Andrew Minarik

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

How to make a totally invisible plane

[George Mack @george__mack]

19. How Incredible Modern Aviation Is

In 2021, there were only 176 deaths from 2.2 billion airline passengers.

In the same year, ~1.3 million people died in road accidents.

The airline industry might be humans most profound achievement to date

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 ASYLUM MIGRANT WAS A GENOCIDAL MASS MURDERER

Ohio resident, Eric Nshimiye, 52, was arrested for his involvement in the Rwandan genocide.

Turns out he forgot to mention in his asylum application that he was a mass murderer known for striking victims in the head with nail-studded clubs before hacking them to death.

Nshimiye was granted admission to the U.S. on Dec. 1, 1995.

I wonder who else got through like him?

Source: Reuters

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

In case you were wondering how superconductors work, this is a good explanation. They are a very interesting phenomenon and may prove economically useful, but are not a hard requirement for a sustainable energy future.

Physics has many powerful tools of reasoning to understand and predict reality. Those tools, like first principles analysis and thinking in the limit, are broadly applicable to anything, in my experience.

With Grok, @xAI is attempting to create an AI that reasons from first principles, which is fundamental if you care about getting as close to the truth as possible.

The acid test would be reaching a conclusion that is correct even if it is extremely unpopular, which means being right even when the training data is almost entirely wrong.

For example, Galileo concluded, after observing the moons of Jupiter from a telescope he engineered, that it was far more probable that Earth revolved around the Sun than the other way around. This view was so unpopular that he was forced to recant and placed under house arrest!

If you had trained an LLM on material back then, it would’ve given you the popular, but wrong, explanation. Due to social and legal pressure, it likely wouldn’t even acknowledge the possibility that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

For AI to help us understand the true nature of the universe, it must be able to discard the popular, but wrong, in favor of the unpopular, but right.

[Coin on the co₿ 🌽 @dueyfromstlouis]

Watching the old guard burn themselves down using everything they have to fight an open source protocol that’s available to every human on earth will be the greatest show in the history of the World.

#Bitcoin

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇨🇳 NEW DEADLY CHINESE COVID-19 STRAIN

Chinese lab crafts mutant COVID-19 strain with 100% kill streak in ‘humanized’ mice: ‘Surprisingly’ rapid death

The deadly virus known as GX-P2V attacked the brains of mice that were engineered to reflect a genetic makeup similar to that of people.

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

Crypto twitter when the ETF approval hit. https://t.co/qQauhjeAF0

[ZachXBT @zachxbt]

@Safety @SECGov Hi @GaryGensler this is a reminder to secure your financial accounts as well as protect against identity theft and fraud.

Remember to:
🔒Use strong passphrases or passwords
🔒Set up multifactor authentication
🔒Keep account alerts turned on

#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

Better a bull than a bear.

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

“North Korea is using it to pay for about half of its nuclear weapons.”

Really!? @SenWarren, please share proof.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I had the chance to meet and hang out with @JeffBezos. He is a great human being, and is super fun to talk to in part because he is extremely knowledgeable about every aspect of rocket engineering & manufacturing, but also because of his humility and thoughtfulness. He gave me a tour of the Blue Origin rocket factory and launch complex in Cape Canaveral and we went up to the top of the tower on the launchpad. Looking out across the landscape towards the setting sun, standing where future astronauts will stand, I had an immense feeling of awe and excitement that humanity can take on such epic endeavors, boldly reaching out toward the stars ❤️

Afterwards we ate burgers at a local bar, and talked about life. What a surreal day 🤯 We'll probably do a podcast soon, it'll be a fun one ❤

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

@elonmusk 🤣���

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

Tragic The Gathering

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

@elonmusk More conversations between people who hate each other, so that we can discover our common humanity and begin to understand the other side ❤️

[Coinfessions @coinfessions]

I escaped FTX one day before collapse.

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

The US has racked up $33T in debt. No big deal, right?

Well what if an individual did it.

It’s basically like this…

Meet Emily and Alex, a young couple living in a small apartment in the city. Life was good; they had jobs, dreams, and a tight budget that allowed them to live comfortably and save a little bit each month. But, as life would have it, desires started piling up.

One day, Emily saw an advertisement for a vacation package to the Maldives. "We deserve a break," she thought. The couple didn't have enough savings, but a shiny credit card offer arrived just in time. "0% interest for the first 6 months," it boasted. They took the plunge and booked their dream vacation.

Upon returning, Alex became enamored with the latest 4K TV. "It's football season, and think about the movie nights!" he exclaimed. The Maldives card was near its limit, but another credit card offer came in the mail: "Rewards with every purchase!" Why not? They got the TV.

The trend continued. A new sofa set on another card. Dining out more often because "life's too short." Emily enrolling in a pricier gym. They assured themselves they'd pay everything off soon.

But the 0% interest period ended. The rewards card wasn't as rewarding when the high interest rates kicked in. As more credit card offers flooded in, the couple found themselves opening new ones just to pay off old debts.

One evening, as they sat surrounded by all their purchases, Emily checked their statements. The minimum payments were now more than they could afford. Interest had compounded. The "easy" monthly payments weren't so easy anymore.

They realized they were trapped in a cycle. Instead of using their earnings to invest in their future, like buying a home or traveling, they were caught in the web of debt. The allure of immediate gratification, enabled by the credit cards, had clouded their long-term vision.

The story of Emily and Alex serves as a cautionary tale. It mirrors what can happen when entities, be they individuals or governments, spend without foresight or sustainability in mind.

Now the US government’s debt service is the largest item in the budget…

How does this end?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol.

The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor.

If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

What do I think about Community Notes?

https://t.co/9A0PnanndM

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's an ominous-looking prime number:
1000000000000066600000000000001

It's 666 with 13 zero's on either side & 1's on both ends.

I learned about while looking at the work of the brilliant @pickover

The mathematical world is full of weird patterns. Or maybe the human brain just loves patterns and finds them everywhere.