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@elonmusk
@nichegamer
most Americans' jobs do not involve free food — kind of lame to see highly-paid tech employees complaining
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@elonmusk
@chamath
@CommunityNotes
.
@CommunityNotes
is an anon civic duty like voting.
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@mayemusk
@WholeMarsBlog
Elon's good at rationalizing away fear. He could write a children's book.
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@rupasubramanya
@bariweiss
Being interviewed publicly by journalists reduces risk of misquotation. Hit pieces depend on a narrow pipe of information flow.
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1 year in, same trichotomy of outcomes for Ukraine.
@DavidSacks
@elonmusk
3 most likely outcomes of Ukraine War:
1. Forever War - Russian mobilization reestablishes stalemate.
2. Nuclear War - Ukrainian counter-offensive keeps winning; Russia uses nukes to defend Crimea.
3. Compromise - US tells Ukraine it can’t have Crimea back.
Take your pick.
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@WholeMarsBlog
Elon's "Tactics of Mistake" references a strategy in the eponymous novel where one lets an opponent overreach and then capitalizes. A kind of judo which we've seen Elon employ several times — especially when he burned the shorts post Model3.
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@Scobleizer
@elonmusk
"Stranger in a Strange Land" is the rare book that embodies its spirit and philosophy in a single word — grok.
What other art does this? Only other I can think of is "The Big Lebowski" and "dude."
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@raechellambert
@Austen
Yes and the flow of pleasant hubbub can keep you in a positive mood — which is needed to push through obstacles.
Ultimately it may depend on whether you're an extrovert (social hubbub is energizing) or introvert (social hubbub is draining).
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@elonmusk
@chamath
@CommunityNotes
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@CommunityNotes
is an anon civic duty like voting.
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@elonmusk
@chamath
@CommunityNotes
"A lady asked Dr. Franklin, 'Well Doctor what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?'
'A republic,' replied the Doctor, 'if you can keep it.'"
— Sept 18, 1787, last day of Constitutional Convention, according to delegate James McHenry of Deleware.
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@Jason
@TheDemocrats
Wants cars bought in America to be made in America. This advantages Tesla.
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@jonstewart
What do you think of
@TuckerCarlson
coming to twitter? And might you meet him again like this?
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@DavidSacks
@amuse
echoes his puncturing of the Iraqi WMD narrative pushed in NYT by Judith Miller.
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@DavidSacks
Compare Biden to Taft. Taft recognized and celebrated innovators — such as the 2 bike mechanics below who figured out how to fly. Biden, on the other hand, studiously ignores a certain innovator and then calls for his regulatory harassment.
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@josephsbool
A respected mathematician called him to convince him to take the $1m reward. Mathematician went into a whole paragraph of how great the achievement is, how the money could make a meaningful difference in his life. At the end Perelman simply said "I am not persuaded."
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@Rainmaker1973
The disc-on-pen technique will not work in general. It's a mathematical coincidence that it works for that particular sinusoid. The correct answer would be given by a profile gauge, because it respects the translation of the mat into the drawer:
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@BigImpactHumans
@WalterIsaacson
It doesn't make sense why Elon would ever have the Starlink on in Crimea in the first place, given his geopolitical views. Maybe most likely explanation is semantic: from the drone's point of view its service is being "cut off" as it moves into Crimea zone. From SpaceX's point
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@paulg
Or how about: AI turns writers into editors, like how a steam shovel lets you build a road without digging it all by hand. AI moves you one step the creation chain. Editors can still critique, redirect, or manually rewrite.
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@asbelcas
AI is neither aware of — nor incentivized by — artistic gatekeepers and the art establishment.
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@heydave7
@karpathy
@BlazejDolicki
Respectfully, this says what the Chinchilla trap is "about" but not what it "is." It also doesn't explain how it traps anything.
The point is that people were seduced by the Chinchilla scaling law into thinking expensive, large-data, expensive-compute efforts were needed — when
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@RobertKennedyJr
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@elonmusk
's October peace proposal could have saved how many lives? He and
@DavidSacks
were excorciated for it. The logic that kept Obama out of such a war has been essentially unspeakable.
@spideycyp_155
Whether one likes it or not, Crimea is absolutely seen as a core part of Russia by Russia.
Crimea is also of critical national security importance to Russia, as it is their southern navy base.
From their standpoint losing Crimea is like USA losing Hawaii & Pearl Harbor.
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"When France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden all tried a wealth tax they ended up repealing it because it had massive implementation problems and it did not generate anywhere near the revenue they had hoped for." - Andrew Yang on Sens. Warren and Sanders favoring a wealth tax
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@alex_avoigt
Striking that Tesla Supercharging won two peers on the merits — as opposed to convincing a regulatory body.
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@WalterIsaacson
Feels like you found a good stopping point: Elon handing off twitter CEOship, Starship passes max-Q, Tesla embraces ads and a 20B robot future. How did you think about starting and stopping this book?
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@8teAPi
Biggest mistake of smart people: minmaxing optimal strategies in too narrow a ruleset. Like, never assume P(they'll flip the board on you)=0.
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@alex_avoigt
Feels like Tesla critics were hoisted by their own petard here — all the smaller attacks between 2018 and 2024 added up to a voting base in 2024 that was relatively immune to FUD.
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@thecomarproof
@Rainmaker1973
And even then the strings would be implementing L1 minimization. Still it is a compelling visual metaphor.
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@DirtyTesLa
@Tesla
FSD learns from observing human drivers drive; Optimus will learn from observing human doers do.
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@elonmusk
@aaronjmate
"There is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties."
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@DavidSacks
For the 10% of Americans who have >$1m in savings — the message is to spread savings across multiple banks. This then increases the amount that FDIC/SIPC must protect. Are those backstops sufficiently capitalized?
There is more than $22 Trillion in the U.S. banking system. The FDIC has $124.5 Billion on its balance sheet and a $100 Billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury. FDIC assets cover only 1.26% of deposits. About the size of Silicon Valley Bank. One bank. Let that sink in.
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@Tesla
Nevada was a focus of the
@AndrewYang
campaign because of rapid automation occurring in the hospitality industry (robotic bartenders, cooks, automation in casino gaming). It's nice to see a job-creating side of things happening there.
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@Itsjoeco
@elonmusk
@WallStreetSilv
Switzerland losing trust of its banks would be like Italy forgetting how to make pasta
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@jonatanpallesen
megafauna would’ve been particularly vulnerable to exhaustion hunting by groups of humans?
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@elonmusk
Elon believes the most transparent, fastest, most efficient network wins. He's putting this Information Theory to the test by challenging Apple on censorship, app fees, walled garden approach. What would Steve Jobs think, I wonder?
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@paulg
Yes. When Gutenberg automated book production the right move was to learn to write — not flee the literary arts for fear of the machine. More writers were needed.
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@amitisinvesting
He couldn't hang. A more informed reporter would have asked about twitter v substack, twitter files and Taibbi... Best the reporter could muster was a string of clickbait attempts.
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@RobertKennedyJr
In 2019,
@AndrewYang
criticized lawfare efforts against Trump, saying they were likely to backfire. And also that lawfare against Trump would just start a tit-for-tat cycle of each side jailing the previous president. I wonder what Andrew and what
@RobertKennedyJr
thinks now.
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@yacineMTB
Best thing to tell early mathematicians: stop trying to prove the parallel postulate from the other axioms. If you lose that you're just doing geometry on a curved surface. Maybe they could've opened their minds to other axioms — and even discovered Calculus sooner.
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@emollick
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@AndrewYang
previewed this in 2018, based on private demos & conversations in Silicon Valley. He called it the "third inning of the 4th Industrial Revolution." Only more true today, it seems.
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@Jason
Elon interviewing Vlad on a live Spaces (about frozen Robinhood withdrawals) was an epic part of this story; wondering if it made the movie. $gme
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@DavidSacks
“We know better” primaries that freeze out Sanders, Yang, Dean Phillips, RFK … result in brittle unresponsive institutions.
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@yacineMTB
@paulg
Just keep doing sensible things; you'll have more counterparties random-walking off positions you want.
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@pmddomingos
@geoffreyhinton
Don't worry about Thanos 'cause Loki already gets under your skin...?
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@MuskUniversity
“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in
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@DavidSacks
In a democracy, all citizens should be able to debate the decisions of war & peace. Same as with Afghanistan. Same as with Iraq. When Jon Stewart asked questions that had to be asked of the "experts" regarding WMDs — he was also told off. Groupthink among experts is dangerous.
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@jasonslenderman
@thecomarproof
@Rainmaker1973
yes because the system would then seek to minimize the energy stored in the springs, which is a sum of Hooke's Law potentials ky^2 — a sum of squares.
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@NateSilver538
Voters were sending a very clear signal on Biden — DNC mistake was turning the primaries into CalvinBall.
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@elonmusk
@ggreenwald
unquestionable forever war was the cornerstone of "1984." Being able to question the Iraq War, or the war in Ukraine, is vital to our democracy.
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and
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@heydave7
von Holzhausen's been channeling the future all along — remember his job posting in 2021?
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@DavidSacks
If you disagree with
@DavidSacks
you should explain why Obama was wrong to let Crimea go back to Russia. Why did Obama think it wasn't worth a nuclear war?
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@heydave7
@geoffreyhinton
This would be great. Could also be interesting to ask him about his forward-forward algorithm, which is optimized for low-power uses, but gives up perfect reproducibility to do so.
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@elonmusk
@janleike
Does OpenAI even have a thesis on safety?
Meta: open source avoids tyrannical concentration... we'll still make money along the way
xAI: singular focus on truth and expanding the scope of consciousness — naturally aligns with coexisting with humans.
OpenAI: just trust us bro...?
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@DavidSacks
@allinsummit
@elonmusk
@WalterIsaacson
1. Push needless war.
2. Attack anyone questioning it as siding with the enemy.
3. When war goes badly, find scapegoat and back away slowly.
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"You have to have a mechanical sympathy. Like a carpenter, work with the grain."
@TigerBeetleDB
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@DavidSacks
Moreover, many past experts would disagree with the current "experts." Past nuclear calculus was understood: by Mearsheimer, Obama, Reagan, James Baker, JFK, Kennan. Realpolitik was not invented yesterday on twitter.
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@tsarnick
Feynamn asked the question this way:
"If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic
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@realGeorgeHotz
The real unlock is that you get the replies *if you were followed by all of twitter.* It would be the "in-a-world-where-you're-Elon" feature.
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@WholeMarsBlog
"amphibian frog" — Elon slyly brings an overengineered metaphor to a debate over overengineering 🤣
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@IterIntellectus
1. Establish on Earth that perceived width is inverse to how far away an object is.
2. Argue that the phase of the moon has to do with sun reflecting off it at night.
3. Sun has to be very far away for the lunar phase cycle to be what it is.
4. Because sun & moon appear same size
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@heydave7
Elon follows you now... maybe you can finally get that interview?
Seems he's encouraging Tesla influencers to set up subscriber communities on Twitter, which he then participates in.
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@engineers_feed
cos^2 theta + sin^2 theta = 1
Trig gets a bad rap for being boring, but is essential to building anything with slanted pieces...
...and to understanding how circular motion relates to sinusoidal oscillation — a fact that is central to modern electronics.
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