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in the labyrinth

[connor @micmuphen]

Energy abundance should be our Manhattan project.

Cheap and available energy, at scale for the US system, such that energy is not our primary constraint.

AI is a race we can’t lose, however, the race not only for AI but our system as a whole is largely driven by and constrained by energy availability (price).

With 1000x energy availability (and thus profound reduction in price), compute is more available, manufacturing becomes cheaper, Desalination becomes feasible. Every industry can immediately accelerate.

Energy abundance is the central constraint we should be investing our capital and high-end technical talent to break free of.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.

At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."

He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.

Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.

He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.

He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."

The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.

[connor @micmuphen]

The West should define itself as a collective in pursuit of space exploration and expansion.

As opposed to not communist, not Chinese, or even neo-Roman

[connor @micmuphen]

@AlertesInfos @LucAuffret I can’t help but think of the Boston Massacre

and all that followed

[connor @micmuphen]

evaluate religions based on their impact on history, not by the messages of their foundational text

[connor @micmuphen]

@NickBuckleyMBE the revolutions have no vision for the future

only the exhilaration of destabilizing it

[Moon eye ☾ @Moon_eeye]

"Busca todo excepto el amor y la muerte, ellos te encontrarán cuando llegue el momento"

[connor @micmuphen]

@alexeixbt and all of their contradictions against each other

[connor @micmuphen]

@Altkalendarist What’s interesting is that the Chechen and Tatar numbers are much lower

They, more than the other non-Rus populations, have a stronger seat at the table with Putin.

It can be seen as a map of leverage within the Russian ethnic-clan system

[connor @micmuphen]

@elonmusk @visegrad24 Macron is lurking behind China, AI, the US, Iran, Israel, and negative press in Europe as a whole.
France has a strong position relative to the rest of Europe

[connor @micmuphen]

@zurskiii more information = higher difficulty in maintaining consistent & informed mental models

[connor @micmuphen]

@Ayush90588474 Unless they’re Trojan Pandas and they’re about to unleash catastrophic malware within our impenetrable firewalls

[connor @micmuphen]

@milan_janosov Such a great map

The coverage of colors are largely (not completely) a map of population density. But the differentiation of violence and unrest is great to see in detail

[connor @micmuphen]

@v0xium So much truth in this

[connor @micmuphen]

he really is a labeling & naming aficionado

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing “Revolution?” President DONALD J. TRUMP

[connor @micmuphen]

This won’t be the first or last

Two players, two powers, not even looking at the same board…

[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

NEW: The US military was prepared to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this spring -- during war with Iran -- after an intel report concluded it was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

But just before the planned operation, officials discovered the report had been generated w/ help of AI & chatbot used by the analyst inaccurately identified what the ship was carrying, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & me.

[connor @micmuphen]

When you’re tired

There’s enough energy under the surface to sustain you for weeks without food

Energy under the surface

[connor @micmuphen]

everything stops if he falls
the CCP, thus the Chinese system, and thus the global system are immediately brought to a halt.
until a surrogate system can be spoken into place and existing contracts continue.

more than likely he’d be like Mao for a while at his end, though

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Xi Jinping Just Suffered An Apparent Health Emergency During The BRICS Summit.

Rumors are flying that it was a stroke.

Footage shows a frozen left arm, a strange walk off the plane, and Modi stopping mid-speech to ask if he was okay.

He reportedly refused treatment on Indian soil and flew back to Beijing.

President Xi is scheduled to come to the U.S. to meet with Trump next week.

If this is true, the global order could soon change forever.

[connor @micmuphen]

The course is narrow.

[connor @micmuphen]

love your problems.