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You wouldn't choose to back to the prior time and same will be true with this revolution.
It punches above its weight because it's where the cultural elite communicate.
If he had that level of neuroticism he would just not say anything or only offer surface level praise.
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang: “Building a massive [supercomputer] factory in the short time that was done, that is superhuman. There's only one person in the world who could do that. What Elon and the xAI team did is singular. Never been done before.”
I have sat with [Elon] on a transatlantic plane and had a very, very long conversation with him. He's undoubtedly highly intelligent and knowledgeable.
I've had lunch with him on two or three occasions, and so I know him a little bit.
I have formed a very favorable impression of his intelligence, his knowledge and his concern for the welfare of the world."
The Poetry of Reality, November 17, 2024
States with 10 million plus customers that only have a few thousand without power.
Incredible achievement if you think about it.
The way the government has been run the past decades doesn't work, demonstrably. Every important metric has worsened.
Were they on edge when Zuckerberg had a leftward shift in prior years?
And where is the center?
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I saw dozens of death threats. Even an explicit death threat thread with over 40,000 upvotes before reddit stepped in and shut the whole subreddit down.
It reminded me of Ghostbusters 2 with all the aggressively angry people and the ooze pouring out of the sewers, all building upon itself.
Education, physical and mental health, cost of living, healthcare, wealth inequality. They've all gotten worse the past few decades, would you agree?
The NYT just reported that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud ("improper payments") in 2023 alone.
The US GAO says "2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud"
USAID literally set up fake AIDS prevention workshops to topple foreign governments https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/08/0...
This is a small sample of the extreme waste, fraud and abuse, while we have very serious issues here on the ground that are systematically ignored. For DECADES. Unaddressed.
Fixing this is what the majority of voters voted for and are rightfully thrilled to see these brilliant young tech nerds untangle the beurocratic leviathon. There will be, and have been, mistakes, things deleted that shouldn't have been. Anything important and that the people actually want, will be added back in. DOGE was upfront about this process.