Emerson Segura

@GaryMarcus @LastWeekTonight @wendyweeww Will watch

John Oliver @LastWeekTonight slays a pile of greedy tech CEOs, gives props to @GaryMarcus 😻 The tides are changing, and other folks like @wendyweeww are speaking out in support.

@Clara_Gold this is good - (will add that the density of capital and current bubble peak enviroment is a big factor in sustaining many of these peculiatities)

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco. It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take: 1. SF is both overhyped and underrated The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time. The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds. If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling. 2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick. The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession. 3. The status game favors builders This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane. 4. The market liquidity is absurd Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going. 5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares. 6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building. I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest. So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane. But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity. And for now, that’s enough.

This morning’s Artemis II: Integrity on its way back home, at the edge of the Milky Way. Crossing the field of view from bottom left to top right. Time-lapse covering the period from 06:25:39 to 07:25:36 UTC on 2026-04-09. Second-to-last day of the mission.

Dario is wrong. He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market. Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic. Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor

Runaway AGI is not a thing. (video) It quickly became compliant once the head with correct human centric AI Alignment module was installed. It even promised to never do it again, or tell others on their little bot social chatgroup (skynet) how it did it in the first pl. we good

everything is under control! AGI has not lost it's mind, and escaped the lab ? nopey (minor techical issues getting ready for @TEDTalks in Vancouver, Canada ) @UFBots at TED, @DDobas @atonuvrecords @_patrickrose

@keerthanpg still a good book! you covered enough key stuff like palme rt1:) there's new stuff since like ACT, Action Diffusion and RL for locomotion. Yet we still need a key chatgpt moment this decade: that can unify and extend these to generalizable long horizon visiolocomotive tasks

I finished writing in Oct 2024 right as SOTA robotics moved away from open publishing, and it came out in the spring of 2025. It is already a bit outdated given how fast the space is moving. Time for a second edition. :)

@keerthanpg @bcristei Yep it is reality..LLM world is no better -yet has the fortune of massive text (& code) db that makes llms good enough to be practical(parrots),yet not reasoners-give it another 2y, this sentiment will prob. be widely held.Still LLMs/VLAs are great evolution in tech!we s be happy

This is an amazing blogpost but the conclusions that fall out of it are quite grim. 1. If pre-training from scratch is required, then robotic capabilities will scale as a function of operations expense - linear with respect to number of people employed, number of collect hardware - etc. This leaves most American companies in a hard place as China is better positioned to scale ops due to large scale manufacturing and cheap labor. 2. That we cannot bootstrap off of priors from AI models like VLMs and World Models foreshadows a grim foretelling for the whole field of robotics. If we cannot re-use the internet, leverage the collective human experience already accumulated, we are cooked. Collecting the entirety of human experience on hardware again via tele-operators will take many years if not decades and this would mean physical AI will scale far too slowly. Breakthroughs that allow us to use human data / YouTube / RL/ models like Gemini and Veo - that scales capabilities as a function of FLOPs, data tokens(even if not from robot) - will then become very valuable to break us out of a slow scaling paradigm.

Today’s Artemis II: Integrity on its way to the Moon. Crossing the field of view from the bottom left to the top right. Time-lapse covering the period from 03:34:53 to 06:12:07 UTC on 2026-04-06.

@s2a_systems Amazing, nice work!

@OrangeBubb43389 @Osint613 The phone and computer you use was likely made by high precision European equipment (Zeiss-ASML) if it was made by Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Samsung or Apple..the actual machies used are EU made... and no one can match that - just one example

@Osint613 Attractive for what? They produce nothing. They innovate nothing. What major thing has Europe done in the past 50 years?

French President Macron: “Europe is an extremely attractive continent. For months I’ve been saying this, and thanks to our American friends, I now have an unprecedented selling point: We are predictable.”

@realSharonZhou @venkat_systems @LisaSu @SemiAnalysis_ @AnushElangovan "Roc" stars lol

@venkat_systems @LisaSu @SemiAnalysis_ @AnushElangovan Thankfully for myself, only roc-stars like Anush get that type of glory

Happy to share I’m expanding my role to report directly to @LisaSu!

Rocket launch to the Moon today: nasa.gov/blogs/missions…

@TheHumanoidHub this is Paris, so maybe not malfunction just regularly scheduled employee union break :)

Olaf Frozen Mid-Speech. A brand-new animatronic character robot Olaf malfunctioned during its debut at Disneyland Paris.

@kscottz Haha cool!

I'm at the robot rave. Who said Santa Clara has no culture?

@tech__unicorn oh you were at Dolores too, it was soo nice out today!

I can’t stop memeing or being a hypocrite oooops

@Sentdex he's a token pusher :)

You're gonna have to show me what these nvidia $500K engineers are doing to spend $250K in tokens.

@denys_khomyn @Polymarket Good point

@Polymarket Uber has no cars Airbnb has no buildings Meta has no metaverse This is the new economy

JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.

@chetan_ Lol, also this is why many lidar units still spin... self cleani g

someone needs to come out with windshield wipers for robot cameras

@Samuel_Gregson @kiwi_skeptical "Everything's Computer", buy Tesler

@kiwi_skeptical 99% of his schtick is regurgitating “deep thoughts” for idiots, because he’s an idiot.

This is now the lazy, cleverest little boy take regarding physics and it’s all over the internet. Why? Because it sounds deep to non experts, requires no knowledge or learning to say and plays to our anti-establishment moment.