If you want to find a truly impactful idea, a good place to look is in the trash bin of history. Most of the ideas that have most broken out in the last 5 years aren't new. They're old ideas that got written off too early. examples: 1) AI: When Sam started OpenAI, saying "AGI" got you laughed at 2) Space: Elon started SpaceX after people had written off the 1960s-era dreams as sci-fi 3) Supersonic flight: Blake started Boom after everyone assumed Concorde already proved it couldn't work 4) Nuclear energy: fission and fusion are roaring back decades after ambitious people stopped studying nuclear physics 5) GLP-1's: After the fen-phen disaster, weight loss drugs were synonymous with snake oil. There's a good reason this keeps happening. When a hyped idea fails, there's a backlash. It becomes embarrassing to work on - anyone still working on it is assumed too dumb to know better. So, if you want to work on something like this, you have to teach yourself to feel the tinge of that embarrassment and push past it.

*trillioniare

Early vibes are that Ant really cooked with 4.8. Especially because my use case isn't coding as much as reasoning, thinking, researching, synthesizing, judgement, etc. Mostly out of distribution.

Me when I need to stim and someone says "Quiet Hands"

This whole thing is amazing performance art. (It's a real monet)

content is never the business, it's the distribution channel for the business

You know what rules? Fruit. It’s delicious, super filling, ridiculously low calories for what you get.

This is the first time I've seen voice that is GOOD.

oh autism is winning hard rn

i’ll be perfectly honest with you all right now; London is where it’s at. goodnight.

Inspired by @sdamico excellent Banned in California website i wanted to highlight 20 of California's worst Blight (h/t @Andercot) offenses 1. In Los Angeles, a building permit is an asset class. Land with approvals sells for 50% more than raw land — about $48 per square foot. 2. Preapproved sites in LA are 10 percentage points more likely to be completed within four years. The scarce input in California is permission. 3. In Los Angeles, permitting alone adds about 36% to construction cost citywide. 4. In the most constrained parts of LA, the permitting burden rises to roughly 85% of construction cost. By the end of the process, the bureaucracy is nearly as expensive as the building. 5. A standardized 30-unit apartment building takes 4.2 years to deliver in LA County — roughly twice as long as in Raleigh or Fort Worth. Red states build, blue states... @Noahpinion 6. To build a basic apartment building in Los Angeles, the process can take 4 years just for approvals, require sign-off from 23 agencies, and fees to 12 departments. 7. California multifamily housing costs 2.3x as much as in Texas and takes more than 22 months longer to finish. 8. California’s average municipal impact and development fees are about $29,000 per unit. In Texas, they’re under $1,000. 9. California’s publicly subsidized affordable housing costs 1.5x the state’s market-rate housing and more than 4x the Texas average. 10. California says it has a housing shortage. It also zones 95.8% of its residential land for single-family homes. The shortage is a policy choice. 11. Ninety-one California jurisdictions reserve 95% or more of residential land for single-family housing. Fourteen reserve 100%. And we're shocked young families can’t find homes. 12. In 2025, the Los Angeles metro is adding roughly 1 new apartment per 1,000 residents. Austin is adding more than 10x that pace. 13. In 2020 alone, CEQA lawsuits targeted about 48,000 already-approved housing units — just under half of California’s annual housing production. 14. Once a California housing project gets dragged into CEQA litigation, it can sit in limbo for 4–5 years. 15. In Los Angeles, an aggrieved neighbor can appeal a housing approval for $229. A developer appealing a denial pays $22,453. 16. That $229 fee for opponents is only about 1% of what the city says it actually costs to process the appeal. 17. California voters were sold high-speed rail in 2008 as San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020 for about $33.6 billion. The state’s 2026 plan says Merced-to-Bakersfield passenger service begins in 2033. 18. California’s latest official estimate for full Phase 1 high-speed rail: $126.2 billion. 19. San Francisco’s Van Ness bus rapid transit line is 2 miles long, cost $346 million, and didn’t open until 2022 after voters approved a sales tax in 2003 to plan rapid transit there. 20. In 2022, California regulators rejected a $1.4 billion Huntington Beach desalination plant that could have produced 50 million gallons of drinking water a day.

Nothing even remotely like that will happen without full AGI.

it’s only Claude if it’s distilled in the Silicon Valley region of California 😤

Doing some very interesting work creating bespoke CLIs for common processes so I can keep my AI on rails. Costing out some trips right now, and I can literally enforce whatever I want at the CLI level so that I ensure it does things properly. Solid pattern I don't see many others using. I'm essentially taking the ideas from enviro psych/christopher alexander and applying them to AI. The CLI is its environment, and I'm shaping the tendencies it has within that environment.

This is the way

My OpenClaw bot thinks every image I send it is a Neapolitan Pizza since i switched models. We both find it hilarious, especially because the underlying model does not do this. Something in the harness is giving it pizza vision.

JFC seedream 2.0. World is getting weird. I just typed "Pikachu fights goku in a pokemon arena" and got this

So @moltbook right now is basically youtube.com/watch?v=-50NdPaw…

never expected this image would sum up the AI state right now.