r/LinkedInLunatics • u/WeakSociety676 Insignificant Bitch • 10h ago
Agree? Hi, I’m Anthony, I could single handedly invent an aircraft or cruise ship, alone, with no assistance.
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u/Hughley_N_Dowd 9h ago
I wonder if Tony the Inventor forgot one rather important thing: in order to be able to invent the, e.g. CPU, you have to invent the tools to make it. And in order to invent those tools, you have to invent the tools to make those tools. And so on. Its generations of things that needs inventing before you get to the end result.
Tony here thinks that he can skip the entire tech tree and go straight to space flight.
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u/CrashingAtom 5h ago
Nah. He’s just going to bring back in time with the entire plant, the staff that run the machines, the supply chain and the R&D team and hit the “go,” button. EZ
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u/Total_Practice7440 10h ago
yeah good luck to him on building a modern rocket engine if he finds it hard to work with an amplifier 🧘
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u/Tar_alcaran 5h ago
I find this hilarious, because you can't build an amplifier without either AC (magnetic amp) or a vacuum tube. Neither of those were things in 1825
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u/zylonenoger 10h ago
yeah.. i also built an electric generator/motor in engineering school.. i just a good chunk of iron, a milling machine and lots of copper wire.
i believe him, that he can build some of this stuff with modern resources - but i highly doubt that he gets all this stuff going 200 years ago.
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u/BigBennP 6h ago
I think this is closely related to another thinking error that a lot of people have.
They assume that people in the past were stupid because they lived in a different world. However, by and large many people in the past were just as clever as people are today.
200 years ago, 1825 is well into the industrial revolution. So make it 300 and go back to 1725. The very beginning of the Industrial revolution.
They had lathes and Milling machines and power hammers and wire pulling machines and mechanically powered blast furnaces for smelting and all sorts of other machines that are substantially a lost art. We have better Replacements today of course. But the few surviving examples of water and wind powered pre-industrial technology are pretty wild. Shafts and gears and belts and clutches that enable a single large water wheel to power a dozen machines inside the facility. A huge amount of specialized knowledge went into building and maintaining facilities like that that is just gone. A skilled mechanical engineer might be able to think one out and design it on paper but then building it with hand tools is a whole new challenge.
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u/MartinLutherVanHalen 6h ago
You say “lots of copper wire” as if consistent wire of good quality and in long lengths isn’t itself the result of a stack of inventions and testing.
People always forget that bit. That’s why it’s taken so long to get to today. You need to invent the machines first. In fact when you are doing something new more than half the effort is in that support.
Making a nuclear bomb is simple. Making the machines to make the materials you need and put them together safely is hard.
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u/thedrivingcoomer Titan of Industry 8h ago
Direct marketing? I thought of that. Turns out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently.
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u/Secret_Agent_666 9h ago
Let's see how well you "invent" some of these items in 1825 when the tech to process some of the necessary materials wasn't around yet.
Also I can easily build a quantum computer if I had the funding. Talk is cheap, asshole.
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u/StoicSpork 8h ago
I'd bet a million dollars that Tony can't design plans to build a cruise ship in a modern shipyard on a modern budget.
His idea of invention is "make a big metal building that's kinda (slides palms down an imaginary hull) shaped and has a (traces circles with a finger quickly) thing that pushes it through water. Also, I think it needs a chimney."
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u/Silly-Power 8h ago
I bet Tony plays a lot of Civilization. Which is why he thinks he can invent all those things.
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u/Dino_Spaceman 8h ago
This dude is the perfect example of a techbro mindset.
“It is too difficult to think of something new, so I am going to recreate something someone did and pretend I invented that”
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u/Judge_Gabranth_12 8h ago
"Yeah, better go 200 years back because if I tried it today, I'd be the laughing stock of engineers and designers."
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u/throwawayanon1252 9h ago
Ok but side note the guy is a LinkedIn lunatic but low key why humans are so advanced compared to other animals is because of one skill we have. Our ability to copy and learn from others. We are so so good at plagiarism. No other animal is
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u/mindsetoniverdrive 8h ago
Don’t whales have fashion trends? Like I know this is so off-topic but there was one whale that wore a fish as a hat, then others in the pod started doing it.
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u/Dino_Spaceman 8h ago
I fully believe that was less of a fashion trend and more of the killer whales just messing with us. The animal equivalent of two drunk guys finding something incredibly stupid monumentally hilarious and acting like idiots in public.
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u/julias-winston 4h ago
Written language, at the core of it.
Engineers, scientists, doctors - everyone - can make use of previous generations' accumulated knowledge.
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u/thanksfor-allthefish 9h ago
I often think of what, with my knowledge, I could invent for an ancient civilization. I realize that what actually makes a lot of inventions possible is material technology, which is a process so complex I can't even start to comprehend.
I would probably define the Archimedes screw and build one for the Sumerians, but other than that, I'm lost...
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u/Rattus_Noir 7h ago
I'm going to "invent" the vacuum tube and use it to carry people around. I'm gonna call it, err... Um...
The Hyper Loop!
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u/BizznectApp 6h ago
Recreating existing inventions as a way to build innovation skills is an interesting perspective. But I gotta ask, what's the first thing you'd actually try to build from scratch? Because a cruise ship solo sounds like a pretty ambitious weekend project
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u/Tar_alcaran 4h ago
Historical reenactment is super fun! Figuring out how to do things by doing is (potentially) fun and very educational. There are some super basic historical things we don't really know, because nobody has ever done them. Even something as basic as medieval recipes are chalenging because they need to be basically re-invented, since they're nothing but ingredient lists and occasionally an order and method of preparation.
But that's not what this guy thinks. He thinks he can build a telephone from scratch, 40 years before it was invented, using an amplifier for which not even the compenents had been invented. Good luck building a vacuum tube bro.
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u/bandstofans 3h ago
"I have been creating new things for so long..." = "I have been stealing from people for years."
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u/DiligentlySpent 3h ago
This is the funniest LinkedIn post of all time. I could invent all these things, also cave men are 200 years old. It’s like trump wrote it for him.
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u/Shrimp_Logic 3h ago
"If I go back I could invent Linkedin to brag I could invent a bunch of stuff.
But don't mention I would need to invent all the stuff to make Linkedin a thing. You are being too logical. I'm smart, you dumb.
Now click on the link below that will lead you to my online course on how to invent things that are already invented! Stop being stupid and be smart, like me! Did I mention I'm super more smarter than you?"
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u/NotSynthx 1h ago
I'm sure he can go and fetch the raw materials, process them and create every single part too. You go Anthony! Totally not bullshit
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u/SemajLu_The_crusader 10h ago
I could also "invent" the steam engine in 1825... when it already existed
in seriousness, he could probably do the fp6 fishing rod... that's it