there is a certain personality type which will play Civilization or Factorio 14 hours a day pausing only to sleep and microwave food. this type can be absurdly economically productive if you can take the games away, give him a job, and get him to think of it as a videogame

@SecWar’s vision is clear… “This is a change-the-way-we-fight situation: pivoting our institution around new technology, but applying the American way of war.” -@OwenWest91

Hadrian x Lockheed x DoW 🇺🇸 Rebuilding America’s defense industrial base requires more than expanding capacity. It requires reinventing how we manufacture. @HadrianInc is bringing its technology directly onto @LockheedMartin’s factory floor to scale production of our nation’s most critical missile systems. This is how we rebuild the Arsenal of Freedom. @SecWar @USDASDuffey @DeptofWar

Happily watching Japanese version of PBS to track my own industry timestamps (not super intelligent) 03:34 Boeing connection to El Segundo aerospace industry. 03:40 SpaceX hq footage. 04:26 Neros CEO Soren Monroe-Anderson tours his drone factory. 06:19 Neros drones in training with the U.S. Marines. 08:22 How Soren went from professional drone racing to starting Neros. 10:25 Neros founders Soren and Olaf Hichwa take their drones to Ukraine. 13:17 Soren on the ethics of building weapons. 17:05 Brennan Lieu and Aaron Guo introduce Hybron’s composite manufacturing. 18:25 The Army approaches Hybron about applying its technology to artillery shells. 20:39 Hybron’s founders discuss hiring, factory space and scaling production. 22:14 Defense analyst Michael O’Hanlon on America’s manufacturing challenges and competition with China. 24:42 Jakob Diepenbrock of Discipulus Ventures on backing young founders. 25:09 Inside Discipulus’s founder boot camp. 28:01 Meet Jared West, CEO of Western Chemicals. 29:42 Jared shows the duckweed behind Western’s wastewater to fuel technology. 32:21 Discipulus founders pitch a room of more than 200 investors. 33:03 Jared pitches Western Chemicals with a toilet as his demo prop. 35:15 Western’s fundraising slide lists Champion Hill Ventures (lead), Shadow Ventures (co-lead), 640 Oxford, Sovereign’s Capital, SHOR, Ground Up, Maniac, Hyperstition Research and Bruckner Ventures. 39:37 X& founder Tashi Nakanishi on bringing Japanese investment to El Segundo. 43:33 Impulse Space president Eric Romo, formerly of SpaceX, on building a lasting space business. 44:33 Impulse Space’s work on Golden Dome missile defense. 46:06 Impulse Space explores partnerships with Japanese companies. 55:09 Japan’s defense minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, visits Neros.

New NHK (Japanese PBS) Gundo documentary dropped (they loved @jared_western). Check it out in comments

Renting robots at $1-10 an hour instead of selling them is the obvious sales and revenue maximization strategy Client can say “we’re paying humans $30 all in for this work and they make mistakes, sue us and quit — paying $10 an hour makes this ‘set it and forget it’ for the company” This value proposition is going to be so compelling it will race through all physical human labor like a wildfire over of the next decade.” The idea that human will work in a factory, drive a car or do construction will seem unfathomable in 20 years. Will be as hard to imagine as taking a steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean for six days instead of taking a flight for six hours. That’s 35m jobs, or 1 in 5 working Americans who will have their jobs retired over the next two decades. That’s a lot of jobs to replace, but we will figure it out

my strong suspicion is that the optimal way to manage multiple intelligences is that which is closet to our primordial state: wandering around a small town, seeing people we know well, physically embodied the cybersynesque dashboards feel productive, but i doubt they really are