Dylan | Class of 2028 at The University of Austin

UATX is building the first steps towards a University of the Future. I'm a member of the founding class because I believe that UATX has the best chance of success. A university's mission should be to shape future citizens who will uphold and improve society. This requires intellectual integrity, historical understanding, classical wisdom, and forward thinking. The best people grasp human nature while tackling cutting-edge issues like AI, entrepreneurship, and content creation. Modern universities don't fulfill that purpose. They actively poison against creating good, civilized people. @nfergus draws the parallel between the movements in universities today, and the formation of the Third Reich in his essay "The Treason of the Intellectuals." One of the main points in the essay is the duty of the intellectual to maintain neutrality and honesty when teaching. Honesty and truth is a virtue, Aristotle's eudaimonia says that only those with exceptional character and virtue can lead a good life. Instead, modern universities teach an ideology of vitriol and victimhood, where any difference in outcome must be because of societal, or class-wide oppression, and that there's nothing that you as an individual can say or do to change that. They teach an ideology where reality is subjective, that "my truth" is the one that matters. UATX's explicit devotion to teaching and maintaining intellectual integrity, while also having the 4-year entrepreneurship focused Polaris project, and a robust, 21st century STEM program is about as close as anyone's gotten to a University of the Future. UATX is the only university I know of with a robust constitution that explicitly protects intellectual freedom, and prevents political agendization: assets-global.website-files.com/6461fa4f269388… I believe it is the tension between classical thought and cutting-edge thought that is one of UATX's biggest value points. The question that classical thought tries to answer is "What is a human being?" What makes us different from the animals? What responsibility does that give us? What is good, and what is bad? Any decision you make in building a company, or creating a product ultimately has human beings as its end. The deeper you understand human beings, the better choices you'll make. Take for example the contention around AI right now. At its core, the alignment problem is asking: "How can we make AI have human-centric virtues?" You can't answer that question unless you understand what humans are, what their values are, and what virtues are. UATX's dean and provost of Intellectual Foundations, Jacob Howland talks about the Roman god Janus, who has a face pointing backwards and a face pointing forwards. Good societies are built by those who intimately understand the past and boldly pave the future. The 1517 Fund has a different purpose (which I wholeheartedly agree with and support). It would be great if UATX and 1517 could collaborate. I've attended a 1517 summit in the past, the people I've met have a lot of overlap with UATX. There are those who absolutely could be better served by going through the Thiel fellowship, or getting a Medici grant. But the vice versa is true. Ultimately, a University should help the next generation build their greatest future selves. That starts by instilling virtue, and cultivating action.

@elonmusk Can I get this for @uaustinorg ?

SuperGrok is free for students

@ericzhu You're the only person I've ever seen get a perfect 100 on the T level test.

@DylanWu aight that’s personal

@eshear The positive implication, though, imagine how much better our kids could do if they were simply present, and motivated. Solve that issue and you fix education.

I’m not sure if this is true, but weirdly if it is it kind of gives me hope. Blur out the judgement and details and it sounds like a generation staging a jailbreak from psychic prison.

This @uaustinorg speaker makes some sense, maybe he should write a book

@ericzhu I've heard Chinese food is pretty good.

doing my part to combat racism on twitter today

@JTLonsdale @InternetH0F Could I get this for the UATX dorms?

@InternetH0F Cool

USA civilian owned quad minguns that can fire up to 24,000 rounds per minute 🤯

@griswold Addictive, intuitive, collaborative, competitive, video games are the perfect learning tool. The question is how to funnel video game mechanics into academic, or “life-skill” subject matter.

Video games outperform every MBA program.

@nfergus @uaustinorg @60Minutes Thank you! The first term of UATX has been incredible, I’m looking forward to the next 4 years. Innovations in education within this next decade will fuel the image of the world over this next century.

Hugely proud of our @uaustinorg students, who are the real stars of this @60Minutes segment.

@uaustinorg @CBS @60Minutes If you’re a builder, come to UATX. You have the chance to help build the greatest university in the world. The first term has already been one of the most incredible experiences of my life, I’m so excited for the next 4 years.

Watch the full @CBS @60Minutes segment on UATX here.

@BillAckman @60Minutes @uaustinorg Modern universities are broken, they need outside competition to show parents and families just how much better the system can be. UATX is the first step in that.

Great @60Minutes episode on @uaustinorg. Worth 13 minutes to learn about a new model for a university.

@griswold Absolutely. Education is the biggest untapped market for startups and new businesses. Literally a trillion dollar market, and Austin and UATX is at the forefront.

Austin will become the Silicon Valley of education, and UATX is one of many engines moving this forward.

@jenniferdoleac It’s become a running joke of ours on campus 😄

I’m so impressed with what UATX is doing. “Chatham House rule” in the classroom is brilliant - others should borrow this!

@BillAckman @60Minutes @uaustinorg Thank you for your support!

@bariweiss @uaustinorg Thank you for building UATX. It’s been an amazing first term, and I can’t wait for the next and every one after that.

These 13 minutes drown out three years of naysayers. I could not be more proud of what's happening @uaustinorg. Watch:

@JTLonsdale @nfergus @bariweiss Thank you for building UATX. The first term has been one of the most wonderful experiences of my life. Here’s to the next 4 years.

I’m a proud cofounder and chairman of UATX; it’s time universities shaping our leaders return to enlightenment values, independent thinking, and open discourse in pursuit of truth. Honored to build alongside founders @nfergus, @bariweiss, Pano Kanelos, and amazing donors, professors, and founding students! Thank you all - we are just getting started 🚀🇺🇸🔥.

It was a pleasure to be on 60 minutes and speak about my university. We just finished our first term, and it’s been one of the most wonderful experiences of my life. The modern university is broken, new institutions must be built, and UATX is the first, but not the last.

@uaustinorg That’s me!

UATX will be featured tonight on 60 Minutes. Hear from our founders, get a glimpse behind the scenes of campus, and see the building of America’s newest university in action.

@HannahFrankman Had a similar experience. Started homeschooling in 6th grade, spent just a few hours a day, few days a week doing actual academics (got up to graduate level mathematics courses). Rest of the time was spent learning entrepreneurship, doing projects and hanging out with friends.

I grew up homeschooled. Until 9th grade, I spent *maybe* two hours a day on school. Most of my time was spent reading, playing outside, building forts and my first little business. Turns out, those things were way more important to my adult thriving than the academics anyway.

@elonmusk Come visit UATX campus :)

And 𝕏 HQ will move to Austin