CyberViKing of Mars

Achievement unlocked 🔓: made @elonmusk laugh 😳

Engineering tests of the first production Cybercab have begun in Austin

I love optimizing machines It’s like a beautiful puzzle That also achieves true usefulness

@bscholl I wished for a bright future for all mankind

Homeless, yachtless Elon Musk, who actually builds rockets, EVs, and neural tech trying to benefit humanity, should apparently cough up $50 billion in taxes on unrealized gains. Meanwhile, Laurene Powell Jobs ($15B inherited), Nancy Walton ($20B inherited), and MacKenzie Scott ($40B divorce) never built shit, never risked shit, and never shipped a single product that changed the world. But they get the praise and zero scrutiny. Because they have the right politics. (BTW ~25% of Walmart employees are on government benefits.)

@RichardDetente Ils vont le faire. Les activistes commencent déjà à manifester contre les data centers terriens

Je vous invite vraiment à prendre le temps de lire cet article. Et si vous n'avez pas le temps, copiez-collez-le dans votre LLM préféré, demandez audio sauce podcast, et écoutez ça à votre prochaine séance de sport ^^ Blague à part, ce que nous dit Andreessen, c'est qu’en gros, il faut arrêter de regarder SpaceX comme une boîte de fusées qui rêve de Mars. Le package de rémunération de Musk donne déjà le ton : zéro dollar, ou presque, tant qu'il n'a pas soit posé un million de personnes sur Mars, soit fait tourner 100 térawatts de data centers dans l'espace, plus de mille fois ce que la planète entière fait tourner aujourd'hui. Donc l’IPO, c’est très cool, mais ça signe surtout le début des choses sérieuses si vous voulez mon avis ^^ Parce que oui, Mars, la Lune, l’espace, toutes ces choses là, en réalité, c’est surtout un moyen de chercher à pallier le problème énergétique, je grossis le trait, mais vous avez saisi l’idée. Comme je le disais sur Grand Angle Nova la semaine dernière, les puces, certes, ça ne tombe pas du ciel, mais ce n’est pas LE frein, le problème, c’est l’électricité pour les faire tourner. Si vous voulez mettre un seul térawatt de solaire au sol, c'est 1 % de la surface des États-Unis, des années de permis et un réseau déjà à bout, donc si dans l'absolu vous avez une meilleure solution pour lui, n'hésitez pas ^^ Plus sérieusement, ces problèmes d’énergie, d’infrastructure, de raccordement, ce n’est vraiment pas une partie de plaisir. D'où le pari qui paraît fou et qui l'est beaucoup moins qu'il n'y paraît : aller chercher le calcul là où le soleil ne se couche jamais. Et ajoutez à ça que tout ce qui concerne “le sol” a tendance à grimper, que ce soit le refroidissement, l’électricité, le foncier, et évidemment la régulation, alors que de l’autre côté, le lancement, le solaire et les puces deviennent chaque année moins chers. Et donc oui, il existe un monde où poser un data center en orbite revient moins cher qu'au Texas. Comme je vous le disais aussi dans la vidéo GAN, Musk ne pose pas la course au LLM le plus puissant comme un principe premier pour son business, ou du moins ce n’est pas aussi fondamental que ça pour lui. À mon sens, ce qu’il fait, à savoir fabriquer tout ce dont le futur qui se dessine a besoin pour simplement exister, le lancement, l'énergie, les robots, les usines de puces, les puces elles-mêmes avec TeraFab, est certes bien plus risqué, bien plus coûteux, controversé, bref ce que vous voulez, mais en attendant, c’est littéralement la vente de pelles et de pioches à l’échelle d’une civilisation qui, qu’on le veuille ou non, va évoluer. Alors oui, je sais que vous êtes pour beaucoup très critiques de cette histoire de data center dans l’espace, oui il y a plein de limites dans tous les sens, je sais et on en reparlera, mais sachez que Musk n’est pas tout seul sur le dossier, Google, Bezos, la Chine, et même des acteurs plus petits comme les UAE s’intéressent de très près au dossier, donc ce n’est pas un "délire de milliardaire". Bref, chacun se fera sa propre opinion sur le potentiel de tout ça, en attendant encore une fois, jetez un coup d’œil à cet article car ça vaut vraiment le détour, et dites-vous bien que si vous voulez faire quelque chose d’exceptionnel, de réellement transformateur, ça passe mécaniquement par réussir l’impossible.

Some of us will live forever. And if you’re reading this, that may or may not be you. I am so bullish on this that I just renamed my company to Immortals. Below: + why I think this + early signs of success + how to increase your odds Yes, I know this sounds crazy. Immortality has been an ambition for humanity since the beginning of recorded history. The immortality I’m referring to is specific: increases in life expectancy will outpace the rate of aging. Meaning, we will no longer, by default, expect to die of natural causes. I believe this for three reasons. #1: Immortality already exists Biology can reverse some features of aging, and in a handful of organisms escape it almost entirely. For example, a sperm and an egg from two people in their 30s carry the legacy of bodies that have aged for decades (the egg in particular has been arrested inside the mother since before she herself was born), yet they combine to produce an embryo that resets the aging clock to zero. The immortal jellyfish goes further and resets itself within one lifetime, reverting its adult cells to an earlier stage through transdifferentiation and starting its life cycle again. And in the lab, scientists have begun doing this deliberately, making induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from mature adult cells such as skin fibroblasts, and using partial cellular reprogramming to turn the clock back in the tissues of living animals. #2: AI offers new potentials Biology is a hard problem. For most of history that complexity was beyond native human capacity. AI was made for this complexity. The clearest demonstration so far is protein folding. Predicting the three-dimensional shape a protein folds was an unsolved problem for roughly fifty years, and it mattered because a protein's shape determines what it does in the body. DeepMind's AlphaFold2 effectively solved it in 2020, reaching a median accuracy of 92.4 out of 100, a level long thought to require the slow, painstaking work of crystallizing a protein and solving its structure by X-ray crystallography. It then released predicted structures for over 200 million proteins, nearly the entire catalogued protein universe, in a fraction of the time anyone expected. #3: Early signs are encouraging These aspirations are not imaginative. With the current tools in biotech Sid Sijbrandij, the co-founder of GitLab, was diagnosed with an aggressive bone cancer, osteosarcoma in his vertebrae. He treated his own disease like an engineering problem, he used AI to help direct several experimental, personalized therapies in parallel and drove the cancer into remission after standard medicine had given up. Around the same time, an Australian named Paul Conyngham, with no medical or biology background, did something similar for his dog. He used AI to help design a personalized mRNA vaccine targeting the specific mutations in his dog's tumor, and after it was given alongside another immunotherapy and within a few months the main tumor had shrunk by roughly three-quarters. How to increase your odds… I. Don’t die in the meantime We don’t know when these longevity therapies will become available. Your goal is to be around when they come out. Buy yourself as much time as possible by looking after your body to the best of our scientific knowledge. Good diet, sleep, exercise will get you 80% of the results. II. Find your achilles Longevity therapies will likely be outcome specific. Individual specific drugs/therapies that target specific things like… > prevent and remove arterial plaque > prevent and reverse neurodegeneration > specifically target and eliminate cancers, or pre cancerous legions > prevent frailty and muscle loss, and regain muscle mass, strength and, bone density > reverse skin aging > rejuvenate eye health > restore lost hearing > etc We don’t know what therapies will be available first. Your goal is to find what your body is struggling with most and keep that problem at-bay until a therapy is available that can fully cure or reverse it. For example, do you struggle with cholesterol? Blood glucose control? Cognitive decline? Find your achilles heel and reduce your risk systematically. III. Invest in the future There are three macro trends happening on planet earth right now, and the people who bet on these areas have the highest risk + reward. > AI > Immortality > Energy As we know, power comes in many forms: money, social, political, health, etc. Those that can collect power in these fields will have the greatest chance of positioning themselves in the Immortal future. With time, Immortal therapies will become broadly available. If you’re reading this: don’t waste your chances by burning down your life points on a yolo-like mentality. Grind culture, addiction, social media pollution, fast food, porn, alcohol, these are all corporations turning your life into their profit. This is the Die Economy. My company Immortals has the sole objective of turning your time, attention, and life into more healthy, functional, and prosperous minutes, days, and years. The Don’t Die Economy. Good luck.

I’m reading an old collection of interconnected science fiction stories by Jerry Pournelle, written in the early 70s. His best books were later co-authored with Larry Niven, but it is still solid work in my favored “competence porn” genre, with entrepreneurs as protagonists. It stands out to me that he was despairing for America when he wrote the stories. Things looked bad at the time, and his fiction projected it into the future. Social unrest, Vietnam, Watergate, economic recession, energy crisis, and for a patriotic space guy, abandoning Apollo. The backdrop for the stories was that America was unfixable, which is, of course, a motivation to go to space in fiction, but I do think he was genuinely worried by what he saw around him. But over the next decade, things got better, and Jerry had a front row seat for the rise of the technology sector, writing the Chaos Manor column in Byte magazine for many years. He also got to see the founding of SpaceX, a company straight out of a hard SF novel, and they re-flew a landed rocket shortly before he died. Trends aren’t fate. Bad situations can be fixed, and good ones still need to be defended. RIP Jerry, I’m glad you got to see things turn around. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pou…

Lee Kuan Yew was a genius

Germany is suffering from a rapid decline in population quality: 1) IQ is dropping like a stone 2) German and math skills among students at all time lows 3) violent crime is exploding, especially sexual violent crimes 4) and now... suddenly they can't swim. Scientists are trying to get to the bottom (pun) of this phenomenon. To stay compliant with German hate speech laws, their scientific findings must be picked from a multiple choice menu: A) Climate Change B) White Supremacy C) Not gay enough D) Trump But so far, no luck. We probably will never know what caused the mysterious downfall of this formerly great civilization. Oh well. 🙄

Report: Female cop shoots Jewish rabbi outside Pornhub office in Canada while hiding from Marxist gunman who killed immigrant officer named Mohamed notthebee.com/t23da

@multiplanet1 Do you think Tesla would have remained in the same trajectory under google ? Lol 😂

Elon Musk was hours away from selling Tesla to Google for $6 billion. The deal was practically done. Larry Page and Musk had already shaken hands. Then something changed his mind. This was 2013. Tesla was dying. The Model S was not selling fast enough. Cash was running out. Again. The same near death spiral that almost killed the company in 2008. Musk called Larry Page. They were close friends. The conversation was direct. Musk proposed that Google acquire Tesla for roughly $6 billion plus an additional $5 billion in factory investment and a commitment to keep the Tesla brand and mission alive. Page agreed. The lawyers began drafting terms. Then something happened. Model S sales suddenly spiked. A wave of positive reviews hit simultaneously. Consumer Reports gave it the highest score they had ever given any car. 99 out of 100. Within days the financial picture shifted enough that Musk pulled out of the deal. He called Page and told him Tesla was no longer for sale. Google would have owned Tesla. Not Elon. Google. The entire electric vehicle revolution would have happened under a different logo. The Cybertruck, the Gigafactories, the Supercharger network, the solar roofs, all of it would have been a Google product. One week of car reviews changed the trajectory of a trillion dollar company and the future of transportation. The gap between "sold to Google for $6 billion" and "worth $1 trillion independently" was a few thousand positive customer reviews arriving at exactly the right moment. Some people call that luck. Others call it timing. The truth is probably closer to a man who held on just long enough for reality to catch up with his vision.

@xdNiBoR @xai Yes

Anti-data center yard signs are popping up in my area. I am entertaining the idea of paying for a billboard with something like “Data centers are awesome, Texas should lead!”

The female cop just executed a random bystander trying to get away from the shooter and then when the real shooter came she flees leaving two people dead because of her incompetence. What the hell are we doing allowing female police officers.

The federal government must reimburse Elon Musk. He just lost $400 billion, more than any person in history. If we want to tax unrealized gains, we must also start paying people when they have unrealized losses. This plan will fund free dental care for every child in Vietnam.

My mom passed away last night with 10 family members by her side. She was the first in our family to escape the Soviet Union. She arrived in California with nothing, hustled as a single mom of 4, and achieved the American dream in every respect. She was crafty, resourceful, and could make humor out of any situation. Here’s a photo of us when money was tight: I asked to be Aladdin for Halloween, so she dressed me up as a Russian gypsy and thought I wouldn’t notice. April 20, 1950 - June 21, 2026

Sur le nucléaire : concrètement, 14 réacteurs de 900 MW seront fermés d’ici 2035. Ce mouvement commencera à l’été 2020 avec l’arrêt définitif des deux réacteurs de Fessenheim. Il se prolongera avec la fermeture de 4 à 6 réacteurs avant 2030.

And if I'm wrong about the merger, here's the fallback: if it ever comes down to a conflict between the two, which I hope it never does, Elon picks SpaceX every single time. Mars is the destination. Everything else is logistics.

Ah voilà une idée originale @RichardDetente