Michael West

Australian Dynamism. “The morning’s circumstances are new and there are no rules to guide us.”(Hilary Mantel)

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

I want a futurism that feels like this. Like we've mastered nature and mastered the human-scale longed for ideals.

Not like flying plastic or plants on top of glass-plastic

[lyra bubbles @_lyraaaa_]

the fly brain can play beat saber

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

Another round of @PirateWires Mafia but with Elizabeth Holmes, SBF, Trevor Milton (Nikola), Charlie Javice (Frank), …

[Elizabeth Holmes @ElizabethHolmes]

I'm always being real.

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@Mappletons Soon to follow: comedy of manners where shrewd agent rescues hapless master

[Gena Gorlin @Gena_I_Gorlin]

Whoa- this is the most fantastic pedagogical tool I’ve encountered in as long as I can remember (which is a helluva high bar, considering who I live with).

I’m so excited to have my 6yo play with it! And you all should too.

https://t.co/vv8QVMO7VP

[Pietro Schirano @skirano]

I had early access to GPT-6. This model will completely shatter your understanding of what's possible, and it will start a new era of creativity.

It's hard to explain how big of a jump this is, so I'll share my tests.

1/6 Made this 3D model and animation in code from an image.

[Mikhail Samin @Mihonarium]

If you’re in the Bay Area, there will be signs

[China Maritime-CMSI @ChinaMaritime]

"CMSI Note 24: Crossing a Hellscape: PLA Views on New U.S. Military Concept to Defend Taiwan" by Ian Easton https://t.co/bLFj1UOtM5

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@clairevo @OpenAI @vercel How do you think about building intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation here? Enough extrinsically motivated reps get you to fall in love with it and become intrinsically motivated? Just wondering about what happens when XP isn’t on offer in later contexts.

[𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨 @_ArtMuseum]

The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice, July 6, 1842, by Ippolito Caffi (1842)

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@jota_snchez @Qantico_nxe They didn’t, this video is AI. It’s built on a rocky headland but with deep piles because the ground is saturated with seawater in some places.

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@traestephens GPT-5.5 has you looking ready for the Murph

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@micsolana At least the North American Space Agency is taking us back to the Moon

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@thenanyu @AkanshaDugad Is a search engine the right comparison though? Google is solving a very unconstrained problem, matching “any person” to “the whole internet”. Tools with more context should be able to be more opinionated. We wouldn’t expect SpaceX to ship a UI like this, for example.

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@RealDianeYap @clairevo

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@jasonfried This also works because their product is tree pruning, something their customers know they want; rather than, say, location-based mobile news aggregation as a service.

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@vktrnrdlng It’s frustrating but only if you play on hard mode, otherwise you can just guess a word that rules out multiple options. (In this case: broom, ships, etc)

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@RonSnyder9681 @tshugart3 There is some content on this in the CRS paper “China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities” (sourced to @CSIS)

https://t.co/RrlrOtDmIs

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@Mankosmash @Aviation_Intel Anduril’s website says Copperhead-500 has a 500 lb payload, not that the whole thing weighs 500 lb.
https://t.co/Q7lcKYJQNr

[Michael West @michaeljwest]

@ProfSteveKeen @RelearningEcon Does it really matter if growth can’t be infinite, if it can go on to a finite but huge degree? For example, the Sun’s energy output is finite, but it’s 20 trillion times greater than we use today.