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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
Ross
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- 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 *imagine what government agencies could look like in 4 yearsβ¦
- grok-1 is out! come do your life's work @ xAI - x.ai/careers
- 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 impossibleGrok 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,
- If youβre interested in building terawatt scale compute join xAIBeen 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
- looking for excellent engineers to join the force - DM me if interestedAnnouncing 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
- come build the next cluster with us @ xAI, weβre hiringNVIDIA 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
00:00 - the tree guy on apple maps went hard core.. apple on left and google on right
- 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%
