Oh, I forgot the best part.
Months before the IPO, SpaceX took $17.5 billion of old junk debt from xAI and X and parked it on its own balance sheet through a $20 billion bridge loan.
The terms? Repaid within six months of listing.
So part of the $75 billion that retail and index funds just handed over is already spoken for. Not for Mars. Not for rockets. To clear debts piling up at Elon's other companies.
You bought the rocket ship.
You're on the hook for the loans.
BEST. ENGINEERING. EVER.
@DavidVorick Underrated post. World deserves open information at all times. Walled gardens have never resulted in more economic growth, they always lead to asymmetry and danger
Imagine if when Google search had started, if it gave refusals for searches on academic biology. What if Wikipedia refused to host articles on cryptography? What if ISPs refused to route you to forums and educational platforms for cybersecurity?
The fact that LLMs gatekeep knowledge is unprecedented in the history of technology, and there's no good justification for it.
We've known for a long time that a society is healthiest when information - especially security related information - is freely available. If good guys can't use the best tools available to make their software secure... then their software simply won't be secure. That's not 'preventing bad guys from finding exploits' - that's simply refusing to let society be safe!
And the same thing goes for other types of knowledge. Any time in history that special knowledge has been captured and controlled by the elites, that knowledge asymmetry is abused.
We shouldn't tolerate a "permanent underclass". Everyone should have access to the world's greatest repository of knowledge.
Elon controlling a trillion $ is good. But there are people who control more: US senators
Capitalize the federal budget as a perpetuity & each US senator controls ~$2.9T
We gave 100 politicians 3x Elon's $ each, with no history of being good allocators. That's the misallocation
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
@SenWarren Why can't you be MORE like Elon instead of criticizing him?
He has created more solar and green initiative than you, pushed space travel and access to communication more, created more jobs than you, paid more in taxes than you...
And you were elected to do that!!!
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Yeah ok. You clearly have never raised a boy.
So according to you, and science, there is no need to ever be physical with a child who doesn't understand. Because their listening and comprehension is so great. Those bad behaviors will self correct everytime, through speech or repetition. Yes. Repeat yourself 100 times and eventually he will listen.
No. You won't lose your sanity as a parent. The child will eventually change... don't worry that the bad behavior is impacting their siblings too. Doesn't matter, purely avoiding doing anything physical is always the answer, especially if they are committing bad behaviors on repeat.
If your dog bites, you politely ask it to stop. Works every time....
Right.
With the advent of AI and digital art, I'm have a hard time seeing the value of NFTs
Imagine a world where you can generate your own pudgy, your own Lil, in an instant. Better, have your agent push it onchain and give it a digital footprint.
Is that a better version of your NFT? Will humans decide that the value of human curated and designed digital art is greater than the instant AI one? What would the AIs value higher?
Pudgies have real world branding, that's probably the differentiator. Beyond that though... ?
@sudoingX The spark is interesting but I wonder what the benefit is over going mac studio? The studio is a little more than 2x the price but can do 512gb vram and mac has MLX models.
I think if local is your priority the mac studio might still be king? How do you like spark?