Dafydd Kw ⚕

EM and family physician, programmer

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@wholemars If I were, the douchebags at Verge would have been dead long ago 😂

[Szymanski @Szymansk_ii]

Next time you think of giving up, remember this photo of Elon in 2008.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

It’s at 1.5 million views!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That’s all the difference in the world

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Elon Musk says he envisions a future where AI and robots make everyone unimaginably wealthy, far richer than today’s billionaires.

He says people could enjoy superhuman medical care and games far beyond anything we have now.

But for this future to become reality, AI must deeply value truth and beauty, aligning with human ideals.

[antoine @antoine_os]

The biggest mistake in thinking about AI and robots?

expecting it to act human.

It won’t and that’s exactly why it’ll be 1000× more capable

i.e. this RC helicopter shows what machines can do when you remove the anthropomorphism layer in your expectations

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: British veteran breaks down live on TV over state of the country:

"Rows and rows of white tombs for what? A country of today? No, I'm sorry. The sacrifice wasn't worth the result.

I fought for freedom, and it's darn-sight worse now than when I fought."

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

A civilization is built on a set of internalized values. Numerous civilizations have developed radically different visions of how to organize societies, and these have competed in process akin to Darwinian selection in establishing which civilizational ethos permits for maximal flourishing. American exceptionalism is one such system and it has yielded the greatest society that the world has ever known. Suicidal empathy is going to destroy it because Western tolerance is its fatal Achilles tendon. Remember my words.

[Prophecy Matters @prophecy_777]

Here are some of the questions Bitcoin Core devs have failed to provide an indisputable answer for. The more important question is why is this the case?

* Is the OP_RETURN change in Core v30 a solution to a problem that does not currently exist?

* Did Bitcoin Core devs misread the bitcoin community on this issue?

* Did the process Bitcoin Core devs follow create distrust among the bitcoin community?

* Would a cleaner pre-mine mempool with an OP_RETUTN limit of 83 bytes be healthier for bitcoin's future as a decentralized monetary protocol?

* Do Bitcoin Core devs know and understand what the Creature from Jekyll Island is?

* Should changes to policy and feature set be handled differently moving forward?

*Should the Bitcoin Core devs have simply done nothing regarding the OP_RETURN limits?

* Does being able to better predict what is included in a template actually hurt miners and open the door to censorship?

* Should Bitcoin Core devs have shilled their devotion to spam on other blockchains?

* Is giving miners less choice over template configurability, as a result of Bitcoin Core v30, good for miners and the overall health of the protocol?

* What, if any, current or future incentives did/will certain Bitcoin Core devs receive by giving future governments an opportunity to crack down on bitcoin for any reason because of the potential proliferation of offensive non-monetary content on the blockchain?
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[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@SecScottBessent @SenateDems Not reality. Bitcoin is weaker than ever.

[GégéLSMR @gegelsmr4]

"Now tell me where the seed phrase is"

[Dafydd Kw ⚕ @dafyddkw]

@3rezkyaulia3 @NicoGagelmann 😶‍🌫️

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In a few years people will say “this was the moment everything changed.”

[Dafydd Kw ⚕ @dafyddkw]

@drkeithsiau IV bruise or had some AKs burned off

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

Mind=BLOWN🚨: Scientists have now found all of the DNA and RNA bases in meteorites ....... This means there's a possibility that life on Earth came from space!

[Dafydd Kw ⚕ @dafyddkw]

@Jason @POTUS Bad take