Cameron Davis

Prev founder @ Measures AI | Focused on building things that matter to people, no matter where I'm needed in the stack.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

I'd like to remind everybody that the federal government spends 7 TRILLION DOLLARS EVERY YEAR. It took Elon decades to make what the feds spend in a couple months, and the only thing our politicians can think to do is steal it from him.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

@JasonKander Honestly what do you think hes doing? His opinion is that we should grow out of our problems, hence electric cars, solar power, and space travel, and he's made it abundantly clear what his goals are.

[St. Rev. Dr. Rev ⏭️☯️🏴😻 @St_Rev]

rockets used to grow in the forest and they were distributed evenly all over the world until Elon hoarded them out of spite

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

And just like that, I am the first person to run bare metal Linux on an ESP32P4. We live in the future.

Took a custom boot shim based on IDF, some memcpy, a modified kernel entrypoint, disabling a few memory protections, and writing a custom uart driver.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

After giving many pitches to many different people, one thing I've learned is that Chamath is right: attention is everything. When you lose their attention, you lose the deal. Pull heartstrings, make a joke, push buttons, do whatever you need to get their attention.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

Are you rejecting the idea or the timeline? The idea is still rock solid and where we're heading. The timeline, however, was wildly optimistic.

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

The people who believed this a decade ago are the same ones who think space data centers are a brilliant idea that’s coming soon.

Tell me how this “train leaving the station” is going?

[Engineer Girlfriend @enggirlfriend]

i realized something recently

bernie sanders and AOC have damaged the fabric of america immensely but we rarely talk about it

bernie/AOC have vilified successful businessmen & women. calling CEOs like elon musk, bezos, zuck evil. yes these people have shortcomings - but they are also truly self made, come from normal/humble backgrounds. with hard work they created trillions in economic value. isn’t that a fundamental part of what america is about? the land of opportunity?

in the 2000s when i was in elementary school, bill gates and steve jobs were viewed as role models. our teachers taught us about how much they achieved + given to society. these CEOs were actually respected and i believe this culture brought up a generation of ambitious hard working americans

now, kids are being taught that working hard and becoming a billionaire is evil. we’re essentially telling them to have victim mindset and stay poor

i know bernie/AOC & crew are never going to take responsibility. i can’t even tell if they realize what they’re doing

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

I built a giant battery pack for the first time, and could've blown up my apartment.

It's a high-drain 21700 li-ion pack in a 3s2p configuration for a UAV project, and should last for up to 30 minutes of flight.

The risk of wiring something up wrong could be losing a hand, scorching my desk, or even turning my plane into a meteor and starting a grass fire.

I've seen battery explosions, sometimes intentional but often not - they can be quite violent and unpredictable.

Even so, nothing blew up. I measured cell voltages, applied the fish paper, welded the nickel strips, soldered up the battery management system, and taped the pack up. I measured all important voltages, they read correctly. I did a short drain test and the motor spun.

It may not be the prettiest pack, but it was my first one. The assembly was undeniably dangerous. There is always the chance that a battery cell came damaged (one of them did) or a loose strand of copper shorts a trace on the PCB.

The truth is that execution on a "risky" plan usually comes down to preparation. Outside of bad luck, when you cross your 't's and dot your 'i's, take the necessary precautions, and look before you execute, things are often not as risky as you work them up to be.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

Safety convinces people their dreams aren't worth it, that they should stay inside. How horrible is the life of someone who has given it all to be safe. It is the greatest risk you can take: by choosing safety over adventure, you sacrifice your dreams and happiness.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

@JoshKale I remember several months ago when people were saying "spacex has no moat, blue origin is caught up"

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

@pubity I support this. If we dont do stuff like this then we will only be spending on stupid stuff.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

@awstar11 This is exactly the promise of socialized systems. Just take other people's money and smile. It's nothing out of the ordinary or outrageous to people who support it.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

Has anybody had the idea of becoming a politician for like 8 years just to implement something they're really passionate about, but not making a career out of it so they can do something necessary but unpopular?

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

Am I the only one who is horribly upset by the fact that social security will be defunct even by the time my parents retire?

How have we let reckless government spending get so inefficient as to wipe out the single most expensive social safety net system in the history of mankind?

The numbers are simple:
1 - Our GDP is massive, at 32 trillion dollars last year, but our government spent over 7 trillion of those dollars.
2 - China spends about half that at 3.5 trillion, supports about 4x as many people, with (generally) much better safety nets.

We are in a death spiral of inefficiency and public decay that will not be solved by more spending. Every single time you vote for another tax on the ballot, this is what you contribute to. It gives the politicians more money to deliver on the same or fewer promises.

We have two options:
1 - Grow so much that we don't need to worry.
2 - Some kind of DOGE equivalent.

If the vote goes to option 2, people will kick and scream as their funding is taken away, light Tesla dealerships on fire, and threaten lives (as we've seen before) but if we are to save the system, we have to do something, right?

If you want your children or grandchildren to be able to retire comfortably some day, we are going to have to make sacrifices today, but more importantly, LOWER THE SPENDING.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

@JesseKellyDC It's fun to stay in a non-air-conditioned airbnb in Greece for a week, but to live there...

[orbital haze (balls/acc)🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @orbital_haze]

I've been saying this for years. We obviously live in the Early Modern Future now.

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

@s2_underground We should not allow companies to install kernel level modifications on our operating systems just to play vidya games

[Cameron Davis @cam_d32]

@davepl1968 I think what people are trying to say is "I want the user interface of my car to be 0% computer."