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by georgeg23 3y ago
Well obviously, it speaks to it's God(s) every day.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
SpaceX is working on Direct to Cell Phone from Satellite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Satellite_cellular_se...
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Basic structure can be encoded yes (and obviously is given brains have consistent structure), but the weights or parameters, presuming that brains learn via synaptic weights, obviously do not fit in the genome. Compression still must obey i
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by georgeg23 3y ago
I believe the deal here was very unusual--not unless they had someone with government power directly pulling big strings. In this case Griffin.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The point is Elon didn't risk his own money as is oft dramatized. In fact they were mostly spreadsheets and PowerPoints to obtain that money which could then be used for build out.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
But the human genome is only 3 gigabytes and the vast majority of that is unlikely to be encoding brain structure.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The funny thing is there are now plenty of selfie generators based on a single image that could operate off of a fake or stolen ID
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Look at the actual COTS agreement wording: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/189228main_setc_nnj... page 34 details the milestones. The first 12 milestones are paper design / powerpoints. Half th
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by georgeg23 3y ago
If presenting a PowerPoint you already made is work (for $150M) then sure.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
In the case of Musk, that isn't true. The COTS contract awarded half the money ($150M) without any hardware built--it was up-front. This amounted to more than the total amount Elon invested and more than covered Falcon 1, meaning he n
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by georgeg23 3y ago
And... ?
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by georgeg23 3y ago
They had no debt, and plenty of assets funded by the government. Other failed rocket companies liquidated and return value to investors. Elon only had to recover 10% of the spend to be made fully whole. Read the links above, this is not spe
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by georgeg23 3y ago
If you are following along above, even if SpaceX failed, only the government would have lost money spent. The government contract did not take equity so Elon could liquidate and get all his money back. His cash investment was very little co
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Some of us worked for SpaceX for a decade.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Read the links and their citations before you jump to conclusions.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Actually Griffin's COTS government contract was awarded in 2005 (with half money up front), three years before Thiel first invested.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
It was a risk free venture.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Agree, the point is that the story of Elon taking personal financial risk with SpaceX is false. For Tesla, besides the huge DOE grant, he had SpaceX loan some of the excess government money to Tesla in the first few years to derisk his inve
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by georgeg23 3y ago
And the government provided over $1B.. Search for the word 'excessive' https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist... Griffin is arguing against himself there in giving all that money-- cover
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by georgeg23 3y ago
While llama is probably not useful in any meaningful way to the DoD, it's nice to see Meta take a stand.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Actually SpaceX was 85% government funded according to the guy who gave him the money, Michael D. Griffin. This was front-loaded. Private money was never at risk.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Yes SpaceX loses money, but it doesn't matter because it's a nationally strategic company. It's valuation makes sense given the Griffin discussion below. https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37166675
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by georgeg23 3y ago
I suspect he actually believes his purpose is to save humanity from nuclear war (per Griffin's approach above). This is when Elon stopped buying and crashing sports cars.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The only person that has to lie is Musk. That's why SpaceX is run as an autocracy. Everyone else drinks the Mars Kool aid. People who have been around a while connect the dots. To be more precise, the company is run by the DoD with sig
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Yep, Griffin even shared the plenary talks with Musk when he gave the famous Mars Society announcement about going to Mars, https://marspedia.org/images/9/99/2001_TMS_Conv_Sched.pdf They were very close. Elo
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The larger picture isn't clear to anyone (yet?)
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The B field is just the E field's relativistic effects to an observer not in the same motion frame. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electromagnetism_and_sp...
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by georgeg23 3y ago
SpaceX (at least) was a government venture, funded by DARPA and the CIA to enable a program that isn't too hard to figure out when you look at the people involved. It's rather political, and debated within the clearance community.
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by georgeg23 3y ago
Elon makes a bit more sense when you see he has deep connections with the CIA. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
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by georgeg23 3y ago
The continuity of self is also an illusion if you think about it. We aren't who we were when nine years old. Maybe we share some memories and DNA with that kid, but he's gone now, or at least exponentially decayed. We've died

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