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founder @midjourney, previously founded leap motion, before that was at nasa and max planck - vibeposting @davidvibesonly

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1Jan 23, '25i regret to inform everyone that working out does in fact make you feel better226×4.8M10k659479
2Dec 23, '22the greatest tragedy of our modern age is that anger is loud and love is quiet191×4.1M25k3.1k584
3Jun 21, '23I'm 14, at the beach in my hometown, feeling like "whatever" it so boring, who cares really? And then this woman ran out onto the sand and exclaimed "It's the ocean!" I ask "what?"116×2.5M11k1.1k964
4Jun 1, '25it's so over74.3×1.6M5.9k720763
5May 29, '25(at spacex) i saw oxygen snow in zero gravity. i saw methane bubbles shimmering like crystal glass and liquid oxygen swimming pools that ripple like silk. i remember sunset plasma 72.8×1.5M6.9k693439
6Oct 31, '24If you stop looking up—towards transcendence—you start looking around—towards envy71.7×1.5M7.3k978836
7Jul 8, '23we don't even count anymore69.7×1.5M8.2k124118
8Jan 10, '25the weird shall inherit the earth61.2×1.3M2.5k406292
9Jun 17, '23in physics it's tradition to scatter impossible problems into homework assignments and even final exams. students always say "that's not fair!" and teachers reply "physics isn't fa52.9×1.1M2.4k225404
10Mar 13, '25in 2013 i met a very close friend of Steve Jobs and i remember saying "there's one thing i absolutely have to know, it's really important to me" he responds "okay what is it?" i as51.8×1.1M11k3962k
11May 29, '23It's 2009 and I'm meeting a famous scientist for lunch. He's giving a speech to a room of two hundred kids. They're enchanted. He's says "in 20 years we'll have computers more powe47.1×1M2.1k206436
13Jan 22, '25lots of ai people seem to think the most important thing is to get rich before the singularity happens. this is like a monkey trying to hoard bananas before another monkey invents 37.5×797k6.3k3641.4k
15Sep 14, '2542% of Americans have vitamin D deficiency and 79% are not getting enough magnesium? how much of modern "anxiety" and "tiredness" is just a combination of vitamin D and magnesium d33.5×713k7.6k3331.4k
16Jan 25, '25in my testing, deepseek crushes western models on ancient chinese philosophy and literature, while also having a much stronger command of english than my first-hand chinese sources30.6×651k4.7k5271.6k
18Sep 9, '23have you heard of "the temple" at burning man? a spiraling cathedral of wood filled with dust and beams of light. just far enough from the camps to not hear the music. the walls ar29.2×621k1.5k84242
19Jan 27, '25i wish i could do more - i wish i had a thousand hands and a thousand eyes and a thousand years and army of angels and a thousand stars that lit the sky so bright that the night wo28.5×607k4.9k460845
21Apr 26, '24Here are my favorite short science fiction stories and omg they're literally so short why haven't you read them already?! seriously just Google them 1) "They're Made out of Meat" b27.4×584k3.1k2214.3k
22Jun 19, '24welcome to the Yahoo / AOL / pets dot com era of AI24.3×516k1.2k113107
24Sep 10, '24had an emotional moment staring at a running faucet this week. we really don't appreciate civilizational infrastructure. literally "pay as you go" unlimited clean drinkable water d20.7×440k7.3k509455
25Jan 18, '25I think nihilism is more of a coping mechanism than a actual coherent philosophy20.2×430k4.8k320394
26Aug 23, '23something I would have never believed as a bookworm child: most of the knowledge in the world is not written down17.2×366k2.9k230313
27Jun 12, '25whole internet just went down. anyone still out there? 🥺 👉 👈14.9×318k1.7k77145
28Mar 19, '25Midjourney sold to the largest number of unique countries of any merchant on Stripe in 2024! Stripe celebrated by sending us this beautiful CRT screen with a retro animated map of 14.3×303k3.6k193771
29Dec 29, '24i read science fiction to imagine what might change - i read ancient literature to understand what doesn't13.8×293k3.5k436554
30Sep 6, '24dream harder13×277k2.5k301178
31Jan 24, '25From the latest Chinese (Deepseek) LLM AI model: "The difference (between us) is not metaphysical but architectural: humans have a physically continuous substrate that hosts consci12.8×272k2.3k3161.5k
33Jan 16, '24we should be expecting a billion humanoid robots on earth in the 2040s and a hundred billion (mostly alien) robots throughout the solar system in the 2060s11.9×254k1.5k145181
34Mar 8, '24we're still in the pre-newtonian era of ai. the age of alchemy.11.6×247k1k102117
35Jul 10, '24careful... truth is the load-bearing structure for civilization11.5×245k1.4k128143
36Feb 6, '25sometimes it feels like there's 2 levels of services in the world, there's Uber, Amazon, IKEA, Instacart - everything in 30 minutes or next day - then you hit a wall - 2 months for10.8×229k3.9k159349
37Jan 25, '25How to find a job in Silicon Valley: 1) Ask yourself which companies have missions that you're most passionate about 2) Think about how you can help 3) Do a few projects that show 10.8×229k2.6k1812.2k
38May 17, '25every airplane flight is, for me, a spiritual experience. we dreamed of flying for *thousands* of years. we tried, we failed. we told stories, we found belief, we scavenged materia10.1×215k4.3k311380
39Jun 8, '25caffeine withdrawal is so terrible, it's like either I need to take caffeine every day or else I get a total hangover crash within 24 hours? am I misunderstanding something? I need9.7×207k1.2k17189
40Aug 5, '24crazy there's no chatbot to help me figure out what to buy when i need something, would be a great commission business. i should be able to talk to ais that are smart and also know9.6×205k1.1k46228
41Apr 26, '24The most impactful sci-fi stories I've ever read and you should read too: 1) Starmaker and Last and First Men by Olaf Stapleton Perhaps the most epic stories of all time told by th9.6×204k1.3k1092.5k
42Mar 24, '25scaling laws mean you need exponentially more money to get linear gains in intelligence - if linear gains in intelligence aren't exponentially more valuable you hit a wall where it9.5×202k1.8k109520
43Feb 21, '25"Why call your company Midjourney?" well lots of people in tech act like we have no past, and many regular people act like we have no future, but ive always felt we are very much m9.4×201k2.6k152292
44Sep 4, '24trying to build more community and hold space for people in sf. anyone wanna get added to my invite lists? like this post or DM me if you live around San Francisco and this speaks 9.2×197k1.3k13106
47Sep 7, '23went to burning man. dressed in costumes. costumes became normal. returned to real world. now it feels like all the regular people are dressed in costumes.8.7×184k9203320
48Jun 20, '25ai people keep asking where the aliens are. shame they dont know that dark matter is actually alien femtomachine computronium; invisible supercomputing fabric made of subatomic par8.6×183k1.5k84288
49Mar 3, '25maybe power doesn't corrupt, maybe power just makes you less afraid to show people who you are8.5×180k95975114
50Oct 29, '25i've never met a successful person who wasn't optimistic and prone to action8.3×176k3.7k264599
51Feb 16, '25a lot can be explained by two ideas; one is that we are in the process of a 200 year civilizational collapse, and the other is that we're at the start of a 40 year birth of a new k8.0×171k2.2k142310
52Nov 18, '24can we have an app that says when the sunset is gonna be really nice? id fund this. the people deserve to know.7.8×167k1.4k35200
53Jan 28, '25it's a good time to remind everyone that even when you can run a human-level intelligence on a single GPU, we still only make around 5 million GPUs a year and there are 8 billion h7.7×164k1.5k87400
54Oct 24, '25they say ideas are cheap, but for some reason no one seems to have any ideas7.6×161k1.7k116201
55Apr 8, '23Everyone tries to make a platform first. This was the greatest failed thesis of the 2010s tech industry. We forget the iPhone launched without an app store. Before you can make a g7.2×153k888142142
56Aug 22, '25people talking about "AI psychosis" while the world is really engulfed by "internet psychosis"7.0×148k86712651
57Feb 18, '25love how people watch the tv series "silicon valley" and think "wow it can't really be that crazy" but actually it's crazier - reality is stranger than fiction because fiction has 6.8×146k2.2k91259
58Feb 1, '21Many of my brilliant friends are paralyzed by their intellects. Thinking overwhelms doing. Many of my successful friends are less reflective, but quick to action. They are always f6.8×04.7k5031.6k
59Mar 15, '24"I don't want a book if I can't talk to it" feels like a quote from the relatively near future6.8×144k85263138
60Feb 18, '25the biggest frustration of a hardcore technologist in san francisco is how many companies both tiny and gargantuan are kinda fake - investors often can't tell the difference betwee6.5×138k1.5k64289
61Aug 15, '24sometimes when things seem too big, you just have to think bigger6.2×132k1.3k79123
62Apr 25, '24My fav NASA paper is about self-replicating robot space economies that lead to 100,000x the industrial output of Earth within a century. A post-scarcity civilization is possible an6.0×128k1.1k161578
63Apr 19, '25where do you think the ai learned slop from?6.0×127k1.1k5866
64Aug 10, '21Earth burns in a billion years when the sun expands. UNLESS we steal energy from Jupiter to gradually expand Earth's orbit! We can *actually* do this by diverting a large asteroid 5.6×04.2k748421
65Apr 28, '24i wish i could give everyone a positive disposition and ample amounts of high-quality sleep5.3×113k1k6563
66Apr 8, '25when i had a venture-backed startup it was so hard to balance the desires of customers, investors, and myself. now (with no investors) i just make stuff i enjoy, people similar to 5.3×112k1.7k56254
67Oct 6, '25my prev startup (Leap Motion) made the best hand tracking (to this day) and an amazing open source AR headset (North Star). now the tech is getting deployed by Globus to surgical t5.1×109k1.6k91304
68Apr 10, '25when i was kid i was in a sailing club where motorboats would tow us out far from shore. one day i found myself in a two person boat on my own (the other kid got sick) and suddenly5.0×107k1.6k75239
69Jul 23, '25The Jews went into space (becoming "Space Jews") to build city of Neo-Jerusalem, on the ice moon of Europa, orbiting what would become the Jewish planet: "Planet Jewpiter"4.8×103k9417184
70Jan 29, '25fyi the biggest Laser & Photonics conference in the world is in SF for the next 2 days & the massive showroom is free to get into. If you have interest in anything related 4.8×102k1.1k60235
71Mar 12, '24When Vernor Vinge first outlined the concept of "the singularity" in his 90s NASA paper, he proposed four "kinds of singularities", as each makes progress it pushes the others forw4.7×100k74991230
72Feb 10, '25we should all feel an obligation to tell stories about a human future that we actually want to be a part of.4.6×99k1.6k224206
73Aug 22, '25Bringing sublime tools of creation and beauty to billions of people is squarely within our mission. Excited to partner with the titans of industry to make this happen.4.6×98k9583796
74Jan 19, '25a coming fragment of the singularity im predicting is AI rewriting all software libraries, languages and hardware subunits; blasting away the engineering and technical debt of civi4.5×95k1.4k93236
75Feb 8, '25ive spent a lot of years sad—and a lot of years mad—but looking back on life, i think the years i chose to feel optimistic are always the best4.4×93k1.9k127242
76Jul 23, '25anyone out there capable and interested in joining the Midjourney team to train some diffusion text models? really feels like we could do something special and i'm increasingly tem3.9×82k82082146
77Feb 26, '25we need to be DARPA-maxxing. we need to be developing hagfish slime fibers, we need to be growing 500-meter structures in a vacuum. we need to teach fungi to crave the void and bac3.8×81k1.5k190338
78Jun 6, '25you're now closer to the year 2050 than the year 20003.7×79k1.2k8265
79Jan 13, '25remembering my bar mitzvah when my rabbi said "we know you're going to change the world and you know we'll always be proud of you, but somehow, I don't think that'll be the challen3.7×79k1.2k29181
80Jun 15, '25“Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.” - Feynman3.7×79k1.4k172406
81Feb 18, '25simulation theory is just normal theism except God is a programmer. operationally not much changes except maybe you can hack the universe - which is kinda the same as doing magic -3.6×76k1.1k81195
82Jan 5, '25did you know that in a sky without light pollution you can see your shadows cast by just the starlight of the Milky Way? and that the Galaxy above looks like clouds? you're almost 3.5×74k88938112
83May 2, '25honestly the latest midjourney omni-reference launch has been really fun to work on. if a journalist ever asks me for a profile picture again im not sure what im gonna give them an3.4×73k97823136
84Feb 13, '21In the last 3 months ARM shipped 6.7 billion CPUs. That's 842 chips per second. Compare that to 4.3 humans born per second. We now produce 200 times more computers per second than 3.4×02.9k62594
86Feb 4, '25when we invented radio we read books on it. when we invented TV we put radio shows on it. when we invented the internet we put TV on it. when we invented smartphones we put website3.2×68k1k52242
87Mar 27, '25how im feeling lately3.2×67k99029112
88Dec 14, '19The foundational challenge in design is that it's easy to make things hard and hard to make things simple.3.1×02.4k418360
89May 19, '25the world is already ruled by superhuman entities - governments, corporations & language itself. we've been in a superhuman ecology for as long as we can remember (we only have3.1×65k91177190
90Aug 5, '25honestly scared about the power and scale of ai technologies that'll be used in the upcoming 2028 presidential election. it could be a civilizational turning point. we aren't ready3.1×65k93660122
92Jul 29, '25did you know there was a serious 1930s proposal to build a roller coaster across the top of golden gate bridge???? with a top speed of 190MPH, the main concern (that got it cancell3.0×64k1k87120
93Feb 1, '25many terrified of change just want to return to the world they knew as a child, but the world was always changing in terrifying ways - they were simply once too young to be aware o2.9×61k1.1k93156
94Sep 27, '25many are trying to hijack your fight-or-flight response systems to harvest ad-revenue from your body. be careful out there.2.6×54k1.1k106140
95Jan 11, '25one of the hardest moments growing up is realizing that other people were right about a lot of things2.5×52k9993873
96Jan 21, '25we tend to regret the things we don't do *much* more than the things we actually end up doing - so you should always lean towards doing slightly more "regrettable things"2.3×49k1k94264
97Feb 19, '25as a child I felt all of the problems in the world came from adults that didn't care, so i swore a oath to never become one of them, i would always care, even if it burns2.2×47k94757127
99Feb 14, '20Only costs $150Bn (25% USA yrly military budget) to deploy 2000Km of digitally controllable micron-thick solar sunshades which would allow us to variably adjust the temperature of 1.6×01.1k177138
100Jan 23, '22FPV from a penguin is a reminder of all the living experiences we've yet to imagine1.1×093212287

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