple winners. And gains compound long term (it's a infinite game) instead of starting over each time.

Now days I prefer to watch pros play video games to unwind, instead of playing video games myself. But a quick game can still be fun here and there to unwind. By contrast, the game of business is played over many decades.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

We should make houses for free out of air.

Nearly all structures on earth were made for free from air.

Plant and animal bodies are >95% Carbon and Oxygen from CO2.

Carbon is the ideal material. Strong, versitile, abundant & free worldwide. Evolution figured it out. We can too.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@isabelleboemeke Agree!

In sports, the goal is not to "think more positively about yourself" it is to stop thinking about yourself altogether.

We are obsessed with evaluating "how we are doing" We should spend 90% of our day on tasks. Only evaluate when you have the time to make improvements.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@JarettGross @farzyness Walking is fake running

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@willpoffwebster @IFP I was thinking of the ~10,000 requirements in the IBC and the ~5,000 plan checkers in the USA, each king of their kingdom without check.

If you want to innovate a new construction system you have to worry about all of their approvals, and they often disagree with each other.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

Also, AI bodies are made of rare, expensive materials requiring complex global supply chains.

We are made almost entirely of air and water. Plants build themselves from co2 + water; animals build themselves from plants + animals. Air and water are free worldwide.

Your move, ai

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

Humans self-construct, self-repair and self-power using advanced nano-technology powered almost entirely by sugar water.

Your move, AI.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@Austen If you need it day 1:

Prior to day 1: hire hacker & PI to ID the offer-maker, their recent travel, hikes & land ownership.

Day 1: Try to get a circle/arc < 1000 mi. Cross ref with travel, land ownership. Buy sat imagery? Narrow to a 100 mi line. Divide 10 hikers to walk it.

[Solomon Ives @Solomonives]

@engineers_feed The plane could have its wheel brakes on and still take off.

I feel like this is a metaphor for getting around obstacles. Just push off of something else and decouple from the problem.