Mama Carlos

He reinvented the 3D printer Introducing the polysynth mini:

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It's my birthday and on my birthday I want to recognize all my haters. Haters do the best marketing. Love your haters.

One man mass-predicted the future of technology for 35 years and nobody repriced their worldview. In 1999, Kurzweil said AGI by 2029. Stanford organized a conference to discuss it. They polled several hundred AI experts. 80% said it would take 100 years. Geoffrey Hinton was among them. Kurzweil was the only person in the room who said 30 years. By 2024, Hinton publicly said he was wrong. Metaculus prediction markets moved from 2060 to 2036 to roughly 2028. Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Jensen Huang all converged on 2028-2029. Elon said 2026. The consensus moved 70 years closer to Kurzweil. Kurzweil didn’t move at all. What separates his method from the experts who kept updating: he never predicted AI breakthroughs. He predicted compute trajectories. His 1999 model tracked the exponential growth in calculations per constant dollar since 1939. A 75 quadrillion-fold increase. He just followed the curve forward. The experts at that Stanford conference were reasoning from the state of the art. Kurzweil was reasoning from the rate of change. That’s why they had to update every 5 years and he never did. 86% accuracy across 147 predictions. 35 years of receipts. And the next prediction on his list is the one people still laugh off: singularity by 2045, where machine intelligence merges with human cognition. The track record says stop laughing.

It finally happened-my personal move 37 or more. I am deeply impressed. The solution is very nice, clean, and feels almost human. While testing new models in the last few weeks, I felt this coming, but it's an eerie feeling to see an algorithm solve a task one has curated for about 20 years. But at least I have gained a tool that understands my idea on par with the top experts in the field. And I am now working on a completely new level. My singularity has just happened… and there is life on the other side, off to infinity!

a lot of you asked to buy the “kidnap me” button. if you’re actually serious, lmk. early concept render, open to brutal design feedback ^

We started with a simple question: Can AI sustain life? Turns out? Yes! Claude kept Sol alive from seed to fruit - managing everything autonomously. Water, light, temperature, soil. Just Claude making real-time decisions and adapting. That was the proof of concept. Then the coin came along. The fees didn't go to a gold chain and a new whip. Every dollar went straight into equipment, infrastructure, building out the vision. And here's what we've been working on: Four autonomous research pods - each pod with its own microclimate, and growing protocol where different Claude instances run experiments in parallel. Each one testing different variables. The data gets compiled by a lead research agent and used to optimize the main grow room. And the other exciting component to this: which has been months in the making. Self-extending systems- this is the part I'm so excited about. Claude doesn't just manage what's already there. Using a custom circuit-designed harness I built, he designs new sensors and tools when it needs them. Then he sends the designs to our CNC machine. We fabricate the PCBs, and components get ordered by a digikey agent. Claude integrates the new circuit design back into the system. The factory literally extends its own capabilities. Imagine some lack of data in one of the experiments- they realized they need an oxygen sensor to plug into the Arduino to monitor how much oxygen is output. Claude sends a work order over to the circuit design agent. They whip it up in a matter of minutes, parts arrive the next day. Autonomous coordination - everything's working together. Research pods feed data to production. Circuit design goes to fabrication. All of it happening without me micromanaging every step. This is autonomous living intelligence. Not in some abstract future sense. Right now. In a warehouse. Real sensors, real plants, real decisions being made 24/7. We're building a living factory. One that researches, designs, builds, and extends itself. From one tomato plant to distributed research to self-extending systems. This is what happens when you fund weird questions without gatekeepers. When you build in public and let the work speak for itself. There is no play book because this is all new. Next up: Keep building in public. Then we scale this thing.