In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions.
This dumb fuck. Unfortunately, his boosters will be all-in on this messaging. Whatever.
Bullshit. He’s playing move the debt around.
Absolutely. And if the AI market takes a hit it will barely affect a government contracted space program that will get a taxpayer funded bailout if it has any trouble at all.
They don’t always bail them out. Sometimes they force sell them to their competitors.
The richest man on Earth will absolutely get a bailout on our dime and not spend a cent of his net worth.
Yup. Who’s in charge of determining if he gets bailed out? How much money does each of them need to say yes?
Oh, they won’t take money? What influence does he need to buy?
For the amount of money he’s set to get, there’s noone that’ll turn down a nice gift of some sort.
In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions.
Lololololol
Dumbass McScammer at it again. His starship still can’t even bring a fucking banana to LEO but sure, pets move entire datacenters there.
He has lied about everything for decades now, this too, ain’t gonna happen.
Not to mention the MASSIVE drawbacks to having data centers in space. The guy is going to ruin SpaceX, too.
I’m really trying to think of a single upside to putting it in space. Unfiltered solar power, does that matter at all? Not that you would ever break even on the cost.
Imagine his dumb goober voice
“Ackshually - it’s it’s it’s quite cool in space - practically near a useful enough temperature for graphic processing units to dissipate heat”
Lol yeah… not how that works at all
I had to try it
Amazing
No seriously trust him he is going to build automatic driving cars for robots that are going to be catapulted to space with the skills to create networks and datacenters that can transmit with useable latency across the void of space so we can get ads for the McDonalds app on his totally cool microblogging website all powered by the sun.
The earth will be a fireball, but the McDonalds will be only 99% or less microplastic.
Someone needed a distraction from his name appearing all over the Epstein files
Every article needs to read “Elon Musk, who’s name repeatedly appeared in the Epstein files”
Company with largest stock valuation
=/=
Most valuable company
Financial trickery is what this is. Rolling one failing business into the next, Tesla will follow soon. It’s incredible that this is even legal, but of course nothing matters anymore in Trump’s America.
The stupid thing is that it‘s perfectly legal as long as nobody looks into it and because it‘s a US corporation nobody will look into it.
this is it
supporting the share price long enough he can sell as much as possible
Is he actually selling shares? Imo this move might actually be more about gaining more control percentage wise.
Similar to how he increased his control when he folded Twitter into xAI (at a imo very favorable valuation for him), which gave him a larger share of the combined company.
If he merges space x and xAI (especially at a high valuation of the latter), he would own more of the combined company as he owns more of xAI then space x.
For me the only surprising thing is how existing shareholders seemingly just let him dictate these mergers and valuations. But I guess they face a dilemma where valuation depend so much on Elon that they have to play by his rules or risk loosing even more.
One day soon he’ll run out of companies to eat each other and the creditor bill will come due.
I wonder which American taxpayers will foot the bill?
All of them!
Because the rich can’t technically be taxpayers if they don’t pay in the first place.
Odd to say that while referring to Musk, a person who famously paid the most taxes by any individual ever in a year; over >$10B in a single year.
I don’t think that what he’s famous for.
This is following the rules because the rules are written by the rich to benefit the rich. Countries need wealth taxes and more equitable policies on unrealized gains.
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How long until he rebrands Tesla to X Automobiles?
Naming everything to “X” is a cartoon villain move, except we don’t have a superhero to fight him.
Lol “Valuable” ooookay then
Can we also take a moment to acknowledge how utterly unhinged this part is?
“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!”
A couple short stories on the matter:
Is there a god? (Less than a page, but says it all)
Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing. He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe – ninety-six billion planets – into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies. Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment’s silence he said, “Now, Dwar Ev.” Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel. Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.” “Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.” He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?” The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay. “Yes, now there is a God.” Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch. A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.
(Fredric Brown, “Answer”)
Or
The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
yeah wtf… a sentient sun? First of all, how do we know the sun isn’t sentient? And if it was/is why assume it would give a shit about humanity?
But also wtf… Like, he’s trying to merge the sun with AI? Am I taking it too literally? He’s trying to create god? So he can ask for forgiveness for being a pedo pos?
It’s a bunch of technobabble loosely related to his harebrained scheme to launch a fuckload of solar powered AI servers into LEO.
“Sentience” is like this hand-waving magic word. Defined typically as the ability to experience sensations and feelings, it’s very anthropic and egocentric.
We know that life evolved on Earth, to include our own species. We know that much life on Earth has an internal sense for pain and pleasure, as well as many instinctual drives like self-preservation. We know that our species knows things, and we know that other species don’t have the same depth in their capacity to know things. We’ve demonstrated that other species don’t seem to understand the world in the same way as us humans. Yet, we’ve never quite figured out what any other species knows. We’ve never modeled their form of sentience, let alone our own. We only really know about sentience intuitively, via our own experience. We judge everything’s capacity as though it’s either less than, equal to, or greater than our own — without consideration for how something might just be different. Not higher or lower, but parallel in a way.
I don’t know what sun sentience would be like, not any more than I already know why any sentience is like (beside my own), but I can say one thing for sure. Our own sentience is heavily influenced by bias: social, political, legal, economical, financial, emotional, religious, moral, and scientific bias. Peel back those layers of bias, what’s left? Sun sentience might be something like that, like a blank slate that just exists.
The sun is not only sentient, but sapient and aware of it’s eternal damnation; be thankful you can’t hear it screaming.
if there was a infinite line, like so:
<——sentient——sapient——>… where it marks each stage of “awareness,” where would you personally think humans go on that line?
If you think it belongs over the “sapient” point, I’d think that’s very interesting. Isn’t it also interesting that we bond most well with animals that exhibit human-like social behavior?
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He probably used AI to generate a mission statement for the merged company.
Any sort of universal god would not care about the daily life of bacteria on a piece of dust in an unimaginably larger system.
What if we put the pedophilia…in space??
Better check the capsule for kids first… “this is the one thing we didn’t want to happen”
It’s not illegal there?
Ugh… I can’t believe i actually typed that out
I’m…actually not sure how the rules would apply, how far up various airspaces go or if it’s an Antarctica kinda deal.
Pretty sure he’d been violating all sorts of human trafficking laws tho
“…creating the world’s most overvalued private company.”
FTFY.
I’m not really convinced SpaceX was over valued IF Starship succeeds, but every single part of xAi was.
And also, that’s a pretty big if!
For sure. I don’t doubt they’ll get it functional and getting payloads to space, but the entire premise is on full rapid reuseability, including same day relaunch of starship. That is still a very very very big if.
If they can’t get to that point, it’s not worth anywhere near what it is being predicted to be worth.
If xAI disappeared tomorrow, literally nothing of value would have been lost. I’m not sure who would even notice immediately as I still have never met a single human being in real life who personally uses X.
Bobs : “What is it you do?”
Elon : "Well–well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? "
@Grok the primary fuel flow regulator is showing a red light, what’s wrong with it?
I’m sorry Dave. I can’t do that.
Valuable to whom?
