Jamie Dimon just called Elon Musk “our Einstein”
“You gotta look at Elon…..SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink. The guy is our Einstein”
That line hits because it’s true
Elon is building the future through companies that actually execute: rockets, EVs, brain-computer interfaces, AI, robotics, satellites, energy, and the path to Mars
At age 11, Elon saw his first real computer in a Johannesburg mall and just stood there staring. He had only read about them in magazines before.
His dad hated computers (“just for games”), so Elon saved up from odd jobs and bought a Commodore VIC-20.
He finished the 60-hour BASIC programming course in 3 days, barely sleeping.
At 13, he created his own video game called Blastar (destroy an alien space freighter with hydrogen bombs) and sold it to a magazine for $500.
He then sold two more games: one similar to Donkey Kong, and another simulating roulette and blackjack.
This kid was built different from the start. 🚀
Source: Walter Isaacson's 'Elon Musk' (2023), chapter 4
It is humbling to consider that if we harness just 1 millionth of the Sun’s power for AI, that will be much more than a million times the intelligence of all of humanity
Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies.
We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks.
The Moon is faster to make self-growing, but is more susceptible to problems on Earth. Mars will take longer to make self-growing, because it is so hard to reach, but is more secure from Earth disasters for that same reason.
Both the Moon and Mars should have self-growing civilizations. Making this happen is the prime directive of SpaceX.