Andrew Côté
@Andercot
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engineering physicist. writes about deep tech, energy, physics, sci-fi and whatever. founder @hyperstition_x, organizes @deeptechweek
San Francisco
Joined September 2012
For all of history the engineering limits in every domain are set by the materials we have learned to master. Self Driving Robotic Laboratories and AI-Accelerated Science Will create a new Golden Age of Material Science Starting Now 🧵
“Dunia” means Earth. Our Goal is simple: To build the engine that discovers the materials of the future for this planet. Because every leap in human history began with a material.
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every god-fearing generation of men maintain and uphold The Wire Box, a strategic reserve of technical entropy from which the anonymous will rise up and become the prophesied Chosen Wire in Our Time of Need.
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If only we could use defense spending as an excuse to explore space instead of using space exploration as an excuse for defense spending.
This tweet highlights an uncomfortable truth we should acknowledge: A large amount of NASA spending isn't meant to explore space, but keep the legacy aerospace defense industrial complex idling without atrophying outside of war-time. Each spending program represents dozens of
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I'm not saying this is a good idea, but this is the opinion of "why are we doing this" from people on the inside
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This tweet highlights an uncomfortable truth we should acknowledge: A large amount of NASA spending isn't meant to explore space, but keep the legacy aerospace defense industrial complex idling without atrophying outside of war-time. Each spending program represents dozens of
Project Athena would dismantle the entire traditional aerospace industrial base to favor SpaceX. Boeing: As the prime contractor for the SLS Core Stage and Exploration Upper Stage (EUS), Boeing faces the total loss of its primary civil space production line. Lockheed Martin:
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Give us a place and the funding, and of course we’ll rebuild the Colossus of Rhodes.
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uhh this is pretty cool
Everyone and their mother has something to say about space compute. But no one has comprehensively broken down the physics, energy, cooling, economics, and the real work involved. So I built a 1st principles model to show you guys myself. https://t.co/K6SGTgmIby
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Today @syntholene becomes the first publicly traded pure-play synthetic fuel company on any exchange worldwide. Our mission is nothing short of multigenerational clean fuel abundance. Join us.
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Retweet this if you think a person should not be fired for saying hackathons smell bad.
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Deep Tech Week 2025 - two cities, 14,000 people, 150 events. Deep Tech Week 2026 - 5 cities, three countries, more cybertrucks.
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This is my logo btw @hyperstition_x
The video depicts a microtubule array isolated in a cell-free environment. Here, the growing ends of the microtubules produce GFP. The array normally helps with cell division.
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I will spell it out so everyone gets it: To win the AI race you need the most compute, data, and energy. Everyone is working within the same constraints: there's just one internet, just one GPU provider, same competition over data centers, energy suppliers, etc. Space changes
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The 5D chess move is to realize data centers are just a middleman and start putting supersonic jet engines in orbit.
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You see this? This is my GPU. This is what you're living inside of right now.
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This is an extremely cogent and well argued position from first principles about the energy and resource costs to achieving superintelligence, and why it's probably further away than you think.
My new blog post discusses the physical reality of computation and why this means we will not see AGI or any meaningful superintelligence:
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Fun fact that's not widely known: In his last lecture before he died, John Stewart Bell (of Bell's theorem) made some surprising comments about what he thinks is the ultimate fate of space-time (and anything that lives in space-time) in physics. These comments are part of a
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