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Elon Musk retweeted
Ok. This guy is getting some jokes - but the double standard here is insane.
Zhong is suing the University of WASHINGTON, average GPA 3.1. They rejected him. He had a 1590. What do you think it would take an in-state Native guy to get in?
Rejected by 16 colleges. Hired by Google. Now his family’s discrimination lawsuit is moving forward.
Stanley Zhong had a 1590 SAT score, a 4.42 weighted GPA and was hired by Google as a full-time software engineer after graduating high school. His family alleges elite universities discriminated against him and other highly qualified Asian-American applicants.
A federal judge is now allowing Stanley’s Title VI claims against the University of Washington to proceed, opening the door to discovery and potential access to internal admissions documents, communications and data.
The university says it is pleased the court dismissed many of the claims and maintains its admissions process is highly competitive, particularly for out-of-state applicants.
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To bring large AI data centers online requires building massive power plants, transformers, liquid cooling loops & chillers, as well as incredibly complex networking (especially for training clusters)
BREAKING: Elon Musk says Google and Anthropic are leasing AI compute from SpaceX amid a growing power shortage, adding that SpaceX has brought AI compute online better than anyone else so far.
“Even before next year, there are challenges with power, which is why Google, Anthropic and many other companies are leasing compute from SpaceX. We’ve been able to bring AI compute online better than anyone else so far. Constructing our own power plants is the only way we were able to do it”
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Movies make people fear the wrong thing
Three Mile Island produced zero deaths, a chest X-ray dose, and a 30 freeze on new American reactors.
A stuck valve and a misread gauge caused a partial meltdown on March 28, 1979. “The China Syndrome”, a movie about a cover up at a nuclear plant, released in theaters 12 days earlier, so newsrooms had a field day with this one.
While Thornburgh advised pregnant women and small children only inside a five mile radius, national coverage turned it into a regional evacuation.
Panic eased when Carter walked the control room 4 days later, but the damage was done.
Columbia’s 1990 study of 32,000 nearby residents found no significant cancer increase. Nuclear stayed one of the safest energy sources ever measured. But the movie and the headlines didn’t allow a return to normalcy.
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Summary of my G20 address
Grok Bot Summary of Elon Musk’s G20 Address Today 🇺🇸
Power, data centers, and the bottleneck
- There’s already a power crisis for AI, not a far-off one.
- Consensus he cited: at least a 15 gigawatt shortfall of power in 2027 for AI chips.
- AI chip production is rising ~40–50% a year. Power outside China is rising ~10–20%. The faster curve will overwhelm the slower one.
- Google, Anthropic, and others are already leasing compute from SpaceX because SpaceX built its own power plants. That was the only way they could turn capacity on fast enough.
- China has lots of electricity, but GPU export bans block the latest chips there. The real constraint is electricity growth outside China.
- Opportunity for other countries: build a lot of power, host AI data centers, and tax them / charge reasonable fees.
AI as a growth engine
- Countries should lean into new tech instead of staying stuck in the past.
- His rough estimate: digital AI alone could lift the global economy by 20–30%, or about $20–30 trillion a year.
- By the end of next year, AI should be able to do anything digital, anything that doesn’t require physically shaping atoms by hand.
- Software prediction: in about 12–18 months, AI writing software will be “Stockfish-level.” Humans won’t be able to compete, the way a chess engine on a phone can already beat Magnus Carlsen.
- Same window: AI becomes extremely good, possibly that same level, at all forms of engineering and anything digital.
- He also plugged 𝕏 as where almost all serious AI discourse happens, and said that’s how he follows the field day to day.
Robotics and physical AI
- Physical tech always takes longer than digital. Software copies instantly. Hardware needs huge global supply chains and moving a lot of atoms.
- A humanoid robot’s usefulness is three things multiplied: AI software × onboard AI chip × electromechanical dexterity (especially the hands). All three are improving exponentially.
- Once robots start making more robots, growth goes recursive: slow at first, then explosive.
- 10-year forecast (he called it conservative): well over a billion humanoid robots, each about 5× as productive as a human. That would mean those robots outproduce all humans combined.
- That physical layer is where he sees the economy growing by a factor of 10 or more, not just 20–30%.
How countries actually get new tech built?
- New things should be default legal, not default illegal. Heavy regulation (he pointed at the EU) doesn’t kill progress, but it slows it a lot.
- Startups are like saplings in a forest. Most governments over-support the big existing trees (incumbents) and under-support the small ones.
- Big companies have access to political leaders. Startups don’t. Policy should be biased toward young companies on purpose.
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Elon Musk retweeted
ELON MUSK: A billion humanoid robots will be more productive than all humans combined within 10 years.
“There will be at least a billion robots in 10 years, and each will produce at least five times the output of a human.”
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Elon Musk retweeted
𝕏 will stop paying interest on New York customers’ 𝕏 Money balances starting October 1, 2026 and the APY for those customers will drop to 0.00%.
The New York Department of Financial Services informed 𝕏 that it is currently not permitted to pay interest on stored-value accounts in the state.
𝕏 is working to resolve this.
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The entire span of human civilization is a just a flash in the pan so far
Earth is just one of about 100 billion planets in our galaxy, which is just one of about two trillion galaxies in the universe. And our lifetimes are only about 1/3,000 of humanity's existence, which itself is only 1/20,000 of the Earth's existence.
In other words, we are unbelievably tiny and short-lived and no matter what we accomplish, our impact will be insignificant.
At the same time, we instinctually want to matter and to evolve, and we can matter a tiny bit--and it's all those tiny bits that add up to drive the evolution of the universe. #principleoftheday
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Elon Musk retweeted
Elon Musk a écrit ce matin une phrase que l’école vous a appris à trouver obscène : « McCarthy was right (obviously). » On vous a enseigné à haïr ce nom comme on apprend une table de multiplication, sans jamais vous dire ce qu’il avait vu, et c’est précisément pour ça que la phrase dérange encore.
Il faut comprendre ce qu’était sa thèse, parce qu’on l’a réduite à une caricature pour n’avoir pas à la regarder. McCarthy ne disait pas seulement qu’il existait des espions assez stupides pour voler des plans dans un tiroir. Il disait que le communisme avait compris quelque chose de plus décisif : qu’un pays se prend moins par ses frontières que par ses institutions, moins par ses usines d’armement que par ce qui fabrique, dans la tête des gens, le réel lui-même. Département d’État, universités, syndicats, rédactions, bibliothèques, écoles : non pas pour piquer un secret, mais pour orienter ce qu’une civilisation croit être vrai, juste, enseigné, publiable.
Le scalpel était souvent imprécis, les chiffres bougeaient, la méthode était sloppy, et une partie des noms qu’il agitait n’aurait jamais dû l’être. Cela ne change rien au diagnostic. Quand les câbles de Venona ont été déclassifiés en 1995, on a retrouvé ce que l’intelligentsia avait passé quarante ans à traiter comme une hallucination : Alger Hiss, les Rosenberg, Harry Dexter White, et des centaines d’Américains qui travaillaient pour Moscou pendant qu’on expliquait aux collégiens que le seul danger, c’était l’homme qui osait le dire. On a utilisé ses erreurs pour enterrer le phénomène. On a brûlé le thermomètre. La fièvre est restée.
Car voici ce qui s’est passé ensuite, et c’est cela qu’on refuse encore de nommer. L’URSS est morte en 1991. Le logiciel, non. Le communisme a perdu la guerre des tanks et gagné la guerre du compilateur. Gramsci l’avait écrit avec une clarté que nos manuels ont préféré noyer : tu ne prends pas le palais d’assaut, tu staffes le palais. Une fois que tu tiens l’école, l’université, la presse, le syndicat, la culture et demain la RH, tu n’as plus besoin du KGB. Le bâtiment travaille pour toi.
Le virus a simplement changé d’enveloppe. La première portait le parti, la carte, l’espion, Moscou ; on l’a reconnue, le mur est tombé, et tout le monde a conclu trop vite que c’était fini. La seconde n’a plus besoin de faucille : elle avance avec un vocabulaire moral, des victimes permanentes, une rareté qu’il faut administrer, des intermédiaires qui se rendent indispensables, et un soupçon généralisé contre tout ce qui construit. Même charge utile, nouveau packaging. C’est pour cela que l’Occident a l’air rongé. Pas parce qu’un colonel russe est assis dans ton rectorat. Parce que le logiciel tourne tout seul, dans une école qui enseigne d’abord à soupçonner, dans une université où la question n’est plus « est-ce vrai ? » mais « qui a le pouvoir de dire que c’est vrai ? », dans une entreprise où un fait devient une violence, dans un État où allouer le capital est un droit et où le créer est presque une faute. La France teste cette architecture à 57 % du PIB. Ce n’est pas une coïncidence culturelle. C’est le même système d’exploitation.
Le mot a disparu. La fonction est restée. Et ceux qui portent ça ne sont pas des monstres : ils ont reçu un logiciel, souvent par générosité, souvent parce que le mot justice sonnait mieux que le mot responsabilité. Les mauvaises idées tuent d’abord ceux qui y croient. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n’a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer.
McCarthy avait raison sur l’essentiel : les institutions peuvent être prises, les idées peuvent coloniser un pays plus sûrement qu’une armée, et ceux qui le disent en premier sont toujours traités comme le problème. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commissaires du récit. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu’elle vaut qu’on s’y consacre.
Et au travail.
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Automatic token optimization to lower your Grok @Bot cost will be added soon
If you have a Grok @bot token usage issue, ask the @bot to create a new channel for dedicated tasks and close it when finished.
This would allow Grok @bot to focus on the context you are currently interested in.
If you want to reuse the same task, have it save the reflection and upload to the repo so it can be repeatable.
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Elon Musk retweeted
Why so big though?
They have good use for massive launch capacity
Start with Starlink.
We think this opportunity scales into the hundreds of billions of dollars before returns begin to decay.
Spend $1 billion building satellites and ground stations, launching the rocket, and acquiring customers.
Yield $5 billion (net of taxes and operating costs in return.)
Not a bad business.
(These are our estimates for their 10th launch of v3 sats.)
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Successful hardware operating in the field is worth an infinite number of expert opinions
Talking to brilliant physicists who have thought about orbital compute for 3 hours and are convinced it will never work makes me think of this Keanu Reeves quote:
“I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of arguments. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right. Have fun."
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Grok @Bot only gets better from here
Gavin Baker says Grok Bot feels like another ChatGPT moment because it turns hours of Claude Code work into seconds:
"You see these 23-year-old kids and just the way they use AI, they're just fluent and native in it. I just feel like maybe in a way that no matter how hard I try, I will never be, and I'm trying really hard."
"We got Claude Code. I built some stuff, did some cool stuff, and in, I don't know, 3 minutes of creating Grok Bots, I had much better versions of everything I created."
"I love having a podcast summarizer... It takes 10 seconds in Grok Bot. It's amazing, and it's so good."
"A Substack summarizer, an X summarizer, an X sentiment tracker for topics and stocks... All of those would have taken me hours working with Claude Code, and they each took 7 to 12 seconds with Grok Bot. And it's better."
"To me, Grok Bot does feel like another ChatGPT moment."
@GavinSBaker @DavidGeorge83
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