“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” In this thread I will chronicle the rise of artificial general intelligence.

Part of why a thermos works is because the inner walls are mirror-coated for low emissivity to reduce radiative heat transfer. In large dewers we use perlite rather than pure vacuum because the perlite blocks the radiative heat transfer more than it increases conduction.

Haters: "This will never work, you would have to use big radiators!" SpaceX: *uses big radiators*

Everyone who tries to debunk this resorts to sci-fi stuff like asteroid mining, missing out on the much more obvious point that: (at current growth rates) world gdp per capita in 2100 will still be far below Denmark's in 2026 Given the Danes emit less CO2 per capita (4.34T) than the world average (4.89T) and life there shows no signs of butting up against the edges of thermodynamic limits, its clear we are very very far away from this being a problem

So many people claim that the EU doesn’t drive global innovation anymore. What do you say now?

We will inherit every corner of the solar system

This is not a bubble!

Dude, if we get actually good mechanized picked tea, it's gonna be a gamechanger. The American south will absolutely wreck global tea production. The labor cost bottleneck has been prohibitive for American tea, and using a cutter to harvest is a big quality loss. An actual leaf-plucker robot would allow capital-deep American farmers to get in the game on a crop which is extremely well-suited to the climate of the southeast-- so much so that its close genetic relative, the camellia flowers, grows wild without assistance!

SpaceX is an AI company with a side business in telecommunications that has an internal launch subdivision that also lightly dabbles in launching other people's payloads.

SpaceX Releases S1 Filing Ahead of IPO: Our ability to execute our growth strategy is highly dependent on Starship. If we are unable to achieve the commercial development, anticipated performance, launch cadence, or cost efficiencies associated with Starship within expected timeframes, our ability to deploy next-generation V3 satellites, V2 Mobile satellites, and orbital AI compute infrastructure at scale, reduce capital and operating costs (including cost per token), realize projected revenue growth, and retain existing customers from these initiatives could be materially and adversely affected.

The reason certain people oppose space colonization is the same reason why every socialist country ends up with barbed wire and minefields on its border, not to keep someone from entering, but to keep people from leaving.

We lied to an entire generation. Not that climate change isn’t real (it obviously is). But that there’s no hope if we don’t neuter ourselves. The future is incredibly bright, and I’m angry at those who lied to young people about this.

My advice to @NASAAdmin : Always speak of the moon to the President in real estate terms. It is undeveloped industrial property with enormous potential to offset our national debt with new resources and commerce. The nice thing about that approach is that it puts it in terms he understands and is also true.

Elon's goal with the compensation package is not to get more rich. His goal is to signal unequivocally to the market that he IS actually completely dead-serious about the Mars city, enough that he'd agree to those terms. This is because he wants a Mars colony more than money.

Next pay package:

New Glenn is off to the most successful start in rocket history. 3 launches: - Heavy lift rocket - 2 of 3 were successes (3rd was nearly a success) - 2 booster landings - 1 reused booster Blue is proving it can compete. Launch failures happen, particularly in early days.

Multiple manufacturers have tried selling these types of phones and poor sales have meant they were abandoned. Consumers don't want it, or they prefer other features like their phones being waterproof. The EU consistently falls for niche issue activists and their own hubris. They consistently develop policies that make life worse for European people who then wallow in cope while the world passes them by.

There will still be green under the domes of Mars.