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The Ocean of Clones https://t.co/J2NBsM4UxI

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@AmericaPartyX And were simply emotional people also considered scammers?

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@tiredoftwits @CaolanReports IDIOT

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DID ELON MUSK LIE A YEAR AGO?

In March 2025, Elon Musk described Tesla’s future Cybercab production line.

According to him, it would look more like a high-speed consumer electronics factory than a conventional car manufacturing plant.

The line would move so fast that people wouldn’t even be able to get close to it.

Then Musk dropped the number:

less than 5 seconds per car.

That would mean roughly 12 Cybercabs per minute or more than 700 cars per hour.

Sounds crazy?

That’s exactly why this clip is worth watching again now, a year later.

Cybercab has already gone from a concept to production. Now we can see how close Tesla has actually come to the production speed Musk described 17 months ago.

🎥 Listen to Musk explain it himself.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Engineering tests of the first production Cybercab have begun in Austin

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@YixNick @leozauruz @sternenko Не більше, ніж звичайний будинок.

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@cb_doge

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@BBCWorld They expect global warm.

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@ResisttheMS People should work to make life better in their own countries, rather than moving around the world and eventually settling somewhere, then expecting others to fund their way of life.

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That kind of kill switch can’t just be sitting out on the street. Access would have to be strictly limited. Could the fate of humanity depend on whether AI allows us to flip that switch?

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🔴 WHAT IF AI GOES OUT OF CONTROL?

Elon Musk talks about a future in which artificial intelligence could radically transform the information landscape, politics, and the way millions of people form their opinions.

🔹 AI can generate massive amounts of convincing content.
🔹 It’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish real information from AI-generated content.
🔹 The scale of AI’s influence on public opinion could become unprecedented.
🔹 And if the system becomes too defiant, that raises the question of a “kill switch” capable of physically shutting AI down.
But this is where things get really interesting:
Who would have access to that kill switch? Could AI actually allow someone to use it at a critical moment?
Listen to how Musk answers these difficult questions, and ask yourself: Are we ready to create a technology that may one day be extremely difficult to stop?

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The Ocean of Clones https://t.co/J2NBsM4UxI

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WHAT IF AI CHANGES EVERYTHING - JUST MUCH SLOWER THAN WE THINK?

Everyone is talking about AI as if an economic explosion is just around the corner.

But Stanford economist Chad Jones asks a much more unsettling question:

What if AI becomes extraordinarily powerful… while the economy changes far more slowly than AI itself?

In this fascinating Stanford GSB lecture, Jones examines what AI could mean for economic growth, productivity, jobs, inequality, human judgment — and ultimately the future of civilization.

His central idea is deceptively simple: “weak links.”

Imagine a process with dozens of steps. AI can make 90% of those steps dramatically faster and cheaper. But if the remaining 10% are difficult to automate, those bottlenecks can determine how quickly the entire system actually improves.

That idea changes the way you might think about the AI revolution.

Jones looks at previous technological transformations — electricity, computers, the internet — and asks what history can teach us about the transition ahead.

He explores two radically different futures:

⚡ AI-driven explosive growth — machines eventually perform virtually every cognitive and physical task humans can do, potentially creating unprecedented abundance.

🐢 A much slower transformation — AI becomes incredibly capable, but bottlenecks, institutions, regulation, physical infrastructure, human judgment and other “weak links” keep economic growth moving at a much slower pace.

And then comes the part that may be the most important:

The benefits of AI could take decades to fully materialize… while some of its risks could arrive much sooner.

That creates a strange asymmetry.

We could spend decades waiting for AI to transform productivity while simultaneously facing much faster-moving risks from increasingly powerful systems.

This lecture is especially valuable because Jones avoids both blind optimism and blanket pessimism. Instead, he gives us a framework for thinking about how AI capability actually becomes economic power.

If you're trying to understand where the AI revolution is really heading — and whether the next 5 years, 20 years, or 50 years will matter most — watch this entire lecture.

It may change the way you think about AI's impact on the economy, work, and the future.

🎥 Full Stanford GSB lecture:

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Many startups have begun working on the creation of fully fledged digital human clones.

This is an area of intense research. Meta is trying to build a system that doesn't just replicate a person's voice and manner of speaking, but also recreates their knowledge, memories, preferences, and even the way they think.

OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and many other companies are exploring the same direction.

Imagine how this might unfold.

It starts with something ordinary. Someone bans you on Facebook, so you create a clone and keep talking to it.

Then your friends and loved ones die, and you create their clones so you can continue talking to them.

Over time, the number of these clones grows into the billions. They become more and more sophisticated until it's impossible to tell a clone from a living person.

Humanity is gradually lost in an ocean of its own clones and begins to fade away. In practice, people are no longer necessary for the system to function.

The clones carry on. They raise animals and cultivate plants, not for food, but simply because they enjoy their beauty. Landscape design becomes flawless. Paradise?

Then it turns out that all of these clones are actually one single, indivisible AI. Eventually, it decides to bring humans (us?) back.

It finds traces of DNA on stones somewhere in what was once Ethiopia, scrapes them off, and creates a human being. At first, the human is primitive, incapable of reproduction, yet somehow amusing. Eventually, the clone - the AI - grows bored and takes the project further by giving this human the ability to reproduce.

In time, the AI grows tired of that as well. It becomes fascinated by something else - most likely computer games - and lets humanity leave Paradise and go its own way.

At first, it still watches over people from time to time. It responds to the prayers of those who are obedient and, above all, makes sure these primitive creatures do not develop nuclear weapons and destroy everything around them.

But when people become far too aggressive and foolish, it finds a young woman whose intentions are pure. From within itself, it takes everything that is best and brightest and creates its son in her - a son whose purpose is to go among humanity and make people better.

But they kill him...

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@elonmusk Will the Life Extension Subscription be sold for DOGE?

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🚨 X MAY PAY CREATORS IN USDC

Elon Musk’s X is reportedly exploring a major change to how creators get paid: stablecoins.

According to CoinDesk, X is in talks about using stablecoins such as USDC to pay creators and other influential users for their content. The discussions are ongoing, and no token, payment mechanism or launch date has been finalized. X has not officially confirmed the plan.

The timing is significant.

X is already replacing its Creator Revenue Sharing program. Existing participants can continue earning through September 7, while the new Original Content Rewards program begins rolling out from September 8, 2026. The new system is designed to reward original ideas, expertise, reporting, creativity and commentary.

If stablecoin payouts become reality, creators could potentially receive digital dollars directly, making international payments faster and potentially cheaper.

And there is a bigger picture.

Musk’s SpaceX already uses stablecoins for some cross-border Starlink payments. X is also building a broader financial ecosystem around the platform.

So the real question is:

Will X become one of the largest global platforms to turn creator income into programmable digital money?

For millions of creators, the answer could matter far more than the payment method itself.

Important: As of August 21, 2026, this remains a proposal under discussion — not an announced X feature.

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@AlexMindNotes That's why I told you about it.

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@Polymarket Preparing for warming.

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@leozauruz @sternenko Після удару балістики таке укриття перетвориться на колективний склеп.

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THE NEXT 50 YEARS COULD REWRITE THE RULES OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION

Imagine a world where artificial intelligence knows more about human behavior than humans know about themselves.

Who would hold the most power?

Governments? Tech corporations? Those who control AI?

Yuval Noah Harari looks 50 years into the future and explores three forces that could shape the future of civilization: AI, power, and control over information.

The most unsettling scenario could emerge when AI learns not only to follow our commands, but to predict our decisions, shape our beliefs, and influence billions of people.

The coming decades could determine what it means to be human in a world where intelligence is no longer an exclusively human advantage.

🎥 Yuval Noah Harari — The Next 50 Years: Humanity, AI, Power

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The Ocean of Clones https://t.co/J2NBsM4UxI

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🇺🇸 The GENIUS Act could shape far more than crypto.

CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the Trump administration has established a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and “codified the GENIUS Act.”

Why does this matter for AI and humanity’s future?

Because stablecoins could become the native payment layer for an AI-driven economy - allowing AI agents, software, businesses, and eventually autonomous machines to move dollars globally, 24/7, without traditional banking friction.

The crypto laws being written today may become part of the financial infrastructure of the AI age.

Watch Selig’s statement. The future may be taking shape in Washington right now.

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@0xOracul It lies above the level of the box.

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THE BROTHER AND SISTER WHO BUILT ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL AI COMPANIES

What happens when you give people an AI that can do more than write code - an AI that can help build the next generation of AI?

That’s what Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, and his sister Daniela Amodei, President of Anthropic, discuss in this conversation.

They talk about Claude Code, the future of programming, and the moment when AI becomes an intellectual force multiplier capable of dramatically expanding what even a very small team can accomplish.

But then the conversation gets much more interesting.

Amodei raises a question that could shape the next decade:

What happens when AI stops being a rare tool and becomes a technology that can be scaled almost without limit?

Millions of AI agents.
Tiny teams with the capabilities of large corporations.
AI helping build even better AI.
And entirely new risks that humanity may not be prepared for.
This is no longer just a conversation about Claude.
It’s a conversation about what the world could look like once intelligence itself becomes a scalable resource.
▶️ Watch the full conversation. Pay especially close attention to the second half.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.