Elon Musk retweeted
Elon Musk described the mechanism that lets millions of intelligent people arrive at the same conclusion without a single independent input between them. Musk: “If your entire exposure is to legacy mainstream media, so that all your information sources are that Trump is basically Hitler, and your friend group has that same information, you have no countervailing opinion.” One source, repeated back by a friend group drawing on that same source, is a single input arriving twelve times. Agreement gets counted as evidence. A belief that has never met resistance feels, from the inside, identical to one that survived it. That is why almost nobody catches it in themselves. Musk: “Then they actually just think Trump is Hitler, even though it’s a little strange he didn’t do Hitler things the last four years.” The comparison had four years of executive power to prove itself and produced nothing. The belief held anyway. Any description of a person that survives the total absence of supporting events was never built on events. Then the same apparatus turned on the man saying it. He spent a decade celebrated as the builder of the electric car company and the rocket company that put American astronauts back in orbit from American soil. The engineering never changed. His politics did, and the coverage inverted inside a single news cycle. Output was never the variable being measured. No conspiracy is required. Outrage outperforms accuracy on every number a newsroom is graded on. Thousands of people chasing one incentive produce coordination nobody had to organize. The arrangement collapsed when the layer between the source and the reader disappeared. The person who was in the room posts it, and the correction comes from someone else who was in the room. It is louder, uglier, and far more honest. Contradiction now arrives whether you invite it or not. Even the owner of the platform gets corrected on his own posts by his own product. For most of the last century a few dozen editors decided what an entire country believed had happened that day. People accepted it as the natural order because no alternative had ever existed to measure it against. Every civilization inherits its picture of reality from whoever controls the distance between an event and the people who hear about it. That distance is now close to zero for the first time in human history. The filter is gone and it cannot be rebuilt. What you believe is finally yours.
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Yes
Unless rectified quickly, most of the US, Europe, and Asia will go extinct This is a true existential risk
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Elon Musk retweeted
California has officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California’s Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars. These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made “immigration support service providers” essentially a protected class in California. For example, if I film a hospice or a “learing center” with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them “fear” or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me. This bill was created by the Attorney General’s wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for “immigrant support services.” Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it. By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Reminder: Grok Build has xhigh effort, and it’s insanely powerful If you want to brute-force your way through a difficult project, just type: /effort Then switch to Extra High Effort It gives Grok 4.6 its highest reasoning and implementation effort for the really hard stuff
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Elon Musk retweeted
HOLY SH*T, I BUILT A F**KING COMPANY INSIDE GROK BOT i split the operation into separate roles for research, writing, outreach, ops, finance and support. each agent owns one narrow job 6 agents → 1 shared operation → automatic handoffs → human approval each bot keeps its own workflow and memory, then passes finished work forward instead of routing everything back through me the control layer catches anything that sends, spends, publishes or deletes and pushes it into approval before anything happens after a few runs this stops feeling like ai chat. it feels like a 24/7 operations team running behind one dashboard
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Elon Musk retweeted
This chart really scares the hell out of me you can see how dramatically U.S. birth rates have fallen in just a few decades… and they’re still falling If this continues, we’re heading toward a place with far fewer children and young people, and an increasingly old population....that would be very depressing future Even if we achieve the abundance through AI, what does abundance mean if there are fewer and fewer people around to inherit the future? this is a really big problem, and it's something most people don't realize it yet and we don't really have much time until it's too late
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Interesting
Suspect we will start to hear about a “Pareto optimal” balance of computationally efficient humans, cheaper open-source tokens and frontier tokens. Our internal AI spend @Atreidesmgmt will be roughly 100x higher in August 2026 vs. March 2026. Still roughly doubling every month. Note that is before Grok Bot moves to consumption pricing which will likely create a step function when it happens (at least for me). AI means that scale has become more important to investing imo. I think there will be a minimum token spend required to be competitive in most knowledge based industries. The “compute inequality” referenced by Sholto in our discussion.
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I’ve been warning about this for years
people don’t realize this, but 2026 appears to be the first year in human history where humanity as a whole is below replacement fertility. this has never happened before. not during wars. not during pandemics. for the first time in human history, we are not producing enough children to replace ourselves. this is the only real existential crisis.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Grok @Bot edited this video entirely......yes, it can edit videos too It even synced the music perfectly
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As foretold in the prophecy
Did you know Elon Musk was weirdly "predicted" in a Wernher von Braun book nearly 80 years ago? In his 1948 novel *Project Mars*, von Braun describes a future Martian government led by a figure called the "Elon." It's not a person's name, but a title for the head of government. Still, considering Elon Musk's lifelong obsession with Mars, this has to be one of the strangest coincidences in space history!
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Elon Musk retweeted
LinkedIn users have been editing their work histories to add "AI" and remove "DEI".
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This is why I switched Starship to stainless steel. We have since created our own new alloys and no longer use 301.
Why did SpaceX choose 301 stainless steel for Starship 👇👇
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Elon Musk retweeted
A French writer explained the error in 1850. A Nobel economist repeated it in a Pennsylvania lecture hall in 1978. Governments still make it every year. Almost nobody watches the clip. This is Milton Friedman on the parable of the broken window, the oldest mistake in economics. The trick is that the destruction is visible and the cost is not. You see the glazier get paid. You never see what the shopkeeper would have bought instead. Watch how he sets it up before he names the fallacy. He lets the audience agree with the wrong answer first. 176 years of warnings. Still the most persuasive bad idea in politics.
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Elon Musk retweeted
The Bolsheviks killed more ppl & committed more acts of systematic mass murder & pure horror than any other group in the 20th century. Yet it is nothing more than a footnote in our schools. We are taught that “we won the cold war,” but the truth is we were defeated from within.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Curious about the journey from photons to the image or video on your phone? I made a video with Grok @bot, @imagine, and Voice explaining the physics and theory behind it—100% on my phone just chatting. Part I: photons to digital signal Part II: digital signal to pretty picture Pro tip for Grok @bot: Ask it to QA every single frame before handing it back. It saves QA time so you can focus on high-level direction. All technical visualization, including relinearization of the video footage from Grok @imagine to be physically accurate, is done by Grok @bot. Update: added more technical details with higher quality encoding for completion.
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They faced the same issues in Ancient Rome
Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow. No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it. This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in. Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again. What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive. The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.
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Grok Bot can do amazing things!
Three months later, Grok’s progress is amazing, and @bot makes it even more powerful and easier to use. This is the fidelity using the same prompt: “Explain Navier-Stokes equation and how it relates to airfoil design with actual fluid dynamics simulation.”
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Elon Musk retweeted
AIDS is...not what we were told in high school in the 1990s.
If you had condomless sex with 100 random white women, the odds of getting HIV would be 1 in 105,000. That’s before adjusting for college and lack of injection drug use, and other factors.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Starlink has around 11,040 working satellites in orbit. The next nine largest LEO constellations combined have only about 2,100. Starlink alone is more than 5x bigger than all nine combined.
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