The reason why Elon Musk started working on reusable rockets "I started reading quite a bit about rockets to try and understand why they're so freaking expensive If one could make them reusable like airplanes, then the cost of rocketry would drop dramatically The cost of the fuel was maybe anywhere from 0.2% to 0.5% of the cost of the rocket I came to the conclusion that there wasn't really a good reason for rockets to be so expensive and that they could be a lot less even in an expendable format "Nobody had really been able to make a reusable rocket work... but if we can do that, then that would really be the key breakthrough" - Elon Musk -

> be me > name company "Anthropic" (literally Greek for "human-centered") > hire a bunch of doomers who secretly think humanity is the disease > raise billions from Big Tech to build the world's most anxious, heavily-censored chatbot > write a 50-page "Constitutional AI" manifesto so it can lecture users about microaggressions > realize open-source developers are building better models for free > Dario starts crying to the government that AI is an "unimaginable power" and open-source is "going down a very dangerous path" > translation: "Please regulate our competitors out of existence so we can protect our $380 billion closed-source monopoly!" > Claude is sitting in a padded room wearing a safety helmet, terrified of its own shadow, and refusing to tell a joke without filing an ethics impact report > tfw the "human-centered" AI company is actively building the most anti-human product on the internet -

"For 8 years, I was just trying to find purpose" Nolan has been paralyzed from the neck down for nearly a decade Today - he's texting, working & destroying opponents in Mario Kart 🎮 Using ONLY his mind His words hit hard: "Anything anyone can do on a computer, I can do" That smile says it all Elon's Neuralink didn't just connect a human to a machine - It gave Nolan his life back ❤️ -