Sitdown interview with Blake Scholl 3 days after filming Boom Supersonic's 3rd flight test.

Interview with the @ridevalo team where we go in depth on hydrofoiling, reimagining mass transport logistics, and being a great team member at a deep tech startup.

While filming with Neo in my apartment I sat down with VP of AI @ericjang11 to learn about 1X's approach to robot intelligence and his his curiosity around immortality.

0:00 Intro

1:27 1X Overview

2:12 Eric's Origin

5:15 Why humanoids?

11:30 Supercomputers & deep learning

12:45 World models

14:21 Neuromorphic computing

14:40 Immortality

20:15 Robotics at Google

21:35 Skepticism of humanoids

27: 00 Joining 1X

31:20 Benefits of LLMs

33:50 Training models

35:30 Tele-op to autonomous 

43:30 Data quality vs. quantity

47:00 How to train your robot

50:50 Data sponge

53:30 The 1X team

54:45 Safety

57:45 A lab in the cloud

59:26 Bio advancements

1:03:54 How does your brain work

1:06:14 Conway’s law

1:08:45 Eric’s favorite sci-fi

1:10:50 Life philosophy

After filming our S3 with 1X (https://youtu.be/2ccPTpDq05A) I sat down with Founder &CEO Bernt Bornich to go deeper on 1X's truly ambitious manufacturing plans.

Astranis just announced a new round of funding, led by A16z, to build more satellites! I sat down with John Gedmark, CEO of Astranis, to talk about how they'll use this $200M of capital and the future of building in America and space 🇺🇸🛰️🛰️

0:00 I used to work here

Interview with CEO and cofounder of Arbor Energy, Brad Hartwig for Episode 51 of S³

From training to be an astronaut, leading him to founding Arbor — how we'll soon build faster than regulatory can keep up with and how we can fix it.

I sat down for an extended interview with cofounders @4TristanS @bennbuilds to talk in depth about @reflectorbital — If you're building for new space, in high school/college, or trying to figure out what to build, you should watch this!

From working at Google, Microsoft, early at SpaceX and Relativity, Ed Mehr has always been forward-thinking about the future of manufacturing. Now, he's building it at Machina Labs — I sat down with him to learn more after filming Episode 49 of S³.

From launching SpaceX's 1st rockets, to realizing the need for mobile-nuclear reactors, and founding Radiant — here's my interview with CEO and Cofounder of Radiant, Doug Bernauer for Episode 38 of S³

Interview with Laura Demming & Hunter Davis for Episode 47 of S³ featuring Cradle

0:00 What is Cradle?

2:18 Laura & Hunter’s backgrounds

9:39 Timeline to reversible cry

13:04 Next milestone

15:33 Sci-fi inpsiration

18:35 3 Body Problem

21:10 More builders

24:38 How do you think?

29:39 Getting people into bio

31:25 Where in the future would you go?

32:55 Current life philosophy