"Elon Musk still works incredibly hard. I visited him recently, I left around midnight and he was still working. I think he must have gone till 2am. So I don't know anybody who works as hard as him. He's really in the technical details of it." 一 David Sacks

Elon Musk on why humanity must become multiplanetary: “I think it's important for the long-term preservation and ultimately the expansion and extension of the scope and scale of consciousness... that we must become a multi-planet species Because there are all these risks that we can't control existential risks. There's asteroids, super volcanoes, we could have a World War III... History does not suggest that civilization lasts forever” Elon is optimistic about the future, but he is also realistic Civilization has survived so far but history shows that catastrophic events eventually happen. The only chance is becoming a multi-planet species

Meanwhile, officer To Thao spent nearly half a decade in prison for simply being nearby as George Floyd overdosed on fentanyl

Below is a common error. Here are the facts: Dr. Andrew Baker, the Chief Medical Examiner for Hennepin County (who was the only person that conducted the autopsy of George Floyd) did not agree with the prosecution’s evolving theories of the cause of Floyd’s death. He did not find that Floyd died from a vascular restraint (blood choke), which was the prosecution’s theory at the beginning of trial. And he did not agree that Floyd died of positional asphyxia, which became the prosecution’s fall back theory when, in the middle of trial and to prosecutors’ utter surprise, their blood choke theory imploded in real time (due to it being physiologically impossible to kill somebody by compressing only one of their carotid arteries). Baker’s autopsy provided zero evidentiary support for everything the prosecutors wanted the jury to believe. But it’s worse than that. Baker also found a lack of evidence where one would expect to find evidence had the prosecution’s theories been correct. Baker called this absence of evidence the “pertinent negatives,” and they all - ALL - worked against the prosecution.

Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies. We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks. The Moon is faster to make self-growing, but is more susceptible to problems on Earth. Mars will take longer to make self-growing, because it is so hard to reach, but is more secure from Earth disasters for that same reason. Both the Moon and Mars should have self-growing civilizations. Making this happen is the prime directive of SpaceX.

This poor boy was running away from someone who stabbed him & stole his phone, but the police in the UK attacked him instead of his murderer!

Very cool - Grok Build is clearly getting better by the day. Two nights ago I ran an overnight build and it failed. Last night, success. I really like the multi-agent orchestration behavior, it does a really good job of spinning up agents to build vs. review, and an orchestration agent that makes sure everyone follows the plan. I'm impressed, the @xai team is clearly making really meaningful progress here, very quickly.

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Amazing price for performance!

Elon Musk on how ridiculously small we are compared to the Sun: “We are like a dust mote compared to the Sun All of human civilization currently uses much less than a trillionth of the power emitted by the Sun Even if we increased our energy use by a million times, we would still be much less than a millionth of the Sun’s energy The Sun is 99.8% of the mass in the solar system. If you burned every single other planet and added two more Jupiters, the Sun would still round up to 100% of the energy in the solar system Everything is just extremely tiny compared to the Sun”

In the context of police shootings: Black victims get ~9x the coverage of White victims.

Regarding the OpenAI case, the judge & jury never actually ruled on the merits of the case, just on a calendar technicality. There is no question to anyone following the case in detail that Altman & Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity. The only question is WHEN they did it! I will be filing an appeal with the Ninth Circuit, because creating a precedent to loot charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in America. OpenAI was founded to benefit all of humanity.

Where are the aliens? This is one of the most fundamental questions.

First Starship V3 launch later this week!

What is the best possible future? This question is much harder to answer than it may seem.

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Honor of a lifetime to design a product that in just months has saved Americans $400,000,000 on prescriptions! Then launch the 2.0 product on stage with @POTUS. Exceptional collaboration across the administration to pull this off. Thank you to my incredible team at National Design Studio @ndstudio for setting design and engineering standards for industry and nation. 🇺🇸

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