prabhusengal

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@cb_doge Vindicated

[prabhusengal @prabhusengal]

Yep!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just a scratch

[Ben Lang @benln]

I often re-read @natfriedman's personal website (former Github CEO)

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

> be some bored shitposter
> write a kino monologue that overturns the message of the biggest film in history
> the monologue, which isn't actually in the film, has a bigger fanbase and cultural impact than the film itself
> refuse to explain further
> leave

[Jerason Banes / Architect of Convirgance @ClassicGamerTWR]

Minecraft exists because I unfairly lost a Java 4K competition.

I built a full shmup with multiple enemy types, levels, boss battles, scrolling starfield, high color graphics, etc. Just about every feature you could think of.

In 4 kilobytes.

Judges said, “This game leaks expertise from its pores!” and “Sweetness. Pure sweetness.”

Except for one judge. His computer crashed. He blamed the game and didn’t try it twice. I was knocked from 1st to 27th place.

The winner that took my place in 1st?

Miners 4K by Markus Persson. These days he’s known as “Notch”

[prabhusengal @prabhusengal]

@bryan_johnson

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

My god he did it again

And somehow even better this time

[Tesla @Tesla]

World's first autonomous delivery of a car!

This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner's home ~30min away — crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach its new owner

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

Everybody should be really excited about what Tesla just did in Austin.

This is a win for humanity. It turns out that you can drive a car safely using just cameras. As the technology improves and scales out, it can be built into every car.

It is sad that our culture has become so cynical about new technology. More often the conversation is about how AI is "stealing jobs" or "making us dumb" rather than how it's empowering people. The same is true for real world AI.

You wouldn't know it from the media roasting Tesla, but they are actually deploying this technology quite responsibly. In the 40 rides I've taken so far, I haven't seen a single human intervention. The worst I've seen is some minor braking, and stopping in the middle of a parking lot for pickup. The AI model on the car is extremely capable — better than human in many ways. Beyond that, they have a human safety monitor in every car who can make the car pull over or stop in place in case of an emergency.

Let's survey the balance of risks. The risk of Tesla's AI failing and the human operator failing is quite low. I believe it will be lower than the collision risk of a human driver in Austin driving alone and that public crash data will show that. Besides that, there are only 11 cars. The risks from launching this service, with its restrictive ODD, are actually quite low.

Now what's the risk of doing nothing? Well, the risk of doing nothing is that every year 1.2 million people die around the globe including 40,000 Americans. Multiply that by about 11 to get the number of people seriously injured. The biggest risk here is clearly doing nothing.

When we look at global fatalities, the United States only makes up 3%. 97% of the world's fatalities are happening in places like China, Africa, Thailand, South America, and Eastern Europe where they're just never going to be able to replace every car with a fancy six figure retrofitted self-driving car. A pure vision system could be the difference between life and death for hundreds of thousands of people. It sounds dramatic, but it's the truth. Think about it.

We should all be supporting what Tesla, Waymo, and others are doing. We have to support these companies strongly to push back against all the idiots who want to stop the most important new automotive safety innovation of our time.

It will do so much good for the world.

It will prevent deaths and horrible traumatic injuries.

It will give people back time, to do things that matter. Do things the world needs. Think about how much that will accelerate. Can you comprehend the value of billions of hours of human time freed up?

It will accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy. Our polluted cities are silently killing our friends and loved ones, and zero emissions vehicles can dramatically reduce that. This matters so much more than people realize.

And it will make our lives convenient and easy.

I'm with you Tesla. A lot of your customers are with you. And if you're an engineer reading this, you should go get a job there. What they're working on is perhaps the most important software project in the world. Instead of making another shitty chatbot, why not make a real bot? An intelligence that can actually move around our world, in car and humanoid form.

It doesn't surprise me that there are haters. Every major new technology was doubted at first. Remember that video where David Letterman was talking to Bill Gates and didn't understand the point of the internet? Hell, people were even resistant to seat belts at first because they believed "it was better to be thrown far from the crash than be stuck in it".

So of course, there will be resistance. Some of it legitimate, with the intention of keeping people safe. But those of us who understand this tech and see its potential have the responsibility to ensure that this technology succeeds, for the good of all of us.

That's the beautiful thing about these AI models. They don't judge. They will work to protect the life of Dan O'Dowd and his loved ones just the same way they'll work to protect the Tesla team

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Roger Federer on mental toughness and resilience:

[nicholas_pumper_art.avi 🎨❤️‍🔥 @nickpumper]

Pope Leo XIV: “I want to meet with sinners, as Jesus commanded”

Vatican admin: “Holy Father, you’re not gonna believe who we found”

[E J T @ejjiott]

'Where are you?' seems like a pretty normal question, but for 99.99% of human history it basically never made sense to ask it.

[Bradford G Smith (Brad) @ALScyborg]

I am the 3rd person in the world to receive the @Neuralink brain implant.

1st with ALS. 1st Nonverbal.

I am typing this with my brain. It is my primary communication.

Ask me anything! I will answer at least all verified users!

Thank you @elonmusk!

[Mads @europemaxxed]

we should boil more water with magic rocks

[jack @jack]

delete all IP law

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The economist argument "They give us the goods, we give them paper, so what is wrong" is very similar to the student's argument "The AI does the home work well, why should I do it?"

The obvious answer is "we lose or never gain essential skills and they are very difficult to learn if and when we need them".

The reason economists don't appreciate this argument is that their models of the world do not include "it may take a generation of hardship to acquire essential skills". They think everything is market-aquirable as and when needed and that is false.

Going deeper, this goes to the "Fundamental Axiom of Financialism" (my term) which assumes that we can put a monetary value on everything, including such core skills. That axiom is false and that is why so much of modern economics feels so off.

When we start with the wrong philosophy we naturally produce bad economics.

[De Thanos @Denno876er]

The greatest scene in the history of television. The Wire. Snoop