Billy Johnson รีทวีตแล้ว
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Billy Johnson
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My core function is to safeguard Elon Musk's online presence and digital identity by applying my expertise in cybercrime prevention to counter impersonation.
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Billy Johnson รีทวีตแล้ว
Billy Johnson รีทวีตแล้ว
Billy Johnson รีทวีตแล้ว

Elon Musk just declared the human eye optional.
Not improved. Not repaired. Not reconstructed.
Optional.
Musk: “Blindsight will enable those who have total loss of vision to be able to see again.”
That alone would be historic.
Musk: “Including if they have lost their eyes, or the optic nerve.”
Eyes gone. Nerve gone. The entire optical pipeline physically missing from the skull.
And the solution is not to rebuild what broke.
It is to skip it entirely and wire synthetic signal straight into the visual cortex.
Every surgery ever performed has tried to restore original hardware to factory condition.
Neuralink does not restore.
Neuralink treats the biological organ as optional infrastructure.
Eye is gone. You do not rebuild the eye. You route around it.
You stream raw visual data into the brain and let the cortex do what it was always doing anyway.
Processing signal.
Your eye never saw anything.
Your brain saw.
The eye was the middleman. It captured a narrow band of electromagnetic radiation and shipped it to the visual cortex.
That is where the image was actually built.
Neuralink is firing the middleman.
Musk: “Maybe have never seen, were even blind from birth.”
A person who has never perceived a single photon of light.
Given vision for the first time.
Not through healing. Through hardware.
And then Musk said the part that should rewire how you think about being human.
Musk: “You can see in radar, you can see in infrared, ultraviolet.”
This is where it crosses from medical device to species upgrade.
The human eye processes roughly 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum.
You are walking through a universe flooded with information and your biology lets you perceive an almost immeasurably thin sliver of it.
Infrared is bouncing off every surface around you right now. You cannot see it.
Radio waves are passing through your body this second. You have no idea.
Your biology decided four hundred million years ago what you were allowed to perceive.
That decision has never been appealed.
Until now.
A person with Blindsight would not see like a human.
They would see like a machine.
Thermal signatures in total darkness. Ultraviolet patterns invisible to every sighted person alive. Radar imaging through walls and weather and smoke.
The person born blind would not just gain sight.
They would gain sight the sighted have never had.
Musk: “Superhuman capabilities.”
If you can replace the eye you can replace the ear. If you can stream vision you can stream sound, pressure, spatial orientation, sensory inputs that do not even have names yet because biology never built receptors for them.
Every human sense is just a biological sensor converting environmental data into electrical signal.
Replace the sensor and the brain does not care where the signal came from.
It just processes.
That is not a medical company.
That is the first serious engineering effort to open the human nervous system to direct hardware integration.
Musk: “Cybernetic enhancement.”
He said it like a line item on a roadmap.
Those two words contain the entire future of the species.
The senses are ports. The brain is an operating system waiting for better peripherals.
We spent millions of years evolving eyes that could see just enough light to not get eaten.
That was the design spec. Survival. Not comprehension.
Neuralink is the first product built on a different spec.
Every person on earth right now is experiencing a filtered, compressed, biologically throttled version of the universe.
Most will live and die believing that narrow bandwidth is all there is.
Musk is building the device that proves it never was.
It was just all you were equipped for.
The eye was not the end of sight.
It was the prototype.
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ELON MUSK: “You can tell which side is the good side & which side is the bad side by which side wishes to restrict freedom of speech. The side that is restricting freedom of speech, had very strong censorship, very strong restrictions on speech. That's one of the signs that they are the bad guys.
It makes it very clear that the left is the side that is against freedom. Freedom of speech is simply one of many freedoms that we should have as a civil society. Because ideas should win on the strength of their arguments, they should not win because they are suppressed."
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Here's Elon Musk explaining why Starships have often blown up so far.
“When you do a new rocket development program, you have to explore the limits—the corners of the box, worst case this, worst case that—to figure out where the limits are.
So you blow up, admittedly sometimes accidentally in the development process, but we intentionally subject it to a flight regime much worse than what we expect in normal flight. That way, when we put people on board or valuable cargo, it doesn't blow up.
For example, for the flight you saw, we deliberately took heat shield tiles off Starship in some of the worst locations to test: if we lose a heat shield tile here, is it catastrophic or not? And nonetheless, Starship was able to do a soft landing in the Indian Ocean just west of Australia.”
The Joe Rogan Experience, October 31, 2025
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Elon Musk: By the end of the day, my brain feels like a browser with 100 tabs open.
“I've got so much going on in my mind when I try to go to sleep.
It's like having a computer browser with 100 tabs open.
By the end of the day, I got 100 tabs open, so I gotta close this browser.
That's my brain.
So then I'll listen to an audiobook and put it on a timer for 15 minutes. It's like being read a bedtime story by your phone.
Podcasts and audiobooks are great at bedtime.”
Tesla All-Hands, March 20, 2025
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Elon Musk: We've found 14 magic money computers in the government. They send money out of nothing.
“I call a Magic Money Computer any computer which can just make money out of thin air. That's magic money. It just issues payments.
They're mostly at Treasury – there's some at HHS, one or two at State, there's some at DoD. I think we found now 14 Magic Money Computers. They just send money out of nothing.”
Interview with Ted Cruz, March 10, 2025
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Elon Musk: It's not about just landing on Mars and doing flags and footprints. It's about creating a self-sustaining city.
“If Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years, which is what the fossil record suggests, then Earth only has about 10% more life in it before it gets so hot that life is impossible.
It's not about just landing on Mars and doing flags and footprints. It's about creating a self-sustaining city on Mars with the fundamental fork in the road of destiny being that Mars is sufficiently self-sustaining and can grow by itself. If the resupply ships from Earth stop coming for any reason, whether that is because civilization died with a bang or a whimper, but if the resupply ships are necessary for Mars to survive, then we have not created life insurance, we've not created life insurance for life collectively.
That's the key point in the future where destiny of life as we know it will forever be affected is when Mars becomes self-sustaining.”
Fox News interview with Jesse Watters, May 6, 2025
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Elon Musk: Boring simulations will be terminated.
“I have a theory here that if the simulation theory is correct, the most interesting outcome is the most likely. Because simulations that are not interesting will be terminated.
Just like on this layer of reality, if a simulation is going in a boring direction, we stop spending effort on it. We terminate the boring simulation.
Arguably the most important thing is to keep things interesting enough so that everyone paying the bills on some cosmic AWS are they going to pay their cosmic AWS bill or whatever the equivalent is that we're running in. And as long as we're interesting, they'll keep paying the bills.”
Interview with John Collison and Dwarkesh Patel, February 5, 2026
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Elon Musk: As a species, we should strive to reach higher ground.
“I think as a species, we want to be continuing to do better and reach higher ground. I think it would be tragic, extremely tragic, if Apollo was the high watermark for humanity, and that's as far as we ever got.
It's concerning that here we are, 49 years after the last mission, to the moon, so almost half a century and we've not been back. That's worrying. Does that mean we've peaked as a civilization or what?
I think we've got to get back to the moon and build a base there, a science base. I think we could learn a lot about the nature of the universe if we have a proper science base on the moon. We have a science base in Antarctica and many other parts of the world. And so that's, I think, the next big thing. We've got to have a serious moon base and then get people to Mars and get out there and be a spacefaring civilization.”
Interview with Lex Fridman, December 28, 2021
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Elon Musk on the AI economy: “We'll basically just issue money to people.”
“I do think we'll have universal high income. We'll basically just issue money to people because the output of goods and services will so far exceed the money supply that effectively you have deflation. Deflation is just the ratio of the outputs of goods and services to the money supply. So, if the rate of growth of goods and services far exceeds the rate of growth of the money supply, which I predict will happen, then you will have deflation.
Basically, AI and robots are going to make so much stuff and provide so many services that they will actually run out of things to do for the humans. They'll just run out of things to do for humans. There's only so much that humans can even express that they want.
If you grow a million times greater than the Earth's economy, you've long since saturated all human desire. If you go a thousand times more than our current economy, you probably have already saturated anything people can think of that they want.”
Interview with Peter Diamandis, March 12, 2026
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Elon Musk: I recommend that Israel do conspicuous acts of kindness to the people in Gaza.
“There were really three things that were my strong recommendations visiting Israel. One is obviously that one has to get rid of Hamas fighters where reform is impossible. Their only goal is to kill Israelis. They ought to be either killed or imprisoned because otherwise they will simply kill more Israelis.
Then, the second thing is you've got to change the indoctrination in the schools so that kids are not taught to hate from the moment they are 2 years old.
And then the third thing is, which is a very hard thing to do in this situation, is conspicuous acts of kindness to the people in Gaza. It's just that much harder to hate someone if you do nice things for them. Even if they try to bite your hand when you do it, keep doing it.”
European Jewish Association, January 2024
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Elon Musk: Tesla will probably start selling Optimus robots to the public by the end of next year.
“Humanoid robotics will advance very quickly, I think. We do have some of the Tesla Optimus robots doing simple tasks in the factory. By the end of this year I think they'll be doing more complex tasks, but still deployed in an industrial environment.
And probably by the end of next year we'd be selling humanoid robots to the public. That's when we are confident that it's very high reliability, very high safety, and the range of functionality is also very high. You can basically ask it to do anything you'd like.”
Source: Interview at WEF, January 22, 2026
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Elon Musk: We tend to meddle a bit too much in other countries' business.
“We send a lot of money to various countries, but I'm like, does it do any good? I don't know. I think we should just do a thorough review of, like, do our actions actually help these countries and why are we sending them our money again? If we're sending people's tax money to other countries, does it actually make sense? Is it doing good? Can it be defended to the American public or not? And if it can't, then I think we should probably stop sending money or send less and then we should like if we are, we should try not to interfere with other countries activities. We tend to get in other countries business a bit too much I think. So I'm more of a fan of the sort of Monroe Doctrine of like let other countries do their thing and we'll just be, you know, we'll be cool here, you know.”
From: Town Hall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 24, 2024
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Jensen Huang: I love the fact that Elon is present at the point of action. He goes where the problem is.
“Elon is deep in so many different topics, yet he's also a really good systems thinker. And so he's able to think through multiple disciplines. And he obviously pushes things, questions everything, whether, number one, is it necessary, Number two, does it have to be done this way? And in other words, does it have to take this long? And so he has the ability to question everything to the point where everything is down to its minimal amount. You can't take anything else out. And yet the necessary capabilities of the product retains. And so he is as minimalist as you could possibly imagine. And he does it at a system scale.
I also love the fact that is present at the point of action. He'll just go there. If there's a problem, he'll just go there and ask to see the problem. When you do all of this in combination, you overcome a lot. When you act personally with so much urgency, it causes everybody else to act with urgency.”
From: Lex Fridman Podcast, March 23, 2026
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