ELON MUSK: The Future of AI Compute Lies in Space, Not on Earth.
“Once you think in terms of harnessing the Sun’s power, you realize scaling massively on Earth is impossible. The entire US averages just ~0.5 TW of electricity. A single terawatt—twice that—requires enormous power plants, transformers, and infrastructure that’s extremely hard to build and scale.
Solar is already cheap, but in space it’s ~10x cheaper: constant sunlight, no batteries needed. The moment low-cost access to space arrives, the cheapest and most scalable way to generate AI tokens will be in orbit—by far. In 5 years, it’ll be an order of magnitude easier.
Prediction: We’ll soon launch and operate more AI compute in space each year than the cumulative total on Earth.”
This keeps the key points (Sun’s power scale, Earth limits, solar advantages in space, Colossus reference implied in scaling difficulty, bold prediction) but trims repetition and improves flow for shareability.
On Valentine’s Day 36 years ago, Carl Sagan requested NASA to turn Voyager 1's camera back toward home for one last look.
From 3.7 billion miles away, Voyager captured this image.
Here is how Carl Sagan described it:
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
16 years later…Trump & RFK Jr. are saying exactly what Jim Carrey & Jenny McCarthy were BLASTED for.
MCCARTHY: I don't know what happened in 1990? There was no plague that was killing children that we had to triple the amount of vaccines. Let's be smart!
CARREY: What happened after 1989 that warranted 26 more vaccines? Are all of them absolutely necessary?
MCCARTHY: Greed. Greed!
KING: Because they wanna make money.
MCCARTHY: Of course!
CARREY: It's twice as many as anywhere else in 30 countries in the Western world. We give twice as many shots as any of those countries. Why is that?
KING: Well, what are you against? Don't vaccinate for this, but vaccinate for that?
MCCARTHY: Yes!
CARREY: I think we have to choose which ones are absolutely necessary.
KING: How do I know which one?
MCCARTHY: You should educate yourself. We want to empower parents to educate themselves. Do we need to have the chickenpox? Do we need the hepatitis B shot on the second day of life?
CARREY: I don't think we can afford to assume that the people who are charged with our public health any longer have our best interests at heart all the time.
Parents have to make their own decisions, educated decisions. They have to look at the information.
MCCARTHY: Space out the vaccines...delay them till after one...clean out the toxins that are in them. We don't NEED that many.
KING: Why would a doctor not want to know more about something that could save a life or prevent a disease? I don't understand.
CARREY: Uhhh...the AAP is financed by the drug companies?? Uhhh...Medical schools are financed by the drug companies? This is a HUGE business. Vaccines are the largest growing division of the pharmaceutical industry. $13 billion.
MCCARTHY: They control medical schools!
CARREY: What we're asking is for them to take a loss for the good of our children. That's a tough sell in a boardroom.
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1st with ALS. 1st Nonverbal.
I am typing this with my brain. It is my primary communication.
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Thank you @elonmusk!