Akram Alsadig

@latestincosmos I also wonder if life out there looks anything like what we’re used to. We always look for water and oxygen because that’s what we need, but there could be something out there that’s built on a totally different kind of chemistry.

There has to be life on one of these dots.🧐

I think someone like an astrophysicist or a linguist makes the most sense. They’re trained to look at things with curiosity rather than trying to win a negotiation. If we send a politician, they’ll probably just try to talk about borders and trade, which would be pretty boring to a civilization that can travel between stars.

If aliens came to Earth, who should be in charge of speaking on behalf of humanity?

@GadzhiIman When you’re hiring now, is life situation the first thing you look at or is it still secondary to the skill set?

You need lifers on your team if you want to build a real business. Back in 2022 we were hiring someone and my first ever contractor (a guy who's been with me since 2017) looked at the candidate and said "he's not a lifer." I asked him what that meant. "He'll come in, give it his all, but he's not going to be here for life. It's transient." That one word stuck with me. Transient. And he ended up being completely right. Since then I've noticed the pattern everywhere & I’ve noticed it almost always comes down to their life situation. Someone at 25 with no responsibilities, no mortgage, no kids, they have a higher risk tolerance which is a good thing but it also means they'll bounce the second something shinier shows up. Even if staying would've been the better move for them long term. Someone at 45 with a family and a life they've built around stability, they think different. They're not looking for the next thing, they're looking to go deep on the right thing. Neither is wrong but once you start seeing it, it changes how you hire, who you partner with, and who you invest your time in.

@MarsUniversityX A small team can decide something at lunch and start building it by 1 PM. In a big company that same decision takes three months of meetings. By the time the big company starts, the small team has already failed, learned and succeeded.

Elon Musk: ”Big companies are not very good at revolutionary innovation. They're okay when it comes to incremental things here and there, but they have a real problem with taking the next leap forward. What is really the constraint? Is the constraint a quantity of resources? The real constraint isn’t money or resources, It’s a small, extremely talented, focused, dedicated team willing to take big risks That’s the scarce commodity The world is awash in money”

@WilfiCon @PhysInHistory That’s an interesting point.

@Akram_A_ @PhysInHistory That's right, because probability does not exist, but only causality and non-determinism.

In your opinion, does the universe have a purpose ? ✍️

@postmaster3000 @PhysInHistory It definitely points out that we’re biased because we’re the ones alive to have the conversation. I just think that even if it is a logical necessity, it's still pretty incredible that a pile of atoms can eventually turn into something that asks these kinds of questions.

@Akram_A_ @PhysInHistory The anthropic principle would like to have a word.

@DominykasSam @PhysInHistory Totally agree that we don't know for sure. We could be completely irrelevant but that's kind of why it's so fun to think about.

@Akram_A_ @PhysInHistory But that assumes that us humans and our perception of consciousness are so important. Maybe they aren't... We just don't know.

Fair enough. It’s definitely not a requirement for the universe to work. But if you have a massive beautiful cosmos and nobody is there to look at it, it feels like a waste. I think we’re just the universe’s way of being curious about itself. Even if it's not necessary, it's pretty wild that it happened.

@Akram_A_ @PhysInHistory Even if that’s true, I can’t understand the purpose to create consciousness. What for ? There is no necessity to do that.

@barrowclou86184 @PhysInHistory It’s like the multiverse idea, where maybe there are millions of dead universes out there that didn't make the cut, and we just happened to be in the one that did.

@Akram_A_ @PhysInHistory I never understand this argument.of course it's fine tuned it wouldnt be here if it wasn't

@tetsuoai This really links up with the Mars goal. You can't realistically run a city on another planet without massive autonomous systems to handle all the life support and building.

xAI's mission: increase intelligence, expand humanity's future, and understand the universe. Curiosity and existence are key. Source: Dwarkesh Podcast.

@SpaceX @Starlink 600 landings is a crazy milestone.🔥

Falcon 9 launches 25 @Starlink satellites from California ahead of completing the 600th overall landing of an orbital class rocket

He’s 100% right about the 8 billion likes part. People always think the government or big tech is hiding aliens to prevent panic, but for someone like Musk, finding an alien would be the ultimate marketing win. There is absolutely zero incentive for him to keep it quiet. If he found one, he’d probably be trying to figure out how to put an X logo on their ship before the day was over.🤣

"If anyone would know about aliens on Earth, that would probably be me" - Elon Musk

Not only do they fit, but you’d still have about 8,000 km left over. Space isn't just big. It’s mostly nothingness. Voyager 1 is currently 15 billion miles away in that nothingness, and it’s still just at the doorstep of our neighborhood.

Most people think the Moon is right there. In reality, the distance is so vast that you could fit every single planet in our solar system between the Earth and the Moon. Yes, even Jupiter. #Space #Science #Astronomy

It’s basically the great filter argument. If we stay on one planet, we’re just waiting for a statistical inevitability, whether it’s a meteor or a lab leaked virus to reset the clock. Mars isn't an escape, it's a backup drive for consciousness. Even a small struggling city on another world changes the math of human survival.

Elon Musk: “We also want to go beyond the moon to Mars and build a self-sustaining city on Mars.” Most see it as a backup. It’s not. It’s the break from single-planet risk extinctions, war, virus, meteor. Make Mars independent first, and consciousness gets a dramatically longer runway. One planet is chance. Two is insurance.

@astro_greek High level gaming is basically forced meditation. When your brain has 100 browser windows open, you need a task that takes 100% of your RAM to force those windows shut.

"Killing the demons in a video game, calms the demons in my mind" - Elon Musk

Trying to find heaven with a odometer feels like a category error. If there is a higher state of existence, it’s probably not just really far away in 3D space; it’s more likely a different dimension or a state of consciousness that’s right here but inaccessible to our current senses.

🚨 A physicist claims to know the location of Heaven, and according to him, it lies 439 billion trillion kilometers away.

Faith is great for staying sane, but it can be a trap for execution. If things are constanty going wrong, you usually need a pivot more than you need faith. Sometimes things go wrong because the underlying model is actually broken and having faith becomes a way to avoid the hard work of rethinking the entire strategy. You don't want to have faith in a sinking ship; you want to have faith in your ability to build a better one.

A lot will go wrong, before everything goes right. Just have faith!

@konstructivizm What’s truly unsettling is that there is no solid surface under those clouds. You’d just fall through increasingly dense gas until the atmospheric pressure literally turns you into a liquid.

NASA captured one of the most detailed views ever taken of Jupiter