Steven Bower

The glass isn't half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it needs to be.

@bryan_johnson Will take years to fully integrate those experiences

Something happened in the past six months post psilocybin and 5-MeO-DMT that I can't fully explain. The brain data helps but doesn't complete the picture. Feels like a home I didn't know I was looking for. I'm trying to figure out what to do with that now.

Children engrained with maximum curiosity and maximum individual agency will be most successful in the coming era. Reality that our current education systems negatively reinforce curiosity and agency should alarm us all.

Evil = Ignorance + Power. True origin: a lack of curiosity.

@matteopelleg Every person who has taken a test drive immediately wants one. Even the most skeptical.

Buying a Tesla in 2026 is like buying an iphone in 2010 You know eventually everyone will get one

Seeing the anti-patterns makes me realize how much better things *could* be, and I have limited energy to redesign the entire world, so I shut it out instead. More concretely I can see it's true potential and find existing solutions lacking in care and character. This may be mis-interpreted. For example, I love my Telsa's touchscreen, but hate UIs in any other car (Carplay is terrible). I desperately want good smart home tech, but forced to build it myself because most smart products are literally trash. I don't mind my kid having devices, just strictly limit time on screen and limit which apps. So if you surveyed me on these points, I may sound like a luddite, in reality I just want tech I use to be *good*.

There has to be some word for this concept It's why designers from tech who design touchscreens like Jony Ive won't put a touch screen in a car but use real knobs Or why programmers don't actually like smart homes and smart appliances at all but want things analog Or why tech people raise their kids without mobile devices Like knowing things so well from inside of it (tech) that you choose to NOT use it because you know the negatives that come with it in specific contexts

@shawmakesmagic @beffjezos Starlink v3 expected to have 800gb laser links. Scaling that tech to 1-2 Tbps is not deep lab research, assuming such speeds are needed. Most data centers still running on 400gbps nvlink fabrics just fine.

@beffjezos yeah but the NVLink interconnects are almost 2 TB/s and Starlink is like 200gb/sec so right now it's more like wiring GPUs up with ethernet i'm sure they will get there but its gonna be phds grinding it in a lab for several years at least

A lotta slices of pi in those links I actually think this is a dumb take on my part after thinking about it tbh We already have space datacenters in that we have all the functional components of datacenters, CDN etc in space today It's really about the practicality of heavy compute workloads You'd need the satellites within 300m of each other to get NVLink speeds, light travels faster which could be a win but also a lot of radiation and other stuff you gotta deal with in an optical link I think it's a solvable problem in the long term but it sounds like virtual/augmented reality to me-- like there are just some really fucking hard engineering challenges that will have to be ground down over many years, and probably several cycles of startups that fail

@adrianfclarke “Doesn’t work” is different from “I don’t like it”. My Model Y touchscreen works perfectly fine, so I guess his statement is actually just false. Never once desired more buttons while driving it, but guess thats just my preference. 🤷‍♂️

Multimillionaire rock star product designer parachutes into car design and tells professional car designers how to do their jobs, gets ungodly amounts of media praise for stating the thuddingly obvious that professional car designers already know:

@ShishirShelke1 Microsoft software should be banned from NASA hardware

Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working This scene is now canon 😭

@AudreyPorne only uncultured ones

Americans not having electric kettles is kind of insane, no?

@vital0gy @michaelshermer That was my point. High confidence conclusion for something that can’t be proved (even in principle) is a statement of belief, not science.

@bowerblu @michaelshermer Ummm… you can’t prove a negative

Aliens have not and are not coming to Earth. Not ever. Not now. I've been hearing talk like this since the 1970s. It never ends. Just talk. No aliens. But, please, by all means, produce the aliens & I will believe. But my money is on the bet that it will never happen.

@michaelshermer This is a debate purely about semantics, and it gets tiresome quickly.

Actually, this is partially true. Since, as I argue, UFOs are a type of religious belief, to then suspect them to be demons (or angels in other beliefs) is a type of supernaturalism (as are aliens as multi-dimensional beings).

When you realize we have entered the singularity and you are running out of time

@davidsenra @wholemars “Anything invented before you turn 30 is amazing, cool and revolutionary. Anything invented after you turn 30 is diabolical, dangerous, and will harm children.”

"Every new technology is greeted with moral panic. It's going to ruin everything. It's going to ruin society. It's going to ruin morality. And then especially — going to ruin the children." The Walkman. The calculator. Rock and roll. Jazz. Playing cards. Paperback novels. "It's the same story over and over and over and over again." — @pmarca

We have a giant fusion reactor in the sky that wirelessly delivers energy at a higher power density than civilization. Solar is obviously going to be ~100% of energy long term. Both on and off Earth.

@Michmue2 @aakashgupta Weight

@aakashgupta Does the ability for easier repair come with any real quality tradeoffs? (Vibrations etc)

Apple spent a decade gluing batteries into $2,499 MacBook Pros. Then it shipped a $599 laptop you can take apart in six minutes. The MacBook Neo teardown numbers are wild. Eight screws to open. Eighteen screws hold the battery, zero glue, zero tape. The USB-C ports, speakers, and headphone jack are all modular, meaning each one swaps individually. The speakers come out with four screws. An Australian repair channel disassembled most of the machine in under six minutes using standard Torx bits you can buy at any hardware store. For context, the 2019 MacBook Pro scored 2 out of 10 on iFixit’s repairability scale. The 16-inch Pro got a 1 out of 10. Soldered RAM, soldered storage, glued battery, proprietary pentalobe screws, keyboard riveted to the top case. Apple’s own Self Service Repair program required you to rent a 79-pound repair kit shipped in two Pelican cases just to swap a battery. The timing explains everything. The EU Right to Repair Directive takes effect July 31, 2026. Member states are transposing it into national law right now. Manufacturers must offer repair beyond warranty, provide spare parts within 5 to 10 working days for seven years, and publish repair manuals. In the US, over a quarter of Americans already live in states with enforceable Right to Repair laws. Oregon banned parts pairing. California’s act is in effect. Apple read the regulatory calendar and realized the cheapest laptop in the lineup would face the most scrutiny. Millions of students and first-time buyers will own it. The volume will be enormous. And regulators love consumer-protection cases involving the most affordable products in a company’s portfolio. So they built the Neo as the compliance flagship. Standard screws, modular ports, no adhesive, a battery that lifts out. Meanwhile the $1,099 MacBook Air still has soldered storage and a riveted keyboard. The $2,499 Pro still scores poorly on independent repairability scales. The $599 laptop is the most repairable MacBook in over a decade. Apple always knew how to build a repairable laptop. They just needed a reason that showed up on a regulatory deadline.

Gen Alpha will be the last generation forced into menial minimum-wage labor

Wish more people understood this

@SawyerMerritt @wholemars Bad touchscreens and software is a safety issue. Should be blocked from sale until fixed. Either make good touchscreens or none at all.

It’s 2026 and there are legacy automakers that are still shipping crap infotainment systems like it’s 2010. It takes 15 seconds for this Subaru Forester Hybrid to boot up. It takes 4 seconds for the car to even recognize that you tapped “I agree” lol. Horrendous lag.

I’m vehemently against not exposing kids to modern technology. Result is they don’t developed mental defenses and intuitions suitable to the modern world they will eventually need to interact with. The solution is balance. There’s a mid point between trad school and full no-tech Luddite that gives them a full toolkit for future growth. (Unless you’re raising them to be Amish). Alpha school seems to offer that.

Alpha School. People seem to love it. But from my understanding, a good % of the learning is screen time. I'm vehemently against kids using screens (iPad stuff, short form video, etc). But I want to hear who's sent kids to Alpha + how/if the screen time was impactful (negatively). What Joe's doing is super interesting and would be awesome to work. Would love to see it win + have my fears addressed.