๐จ STEPHEN A. SMITH NAILED IT PERFECTLY:
CALLER: Some of MAGA are mentally ill
SMITH: "Nope, nope, nope, don't talk to ME about mental illness on the side of the right โ but you have people talking about transgender without parental consent!"
"And men transitioning to women and playing in women's sports, and thinking that that was OK!"
"And people could be incarcerated and they could have s*x changes and stuff like that. Oh, no, no, no!"
"You don't get to sit up there and just point to the right about that and not act like there wasn't craziness on the left too."
"[Democrats are] turning your back on black folks who supported you since the 60s. Don't get me started with all of that!"
"The extreme left is a DAMN PROBLEM! That's why 77 million people said Donald Trump is closer to normalcy than some of those folks!" ๐ฅ
h/t @JasonJournoDC
I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO PROVE THAT HUMAN MORAL NATURE ( NO HUMAN NATURE IS COMPLETE WITHOUT IT. IT IS OFTEN STILL ABSENT AT PUBERTY AND EVEN AT ADOLESCENCE!) CAN BE REPLICATED BY A CLASSICAL COMPUTER...
NOW, AT WHAT AGE DOES THIS HUMAN MORAL NATURE APPEAR IN THE INDIVIDUAL MAN?
Andrew Marr: ๐๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ธ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ผ๐๐๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐๐?
Nobel Prize laureate Geoffrey Hinton: ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ
Andrew Marr: So when you talk they want to do this or they want to do that, ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น โ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐โ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ?
Geoffrey Hinton: ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น ๐ฏ๐ฒ, ๐๐ฒ๐. Thereโs all sorts of things we have only the dimmest understanding of at present about the nature of people and what it means to be a being, and what it means to have a self. We donโt understand those things very well and they are becoming crucial to understand ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฒโ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐.
The most detailed 3D reconstruction of a cell ever created.
Blows my mind every time.
But what exactly are we looking at here?
The average human cell contains:
~ 15-20 total distinct organelle types, totalling between ~1-10 million working together per cell.
All these nano-machines in the cell are made up of proteins.
~ 8,000-10,000 distinct types of unique proteins, adding up to between 40 million - 10 trillion total proteins making up all those cellular systems.
~ 10,000 - 15,000 distinct types of RNA shuttling information around the cell, totalling up to ~10 million RNA molecules moving around the cell simultaneously.
~ Billions of Lipid molecules packed together into the cell membrane, which is also packed tightly with millions more protein-based nano-machines.
And let's not forget billions of lines of DNA information to build and run it all.
That's TRILLIONS of of individual molecular pieces working together to make a single cell function.
That means there is more complexity in a single cell than humanity's largest cities.
And people still believe this wasn't Divinely Designed.
This is God's Glory on Display.
But to make the point.
A cell couldn't have evolved from some nebulous simpler "protocell" because even the simplest cells still require massive complexity.
The "simplest" cell ever created was engineered by scientists knocking out pieces of a functional cell until it stopped functioning.
Here is what they found is the absolute necessary minimal requirements of a cell to function:
- Over ~531,000 lines of coded DNA information
- 473 total genes to create hundreds of unique protein products (they later added 19 genes back in because the cell was so weak)
- Hundreds of thousands of total proteins all working together
- Extensive regulatory networks guiding all these interactions
If the cell doesn't have all these systems in place, from the start...
it doesn't live.
Cell rely on an intricate network of complex systems, which are themselves built from complex interconnected pieces woven together into an incomprehensibly complex web of functionilty.
Only intelligence has ever been observed creation vast interconnected systems like this.
Life was clearly Created.
It couldn't happen any other way.
Elon Musk: "I believe in The God of Spinoza and our universe could be a simulation run to discover what happens."
"I would agree that that God of the simulator or whatever... reveals himself through the physics."
Musk told Lex Fridman that if advanced civilizations exist, they wouldn't run simulations where they already know the outcome.
"The reason that these higher beings would hold a simulation is to see what happens. They don't know what happens, otherwise they wouldn't hold the simulation."
He draws from SpaceX testing: Countless simulations are run, but only the valuable ones continue. This raises profound questions about reality, purpose, and what makes a universe worth sustaining.
Elon Musk: "I thought the self-driving problem would be hard, but it was harder than I thought. It's not like I thought it would be easy, I thought it would be very hard, but it was actually way harder than even that.
I mean, what it comes down to at the end of the day is to solve self-driving, you basically need to recreate what humans do to drive, which is: humans drive with optical sensors (eyes) and biological neural nets. That's how the entire road system is designed to work,
So for actually for full self-driving to work, we have to recreate that in digital form."
๐บ๐ธ A year ago, Starbase didn't exist as a city.
Today it has residents, a local government, and a launchpad sending the most powerful rocket ever built into orbit.
Most cities take decades to become relevant.
Elon:
"Next year will be even bigger. More launches. More progressโฆ and we're just getting started!"
Happy 1st birthday, Starbase. ๐๐
@elonmusk, @StarbaseTX
ELON MUSK'S WARNING ABOUT CHATGPT AND GEMINI:
โI HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THE MAJOR AI PROGRAMS.
THE TWO BIGGEST ONES ARE OBVIOUSLY GOOGLE GEMINI AND OPENAI.
MY CONCERN IS THAT THEY ARE NOT MAXIMALLY TRUTH-SEEKING.
THEY ARE PANDERING TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.
WITH XAI, OUR GOAL IS TO BE AS TRUTH-SEEKING AS POSSIBLE, EVEN IF ITโS UNPOPULAR.
THATโS IMPORTANT, I THINK.โ
NO! THE BABY SEES HIS MOTHER..BUT HE IS NOT CONSCIOUS OF IT. WHY? PRECISELY. BECAUSE HE HAS SIMPLE CONSCIOUSNESS. WITHOUT SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, A SENTIENT CREATURE CAN KNOW, BUT ITS POSSESSION IS NECESSARY SO THAT HE MAY KNOW THAT HE KNOWS! YOUR DOG OR HORSE HAS SIMPLE CONSCIOUSNESS TOO!
EXAMPLE. MEMORY AND SIMPLE CONSCIOUSNESS APPEAR WITHIN A FEW DAYS AFTER BIRTH; CURIOSITY TEN WEEKS AFTER; USE OF TOOLS TWELVE MONTHS AFTER; SHAME, REMORSE, AND SENSE OF THE LUDICROUS-ALL OF THEM ABOUT FIFTEEN MONTHS AFTER BIRTH.
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS? THE MASTER FACULTY MAKES ITS APPEARANCE IN THE CHILD AT THE AVERAGE AGE OF THREE YEARS...BEING ABSENT IN ALL TRUE IDIOTS!
Elon Musk measures every civilization by a single number.
By that number, we have not begun.
Not by armies. Not by gold.
By energy. By how much of it you can actually hold.
A Russian physicist named Kardashev drew the scale in the sixties.
The first rung should be easy.
Musk: โIf youโre Type I, youโre using most the energy of your planet.โ
That is not greatness. That is the entry fee.
The moment a species stops being primitive.
We have not paid it.
Musk: โWeโre still using a tiny fraction of the sunโs energy that reaches our planet.โ
And what reaches us is already almost nothing.
Musk: โThe Earth only receives about half a billionth of the sunโs energy.โ
Half a billionth.
That is the entire inheritance of everyone who has ever lived.
And we built everything we know on the fraction we bothered to catch.
Musk: โThe sun is 99.8 percent of all mass in the solar system.โ
Everything you have ever called the world is the rounding error.
Every empire, every fortune, every border rose and fell inside a fraction of a fraction.
Every war was fought over scraps.
Beneath a furnace pouring out more in a single second than we will burn in a hundred years.
Every economy ever designed assumed there was not enough.
The sun disproved that assumption every morning since the Earth was formed.
The abundance was never missing.
It fell on us the whole time.
We kept our eyes on the dirt.
So the scale stops being a measurement.
It becomes a verdict.
It does not ask how advanced you are.
It asks how much smallness you agreed to.
Musk looked at the same sky as everyone else.
And refused to sign.
Scarcity was never handed to us.
The sun never rationed anything.
We did.
Pointillisme was an immersive installation created by Japanese architect and designer Taiju Yamashita. The work took inspiration from the painting technique of pointillism, where many tiny dots combine to create a larger image. Instead of paint, Yamashita used thousands of suspended transparent spheres to create a three-dimensional โdrawingโ made of light.
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Elon Musk on overcoming fear:
โWhen thinking about fear, look it straight in the eyeโฆ and it will disappear.โ
โThe nature of fear is that people donโt look at it. Look at it directly and itโs gone.โ
๐จ JUST NOW: President Trump infuriates the Democrats by dropping this INCREDIBLE moment of Columbus Circle 100% CLEANED UP, fountain water crystal clear and flowing...
...and NO homeless camps or drug users to be found.
COMPLETE 180.
It was a choice to allow dilapidation!
๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ @DailyCaller
Elon Musk: "In the next 6 to 12 months, weโll be doing our first implants for vision, where even if somebody is completely blind, we can write directly to the visual cortex."
"Long term, you would have very high resolution and be able to see multispectral wavelengths... you could see in infrared, ultraviolet, radar. It's like a superpower situation."
STRONG EVIDENCE THAT INTELLIGENCE CANNOT BE PRESENT WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING... NO CLASSICAL COMPUTER HAS ANY AWARENESS OF WHAT IT DOES....CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT COMPUTATIONAL!!!!!
The history of the Civil War, WW I, and WW II refutes the suicidal notion that an army must protect the enemy's civilian population to win a war.
Peak of the Civil War: How did General Grant drive the civilian population away from General Lee's army? How did the Allies, during World War II, drive the German population away from the Third Reich? Answer: by accelerating the collapse of the population's will through the bombing of civilian infrastructure! NO ELECTRICITY! NO DRINKING WATER! And yet today, the geniuses of the world's most powerful military believe that by protecting the Iranian civilian population, one day it will rise against the terrorist regime in Tehran. No surprise that the new Pentagon can't even control the Strait of Hormuz. What we are witnessing here is one of History's greatest military catastrophes!