DrKnowItAll
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YouTube channel on Tesla, AI, etc. UGA professor. CEO of https://t.co/Kq9SjojMIz. Biological AI Bootloader. Call me John.
Athens, GA, USA
Joined February 2021
Einstein’s General Relativity theory almost has to be wrong, in the same sense that Newton’s theory of gravity is wrong: it fails when examined in extreme cases. In particular GR must be wrong because there is, IMHO, overwhelming evidence that time is an emergent rather than.
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@elonmusk @imPenny2x If you can’t allow people who you detest to say things you detest, you don’t have true free speech. As long as he doesn’t break the law he should be allowed to spout his nonsense.
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The @Tesla Model Y becoming the world's best selling car is truly momentous: .The best selling car in the world in 2023 is:.-A higher-end, fairly expensive model.-An EV.-Built by a "tiny" car company that was only delivering tens of thousands of cars a year a decade ago.-Built in.
Congratulations Tesla. For the first time, the best selling car in the world is electric and can run advanced driving AI . May there never be an ICE car topping the best sellers list again 🙏 $TSLA.
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I just drove my mom’s (gas) car to pick her up at the hospital, and I have to say the experience was horrific. From having to crank the engine to no acceleration to very very loose suspension to knowing that I was completely on my own if anything went wrong it was really bad.
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So my mom, who consumes only mainstream media, just told me she’s terribly worried about me seeing Elon Musk next week because he’s an evil man whose trying to overthrow Joe Biden and take over the world with his billionaire buddies. You can’t make this stuff up. 🤣🤣🤣.@elonmusk.
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This is the scariest quote I’ve read in a long time. A long time.
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A VERY happy reunion!! Mom says hi, and thank for all the good wishes!
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@elonmusk 🤯.If people knew how insanely complex this is to do this would be top headline news today. Congrats to the SpaceX team. That is one hell of an accomplishment.
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The world is weird. Today I’m doing a holiday visit with my wife’s rather conservative extended family. Three years ago they all hated Elon and Tesla and now they love the car and want to take all about both. Three years ago my rather liberal extended family loved Elon and Tesla.
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I've been asked to try posting full videos to Twitter, so I am, starting with today's video. LMK your thoughts. @elonmusk Claims FSD Beta solution was "much simpler than we thought," but what does that mean? Plus First Cybertruck Rolls Off The Line!
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Welcome to the family, Someone Else’s Problem. What a dream to drive! Thanks to Anthony and @Tesla Fayetteville, GA for making the delivery process super smooth and fun!
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Engineering is the science of compromise. In a car you get acceleration or comfort or sportiness or range or agility. But you can’t have them all. But Tesla somehow managed all of them with the Cybertruck. How is that even possible?! @Tesla engineers are magicians.
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Elon has been in startup mode since the mid 90s. Who else has the kind of drive and stamina to be a (multiple) startup founder for thirty years?!.We owe Elon a huge debt for this. 🙏.
@EPavlic @breckyunits @bchesky Just leaving Tesla engineering offices in Palo Alto. Mostly good, some bad. The future is going to be wild. There will be so many robots ….
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Tesla and the Tesla AI team: THANK YOU!! Tonight my Model Y drove me about 20 miles in the rain and in the dark in bad traffic conditions around Washington DC when I couldn’t even see the lines on the road! FSD was a literal life saver tonight. You all deserve a ton of praise!
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Today we sold our last gas powered ANYTHING (our Mazda CX-5). We are now totally electric: A Tesla Model Y, a Model 3, 2 heat pumps for the house, and all battery electric yard equipment. Thank you to Tesla and @elonmusk for allowing us to finally live the electric future!
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I had the privilege of going on @TMZ today and talking with @HarveyLevinTMZ about the supposed robot "attack" at Tesla that's been making the news. I just saw the segment and it turned out very well, I think. I hope it helps put this ridiculous headline to rest. plus we got to
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This is a very cool form of 'community notes,' and companies should take note and use this when needed. To wit, don't freak out and use emotional language defending your company, but add context, set the facts straight, and do it in a calm, rational manner. This type of response.
Reuters published an article that leads with a wildly misleading headline and is riddled with incomplete and demonstrably incorrect information. This latest piece vaguely and nonsensically suggests there are thousands upon thousands of disgruntled Tesla customers. It’s.
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Elon, I’ve taught at university for nearly 30 years, and I hate what’s happened to academia. I have ideas and energy to change things. If you’re starting a new university with X or another way, please let me help you make it amazing. I’m happy to start tomorrow! @elonmusk.
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Hey all, I wanted to let you know that during a biopsy surgery, my mother's heart stopped, and she's in a coma. The likelihood is she will never recover. I'm going to leave for DC as soon as I can, so if you don't see me here for a bit this is why. And of course thanks for the.
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And here I was wondering why everyone is suddenly following me 🤣.Thanks, Elon. And thanks to my other subscribers and all my new followers!
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I am absolutely steamed at @Tesla service right now. After a nearly 3 month delay getting our model 3 back glass fixed, and 0 communication from service prior to today, Lane drove 1.5 hours into Atlanta to get it fixed, only to have Tesla service tell her it would be multiple.
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Just bought more $TSLA. Anyone else with me this morning?.
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Holy hell this is outstanding work from the @Tesla_AI team! If I’m reading this right Optimus is doing all this autonomously! The future will be here before you know it!.
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My dad, Lee, rocking those 1970s side burns. He lived 86 years, was married for 64 of them, had 3 children, 6 grandchildren, and one great grandchild. He was a man, take him for all in all,.I shall not look upon his like again. Rest in peace, dad. We love you endlessly.
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My family, together. Not sure we'll ever get another picture like this. 😢♥️
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My take on why this is such a big deal.
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Something needs to be done about the FSD speed strike of going over 85. Currently it’s an instantaneous strike which is a bit crazy. If you’re on a 75mph highway it’s standard to cruise close to 85. Then if you have to touch the accelerator to get around a problematic situation.
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A little bit of feedback for the Tesla supercharging team. First of all, I would really like to be able to specify how much tolerance I have for how low the battery will get before my next supercharger stop. It seems to default to 10%, but I am comfortable going to 5%. I would.
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Elon, here's a logo for your X Holdings corporation. You have infinite possibilities with them. @elonmusk
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Can we all just take a moment to realize that tomorrow, Elon Musk could buy a small island chain in the Caribbean and retire from life and work--and live better than he is now. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to a man who puts the well being of civilization above his own.
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Good lord, my Tesla Model Y just drove me from my house to the climbing gym without me even getting nervous once. It was like I was a passenger with a very competent driver in charge. It’s so normal now with 11.4.7.2 that it’s not even a big deal—and that is a VERY big deal!.
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Hi, all, I owe all those who have sent so much love an update on my mom's situation. TLDR: she is doing MUCH better. She's still in the hospital, but improving daily and we hope to have her home in a few more days. The details for those who might care. One week ago (last
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@elonmusk I've heard that if you solve the captcha problem too quickly now, Google thinks you're an AI rather than a person. How the tables have turned!.
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This is my appearance on @TMZ. I hope I did a decent job explaining what really happened behind the headlines. And wow they found my old, “secret” personal x handle. 😂.
A software engineer was 'attacked' by a robot at the Tesla manufacturing plant in Austin. Tesla expert @jkundert came on TMZ Live to talk about how safe the robots are and if they will eventually develop minds of their own.
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My wife has gone full beta tester. She calls me up during her drives and tells me all the feedback about what Tesla‘s full self driving could do better. It’s pretty darn funny considering that six months ago she wouldn’t even use it or let me use it while she was in the car. I.
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This morning I woke up at 5AM: it’s Cybertruck pickup day and I was too excited to sleep. I feel a combo of “child me on Christmas morning” and “adult me thinking ‘that’s how much I owe every month?!’” 😂
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My post saying how happy I am to finally have Starlink at home gave rise to claims that Starlink service is very slow compared to ground based internet. This shows a fundamental assumption that we all live in places with gigabit Ethernet. Some of us don’t, and for us this service.
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I’ve always wanted a Roadster, and I finally got one!!
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Wow, a mostly positive story about a Musk company from the MSM with lots of views. Nice. How Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Bringing In Billions For SpaceX
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I’m finding my social media habits changing significantly. Six months ago it was around 90% YouTube, 9% Twitter and 1% miscellaneous. Now it’s around 60% YouTube, 39% Twitter and 1% miscellaneous. As Twitter improves and gets more long form content I expect the change to.
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In this real-world scam detection test, @Grok wins, hands-down! I asked ChatGPT, Bard and Grok if the site was a scam. ChatGPT gave a "weather report" answer that's not very helpful; Bard said it couldn't even browse the site; and Grok gave a great and very useful answer. This
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I got a free meal tonight! Oh and this award for entrepreneur of the year from The University of Georgia. It’s been a good night. @universityofga
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A quick update on my dad. He’s stable and doing better at the hospital (infection and sepsis). We’re staying at least one extra day to be sure he continues to improve. Thanks for all your good wishes and love!
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Holy sh*t @Tesla_AI team, did I hear from Elon what I thought I just heard?! What amazing news!.
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I resisted as long as I could, but FSD transfer, a RED Model Y (I've always wanted a red car), and a $7500 tax credit were just too much. Welcome to the family soon, "So Much For Subtlety" (with appreciation to Iain M Banks).
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I drove FSD Beta v12.3 about an hour today: downtown, in college during class changes, on and off highways, and through odd speed signs. It's not perfect (mostly too wussy on speed limits) but DAMN it's impressive. It'll definitely pass the spouse test!.@Tesla_AI @lanielane81.
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@NickGibbsIAG As @jamesdouma says the foundation work on the building looks like nothing. Then when the frame goes up it’s like magic!!.
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Well it took a lot (this is double the price of any car we’ve bought!) but @lanielane81 and I will soon have a new addition to the @Tesla family. Now we just need a name!
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When did Twitter videos get speed controls? That's HUGE news! My subscriptions should be enabled very shortly, and I'll be sure to start posting exclusive subscription videos on Twitter now--as well as testing cross-over videos between Twitter and YouTube. Exciting times ahead!.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our family to yours!
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As a note, a $40,000 vehicle in 2019 would cost $48,000+ today. That is a TON of inflation (yikes), and covers almost half of the price increase of the Cybertruck since the 2019 unveiling. Yes, I will still be buying one. The two motor variant to be specific. @Tesla
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I’m calling on all US politicians to please NOT bail out GM when they inevitably come crawling to you in 1-3 years asking for a bankruptcy bailout. They do not deserve it and it will be a total waste of taxpayer money as they’re irrelevant already. Not that you all will listen.
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Now I have a target to earn whatever this thing costs before it comes out. Take my money, Tesla. Time to live out my astronaut dreams, baby!
Tonight, we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster. There will never be another car like this, if you could even call it a car.
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Thank you to the folks who purchased a new Tesla using my referral link. And guess who’s going to the Cybertruck delivery event?! Yee haw! 🤠
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In honor of recent events, I'm posting to Twitter exclusively first for this one! Watch it here now, or wait a few hours and watch on YouTube :).Optimus Can Now Teach Tesla's FSD Beta! Virtuous Cycle Coming Full Circle. As always a huge thanks to the @Tesla AI team. Great work
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Another long (600 mile) road trip in our Model Y with FSD Beta and I am reminded yet again what a marvel this hardware and software is. The car drove us through heavy rain, direct sun, windy back roads through the Appalachian mountains, interstates, construction, heavy standstill.
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If we live in a simulation what is the speed of light? An arbitrary number the coder put in? The "turn time" of the sim? The max speed of data transmission in the hardware? The actual speed of light in the simulator's universe? .My hunch, from watching the way we do our sims,.
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Can Twitter/X Become the ONE Social Media/Work App To Rule Them All? If so, how?!.FYI I'm a/b testing this on YouTube and here on Twitter. Let me know your thoughts about the two media services for videos.
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X staff, could you make the heart button a bit bigger on iPhone? I have fat fingers and am always clicking into a tweet when I just want to heart it. Thanks!.@X.
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Hi, @Hertz; this poor young lady just bought a used fleet car from you and she’s trying to get her car to charge in the rain, but your team did not set up her phone app to have the car associated with it. That’s poor service as now she’s stuck trying to get it to charge in
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I'm heading into a very challenging time with my parents' help today. Please send me good thoughts and wishes as this is unexplored and very difficult territory. And even more so, send my dad the best thoughts, wishes and prayers you can. Thank you all.
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Man I love ordering from Tesla: put down a deposit on our new Model Y one hour ago. While watching TV, I've taken care of the trade-in, financing, insurance, we have terms and are all set to pick up the car and trade in our old one. That's the way ordering a car should be!.
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Let's all buy fishing licenses and speed up this process!.
Starship preparing to launch as early as November 17, pending final regulatory approval →
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I'm about 95,000 impressions from hitting the magic 15million mark. Two days left. Time to post some pics of me nude holding dank memes to get over the top. 🤣.
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I tried out x calling with @GoingBallistic5 this morning, from his Android to my iPhone. I was driving part of it, then transferred to my phone as I walked over to a coffee shop. I paid for coffee with tap-to-pay and posted some things to x, all while connected solidly the entire.
You can make calls on this platform now without sharing your phone number. Go to Settings ➤ Privacy & Safety ➤ Direct Messages ➤ Enable Audio & Video Calling.
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This is a HUGE change on three fronts:.1, it shows just how confident Elon is about the quality of FSD.2, it will be a brilliant technique to get people to subscribe.3, it's good to show limitations and how FSD works before getting into one.@elonmusk I suggest you give away 1-2.
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@elonmusk @stevenmarkryan Yes, if I want to find something you said more than about 12 hours ago I now have to go to my Discord bot that auto-copies your tweets. Something strange is going on. .
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Starlink Gen-3 Unboxing, Installation and Review. Is it worth the price to upgrade your current Dish and Router? One thing I didn't include here (as it's a consumer review) is that this will save SpaceX a TON of money as the new dishes are obviously much less expensive to
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Cancer is killing two people I love, and radically affecting everyone they know. If AI can make progress on solving cancer I can say from personal experience that it won't just save lives, it'll save people's sanity. Anyone working on this right now is a true hero.
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When I was younger I thought "if I get rich I'll buy a Porsche. If I get REALLY rich I'll buy a McLaren." Now I think "if I get rich I'll buy a Model S. If I get really rich I'll buy a Model S Plaid." What a cool world that my fantasy car is 1/20th the price it used to be!
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In a couple of weeks, @elonmusk took Twitter from 7,500 employees to around 1,500. I expect they'll have to hire a few now to fill gaps, but this is an incredible purging and will make Twitter more like a startup again. Now we get to see how the engineers fly!.
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Holy ****! This new guy is nuts! Expect a video on this from me early tomorrow. So much to go over 🤩.
There’s a new bot in town 🤖. Check this out (until the very end)!.
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The hits just keep on coming this summer: Turns out my mom now has stage 4 cancer which has metastasized to her lungs. Please send your good thoughts and prayers her way. Thanks.
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I have a friend who commutes 2 hours 3x per week through Atlanta traffic (yikes). He was in the market for a new car and I said please check out a Tesla Model 3 with FSD. He said he wouldn’t because he’d give money to Elon, so he bought a Camry for the same $$. I tried. 🤦♂️.
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@MinimalDuck @Tesla @cybertruck @elonmusk @teslaownersSV @oaklandpoliceca Dude doesn't really understand how to wear a mask does he? Then again he was dumb enough to try to break into a Cybertruck.
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We get spoiled by Tesla FSD so much. Tonight, I picked up a former college roommate and drove him about 6 miles round trip to get dinner. Except for parking I never touched my Model Y’s controls once in Atlanta traffic—including one U turn. My friend’s mouth was agape the entire.
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A big thank you to everyone selling $TSLA on the news. I appreciate the help.
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OK folks, the moment of truth has arrived: I've been invited to get a Foundation Series Cybertruck! .Can we afford the monthly payment? Not a chance. Do I still want to figure out a way to make it happen? Of course! .Any suggestions? I have a pretty decent kidney still. 🤪
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The MSM wants us to be sad and terrified every day. There is a more optimistic way to view the world.
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Hi, everyone. I see SO many responses and love and good thoughts. Thank you all! .A very positive turn of events: while my sister and the doc were discussing taking my mom off life support, she opened her eyes and was able to squeeze people's hands. Apparently this floored the.
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Wow. Not only is the hand impressive, the reaction time is amazing!.
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