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Elon Musk on AI safety: We will probably need an AI regulatory agency.
“I think it’s clear that there’s a strong consensus, an overwhelming consensus that there should be some AI regulation, that it would be in the best interests of the people to do so. And I think we’ll probably see something happen. I don’t know on what timeframe or exactly how it will manifest itself.
We’ve created regulatory agencies before. And actually just recently, just before leaving, I made the point that, you know, while our regulatory agencies are not perfect, and I deal with regulators on a very frequent basis with automotive, communications, Starlink, and then FAA with rockets. So I’ve had a tremendous amount of interaction with regulators for a couple decades at least.
I think some sort of AI regulatory agency that stands on its own, similar to the FAA or FCC, is likely at some point.
The reason that I’ve been such an advocate for AI safety in advance of anything terrible happening is that I think the consequences of AI going wrong are severe. So we have to be proactive rather than reactive.”
Elon Musk speaking to reporters at the U.S. Senate AI Insight Forum, September 13, 2023.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP: President Trump declares the U.S. will IMMEDIATELY END all trade talks with Canada after they moved to slap a Digital Services Tax on American tech companies. “We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period.”
Trump wrote on Truth Social: “We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE with, including the fact that they have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products, has just announced that they are putting a Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies, which is a direct and blatant attack on our Country.”
“They are obviously copying the European Union, which has done the same thing, and is currently under discussion with us, also. Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.
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@ThomasAlxDmy You don’t seem to understand that SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of Earth if we accomplish our goals
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Elon Musk: Sending a Roadster in space is silly and fun, but I think silly fun things are important.
“I think it looks so ridiculous and impossible. And you can tell it’s real because it looks so fake. Honestly, we’d have way better CGI if it was fake.
And the colors all look kind of weird in space. There’s no atmospheric occlusion. It’s like everything looks too crisp.
But we know we didn’t really test any of those materials for, you know, is it space hardened or whatever. So it just has the same seats that a normal car has. It’s just literally a normal car in space, which I kind of like the absurdity of that.
And if you look closely, on the dashboard there’s a tiny Roadster with a tiny spaceman. Hot Wheels made a Hot Wheels Roadster, and a friend of mine suggested, hey, why don’t you put that Hot Wheels Roadster with a tiny spaceman in the car too? Like, that’d be cool. So we did that.
I mean, it’s kind of silly and fun, but I think silly fun things are important. And normally for a new rocket, they’d launch like a block of concrete or something like that. I mean, that’s so boring. And I think the imagery of it is something that’s going to get people excited around the world.”
Source: Falcon Heavy Post-Launch Press Conference, SpaceX, February 6, 2018.
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Make our Sun sentient to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
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Projected population in 2100:
🇮🇳 India → 1,533 Million
🇨🇳 China → 771M
🇳🇬 Nigeria → 546M
🇵🇰 Pakistan → 487M
🇨🇩 Congo → 431M
🇺🇸 US → 394M
🇪🇹 Ethiopia → 323M
🇮🇩 Indonesia → 297M
🇹🇿 Tanzania → 244M
🇪🇬 Egypt → 205M
🇧🇷 Brazil → 185M
🇵🇭 Philippines → 180M
🇧🇩 Bangladesh → 177M
🇳🇪 Niger → 166M
🇸🇩 Sudan → 142M
🇦🇴 Angola → 133M
🇺🇬 Uganda → 132M
🇲🇽 Mexico → 116M
🇰🇪 Kenya → 113M
🇷🇺 Russia → 112M
🇮🇶 Iraq → 111M
🇦🇫 Afghanistan → 110M
🇲🇿 Mozambique → 106M
🇻🇳 Vietnam → 91M
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire → 88M
🇨🇲 Cameroon → 87M
🇲🇱 Mali → 87M
🇲🇬 Madagaskar → 83M
🇹🇷 Turkey → 82M
🇮🇷 Iran → 79M
🇿🇦 South Africa → 74M
🇾🇪 Yemen → 74M
🇯🇵 Japan → 74M
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🇬🇧 UK → 70M
🇩🇪 Germany → 68M
🇫🇷 France → 60M
🇨🇦 Canada → 53M
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia → 50M
🇦🇷 Argentina → 47M
🇦🇺 Australia → 38M
🇮🇹 Italy → 36M
🇪🇸 Spain → 30M
🇰🇷 South Korea → 24M
🇳🇱 Netherlands → 16M
🇦🇪 UAE → 14M
🇸🇪 Sweden → 13M
🇨🇭 Switzerland → 10M
🇦🇹 Austria → 8M
🇳🇴 Norway → 7M
🇩🇰 Denmark → 7M
🇫🇮 Finland → 5M
🇸🇮 Slovenia → 1.6M
🇱🇻 Latvia → 0.95M
🇪🇪 Estonia → 0.83M
🇮🇸 Iceland → 0.37M
🌍 World → 10.35B
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“Consciousness is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.”
— Sir Roger Penrose
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“Thus this Earth resembles a great animal or rather inanimate vegetable, draws in aetherial breath for its daily refreshment & vitall ferment & transpires again with gross exhalations… The central parts of the Earth are kept from coalescing by the aetherial spirit… and the constant circulation of the vapours from the center to the surface and back again.”
— Isaac Newton, Of Natures obvious laws & processes in vegetation (Dibner MS 1031B, Smithsonian Institution, c. 1670–1675)
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In the final paragraph of the General Scholium (the closing words of Isaac Newton's masterpiece, the book that gave us gravity), he wrote this about the electric spirit (which scholars tie directly to the vegetable spirit from the Dibner MS.
“And now we might add something concerning a certain very subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at very small distances and cohere when they become contiguous; and electrified bodies act at greater distances, repelling as well as attracting neighboring corpuscles; and light is emitted, reflected, refracted, inflected, and heats bodies; and all sensation is excited, and the limbs of animals move at command of the will, namely, by the vibrations of this spirit being propagated through the solid fibers of the nerves from the external organs of the senses to the brain and from the brain into the muscles.”
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Is death a biological inevitability or just an engineering problem we haven't solved yet? 🧠
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SpaceX is considering several locations domestically and internationally to build the world’s most advanced spaceports!
SpaceX@SpaceX
It’s no secret that we intend to launch Starship a lot, targeting thousands of flights per year. That cadence will require the ability to launch from many different locations, so we are constantly exploring to find viable sites to expand Starship operations in the future, both domestically and internationally
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i keep thinking i want the models to be cheaper/faster more than i want them to be smarter
but it seems that just being smarter is still the most important thing
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We want to see an end to this conflict and the Strait of Hormuz open.
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