My experience after 10 Hours of Cybertruck ownership:
1. This beast attracts a lot of attention.
2. I have given over 40 people rides today. Ages five to over 60. Everyone that sits inside, never mind gets a ride is flabbergasted. People see the future right before their eyes.
3. Inside of the truck going 0 to 60 in less than four seconds - everyone- kids and adults - lose all control of their emotions.
4. Everyone that sees it is interested, many people don’t know what to think until you take the time to show them.
5. I had conversations with more than 100 people today in front of the CT. I dispelled many myths, answered many questions, and likely convinced many that their next car must be a Tesla.
5. Took a few people in my X on FSD whose first Tesla experience was CT. They were even more floored with FSD. Their lives are changed for better forever.
6. Owning a foundation series CT automatically makes you a brand ambassador for a Tesla. Take it seriously, you will convert many into believers.
7. This future was only made possible by @elonmusk and the Tesla team. Thank you!
@surfranchvibes How do you think I know what you are even talking about never the less how to fix it. Obviously every pt is different, but I’ve received many of those calls during/after the 9hrs. Just remember these words and go back to them in 10 yrs.
The Market Is Ripping.
Oil Is Sliding.
The 10 Year Is Coming With It.
Trump and Iran Are Both in New York This Week.
Tuesday Could Change the Tape.
And Last Week’s Rate Hike Is Already a Memory. Why?
Finally $TSLA Is Running With the Market Into 10/01.
Let's Discuss:
Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.
You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.
I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.
But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.
Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.
Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.
So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.
If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.
@Tesla Tesla now has multiway multi lane intersections with the lights out figured out. I haven’t had to intervene once at busy intersections with power out throughout the area. As well as avoiding downed trees in the roadway.
@BoBbyPleWniaK@surfranchvibes Unfortunate- but the earnings call stating perfect safety as a goal is creating the ability to throttle down robotaxi indefinitely- until merger. He said it without saying it and it’s unfortunate.
@BoBbyPleWniaK Building my own p&l tracker with Claude to capture acquired shares and the loss on acquisition and then tracking the wheel profits on selling the CCs, but it’s not perfect and yes these accounts always posting green not accounting for the loss on assignment of shares is BS