Clark Dever

Raising kids, raising questions, occasionally raising hell | 🤖 AI wrangler | 🥋 Purple belt energy | 🚀Ask me about Startups | Life’s a group project

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

.@PalmerLuckey: "Patents are Chinese instruction manuals" and we need to reinvent the US patent system:

"Stop patenting everything."

"The Founding Fathers never predicted a world where you'd have a globalized economy, and the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning, ripped off, and then used to fight a war against you."

" We need to really fundamentally revisit the patent system."

"I think we need to massively expand the national security patent process. You can obtain a classified patent. You can get a patent on something that you are not allowed to disclose to anyone, but you still maintain the exclusivity on those rights."

" We need to massively expand that program."

Via @HooverInst

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

I started Oculus while I was living in a trailer working a minimum wage job. I spent years developing the technology and sold it less than 18 months after hiring my first employees. Most of the $2.3B purchase went to them on account of our shared ownership structure.

Wish all you want, but you just aren't correct on this. Individual people create billions of dollars in value all the time.

[a16z @a16z]

The majority of new jobs created since 1940 didn’t even exist in 1940.

There is no fixed "lump of labor". Again and again, new technologies create new jobs.

a16z's David George dismantles the "AI job apocalypse" myth: https://t.co/0gL5mdffKD

[Sivori @sivori]

Anthropic is buying millions of rare books, scanning and destroying them because legally destruction is the safest option. This was a plot element in the Vernor Vinge novel, "The Rainbow's End", which I read 20 years ago.

[kouji 🇯🇵 @yoyonofukuoka]

あらゆる言語が自動翻訳に対応し、世界中の人々がシームレスにコミュニケーションを取れる様になったら、国対国という従来からある構図が崩れて、常識対非常識という構図になるだろうな。

[Clark Dever @clarkdever]

@Dorian_Todd_ Nice!

[Clark Dever @clarkdever]

@HackingLZ It's the most hours I've put in, in years. I'm hacking at it like I'm in my 20s.

[Justin Elze @HackingLZ]

The $100/$200 month plans have given people wildly unrealistic expectations about what this costs today at scale. Most still have no idea how much API spend they’d actually be lighting on fire trying to replicate that in an enterprise setting.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

I have just been informed that one of the teams competing in the AI Grand Prix is using a biological computer built with cultured mouse brain cells to control their drone.

At first look, this seems against the spirit of the software-only rules. On second thought, hell yeah.

[Clark Dever @clarkdever]

@HackingLZ Telling their AI to "summarize this video" is the only feature I need to make YouTube premium worth the price. M

[Clark Dever @clarkdever]

@HackingLZ Star wars UI

[Clark Dever @clarkdever]

@Frichette_n Kill bots can't get me now.

[Clark Dever @clarkdever]

@nickarnot @AnthropicAI My favorite Austrian death machine.

[Clark Dever @clarkdever]

The killbots can't touch me now. Thanks for the escape hatch @AnthropicAI

[Clark Dever @clarkdever]

@Dorian_Todd_ Thanks! There's always bugs the first time you launch. Don't sweat it. Better than waiting forever to try and ship, knit picking.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

BREAKING: The Trump Administration announces the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, putting REAL FOOD back at the center of health. 🇺🇸

https://t.co/tkGF01onpm

[Wendigoon @Wendigoon8]

Brandon Buckingham recently had a health crisis that led to organ failure. He has a family to take care of ontop of these new medical bills. Brandon is a friend unlike any other and a true blessing, he could use a few right now if you can afford it. https://t.co/9iXHdI6omA

[yvonne @ycyvonne_]

I vibe coded this Air Traffic Control AR Display in gemini 3.0. absolutely insane 🤯🤯

> zoom in/out, rotate
> select plane to track
> snap to overhead view