Tim Watson

CTO/Cofounder @intro

Backed by @a16z & @sevensevensix

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Under capitalism, socialists are free to build socialism.

Under socialism, capitalists aren’t free to build anything.

Nothing stops a group of socialists pooling their money, forming a company, and splitting every wage and every pound of profit perfectly equally.... Or to donate all profit to the government.

It’s legal. It’s easy. Owning the means of production is as simple as setting up a company.

Marx wrote his manifesto before the invention of limited liability companies. Back then “seize the factory” meant seizing it from the handful of families who could afford one.

That argument expired the day anyone could start a company with limited liability, raise investment and hire who they want.

Socialists are free to lead by example and demonstrate their system works. They can out-recruit, out-motivate, out-build and out innovate based on their ideas if they like. It would prove the philosophy works. Capitalism will happily host their experiment.

The fact that nobody does this tells you a lot.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@RtrnSanity I like Spencer’s style. He just says “hey, that’s not good. let’s fix that”—instead of “MSM is lying to you! Where is Hunter’s Laptop? It’s all rigged.”

I really don’t care about the Political Crusades.

I just want the homeless people off the sidewalk.

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

@marccampbell Because they don't know how to create anything, they only know how to take

[Emery Wells @emerywells]

I’m a lifelong Democrat

I don’t care if an idea comes from the left, the right, or anywhere in between. I care if it works

Vote for ideas first
People second
Parties third

LA is collapsing under ideology and incompetence

This man actually wants to solve the problem

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

@adcock_brett @jmdagdelen Is there any feedback loop for it to learn from those failures and get better?

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

People at major AI labs (using internal models) 3-4 months ahead of startup silicon valley engineers

SV founders/eng 3-6 months ahead of NY

NY founders/eng 6-12 months ahead of rest of world

Most people have no idea how fast AI shifting as 1-2 years behind SOTA

"The future is here, just not equally distributed" - Robert Heinlein

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

This is really impressive but if they shut my laptop while my agents are running I'm sending them back

[Figure @Figure_robot]

We taught two F.03 robots to clean a room and make a bed in under 2 minutes - fully autonomous.

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

Walking it back while claiming people are wrong for calling her out is crazy. Like she can just say we should stop companies from taking advantage of the system and no one would have a problem but she chose to villainize everyone and ruin her credibility instead

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers.

If a billionaire amasses their wealth by underpaying their full-time workers so severely that they must rely on food assistance and government programs to survive, then no, that wealth was not earned by one individual - it was a wealth transfer subsidized by underpaid American workers and the public who get stuck with the bill for large corporations free-riding off our systems.

The point is less about individual morality. It’s more about how our current economic reality of shattering inequality rewards screwing over workers and exploiting essential systems at scale.

We’re talking monopoly power. Rent-seeking. Wage theft. Profiteering. Stock buybacks. Destabilizing housing markets. Companies using SNAP/EBT to underwrite their wages. Massive government subsidies or contracts to corporations following lobbying and dark money in politics with little to no oversight or accountability.

Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated - these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning in abuse of power.

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

@aidenybai That’s human time

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

Your AI agent will soon have a new skill: Run lab experiments

[Michelle Lee @michellearning]

Welcome to the scientific revolution. 100s of robots. Zero coffee breaks. America’s largest autonomous lab, open today.

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

Computers -> Internet -> AI -> BioTech -> NanoTech

The current advancements in AI are going to fuel much bigger revolutions in the next phases

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

“They built an AI that can hack everything! We must shut it down now!” Okay but what happens when China builds it instead and we have no defense?

[deckard @slimer48484]

Yesterday in the PauseAI discord the CEO (lol what?) posted "WARNING SHOT PROTOCOL - FIRST EVER ACTIVATION"

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

You tried to paint me as a pervert for exposing fraud, and as a result radical leftists started trying to dox me and send death threats, wanting to kill me.

Now you are taking credit for “leading the charge” on the fraud. Are you serious?

You are the fraud.

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

10k+ liquid millionaires with experience building space tech at a time when space tech is just starting to take off. Many more SpaceX's will be born

[Aidan Gold @MrGoldBro]

SpaceX going public in June would be the single largest venture outcome in startup history.

It may create 10k+ liquid millionaires.

These people are scientists, engineers and motivated by big ideas.

This is an incredible outcome for society that will have positive ripple effects into the future.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

People are still underestimating the impact this will have on space tech. We’re gonna have a Cambrian explosion here soon.

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Not so sure Waymo's ahead https://t.co/BobnQKXvvC

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

About once a week a waymo gets stuck in this alley for no reason. Sometimes just sits there for half an hour, sometimes backs all the way back down the alley. Been happening for over a year

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

About once a week a waymo gets stuck in this alley for no reason. Sometimes just sits there for half an hour, sometimes backs all the way back down the alley. Been happening for over a year

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

Travis gets it. This is the future

[travis kalanick @travisk]

Atoms.

https://t.co/nbCnIkI3RD

[Tim Watson @TimWatson]

Even if we did hit a wall we're years away from a wall in implementing what we already have

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

we see no wall

[Kenton Varda @KentonVarda]

Worries that software developer jobs are going away are backwards. There is SO MUCH software to build right now, that previously wasn't possible (uses AI directly) or wasn't cost-effective (too niche). We're going to have more developers, and orders of magnitude more software.