Eric Rodriguez

The most important question and our massive transformational purpose @PeterDiamandis How will we find meaning in a world where work is optional?

@packyM love it! which have you found to be the most importantest?

@AlexFinn woah! didn’t expect this to lead me to skool - very cool!

I made an entire community for vibe coders using claude code. It's pretty cool, we all hang out and build stuff. I think you should join: vibecodingacademy.dev

This is the best AI coding setup ever: Codex 5.2 xhigh on the left, Claude Code Opus 4.5 on the right 1. Start building with Claude Code in plan mode 2. Copy and paste every plan into Codex. Validate the plan. If they have any critical feedback, give it back to CC 3. Any time CC messes up, go back to Codex and have it fix the issue 4. Every change either agent makes, ask the other agent to review it 5. Primarily use whichever agent that is the last one to clean up the other's mess Not only will you produce apps 10x faster, you'll have fun just feeling like you're managing a team of engineers Trust me, the results are worth the price you pay

@CJHandmer @elonmusk **Starthink**

Here's one idea about SpaceX's next big thing. AI computing (inference) on orbit, but how the hell can SpaceX do this cheaper than just building more datacenters on the ground? From first principles, it's an attractive proposition because the GPUs have extreme value per kg and extreme revenue per kW, both of which are relatively expensive. That is, the value prop somewhat washes out the pain of operating in space. So I took a closer look. If anyone can make this work, it's a Starlink-derived system, so I started with the Starlink v3 satellites, with some high fidelity CEO-cad below. Orbital parameters. Pick a sun synchronous orbit - so we're in full 1400 kW/m^2 sunlight at all times. No need for batteries. Deploy the solar array in "sun slicer" mode, facing full sun, but the edge is pointing in the orbital direction (bottom right in these images) to minimize drag. But the inference Starlink (Star Thought?) satellites don't have to scrape the atmosphere. Being in SSO, they'll need to use the rest of the Starlink constellation for backhaul via laser links anyway, and higher orbits actually improve worst case latency (serving equatorial customers around midnight or noon) very slightly. Too high though, and SSO is relatively full of debris. Let's pick 560 km. A Starlink satellite in this orbit has full sun, so the back half is always shaded and relatively cool. The next hottest thing in the sky is the Earth, taking up almost half the sky to the bottom left in these images. So set up an MLI heat reflector there too, and then on the back side of the main bus we can use passive radiation to cool right down. The non-shiny parts of space are very cold. An array of this size produces about 130 kW of electrical power. In this model, perhaps 200 H100-equivalent GPUs are racked on the main bus, generating 13,000 tokens per second, nowhere near enough to saturate a laser link. At $10/token, that's $4m of revenue per year. Assuming an all in cost of $50,000/kW (dominated by the GPUs on a kW or kg basis), that's something like 60% ROI per year. Obviously assumptions can vary. But this neglects a broader point. Starlink satellites have to do all kinds of things that inference satellites don't have to, in particular, talk to millions of customers all over the world. If most of our power is just going to inference, would we change the design? Each solar array module produces about 6 kW. Each GPU consumes about 700 W. SpaceX could actually install GPUs directly to the solar module, matching optimal voltage and current levels and connecting each back to the main bus not with an insulated high voltage power cable, but a local wifi connection. There's then no real limit on how many modules can connect to each bus, which drives the overall power density of the system towards the thinnest solar arrays than can be flown, probably close to 1 kg/m^2 in the limit. That is, the inference is performed by a thin piece of silicon that always faces the sun, connected to a somewhat smaller piece of thin silicon with billions of logic gates in it. This helps the thermal problem too, because we're not bringing a bunch of power into one concentrated place. If one Starship can launch 100 T to LEO, then that gets close to 30 MW of inference per launch. 1000 launches is 30 GW. Now we're talking real scale - and provided the revenue per kWh is greater than about $4.00, I think the economics work out. I've seen a bunch of high inclination Starlink launches from Vandenberg recently, but I don't think any of them were going to SSO. In any case, a ring of inference satellites visible at dawn and dusk running north south will be awesome.

@FutureJurvetson @Tesla Didn’t realize 1 wafer start can produce 200 AI chips… so this is potentially 200 million chips a month at scale? x.com/i/grok/share/U…

How big is the Tesla Terafab? Elon: “The only option is to build some very big chip fab. It’s at least 100K water starts per month. And that’s one of ten in a complex. So ultimately, it would be 1 million wafer starts per month.” “We have to solve memory and packaging too.”

@CJHandmer Agreed!

This is a good sign.

@rookisaacman @POTUS @SecDuffy @NASA Let’s go!!! 🚀

Thank you, Mr. President @POTUS, for this opportunity. It will be an honor to serve my country under your leadership. I am also very grateful to @SecDuffy, who skillfully oversees @NASA alongside his many other responsibilities. The support from the space-loving community has been overwhelming. I am not sure how I earned the trust of so many, but I will do everything I can to live up to those expectations. To the innovators building the orbital economy, to the scientists pursuing breakthrough discoveries and to dreamers across the world eager for a return to the Moon and the grand journey beyond--these are the most exciting times since the dawn of the space age-- and I truly believe the future we have all been waiting for will soon become reality. And to the best and brightest at NASA, and to all the commercial and international partners, we have an extraordinary responsibility--but the clock is running. The journey is never easy, but it is time to inspire the world once again to achieve the near-impossible--to undertake and accomplish big, bold endeavors in space...and when we do, we will make life better here at home and challenge the next generation to go even further. NASA will never be a caretaker of history--but will forever make history. Godspeed, President Donald J. Trump, and Godspeed NASA, as America leads the greatest adventure in human history 🇺🇸

@SciGuySpace Starlink V4 or V5 could be a Starship converted into a datacenter will massive solar arrays

This seems like a pretty big deal. arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/…

@CJHandmer @AndyHazelton Looks like he’s strapped in

@AndyHazelton What's the guy in the middle doing? Is he strapped in?

This is a video from our flight the other day into #Melissa as we were going through the eyewall into the eye. It gives you some idea of the level of turbulence and shows how awesome the pilots and crew are to keep the plane steady. Also wanted to give a shout out to the maintenance crew for keeping Kermit in good shape during the sequence. We didn't have a single flight get scrapped during what ended up being almost a week of missions.

@SciGuySpace @mirandahw_ @Alexphysics13 Does it involve SpaceX?

@mirandahw_ @Alexphysics13 The latter. Basically beat China’s timeline.

Options likely range from time machines and unicorns in the flame trench to spending an ungodly amount of money.

@EricJorgenson Breathwork

Techniques for brainwashing oneself: - Affirmations - Music - Visualization - Meditation - Hypnosis - Controlling your Environment ...what am I missing?

@elonmusk and the audiobook by phil

And read the books

@balajis Skool

An important kind of social network will be one where no bots whatsoever are allowed.

@CJHandmer Time to build?

Can we please make more water? We have the technology to do mass scale desal and end Western water poverty forever. We don't have to fight over scraps. We don't have to dam up distant valleys. We don't have to suck the aquifers dry. We just need to end the ban on desalination.

@elonmusk @xDaily Train Grok on the best thinkers, like Saad, Sowell, Popper, Deutsch, Naval. History from Ken Burns, Dan Carlin, Will Durant. How do you train it on math and physics? Do the same for politics and history.

There is a vast mountain of left-wing bullshit on the Internet and then a much smaller mountain of right-wing bullshit. The right doesn’t write very much! Unfortunately, there is not much in the middle. We obviously see this with people in general, where there is a bimodal distribution of opinions that break along political party lines. People tend to think that their political side is all good and the other side is all bad. Getting @Grok to be sensible and neutral politically when there is so much nonsense out there is a serious challenge, and one that most humans fail to pass.

OPINION: xAI should leverage Community Notes to fix its alignment issues. It may not be perfect but they are the best we have today. Grok thinks it’s a good idea too. x.com/i/grok/share/E…

@CJHandmer @Pinboard What questions do they ask and how do you explain it to them?

@Pinboard Yes

Coming around to the view that, if in doubt, the best way to learn very rare meta skills, is to tackle them in a series of borderline crazy ambitious projects. There's no reading list that will give you this knowledge. You just have to do things, after that you'll have the ability to interpret the texts. On which note, I finally finished reading "Now It Can Be Told" by General Leslie Groves to my children, and it's the best hardcore hardware development book I've ever read by far. Page after page of nitty gritty technical details and subtle issue resolution.

@farzyness def recorded one with lots of hot takes but decided not to post it

Literally the best possible week for All In Pod to post a pod, and they don't. Come on guys.

@farzyness switched back to following, much better

I think my For You is broken. Too many repetitive posts. Anyone else?

@elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @DOGE 🫡

As my scheduled time as a Special Government Employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President @realDonaldTrump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The @DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government.

in the 1900s, it was common to dream of the 21st century. when was the last time you heard talk of a 22nd century? it's like we don't believe we're going to make it anymore, but to endure, we MUST dream of futures worth suffering for. please, dare dream of a 22nd century.

@IterIntellectus roman

ashkenazi jews are italian?