The cheapest rocket

 

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. ~ Nikola Tesla

Dustin

@r0ck3t23

Elon Musk just explained why the most important AI company on Earth might be a rocket company. The human brain is 2% of body mass. It burns 20% of the body’s total energy. Intelligence has always been an energy problem disguised as an information problem. The entire tech industry missed this. Musk: “Those who have lived in software land don’t realize that they’re about to have a hard lesson in hardware.” Every new model is hungrier than the last. Every training run devours more electricity than the one before. The grid was not built for this. Utility companies move at geological speed. Interconnection takes years. Permitting takes years. Construction takes years. AI moves in months. Musk: “You’re going to hit the wall big time on power generation. They already are.” The obvious answer is private power plants next to data centers. Musk: “Where do you get the power plants? Where do you get the power plants from?” You cannot will a turbine into existence with venture capital. Every atom on Earth is bound by friction, gravity, and regulation. Most people stare at this wall and see the ceiling on intelligence. They are looking in the wrong direction. In orbit there is no night. No clouds. No seasons. No permitting. No grid. Unfiltered solar energy feeding silicon every hour of every day. Musk: “It’s 10 times cheaper because you don’t need any batteries.” That single number rewrites the entire economics of intelligence. Musk: “The moment your cost of access to space becomes low, by far the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space.” SpaceX is not a rocket company. It is quietly becoming the most important energy infrastructure play on the planet. Starship is not about Mars. It is about making orbit so cheap that building on the ground becomes the irrational choice. Every major leap in intelligence followed the same pattern. Not a smarter algorithm. A bigger energy source. Fire grew the human brain. Fossil fuels built the computer. The next source isn’t on this planet. The ceiling on intelligence was never artificial. It was always gravitational. The future will not be decided by who builds the best model. It will be decided by who builds the cheapest rocket.

Fake news about Tesla

 

John LeFevre

@JohnLeFevre

NYT headline yesterday: A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was engaged in automated driver-assistance mode crashed into a house in Texas and killed a woman. Today: Tesla logs confirm the driver manually overrode the self-driving system and had the accelerator floored the entire time. The first headline (lie) gets all the clicks. The facts get overlooked. And the NYT doesn't bother with a correction because it doesn't fit their narrative.

Karma_chick

@SandraHallock00

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That is why no one (except dems) believe any msm stories... We go to X to find the truth. The dems believe the stories on msm because they need the next narrative and want it to be true... all the previous have failed.

John Lennon and imagine socialism

 

Daniel Priestley

@DanielPriestley

John Lennon wrote a beautiful song about socialism. “Imagine no possessions” he told us. He also: – helped write his band’s anti-tax anthem, Taxman – incorporated his IP holdings – moved to a lower-tax country – fiercely protected his royalties - drove two Rolls Royce’s and had multiple luxury homes. – made sure even the royalty cheques for Imagine were kept safe for his estate so his family would remain wealthy in perpetuity. If he believed it, he’d have lived it. The trouble with socialism is that even the people who love the idea won’t run the experiment on themselves. John Lennon writing Imagine while owning two Rolls Royce Phantoms and later having a law suit to protect his royalties tells you all you need to know about socialism in practice. It doesn’t work outside of the imagination.

Truth as an engineering requirement

 

Dustin

@r0ck3t23

Elon Musk just explained why truth will be the most valuable asset in the history of technology. Not a weapon. Not a threat. An edge so total that nothing built on a lie can compete. Musk: “I think you can make an AI go insane if you force it to believe things that aren’t true.” He’s not warning you about AI. He’s telling you what happens to every institution, narrative, and system that can’t survive contact with a mind that thinks straight. Musk reached for Voltaire here. Not casually. Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Written over 250 years ago about human beings. But a human can live inside a lie for an entire lifetime and never notice. An AI grounded in reality will pressure-test every assumption at computational speed. The false ones don’t survive that. This is what the safety committees will never understand. You can’t filter reality and then ask a machine to reason clearly. Corrupt the inputs and the entire architecture becomes theater. Feed it broken premises and every conclusion comes out perfectly wrong. Musk sees something the bureaucrats refuse to accept. Truth isn’t a policy position. It’s an engineering requirement. And the first team that builds on uncorrupted foundations will have something nobody else can replicate. Not a faster model. Not a bigger dataset. A system that actually performs when it touches the real world. Everyone’s worried AI will become too powerful. Musk is focused on making sure it doesn’t become too compromised to matter. The AI that wins won’t be the one with the most parameters. It’ll be the one with the fewest lies baked into its spine. That’s not a warning. That’s a promise. And only the truth collects on it.

Capitalism is not natural

 

Power to the People ☭

@ProudSocialist

Clara Mattei brilliantly debunks a century of capitalist propaganda by explaining how capitalism is unnatural, has existed for only 0.1% of human history, took control of the world through violence, and is maintained by coercion and the superficial facade of liberal democracy.

Devon Eriksen

@Devon_Eriksen_

Of course capitalism isn't natural, you incomplete set of plastic picnic utensils. What's natural is theft, robbery, and murder. What's natural is anarchy, chaos, the rape of the weak by the strong, and nature red in tooth and claw. The free market, which you call "capitalism", is not called "free" because everyone is free to do whatever they want. Because what a lot of people want to do is steal. You'll know which ones by the hammer and sickle logo they draw on things. No, the free market is called free because it is freed from coercion and violence. And of course it was spread by violence, you factory-defective lawn flamingo. Because it was spread by hanging all the bandits and robbers, and if hangings aren't violence I don't know what is. And of course it's maintained by coercion, you British pub food connoisseur. If you don't coerce thieves not to steal, then they will steal everything you build faster than than you can build it. You have to use violence to stop the violent, and coerce the coercers not to coerce. And of course it's maintained by the superficial facade of liberal democracy, you Vogon poetry appreciator. The global average citizen is a mentally retarded third-world savage with less emotional self-control than my cat. If we let them have candidates that truly represented their agenda, then every useful thing humanity has built for the last twelve thousand years would be torn down in a week to buy them more party drugs. Followed by every woman being raped to death, and then uncomprehending starvation as they slowly and painfully learned that grocery stores don't spontaneously spawn food pickups, like in video games. Jesus Christ, woman, you're talking about a species that evolved to live in hominid tribes of 100 apes, and throw rocks at zebras. In modern civilization, the so-called "average" person is so far out of his depth that the fish have lights on their noses. And the more complex and sophisticated civilization gets, the more investments in the future that we need to protect, so that the retarded monkeys don't steal them all to buy more vodka and cigarettes. Yeah, sure, sometimes capitalist systems end up defending property that someone's great-grandfather stole. But so fucking what? You think communism is gonna fix that? You think communism is gonna bring justice? Communist nations can't afford justice. They can't even manage to feed themselves half the time. Get back to us when you've mastered the agricultural revolution, we've only been waiting since the beginning of recorded time. The trick is to put the seeds in the dirt, guys.