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him all alone.. Found my purpose-June 2023
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Shivon Zilis, the bright-eyed AI investor Elon recruited in 2015 to work at OpenAI and who ended up as the top operations manager of Neuralink.
She had become his very close friend, intellectual companion, and occasional gaming partner.
"It's been one of the most meaningful friendships of my life, like, by far," she says. "Soon after I met him I said, 'I hope we're friends for life.'"
Zilis had been living in Silicon Valley and working at the Neuralink office in Fremont, but she moved to Austin shortly after Musk did, and she was part of his tight-knit social circle.
"In six years, Elon and I have never, never gotten in a fight, never argued." That's a claim that few can make. They talk to each other in a low-key, intellectual way.
Zilis, by her own choice, decided not to get married. But she had "the motherhood bug super hard," she says.
Her maternal impulses were further stoked by Musk's evangelizing about how important it was for people to have many children. He feared that declining birthrates were a threat to the long-term survival of human consciousness.
"He really wants smart people to have kids, so he encouraged me to," Zilis says.
When she decided that she was ready, he suggested that he be the sperm donor so that the kids would be genetically his.
The idea appealed to her.
"If the choice is between an anonymous sperm donor or doing it with the person you admire most in the world, for me that was a pretty fucking easy decision," she says. "I can't possibly think of genes I would prefer for my children."
There was another upside: "It seemed like something that would make him very happy."
Zilis had a complication at the end of her pregnancy and went into the hospital. The twins were born seven weeks prematurely, but healthy.
Musk was listed as the father on the birth certificate, but the children, a boy named Strider Sekhar Sirius and a girl named Azure Astra Alice, were given Zilis's last name.
She assumed that he would not be very involved in parenting them. "I thought he would play a role like a godfather," she says, "because the dude's got a lot going on."
Instead, Musk ended up spending a lot of time with the twins and bonding with them, albeit in his own emotionally distracted way. At least once a week, he would stay at Zilis's house, feed the kids and sit on the floor with them while he did his late-evening virtual meetings on Raptor, Starship, and Tesla Autopilot.
He was, given his nature, not quite as cuddly as your average dad.
"There's some stuff he just can't do because he's emotionally hardwired a bit differently," Zilis says. "But when he comes in, they light up and have eyes only for him, which lights him up as well."
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Greece has announced that it will close 60 mosques across the country and deport those who continue to illegally build Islamic religious spaces.
Greece is fighting against the Islamization of Europe.
Do you support it?
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🚨 Kylian Mbappé is on a 5 game scoring streak in La Liga.
He has also scored in 7 of the last 10 league games he has played, totalling 11 G/A.
Unstoppable. 🔥
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🚨 𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧: Lionel Messi is 39 years old and his last goal in a Champions League Final was at the age of 22.
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Time to go back to the Moon at scale
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66 years. From first flight to the Moon.
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Mars at night 🔦
Our Curiosity rover shared a rare nighttime view of the Red Planet as scientists took a closer look at layers within a recently-drilled rock. Learn more about this photo: go.nasa.gov/3ZhHcAs
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