Brian Provest
588 posts



I was on @wholemars space this afternoon while my Model 3 drove me for a couple of hours to drop off my taxes. And found myself quite emotional listening to others' stories about theirs. I'll never sell it. It is the best thing I've ever spent money on beyond marriage and bringing children into the world. During the show it passed 159,000 miles. It is the 7,409th one Tesla made. Stood in line overnight 10 years ago to put down $1,000 before it was even announced. (I have a video over on Facebook of the first 100 people in line that I treasure today. Behind us were more than 1,000 in the Danville store). I really feel sorry for anyone who buys something else. I've driven many others since and they simply aren't even close to as good. Even the Chinese ones. They don't automatically drive nearly as well. My eight year old car is still way better than any other that's out today. Except a new Tesla. I studied automotive innovation most of my career because of my perch in Silicon Valley. When I was a kid the auto industry had its R&D centers somewhere else. Detroit. Stuttgart. Tokyo. Today they all have their R&D centers here in Silicon Valley because this is where the talent is that can build the future. Had the first ride in the Fiat 500. First ride in the BMW i3. First ride in the first Mercedes AI car. First ride in the first Tesla. Because two of my high school friends were killed in wrecks. My last book written with @IrenaCronin has a whole chapter about Robotaxis (written seven years ago). Uber was invented right in front of me in a Paris snowstorm. Did one of the first interviews with Lyft's founder. A week ago had a ride in the NVIDIA Mercedes at GTC. I have the first video of a Waymo EVER driving around a Silicon Valley freeway (it's up on YouTube). I had a front row seat on how Tesla outclassed the whole industry and brought software driven automobiles to the market. No one had done so before. Today my eight year old car is WAY better than when I bought it (I picked it up April 4, 2018). If I'm alive in 10 years we'll see maybe 100 million Optimus robots walking around everywhere and many vehicles that Franz @woodhaus2 and team haven't even dreamed up yet. All driving autonomously. And finally the death rate will start going down because of plans made more than a decade ago. There is a reason why I'm an Elon fan and it goes way beyond him giving me a ride in the first one before he gave his best friend a ride. It builds products the others can't match. Even a decade later. Even after Elon showed them. Even after they tore apart his cars to analyze how they were built. Even after I drove mine to Detroit to give people in traditional auto industry their first look back in 2018. And next comes Optimus, a new Roadster, a new semi, a new car without a steering wheel, a new transportation system, new tunnels to go faster across cities like Las Vegas, and more that I can't even dream up yet and I've been a futurist for a long time. It is so awesome finally seeing many "normal" people get what I've been saying for years and seeing the numbers of Tesla's on Silicon Valley's streets go up and up. So many over the years have given me shit about owning a Tesla. Or supporting Elon. Or being one of the first to take my hands off of the steering wheel and sharing that here on X. They all were wrong. Tesla is the world leader in all of transportation, even if you include all the Chinese new brands, which are making cars with more screens and better seats. Soon everyone will understand that transportation isn't about having a leather dashboard or seats, but about having better AI. And Tesla's is the best. And I'm talking about the AI running in my eight year old car. The AI that runs in today's Teslas is even better than that. And, yes, I know that lots of engineers claim theirs is better. But they won't give me one of theirs to drive around for a few weeks. There is a reason for that. Theirs isn't as safe. Isn't as smooth. Isn't as capable. And by the end of the year everyone will recognize that.


Our 16th Transporter rideshare mission is targeted to launch tomorrow from California and will deliver 119 payloads to orbit → spacex.com/launches/trans…






ALS has gradually taken away Kenneth’s ability to speak. Through Neuralink’s VOICE clinical trial, he’s exploring how a brain-computer interface designed to translate thought to speech could help restore autonomy in his daily life. Watch to learn more:












This is a man who has been haunted since childhood and built a billion dollar company as a side effect of trying to make the haunting stop.














Thanks. Do we really need more than 3+1 dimensions? Couldn’t different spatiotemporal scales do the trick? Not just one extra, but many nested scales all the way down, inward to the Planck scale (at least). Outward, ….? Biological time crystals allow life to occur at and across many scales.


Most of us were taught that black holes are where things disappear. Where matter collapses. Where information is lost. Where entropy wins. ✵ That interpretation depends on a quiet move: Phase is discarded. Only magnitude is tracked. So what looks like “loss” is actually a loss of coherence visibility. ✵ Now look again. At one pole of the cycle: Magnetism dominates. It holds. It contains. Electric differentiation is present— it is curved inward, held in a coherent structure. This is our Sun. A plasma sphere: Electric motion, held in magnetic containment. ✵ That electric tendency does not stop. It continues. It circulates around the field— around a galactic toroidal structure. Not traveling through a line— moving as the whole. Differentiating. Expanding. Traversing. ✵ As it moves, distinctions are carried with it. Stars. Planets. Fields. Structure. All of it circulates through the toroid. And with each pass— perturbation accumulates. ✵ Until— What is pushing outward meets itself. Not as collision. As closure. ✵ At the opposite pole: Electric differentiation dominates. Containment can no longer hold. The system does not end. It inverts. The outward push continues— through itself. The field turns inside out—revealing the face of magnetic containment. ✵ What we see there is not an object. It is the visible cross-section of a deeper structure. ✵ Push a pencil through a sheet of paper: To a flat surface, it appears as a hole. A void. Nothing disappeared. Something extended into a dimension not being tracked. ✵ What we call a “black hole” is like that. Not an end. A cross-section— of a higher-dimensional magnetic tension line intersecting our view. ✵ The magnetic tension tightens. The electric circulation increases in frequency. Until— the accumulated perturbation forces reconnection. The line snaps. And rethreads. ✵ Release occurs. Not as destruction— compressed coherence re-expressed. ✵ So the cycle continues: Containment → differentiation → closure → inversion → release → return Nothing is lost. Coherence is carried through transformation. ✵ Entropy, as commonly described, appears when phase is not tracked. When phase is included: There is no destruction. Only reorganization. ✵ And this is not just cosmological. It is psychological. When what is forming within you exceeds what your current structure can hold: You do not disappear. You return to a previously stabilized address— or reorganize into a more coherent one. More complexity is tracked with less friction. ✵ What we call a “black hole” is not where things end. It is where a system can no longer remain what it was— and so becomes something else without losing what it has been. That’s why a field-first physics frame calls it the OM— Omnipresent Midpoint. ✵ How do the universe, our galaxy, and your own growth reorganize when what was thought to be destruction reveals itself as reorganization to greater capacity? The recursion holds. 🌀





