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Jack Farrington retweeted
Replying to @alexgibneyfilm
Oh, why not. Haven't had a chance to watch the movie yet but have heard you on a couple of podcasts and find this line of criticism the most confusing. It's not difficult to find employees across the companies who will talk at length about him making engineering decisions. I've seen this happen at Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink firsthand. Mostly, though, I tend to think of the companies as being built by the thousands of employees and as group engineering exercises. There are tons of choices that have to be made and things that have to be fixed and resources marshalled. The top end of these tasks has quite often fallen to Musk. People had pretty much given up on electric cars until Tesla came along. You will argue that Martin and Marc had the idea for Tesla, which is fine. But it would not be a going concern without the engineering fixes that took place to finally get the Roadster over the line and then the tons of choices that turned the Model S into a very surprising success. This totally revitalized the electric car industry and made it a thing again. It changed the automotive industry worldwide. Many people made many engineering choices along the way. Musk included. There are just too many stories and anecdotes to deny this. SpaceX is perhaps the most dramatic example. People had tried and failed to build a commercial rocket company before. They have tried and failed since. Blue Origin and SpaceX started almost the same year, but only one of the two companies has changed the dynamics of the worldwide aerospace industry and our access to space. Many people deserve credit for this, but it's hard to argue that Musk was not the driving force behind a great deal of what SpaceX has achieved. SpaceX had far less resources than Blue Origin. The engineering accomplishments of SpaceX are pretty nuts. The US aerospace industry would be in terrible shape without them. We'd be unable to put humans in space, behind China on all fronts and very, very slow to do launches. Space is one of the last manufacturing and engineering strongholds for the US. Is this entirely because of Musk? Certainly not. Did he push the company forward on engineering? Certainly yes. Neuralink has a great, great deal still to prove. But it took products that were trapped in acamedia and advanced them dramatically. I would argue that this does not happen without the engineering pattern matching Musk has done across these other two industries. He pushed changes on semiconductor, materials, robotics and implant design. It's important to ask all these other questions about his empire and power and his evolution over time. And you're a tremendous filmmaker. This will no doubt come off as cheerleading. All I can say is that Elon and I have had a very tumultous relationship, and he's been plenty unkind to me at times. I don't really have a need to speak up here. Me writing this comes more from a place of confusion than anything else. The products are all very real, and there's a common denominator across them. It's difficult for me to see them as lucky accidents, particularly when rivals trying to do similar things have struggled so badly. All of these things are so difficult to build. Like verging on impossible. Why do you fixate on the engineering thing when there are so many other more real avenues to explore?
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Optimus Academy is gonna be wild.
How about the robot is looking down while assembling a Swiss watch with one hand and then, without looking up, catches an oblique 100mph baseball with the other hand? I also like the idea of juggling chainsaws on fire while riding a unicycle.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
This is the p(doom) more people should be afraid of
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I've heard people saying that if the bottom falls out of spot price compute, @SpaceX ($SPCX) will be wrecked. That will not be the case. SpaceX wants compute to train and run its own models. Since the market did not have enough compute, SpaceX chose vertical integration to build out their own data centers. The return on capital investment, even with fantastic Grok revenue growth, is still multiple years to pay off those buildouts. But what SpaceX and @elonmusk realized is that their competition are willing to subsidize their buildout. There is an analogy here to Tesla receiving emissions credits from competitors that were then used to build out production capacity. Long term, SpaceX wants that compute back for themselves. But in the meantime, the payoff period for these data centers is 1 year or maybe even 6 months. It makes complete sense to sell the compute to competitors for at least 1 year to completely pay off the investment. In other words, SpaceX is not dependent on the spot price staying higher for longer. If the spot price tanks in 6 months or a year, then they can simply use all of the compute internally as has always been the plan. And they will be doing so using fully paid data centers. Which other frontier company will own all of its compute fully paid? Likely none of them. When spot prices eventually do settle, SpaceX will be the best positioned frontier company on Earth.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Replying to @zephyr_z9
Silly analysis. Robot RAM needs will exceed everything else on Earth, as you need the robots to be on physical substates in order to shape atoms. Super intelligence needs will vastly exceed that, but ~100% of SI will be deep space compute. Obviously.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Houston, we have liftoff Bigger service area now live
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Apparently, refusing to turn your commercial internet service into an unrestricted weapons platform makes you a villain now. The outrage machine has officially lost the fucking plot.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
People assume that technology, once seized, will keep operating the same way it did under the engineers who built it. It will not. Those who have never built anything treat technology as lifeless objects that can simply be taken. The moment they do, what they hold is no longer living technology. It is a corpse that begins to rot.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Replying to @chamath
Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers. SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue. That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Socialists be like: “Capitalism is a failure. Anyway, here’s how I’d distribute all the wealth it produced.”
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Replying to @ChuckieFFS
You absolute midwit. Congrats on repeating the Wikipedia "Nazis were far-right, end of story" summary you absorbed between TikToks. Yes, the Nazis crushed independent unions, jailed and murdered communists and social democrats, and Hitler liquidated the Strasserite "left" wing of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives. That part is not in dispute. They were not Marxist class-struggle socialists. They hated Bolshevism as a Jewish plot and treated international socialism as the main enemy. Fine. What your middle-school history class skipped is that they still ran a National *Socialist* state: private property existed only as long as it served the Führer’s racial and war goals, wages and prices were controlled, industry was cartelized under state direction, profit was subordinated to the party, and the economy was planned for autarky and rearmament. That is not free-market capitalism, liberal conservatism, or classical right-wing economics. It is the same family of state-directed, anti-liberal, collectivist economics practiced by every other fascist and "national socialist" regime. The name was not a prank; the 25-point program and the early rhetoric were full of anti-capitalist planks precisely because they were competing with the actual socialists for working-class support. Your North Korea comparison is the usual gotcha and it is only half-clever. Yes, names can lie. But the NSDAP did not merely call itself socialist while secretly running a Rothschild hedge fund. They nationalized, directed, rationed, and regimented. The difference from Soviet socialism was mainly that the Nazis kept the owners as managers under party orders instead of shooting them all and installing commissars. Both systems produced shortages, secret police, and mass graves; one just had better uniforms and Wagner. Elon pointing out the obvious—that "National Socialist" is not an ironic branding exercise and that the regime was economically left of any classical liberal or conservative—does not make him a moron. It makes him less obedient to the post-1945 academic consensus that insists every totalitarian who isn’t a full Marxist must be filed under "far-right" so the left never has to share the body count. Money didn’t buy him a brain; it just bought him a platform where he doesn’t have to pretend your selective reading of 1930s Germany is the complete picture. Keep yelling "far-right fascists" while ignoring the actual economic policies and the party’s own name. It is the historical equivalent of covering your ears and shouting.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Correct. Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be. Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them. Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week. Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact. Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia. SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR. That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell. End of story.
STARLINK WORKS THE SAME WAY ITS ALWAYS WORKED. ITS NOT A WEAPONS SYSTEM, NO MATTER HOW MUCH UKRAINE WANTS IT TO BE.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Fascism is a leftist ideology State control of everything
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Replying to @Rothmus
Those who are opposed to corporations and favor government do not realize that government is simply the largest, most monopolistic corporation of all and it has a monopoly on violence.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Replying to @Stellaaa
Gavin and California knew, that’s why had to create a law to protect the fraudsters
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Jack Farrington retweeted
Tesla just registered another 69 Cybercabs for its Robotaxi fleet, bringing the total number of Cybercabs registered to date to 420, according to the Texas DMV. Yes, these are real numbers.
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Jack Farrington retweeted
amazing how they don’t even pretend elon committed a crime, because they know it doesn’t matter if he did. they’ll find something. the point is just they really hate him, and when democrats really hate someone he belongs in prison.
On the Bulwak podcast, Kara Swisher says Elon might already be in jail under Kamala Harris, and "he knows what's coming for him." Another one to put in the "what Democrats plan to do if they take power" file: "If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I'd be worried if I were him." "So they're going to start investigating again. You think he's not on the list? He's at the top of that list." "He has a very big sense of fate. And I think it's coming for him. And real hard." They're all just saying this stuff out loud now. There are no secrets about what they want to do.
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Hi @aelluswamy. I was excited to hear your response about creating Tesla Maps, as I have advocated it for quite some time. I have a request though that I hope you have considered. In the Dallas area, there are several toll roads. I can instruct the maps to “avoid tolls”, but then I have to remember to toggle it back after the route completes. The toggle is buried several menus deep, so this is quite cumbersome. It would be better if I could instruct the navigation to avoid tolls only for the current trip. An even better option though would be to present multiple route options to me, so that I can decide whether I would prefer to pay a few extra dollars on a toll this time or if I’m not in a rush and don’t mind taking the long way for this trip. Grok integration could improve this further as I could let Grok know I’m not really in a hurry, and let it plan the trip accordingly. Thanks!
TeslaMaps. @Tesla @elonmusk Google makes a few billion in revenue off Google Maps. Tesla has all the infrastructure in place to provide a Maps API. SpaceX could stick cameras on a few Starlink satellites to grab overhead views. And street view could be accurate to the minute. 🤔
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Hey @grok, what was average U.S. inflation from the nation's founding through to the creation of the Federal Reserve, and from the creation of the Federal Reserve until now?
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In response, France says hold my beer.
Elon says SpaceX's market cap could hit $100+ trillion in under 10 years unless there is some force majeure event.
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