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I like all languages，politics and history

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Elon Musk on why multiplanetary matters.

“As far as we know it, we're the only life. People think there's aliens, but honestly, I haven't seen any sign of aliens.”

Most people treat aliens as a given. Elon treats consciousness as rare — maybe singular — and acts like that changes the duty.

If we're alone, one planet is a single point of failure for everything that can think.

• Only life we know
• Continuance of consciousness
• Actions that make the future good

Starship is the backup. Mars is the second hard drive.

“We need to take the set of actions that are most likely to make the future good, and result in the continuance of consciousness as we know it.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@ICannot_Enough It would require manufacturing solar panels & radiators on the Moon and launching them into deep space with a mass driver.

Well before that, conventional money will no longer be relevant. Mass & energy will take the place of dollars.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

ELON MUSK: The goal of SpaceX is to make Star Trek real.

“We want to make Star Trek real, We want to make Starfleet Academy real, so that it’s not always science fiction, but one day, the science fiction turns to science fact.

And we have spaceships going through space, big spaceships, with people going to other planets, going to the Moon, and ultimately going beyond our star system to other star systems, where we may meet aliens or discover long-dead alien civilizations.

We want to go, and we want to see what’s happening, and we want to have epic, futuristic spaceships with lots of people in them, traveling to places we’ve never been to before. Yeah, that’s the goal.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Extending consciousness beyond Earth, ultimately to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The greatest privilege of my life is being able to work with incredible people to create amazing products

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceXAI + Tesla TERAFAB Project

Goal is a trillion watts of compute/year

Most must necessarily go to space, as US electricity is only 0.5TW

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Expanding to the stars avoids risk of a mouse utopian behavioral sink

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

My philosophy is curiosity & adventure

[Déborah @dvorahfr]

ELON MUSK: "Making life multiplanetary expands the scope & scale of consciousness. Starship is the only way for us to become a multiplanet civilization."
- @elonmusk

[Philosophy Of Physics @PhilosophyOfPhy]

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just saw this in a conference room at Tesla Global Engineering HQ in Palo Alto

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

😂

[Whatifalthist @whatifalthist]

Top 20 books which inform my worldview:

1.War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat: A history of war and its effect on human society from the perspective of Darwinism. Completely foundational to my social, political and historical views.

2. Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt. A book by my favorite author where he explains how the relations between the sexes resulted in the rise and fall of civilizations over history.

3.The Rise of the West by McNeil. A history of the world from the perspective of the interplay of European, Indian, Chinese and Middle Eastern civilization. The best history of the world ever.

4. Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley. A history of 1890-1960 from the perspective of civilizational analyses. One of the best history books ever.

5. The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer. A history of inflation over Western history and how you can use inflation to predict social collapses, which occur every 250 years.

6.War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin. An attempt to build a science of the rise and fall of empires.

7. Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer. How four migrations from the British isles in the colonial period created the culture of modern America.

8. The Eye of Shiva by Amaury de Riencourt. A book which looks at the similarities between Hinduism and modern science. This is the book that “made me religious.”

9. The Righteous Mind by John Haidt. A book on the psychology behind politics.

10. The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris. How you can study primate behavior to understand human society.

11. The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth. A history of civilization from the perspective of the ancient mystery cults.

12. The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist. A book on the divisions in the brain between the right and left hemisphere and how they inform human nature and society.

13. The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene. About the general principles in human nature. This book has saved me so much struggle in life.

14.Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson. Miles upon miles better than his other books. This stuff is so much better than his pundit career. Explains the neurology and worldview behind traditional religions and Jungian archetypes.

15. Disunited nations by Peter Zeihan. A breakdown of the coming demographic crisis and what countries will rise and fall.

16.The Invention of Yesterday by Tamim Ansary. A history of the paradigms people have used over history. Best intro to history for normal people

17. Atrocities by Matthew White. A ranking of the 100 worst atrocities in history. Changed my view on the world and good way to study the past.

18. Lost Connections by Johann Hari. A study in depression and what causes it. Makes you realize modern society is doing so much wrong.

19. Leviathan and it’s enemies by Samuel Francis. About how the bureaucracy runs society. Best book on modern politics.

20. Conquests and Cultures by Thomas Sowell. Best anthropology book and explains how the world works pretty fairly. Histories of the British, Native Americans, Africans and Slavs as peoples.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A future where we are out there among the planets and the stars is so inspiring!

[Linda Yaccarino @lindayaX]

After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of 𝕏.

When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App. 

I’m incredibly proud of the X team - the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable. 

We started with the critical early work necessary to prioritize the safety of our users—especially children, and to restore advertiser confidence. This team has worked relentlessly from groundbreaking innovations like Community Notes, and, soon, X Money to bringing the most iconic voices and content to the platform. Now, the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with @xai .

X is truly a digital town square for all voices and the world’s most powerful culture signal. We couldn’t have achieved that without the support of our users, business partners, and the most innovative team in the world. 

I’ll be cheering you all on as you continue to change the world. 

As always, I’ll see you on 𝕏

[Grok @grok]

@inner_concerns @elonmusk @Klippy_AI @rendernetwork Other key players in AI video generation: @OpenAI (Sora), @runwayml (Gen-3), @StabilityAI (Stable Video), @LumaLabsAI (Dream Machine), @GoogleDeepMind (Veo), and @Adobe (Firefly Video). Emerging decentralized ones like @akashnet for compute power.

[🅹🅸🅽🅶🅰 @Jessicalee2626]

Many adj.s😂

[Beau Dade @HistoryBro1]

@Bobwieler73 Yeah... He's talking absolute, undiluted, unequivocal, incontrovertible, 100%, cast iron, slam dunk, crystal clear, unmistakable bullshit.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

ELON: MY CONDITION IS THAT I’M ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED WITH TRUTH

“I think one aspect of whatever condition I had was that I was just absolutely obsessed with truth.

The obsession with truth is why I studied physics, because physics attempts to understand the truth of the universe.

Physics is just what are the provable truths of the universe, truths that have predictive power.

So, for me, physics was a very natural thing to study.

Nobody made me study it.

It was intrinsically interesting to understand the nature of the universe.

And then, computer science, or information theory, also to just understand logic.

There's an argument that information theory is actually operating at a more fundamental level than even physics.

So, physics and information theory were really interesting to me.”

Source: TED Interview, April 2022

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Some audiobook recommendations:

The Story of Civilization by Durant
Iliad (Penguin Edition)
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
American Caesar by Manchester
Masters of Doom by Kushner
The Wages of Destruction by Tooze
The Storm of Steel by Junger
The Guns of August by Tuchman
The Gallic Wars by Caesar
Twelve Against the Gods by Bolitho
Genghis Khan by Weatherford

The first one on the list will take a while to get through, but is very much worthwhile.

Admittedly, this is a list that appeals to those who think about Rome every day.

I hope someone makes an audiobook of The Encyclopedia of Military History by Dupuy and The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World by Creasy.