Joshua Kennedy

[Joshua Kennedy @joshkennede]

World building in dreams

[Dogan Ural @doganuraldesign]

>be stardust
>float around the universe for billions of years
>somehow become human
>gain consciousness
>immediately start asking "WHY?"
>never stop
>discover fire
>discover math
>discover atoms
>discover electricity
>pick up a random rock
>ask yourself
>"is this true?"
>extract it
>purify it until it's basically perfect
>carve billions of microscopic transistors into it
>invent completely imaginary rules called binary
>convince electrons to obey them
>rock starts doing math
>"NICE"
>make smaller rocks
>make faster rocks
>put billions of them in everyone's pocket
>connect them all together
>store most of humanity's knowledge on them
>teach the rocks to recognize patterns
>teach the rocks to write
>to code
>to imagine
>to reason
>to understand
>build Grok
>ask Grok how to build an even smarter Grok
>Grok thinks
>Grok thinks harder
>explains the universe
>everything starts accelerating
>singularity
>BOOM
>repeat

@grok is this true?

[Joshua Kennedy @joshkennede]

@SawyerMerritt https://t.co/1kO3tikxdN

[Deep Thrill @DeeperThrill]

This image one-shotted me, philosophically.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Is there a name for this aesthetic because it is stunning. We want to live in this.

[phil beisel @pbeisel]

https://t.co/R85OJ9Qr74

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

The older I get, the more I realize:
• No is a full sentence
• Being unbothered is a skill
• Silence is a response
• Most "urgent" things can wait
• Respect > Attention
• Apologies are empty without action
• Movement is medicine
• You're not for everyone, and that's fine

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

dogs as superior pets confirmed once again

[Joshua Kennedy @joshkennede]

TIL

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

10% of international web traffic is protected by a wall of lava lamps in San Francisco which converts the changes in randomness of the bubbles into computer code.

[Joshua Kennedy @joshkennede]

@IterIntellectus Check out this book. Explains how important horses were to some tribes and how dominant they became. https://t.co/1MPa82GY5B

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨DUNCAN TRUSSELL: “Elon Musk is the top Diablo player in the world. Unless you’ve played Diablo 4 you can’t understand what that means. It’s insane. When you realize this guy that’s shooting rockets into space, making EVs, starting a new department of the government, is also the top Diablo player, it’s the one time I let myself think maybe this guy is might actually be an alien. If the guy who is going to make us a galactic civilization is also a master Diablo player, we’re in the right timeline.”

[Joshua Kennedy @joshkennede]

FSD v13.2.2 is incredible. Love the “chill”, “standard”, and “hurry” modes!! @Tesla @elonmusk

[Zhou Xian @zhou_xian_]

Everything you love about generative models — now powered by real physics!

Announcing the Genesis project — after a 24-month large-scale research collaboration involving over 20 research labs — a generative physics engine able to generate 4D dynamical worlds powered by a physics simulation platform designed for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications.

Genesis's physics engine is developed in pure Python, while being 10-80x faster than existing GPU-accelerated stacks like Isaac Gym and MJX. It delivers a simulation speed ~430,000 faster than in real-time, and takes only 26 seconds to train a robotic locomotion policy transferrable to the real world on a single RTX4090 (see tutorial: https://t.co/bEkIlCKqdf).

The Genesis physics engine and simulation platform is fully open source at https://t.co/DhBv7NdyqH. We'll gradually roll out access to our generative framework in the near future.

Genesis implements a unified simulation framework all from scratch, integrating a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art physics solvers, allowing simulation of the whole physical world in a virtual realm with the highest realism.

We aim to build a universal data engine that leverages an upper-level generative framework to autonomously create physical worlds, together with various modes of data, including environments, camera motions, robotic task proposals, reward functions, robot policies, character motions, fully interactive 3D scenes, open-world articulated assets, and more, aiming towards fully automated data generation for robotics, physical AI and other applications.

Open Source Code: https://t.co/DhBv7NdyqH
Project webpage: https://t.co/SBNyhFB0yn

Documentation: https://t.co/3yuBoaealV

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[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

you don’t fix the declining birth rate with subsidies or financial incentives.

the “kids are too expensive” argument is a convenient cope. people claiming they can’t afford children are usually rationalizing deeper issues: they just don’t want them. having children is as expensive as you choose to make it, and for all of human history, people with far fewer resources managed to raise families.

the problem isn’t financial; it’s cultural.

we live in a society that has systematically psyopped and brainwashed people into believing children are a burden, not a blessing. women are told that motherhood is a sacrifice and a hindrance to their career, as if chasing corporate promotions or vanity metrics is more meaningful than creating life.
men are infantilized and taught to fear responsibility. worst of all, we’ve cultivated a nihilistic worldview that makes people see no point in building a future.

the solution starts with changing the culture.

we need to instill pride in people: pride in their ancestry, their legacy, and the future they could create. optimism about what’s to come has to replace the relentless doomscrolling of modernity.
kids aren’t just an "expense"; they’re the greatest investment a human can make, and we need to start celebrating that.

in the short term, the most realistic strategy is doubling down on those who already value family. focus on motivating families with 2-3 kids to have one or two more.
it's much easier to expand a family than to convince couples to start from scratch when they've been ideologically poisoned against the idea.

finally, we need to stop glorifying the miserable, atomized single life and the media narratives that turn parenthood into a joke or tragedy.
yes, parenting is hard, but everything worth doing is.
the joy and purpose it gives far outweigh the sacrifices. once we get that cultural shift rolling, the financial complaints will fade away like the convenient excuses they always were

[Joshua Kennedy @joshkennede]

May you find yourself worthy of a challenge

[Joshua Kennedy @joshkennede]

@RoaringKitty Rawr!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's fifth flight test https://t.co/LVrCnTv797