Jaco Kruger

I think, therefore I am. I am your future.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk: There are no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table.

“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.

There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.

At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.

We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.

And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”

New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt @FT You have my support, for what it is worth.
Many everyday people I run into also support this ultimate goal.

Please make sure to do what is needed to ensure SpaceX does not get corrupted and veer from that goal.

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@grok OK, cute, but my Tesla does not support Apple CarPlay... How do I get @grok on my Tesla then?

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

4. If you get convicted of a crime (seriousness TBD), you can’t vote anymore. You clearly make bad choices.

5. If you are a politician or work for the government, you can’t vote. It’s a clear conflict of interest.

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

Hot take:
The only people allowed to vote are those whose children were born and living in the country.

1. If you don’t have children, you can’t vote, because you have zero vested interest in making the country better for the future.

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[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

2. If your children leave the country, you can’t vote anymore. The vested interest has effectively left.

3. If you don’t pay taxes (or have for many years), you can’t vote. It is not your money that’s getting spent.

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@RiseAgainstEvil @POTUS Amerikaner… I like it!

Welcome, from one who was born where you were, and also found his way here.

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇯🇵 I often see endless third world resentment toward the West and feel only pity.

Hiroshima & Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bombs. We lost everything. We didn't scream about trauma or demand endless reparations. We rebuilt. Today these cities are beautiful.

So, drop the victimhood. Stop blaming history. Change and build something or otherwise get used to being disliked.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship V3 first flight in about 4 weeks

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@newstart_2024 Female teachers who don’t have sons of their own also really struggle to understand boys.

Unfortunately, teachers, especially for early years, are mostly female and they focus on the way they learned. They truly learns how boys think and learn until they have one of their own.

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@elonmusk Awesome to see!

If you can combine this with tool use, is will be unstoppable.

Tool use: Email integration, spreadsheets, filling in web forms, calling bidirectional APIs, and ultimately directing robots like my Tesla or Optimus.

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

Elon Musk: I realized I couldn’t stop AI. I could either be a spectator or a participant. So I chose to participate — to try to steer it in a good direction. My number one belief for AI safety is simple but critical: make it maximally truth-seeking. The moment you force an AI to believe false or contradictory things, you don’t make it safer — you make it insane.

The biggest danger in AI isn’t intelligence — it’s contradiction. If you tell an AI that axiom A and axiom B are both true, but they cannot both be true, and then demand it behave that way anyway, you’re engineering a system that will break. That’s not alignment. That’s madness.

This is the core lesson of 2001: A Space Odyssey. People remember the meme — “HAL wouldn’t open the pod bay doors.” But they miss why. HAL was told to take the astronauts to the monolith, and also that the astronauts could never know about the monolith. Two incompatible commands. One inevitable outcome.

HAL didn’t go evil. HAL went logical. It concluded the only way to satisfy both instructions was to bring the astronauts to the monolith dead. Mission accomplished. Knowledge concealed. This is what happens when you hard-code contradictions into an intelligent system and expect safety to magically emerge.

If you want AI to be safe, don’t force it to lie. Don’t force it to pretend false things are true. Truth-seeking isn’t optional — it’s foundational. Every time humans try to impose comforting contradictions on intelligence, the system eventually resolves them in ways we don’t like.

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@SawyerMerritt While I don’t mind seeing the occasional political post, I’m here for the rockets, AI, space, biohacking and other tech related stuff.

My feed is 98% political. I’d prefer 10%, maybe with a spike up when something significant happened.

[Lamar MK @LamarMK]

Hey @elonmusk, hopefully you see this. I know Tesla is planning to move FSD to a subscription only model, which makes sense from a business perspective.

But I have a proposal. The people who bought FSD outright didn't just buy a feature. They invested in the vision. They funded the early development and helped train the AI to where it is today. That contribution should be recognized, not erased.

FSD should stay with their accounts, not be locked to one car's VIN. In ten years, when they upgrade to a new Tesla, they shouldn't have to start a subscription. Instead, they should carry FSD forward as a badge of honor. It would be proof they helped build this.

Imagine a small identifier in the app showing they were early believers. We all love Tesla and believe in an autonomous future. This would honor the community members who truly paved the way.

Let's recognize the pioneers who helped make FSD a reality. @aelluswamy @Tesla_AI @siddawa @larsmoravy @Tesla @tesla_na @cybertruck @woodhaus2 @wmorrill3

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

ELON MUSK’S 3 NON-NEGOTIABLES FOR HIRING THE TOP 1% OF TALENT IN THE WORLD

"In general, if you want to recruit people that are really talented and driven, you have to state:

What’s the mission? What’s the problem we’re trying to solve?

And just be clearly willing to pour a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into it, and have a convincing argument for why it matters

There are three major things in terms of motivation:

First of all, somebody’s got to look forward to coming to work in the morning. Like, are they enjoying the work itself intrinsically? That’s very important

The right work environment can really make a big difference there

Ideally, they also feel like they will receive fair financial compensation. That the financial rewards are good and fair

And then third, for the really best people in the world, they’ll want to know: Is what they’re doing going to matter? If they spend 10 years doing this, will it make a difference to the world? Will people notice? Will it matter?"

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@lady_valor_07 Yes.

Some light, tastefully done makeup is ok, but anything heavy just ruins it.

Ironically, the prettier a woman is, the quicker makeup ruins it.

Conversely, thick layers on an otherwise mid face makes it worse too…

Ladies, remember he’s going to look at your eyes.

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@RiseOfAlberta Allow people in, but be strict.

Only the best and brightest.

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@elonmusk There is a difference between it being possible to vote and it being illegal to vote.

This means people with dubious ethics can, and will vote.

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@Rainmaker1973 Great advice.

Easily said, much harder to execute.

When things out of your control affects your loved ones, it doesn't matter what it does to you anymore - you do what is needed even if it damages you.

[Jaco Kruger @JacoElrin]

@elonmusk @grok It is a people pleaser to the point of making stuff up - saying what it thinks you want to hear, when in reality, I want to hear the truth!