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This is probably one of the wildest sentences I've ever read. In Elon's new letter: "Factories on the Moon can take advantage of lunar resources to manufacture satellites and deploy them further into space. By using an electromagnetic mass driver and lunar manufacturing, it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power."

Elon Musk’s Plan to reach a Kardashev Type II Civilization 1. Move AI off Earth and into space AI needs massive power and cooling. Earth cannot scale this without damaging the environment and society. Space has constant sunlight, natural cooling, and unlimited room. Long term, AI can only scale in space. 2. Use Starship to build orbital AI data centers Using Starship, millions of tons of hardware can be launched every year. SpaceX will deploy huge constellations of satellites that act as solar powered data centers in orbit, generating enormous AI compute with very low operating costs. 3. Make space the cheapest place to run AI Each year, orbital data centers add hundreds of gigawatts of AI compute. Within a few years, training AI in space becomes cheaper than on Earth, unlocking rapid advances in science, engineering, and technology. 4. Expand manufacturing to the Moon Starship enables permanent Moon bases. Factories on the Moon use local resources to build satellites and launch them into deep space far more efficiently than from Earth. 5. Harness the Sun at civilization scale By placing massive AI satellite systems throughout space, humanity begins capturing a meaningful fraction of the Sun’s energy. This marks the transition toward a Kardashev Type II civilization and funds expansion to Mars and beyond.

Indiana, this one’s for you.

“It’s improper for there to be racist laws in South Africa. The whole idea with what Nelson Mandela, who was a great man, proposed, was that all races should be on an equal footing in South Africa. That’s the right thing to do. Not to replace one set of racist laws with another set of racist laws, which is utterly wrong and improper. And so now I’m in this absurd situation where I was born in South Africa but cannot get a license to operate Starlink because I’m not black” -Elon Musk

“It takes 60 votes to pass a bill in the Senate, right?” No; it takes 60 votes to achieve cloture—a mechanism to bring debate to a close Passing a bill takes a simple majority It’s possible to pass legislation without cloture when no one’s speaking End the zombie filibuster