
Every sample at @periodiclabs sits in a circular holder, tracked by position.
AI is not a biological agent, so if the environment is shaped according to its preferences, those preferences will be very different from ours.
“We’re really trying to create something that is like a successor to humans. The question is, what if we are successful?”
The traditional model of science is simple: form a hypothesis, run the experiment, and watch it succeed or fail. @ekindogus, cofounder of @periodiclabs, thinks existing LLMs can't do this yet.
"A system that can literally engineer matter is going to be of key importance to everybody."
SpaceX never set out to build a software platform. The product, as @scottgmorton put it, was simple: get things to orbit.
.@scottgmorton spent nine years writing control software at SpaceX. He left to build the software he wished he'd had.
Ex-SpaceX engineer @scottgmorton says one of the biggest keys to SpaceX's success is Elon Musk's willingness to make massive bets on his team.


An Ex-SpaceX Engineer on Elon Musk, Starship, and Building a $1B-Valued Startup (Scott Morton, Founder & CEO of Revel)
Within five to ten years, @rooqster believes, stablecoin legislation spreads country by country and businesses fully grasp what tokenized money already is.
When people ask why a giant like Stripe or Visa won't just swallow the stablecoin market, @rooqster thinks they're missing the scale of it. They're picturing a new feature on a checkout page.
.@rooqster once asked a strange question: how much is the biggest bank in Jordan worth?
For decades, the world's biggest platforms have had global distribution by design. Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook: no distinction between markets and no asking permission.
"Money quantifiably is larger than AI. It's larger than food. It's larger than oil and gas. It's larger than municipal water supplies, government spending, defense. It's all of these combined."