High level goals for humanity:
1. Pass / derisk the great filters
2. Reach type 1 on Kardashev scale
3. Launch von Neumann probes to explore the galaxy
I don't think people realize this is the closest elon will come to being involved in government, and what an opportunity it is..
here's the recipe I've seen him perform:
* find the unequivocally excellent and critical people within an organization who put the mission first
*
Come on over, the vibes are great and weβre just getting started - there is no team Iβve had so much fun working with while also doing the impossible
Grok 3 is officially the Best AI chatbot in the world!
This is HUGE News.
But here's where it gets interesting.
@xai was able to do this by betting that "scaling laws" would hold.
What does that mean?
It means that if you have a bigger unified AI supercomputer to train with,
Been thinking about the fastest way to bring a terawatt of compute online.
That is roughly equivalent to all electrical power produced in America today.
TBH i'd just like an email address that goes into a plain txt DM inbox and abstracts the annoying & messy threads/formatting mess that is email
the main nice thing about email is that it is a universal handle system and compatible with everything so you dont have to download a
People keep saying we're "running out of water"
Some notes
* earth's total water supply is basically constant
* water is constantly changing form (liquid, evaporate to gas, freeze to solid, back to liquid, etc) and location (sea to mountains to rivers to aquifers to fields)
*
20% of Twitter users make up 100% of the content. 80% are in read only.
I have been a read only user now for 10+ years, recently I started trying out write mode.. it is easily 5x more fun/valuable.
Itβs slow going at first, the Twitter dendrites have to form synapses with you
Announcing Grok for Government - a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers
We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners
1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense
2) our
NVIDIA CEO: WHAT ELON AND HIS TEAM ACHIEVED IS SUPERHUMAN
βBuilding a massive factory, liquid-cooled, energized, permitted, in the short time that was done, that is superhuman.Β
And, as far as I know, there's only one person in the world who could do that.
Elon is singular in
avg number of stars the atoms in your body have been in since the big bang? 3 - will be in? 3 - half way
galactic habitable zone
* enough time to cook heavy elements & life but not too long
* not so close to the center of galaxy (too active) but not so far (not enough metals)
our universe is pretty rare in configuration space - if strong nuclear force were:
* 1% weaker - stars wouldnt make much carbon preventing carbon based life & less heavy element production would delay planet formation & take longer for evolution to occur before stars die
* 1%