@XFreeze Neuralink is a much bigger breakthrough than most people realize.
Enabling people to control a computer with their mind and the completely blind to see are Jesus-level miracles.
When the next big thing in tech becomes low-cost mass production edge computing AI microrobots, will the United States or any other country be able to outcompete China?
Quantum decoherence is the process where a quantum system loses its superposition due to interactions with its environment. This doesn’t "collapse" the wavefunction but entangles the system with its surroundings, making quantum interference unobservable. As coherence fades, classical behavior emerges, explaining why we don’t see quantum superpositions in everyday life.
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”
— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
"If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is."
-- John von Neumann (1903 - 1957)
Elon Musk: Most civilizations collapsed because of low birth rates.
“What ended most civilizations was a low birth rate. An extended period of prosperity seems to cause birth rates to plummet. It's somewhat counterintuitive. When a society is under stress, birth rates increase.
If you look at ancient Rome, the birth rates were super high when they were fighting the Carthaginians, and Rome's very life was at stake, birth rates were all-time high.
After they defeated Carthage and ruled the Mediterranean, the birth rates plummeted to such a degree that Julius Caesar even tried to pass laws in 50 BC or something like that to give an incentive for any Roman citizen that would have a second or third child.
So, they were having birth rate issues in 50 BC, which is pretty wild.
That was also true of basically every civilization throughout history. How do you avoid this birth rate collapse, the prosperity trap?
I don't have a great answer for that. Except, I think we can at least bring it to conscious awareness that we need to continue as a civilization. No humans, no humanity.”
Philadelphia, October 18, 2024