The first hotel on the Moon won't be shipped from Earth; it'll be built with materials on the Moon itself! But how do you actually keep humans alive on the Moon? GRU Space founder @skyler_chan_ lays out the real obstacles to lunar life: brutal radiation, wild temperature swings, and meteorite strikes.

Got quoted in the sf standard. this is not satire. this is just another friday night in SF. @bryan_johnson won. the cocktail is dead. And my gen z friends won't: – drink – smoke – eat after 6pm – open salesforce building @octolane for the last one

Superintelligence will be built on Self Improvement. Today @hexoai, we’re excited to release ‘SIA’ - an open-source Self-Improving AI, to achieve any goal through recursive self improvement. While trying to solve a problem, SIA doesn't just improve it's abilities by updating it's harness, it updates it's own weights as well.

Marc Andreessen breaks down the exact personality profile that separates true innovators from everyone else: According to him, it's a specific combination of five personality traits, each spiked toward the extreme, that almost never shows up in the same person. He walks through each one using the Big Five framework: The first is very high openness. Not just in one domain, but across the board. This is why many of history's great innovators were unusually creative people outside their main field too, because the trait doesn't discriminate. But openness alone isn't enough. "If you're just open, you could just be curious and explore, and spend your entire life reading and talking to people and never actually create something." The second trait is extreme conscientiousness, meaning the willingness to apply yourself to a single thing over many years. @pmarca is pointed about how this reality gets buried under myth: "The stories told about these people... there's this kid, this stroke of genius, this moment in time... And it's no — for most of these people it's years and years of applied effort." Here's where the profile gets genuinely rare: openness and conscientiousness are opposing traits. Open people drift. Conscientious people grind. Being extreme in both is vanishingly rare. The third requirement is high disagreeableness. The innovator must be able to hold their conviction when everyone around them says the idea is stupid. And the world will say it's stupid: "The reaction most people have to new ideas is, 'Oh, that's dumb.'" An agreeable person folds and stops pulling the thread. The innovator keeps going, not out of arrogance, but because they structurally don't bend to social pressure. The fourth trait is high IQ, which Andreessen treats as the price of entry: "It's hard to innovate in any category if you can't synthesize large amounts of information quickly." The fifth and final trait is relatively low neuroticism. The innovator has to withstand years of hard work with no guaranteed outcome, and too much anxiety makes that simply unsustainable. The bottleneck in innovation was never capital, or the quality of ideas — it was always the rarity of a single person carrying all five traits at once. And on the rare occasion that person exists, that's exactly where breakthroughs come from.