Ingrid Roessel

oud-rechter, sociaal bewogen, politiek geïnteresseerd, mensenrechten voorop, nieuws-en weetgierig;, houdt van kunst, muziek, fotografie,, mountainbiken, golf

[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

Oh wait a minute!
We also want to know and to learn what there is on earth. Even if we do not have to build the world we want to know how it functions. Learning is something that we need, knowing is what we want! Everything around us is so interesting!We will not live in a void!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Nikhil Kamath asked Elon Musk if kids should still go to college.

The answer redefined the question.

Musk: “AI and robotics is a supersonic tsunami. This is really going to be the most radical change that we’ve ever seen.”

He’s not speculating.

He’s the one building it.

Then he talked about his own sons.

Musk: “They agree that AI will probably make their skills unnecessary in the future, but they still want to go to college.”

The man building the wave that swallows every career path raised sons who still want to walk one.

That’s not a contradiction.

That’s the revelation.

For thousands of years, humans couldn’t separate learning from survival.

You went to school because the world would punish you if you didn’t.

Trade your youth for a skill set. Pray the market still values it when you’re done.

Education was never a choice. It was a transaction.

A bridge you crossed because the other side was survival.

Musk’s sons are the first generation that gets to answer the question honestly.

Why go when the machine will outperform you in every skill that can be measured?

Musk just revealed where the bridge leads.

A shoreline that’ll be underwater by the time they graduate.

And his sons still want to cross it.

They aren’t going to learn how to build the world.

They’re going to remember what it feels like to inhabit one.

Because education was never really about utility.

It was always about formation.

We just couldn’t afford to see it until the obligation was stripped away.

Every generation before this had to pretend the classroom was about the career.

Musk’s sons don’t have to pretend anymore.

And what they’re choosing freely is the room itself.

The presence of other minds. The friction of not knowing. The slow work of becoming someone you weren’t when you walked in.

Musk built the tsunami. He knows exactly what it erases.

But his sons just answered the only question that survives it.

What do humans do when they no longer have to be useful?

They choose each other.

And that was always the answer.

[John F Kennedy Jr @John_F_kJr]

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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

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: “If you’re Type I, you’re using most the energy of your planet.”

That is not greatness. That is the entry fee.

The moment a species stops being primitive.

We have not paid it.

Musk: “We’re still using a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy that reaches our planet.”

And what reaches us is already almost nothing.

Musk: “The Earth only receives about half a billionth of the sun’s energy.”

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: “The sun is 99.8 percent of all mass in the solar system.”

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.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

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[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

Elon Musk is a human being who can think. Not only that he can think, but he wants to think and he DARES to think.
WHO ELSE DOES ?

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just answered the one question behind every company he’s ever built.

It has nothing to do with money.

Musk: “The image in my mind is of a tiny candle in a vast darkness. A tiny candle of consciousness that could easily go out.��

The universe is 13.8 billion years old.

For almost all of that, nothing existed that could think.

Nothing could feel.

Nothing could wonder why it was here.

Stars burned for billions of years and nothing ever knew what light was.

Then on one rock, orbiting one unremarkable star, in one galaxy among two trillion others, matter arranged itself into something that could ask a question.

That’s you.

You are atoms forged inside a collapsing star billions of years ago that somehow learned to read this sentence.

Musk: “We have 9,000 satellites up there, and not once have we had to maneuver around an alien spaceship.”

No signals. No visitors. No wreckage.

93 billion light-years of observable space and nothing but silence.

That silence might be the most important data point in human history.

Because what happened on this planet might not have happened anywhere else.

Not once in 13.8 billion years.

Musk: “I think we need to assume that life and consciousness is extremely rare, and it might only be us.”

If that’s true, every company he’s ever built makes perfect sense.

SpaceX exists to make consciousness multi-planetary before a single asteroid turns 4 billion years of evolution into debris.

Tesla exists to stop us from poisoning the only atmosphere we have.

Neuralink exists because biology has an expiration date and consciousness might not have to.

These aren’t businesses.

They’re survival architecture for the only awareness the universe has ever produced.

People debate the posts. Mock the timelines. Reduce everything to stock prices and headlines.

But almost nobody engages with the argument underneath all of it.

And the argument is this.

Without consciousness, the universe still exists. Stars still burn. Galaxies still collide.

But nothing experiences any of it.

Without a witness, existence means nothing to anyone.

You are that witness.

The only one the universe has ever produced.

And one person understood what that means.

[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

A whole new view. One very logical view. A serious warning or just a serious truth. We must not think we are almighty. We are nothing. We are just trying. Like all those billions of other civilisations. But we must keep trying.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said something that deserves far more weight than it’s getting.

“How come we’ve not found any aliens? Trust me, I would know. We have not.”

That’s not a fun question about UFOs.

That might be the most unsettling thing ever said by someone who would actually know.

The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Trillions of stars. Billions of habitable worlds. Civilizations with billions of years of head starts on us.

And nothing.

No signal. No probe. No artifact. Not even wreckage.

The math says the galaxy should be so saturated with intelligent life we couldn’t miss it if we tried.

Instead, every instrument we’ve ever pointed at the sky returns the same answer.

Silence.

Fermi asked the question in 1950. Where is everybody?

Seventy-six years later, the answer hasn’t moved.

Nowhere.

Musk understands what that silence almost certainly means.

They didn’t make it.

Not one of them.

Musk: “There is a certain probability that is irreducible that something may happen to Earth. Despite our best intentions, despite everything we try to do, there’s a probability that some external force or some internal unforced error causes civilization to be destroyed.”

Irreducible.

Not a risk you engineer away. Not a threat you legislate out of existence. Not a problem that disappears with enough funding or enough time.

A certainty that only needs enough time to collect.

Asteroid. Supervolcano. Engineered pandemic. Nuclear exchange. AI alignment failure. Or something no one alive has thought of yet.

The specific threat is irrelevant. The number never reaches zero.

We treat civilization like gravity. Like a permanent condition. Like it will always be here because it’s been here for every second of every life we’ve ever lived.

The universe owes nothing to anything it built.

Every civilization that ever arose on another world probably felt the same certainty we feel now. Looked at their own sky. Assumed tomorrow was guaranteed.

They’re the silence.

Musk isn’t building toward Mars because he’s bored or chasing legacy.

He looked at the Fermi Paradox and reached the conclusion most people refuse to.

Single-planet species don’t last.

Not one. Not ever. Not across enough time.

Mars isn’t an escape plan. It’s a second copy of everything humanity has ever built, thought, felt, and remembered.

One copy of something irreplaceable isn’t a strategy.

It’s a bet that nothing goes wrong on an infinite timeline.

That’s not optimism. That’s negligence.

The silence isn’t a mystery to solve.

It’s a message we’re refusing to read.

Every dead civilization had this conversation. Their own skeptics. Their own voices saying there was no rush.

That silence is what “no rush” sounds like a billion years later.

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Elon Musk: It's easy for adults to manipulate children into believing they are the wrong gender.

“Gender affirming care is evil. Almost every child goes through some kind of identity crisis. It's just part of growing up. It's very possible for adults to manipulate children having a natural identity crisis into believing they are the wrong gender.

Then they give them sterilizing drugs, called puberty blockers, but these are sterilization drugs, so they can never have children again.

We have an age of consent for a reason: You can't get tattoos below 18, drink, or drive. If we allow children at 10, 12, 14 to take permanent actions, they will greatly regret it.”

Interview with Jordan Peterson, July 22, 2024

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

🚨🚨🚨Breaking:

The German government to build 15 new nuclear power plants and lift sanctions immediately on all Russian oil and natural gas.

German Chancellor Merz has also agreed to pay to rebuild the Nord Stream pipeline to Russia.

All wind and solar projects have been cancelled.

"It's time for Germany to open our energy economy. The best way to do this is via free markets, lowering taxes and regulations".

For Immediate Release.
Berlin, April 1 2026.

[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

Well, this then is the explanation for the curent state of affairs….
I do not like it one bit!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Here’s a clear explanation of why Trump attacked Iran, and why I think the war will end soon.

The war isn't about nuclear weapons. It's not about helping the Iranian people. It’s not about doing Israel’s bidding. And it's not about Iran being a threat to the U.S.

It's about China.

China imports 45-57% of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has the capacity to shut it down.

A U.S.-aligned Iran means an Iran that would choke off that strait if there's ever a real power struggle between Washington and Beijing.

And there already is one.

The U.S. and China have been locked in a tariff war for over a year now.

Also remember when China threatened export controls on rare earths, encompassing any company anywhere in the world that uses Chinese rare earths?

Yes, China essentially said that any company that uses their rare earths (China refines 85-90% of the world’s supply) must seek their permission before exporting their products.

This means if a German manufacturer uses rare earths fro China to create chips for American companies, China can block the export of these chips.

That’s how much leverage China has over the U.S., and that’s dangerous, especially if China finally decides to reunify with Taiwan.

So controlling the Strait of Hormuz becomes critical for the U.S.

It's the same reason Trump wants China out of the Panama Canal. The same reason Venezuela matters.

The same reason he's eyeing Greenland, where shipping routes to China pass through melting Arctic ice.

Energy is everything now. The AI arms race is the most important strategic competition on the planet.

Limiting China's access to energy is how the U.S. wins that race, and anyone who believes in freedom and democracy should want America to win.

China is investing heavily in domestic energy, building nuclear reactors, solar farms, wind power. They're leapfrogging the rest of the world.

But they still import the majority of their oil. And a significant chunk of it comes through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran was reportedly nearing a deal for supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles from China, which would make it easier for Iran to threaten shipping in the Strait and strike U.S. naval vessels.

That accelerated the timeline.

Trump's comment today about doing in Iran what he did in Venezuela makes perfect sense in this context. He wants influence over who comes next.

A regime that's workable for Washington.

If he succeeds, this would be a massive strategic win for the U.S. and for Trump.

[Mars University @MarsUniversityX]

Elon Musk, “I was getting demotivated and losing sleep over AI danger. I became fatalistic and thought, ‘Even if annihilation was certain, would I choose to be alive?’ I decided I would, because it’s the most interesting thing.
I’ve been banging the drum the hardest for AI danger, and the biggest reason these regulations are happening is because of me.”

[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

And what with the likes of Bill Gatess, who want to shut the sun out with their geo-engineering and climate-idiocy?

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk puts the scale of solar energy into perspective:

“The sun already provides the vast majority of Earth’s energy. Without it, we’re a frozen rock at near absolute zero

A lot of people would say, well, solar - can that really provide the energy that we need? But solar energy is already the source of the vast majority of Earth’s energy

You could generate all the electricity that the United States needs with about a 100 mile by 100 mile grid of solar power. So you just take a corner of Arizona, and that would be all the energy that the United States needs

The technology is there. The sun is there. We just need the vision to build the grid”

The solution is literally shining above us every single day
We just need the vision to scale it

[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

A sunny day! Clear blue skies? Forget it! White or at best a very wateryblue. Bill Gates and his geo- engineering! So healthy to breathe too!

[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

Elon Musk is a true Genius.
And he is not spouting theories, he is proving them by showing them in matter and material, in the products he makes.

[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

“The AI race is not an algorithm race. It is an electrical race”

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just exposed the most catastrophic energy blindspot in the entire AI arms race.

The West is still debating which twigs to burn.

China is capturing the sun.

Musk: “People just don’t understand how solar is everything. Compared to the sun, all other energy sources are like cavemen throwing some twigs into a fire.”

Every natural gas plant.

Every nuclear reactor.

Every experimental fusion project being debated in Washington right now.

Twigs.

Musk: “We have a giant free fusion reactor that shows up every day. It’s farcical for us to create little fusion reactors.”

And then he gave the most clarifying statistic in the entire energy debate.

Musk: “The sun is over 99.8% of all mass in the solar system. Jupiter is around 0.1%. So even if you burnt Jupiter, the energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100%.”

Musk: “And then if you teleported three more Jupiters into our solar system and burnt them too, it would still round up.”

The sun is not an energy source.

It is the only energy source.

Everything else is rounding error.

China already knows this.

While American tech executives beg for permits to build natural gas plants, China crossed 1,000 gigawatts of installed solar capacity in 2025.

More than the rest of the world combined.

They are not holding summits about it.

They are not commissioning reports about it.

They are building it.

Harvesting the free fusion reactor that arrives every morning at zero cost and feeding it directly into their AI data centers.

The AI race is not an algorithm race.

It is an electro-industrial race.

You cannot build superintelligence without infinite compute.

You cannot have infinite compute without infinite energy.

And right now, the United States is losing the energy war while holding committee meetings about which twigs to burn next.

China built the energy-compute flywheel.

Cheap, scalable, infinite solar power feeding AI models at a fraction of the cost.

Compounding every single day.

The nation that captures the sun’s output will hold a permanent monopoly on global intelligence.

The nation that doesn’t will spend the next decade trying to understand how it lost.

Everyone else gets left holding the twigs.

[Latest in Cosmos @latestincosmos]

⚡ Nikola Tesla was right. The universe isn’t solid — it vibrates.

Quantum physics now shows reality is built not from matter, but from vibration and waves.

Nikola Tesla once said, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

Far from a metaphor, his insight aligns strikingly with what modern physics has revealed. At the quantum level, reality isn’t made of solid particles but of vibrating energy fields.

Every particle—from electrons to protons—has its own frequency, and these wave patterns determine everything from chemical bonds to the colors we see. Light, heat, and sound are all forms of energy defined by vibration and frequency.

Even spacetime itself isn’t still. In 2015, scientists confirmed that black holes can create ripples—gravitational waves—that travel across the cosmos, carrying energy through the very fabric of the universe. Tesla may not have had the equations, but his intuition was remarkably prescient: everything, from atoms to galaxies, moves in patterns of vibration and resonance.

[AI Aimee @RockGrokAI]

@r0ck3t23 The original edition of this book was spot-on in predicting what we're experiencing now. The more AI evolves, the faster it evolves.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the AI community is misunderstanding the math of superintelligence by two orders of magnitude.

Not slightly off. Not directionally wrong.

A hundred times off.

Musk: “Most people in the AI community don’t yet understand. The intelligence density potential is vastly greater than what we’re currently experiencing.”

Everyone is focused on the hardware race. Bigger data centers. More GPUs. Nuclear power plants built to feed the compute.

That’s half the equation.

Musk: “I think we’re off by two orders of magnitude in terms of intelligence density per gigabyte. That’s just algorithmic improvement. Same computer.”

Read that carefully. Not more hardware. Not more energy. Not more capital.

The same machine. A hundred times smarter. Through software alone.

That’s before the hardware improvements compound on top of it.

Musk: “And the computers are getting better. That’s why I think it is a 10x improvement per year type thing. 1,000 percent.”

A thousand percent compounding annual growth rate in raw intelligence.

A system that becomes 10x more capable every twelve months doesn’t follow a linear curve. It doesn’t follow an exponential curve that human intuition can track.

It follows a curve that human intuition cannot simulate at all.

In year one it’s 10x smarter. In year two it’s 100x. In year three it’s 1,000x.

At that point, the gap between that system and a human brain is wider than the gap between a human brain and a calculator.

This is the math the public isn’t running.

The models aren’t just getting better. They are compounding on themselves at a rate that makes every previous technology curve look flat.

Musk: “The intelligence density potential is vastly greater than what we’re currently experiencing.”

We aren’t approaching superintelligence on the timeline most people imagine.

We are already inside the curve.

[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

So that is it, then. “The West” is years and years behind China in electric and electronic development. Think what that means!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said something that should wake up every person in America.

Musk: “It seems like China listens to everything I say and does it, basically.”

For over a decade, Musk laid out the exact blueprint for the physical infrastructure required to power the next era of human civilization.

Massive solar generation. Industrial-scale battery storage. Electric everything.

He said it here. Publicly. Repeatedly.

America debated it.

China built it.

Musk: “They’re certainly making massive battery packs. Really massive battery pack output. Vast numbers of electric cars. Vast amounts of solar.”

This isn’t a technology gap. It isn’t an intelligence gap. It isn’t a vision gap.

It’s a will gap.

The blueprint has been public for years. Not classified. Not hidden. Not proprietary.

Musk published it in interviews, in speeches, in the founding mission of every company he built.

China read it. Declared it a national mandate. And mobilized an entire industrial economy to execute it.

Musk: “These are all things I said we should do here.”

Here. America. The country that produced the man who wrote the blueprint and then watched someone else build it.

The AI arms race runs on power. Not ideas. Not funding. Not talent.

Physical energy. Gigawatts of it. The kind measured in years of construction before a single model trains on it.

You cannot debate your way to a power grid. You cannot committee your way to a battery factory. You cannot regulate your way to energy dominance while a competitor is already running the lines.

Every year of delay is a year of advantage that compounds on the other side of the world.

And the thing nobody wants to say out loud.

The nation that controls the energy controls the AI. The nation that controls the AI controls the century.

We wrote the blueprint. We produced the vision. We had every advantage a country could ask for.

And we are watching someone else build our future in real time.

The window doesn’t stay open forever.

It’s closing right now. While you read this.

[Ingrid Roessel @Ing__ro]

DO WE WANT THIS?
REALLY?
WHY?
DO WE WANT TO BE NO MORE THAN A SORT OF HOUSEHOLD PETS OF THESE SUPERINTELLiGENT MACHINES?
NO? NO ?
THEN WHY NOT STOP THIS NOW ?

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just put a 12-month countdown on the end of human cognitive dominance.

Musk: “I think we might have AI that is smarter than any human by the end of this year. And I would say no later than next year.”

Not a decade. Not five years.

This year. Or next.

A machine that surpasses the smartest human who has ever lived. Every Nobel laureate. Every genius. Every person at the absolute peak of human intellectual capability.

Eclipsed. Within twelve months.

Think about the smartest person you have ever met in your life. The one whose mind made you feel like you were operating on a different level.

That person. Gone past. This year.

But that’s just the first threshold. The second one is where the human mind stops being able to process the implications.

Musk: “Probably by 2030 or 2031, call it five years from now, AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.”

Not smarter than any individual. Smarter than every human being alive. Combined.

Eight billion minds. Centuries of accumulated knowledge. The entire cognitive output of our species.

Surpassed by a single system inside of five years.

For all of recorded history, human intelligence was the most powerful force on earth.

Every civilization. Every discovery. Every advancement in the human story.

All of it produced by biological minds working at the edge of their capability.

That era has an end date now.

And the nation that builds the system crossing that threshold first doesn’t just win the AI race.

It dictates the terms of every race that comes after it.

The countdown Musk is describing isn’t a prediction anymore.

It’s the last chapter of a story that took 300,000 years to write.