Guinness with John & Dwarkesh 🍺

Please enjoy this Cheeky Pint / @dwarkesh_sp crossover with @elonmusk.

Dwarkesh was most interested in how Elon is going to make space datacenters work. I was most interested in Elon's method for attacking hard technical problems, and why it hasn’t been replicated as much as you might expect. But we got into plenty of topics in this three-hour session.

00:00:23 Space GPUs
00:35:39 Alignment
00:58:48 xAI
01:15:01 Optimus
01:28:03 China
01:40:46 Management
02:16:38 DOGE
02:34:58 Space GPUs redux - John Collison

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RT @BassonBrain: STARLINK CRUSHES RIVALS WITH 97% OF SPEED TESTS! 🔥

Among the global speed tests gathered by Ookla in Q3, 97.1% came from @Starlink, with Viasat at a distant second with 1.7% and HughesNet at 1%.

Ookla’s report offers an interesting snapshot of Starlink’s performance worldwide. In the US, the median download speeds have been improving, reaching 117Mbps, up from 61.7Mbps in 2022 when Starlink faced more user congestion due to its popularity.

The speeds have also increased noticeably in Canada, where the median download rate has reached 111Mbps, up from 79Mbps a year earlier. @elonmusk

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RT @shellenberger: BREAKING: Congress is considering stripping sovereign immunity of EU censorship officials, prohibiting social media from enforcing censorship orders, and enabling private lawsuits against foreign entities, says @Jim_Jordan echoing remarks made by @UnderSecPD and @DarrellIssa

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RT @dwarkesh_sp: .@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk.

0:00:00 - Orbital data centers
0:36:46 - Grok and alignment
0:59:56 - xAI’s business plan
1:17:21 - Optimus and humanoid manufacturing
1:30:22 - Does China win by default?
1:44:16 - Lessons from running SpaceX
2:20:08 - DOGE
2:38:28 - TeraFab

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RT @dwarkesh_sp: .@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk.

0:00:00 - Orbital data centers
0:36:46 - Grok and alignment
0:59:56 - xAI’s business plan
1:17:21 - Optimus and humanoid manufacturing
1:30:22 - Does China win by default?
1:44:16 - Lessons from running SpaceX
2:20:08 - DOGE
2:38:28 - TeraFab

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RT @dwarkesh_sp: .@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk.

0:00:00 - Orbital data centers
0:36:46 - Grok and alignment
0:59:56 - xAI’s business plan
1:17:21 - Optimus and humanoid manufacturing
1:30:22 - Does China win by default?
1:44:16 - Lessons from running SpaceX
2:20:08 - DOGE
2:38:28 - TeraFab

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RT @Starlink: Replying to @Starlink: Starlink providing reliable high-speed internet to rural Brazil 🛰️❤️

Funcionando muito bem na fazenda a Mini! - marcos_doTocantins

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Try the latest @Grok Imagine.

It only gets better from here.

Grok Imagine Video continues to lead at #1 across both Text to Video and Image to Video in the Artificial Analysis Arena. See how Grok Imagine Video compares to Kling 2.5 Turbo, Veo 3.1 Fast Preview, and Vidu Q3 Pro below

Grok Imagine Video is now also live in our Video with Audio Arena. You can compare and vote on it alongside Veo 3.1, Sora 2, and Kling 2.6 Pro.

Built by @xAI (led by @elonmusk), the model is available via the Grok Imagine API and is priced at $4.20/min with audio, making it cheaper than Veo 3.1 Preview ($12/min) and Vidu Q3 Pro ($9.60/min), while remaining competitive with Kling 2.6 Pro.

Here are example Image to Video generations from the Arena 🧵

Prompt [1/5]: Push in and cut to a frontal close up shot once the archer fires the arrow. - Artificial Analysis

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RT @JasonJournoDC: 🚨NEW: @elonmusk🐼

"What I discovered is it's extremely difficult even to cut very obvious waste and fraud from the government — because the government has to operate on who's complaining."

"If you cut off payments to fraudsters, they immediately come up with the most sympathetic sounding reasons to continue the payment. They don't say, 'Please keep the fraud going.' They’re like, 'You're killing baby pandas!'

"Meanwhile, there's no baby pandas who are dying. They're just making it up. The fraudsters are capable of coming up with extremely compelling, heart-wrenching stories that are false — but nonetheless sound sympathetic. That's what happened." @DailyCaller

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RT @Rothmus: Women live longer because of matriarchal systemic sexism

(I’m a biology denialist)

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RT @XCreators: You thought the fun was over? 🏈

This weekend, video takes center stage on the timeline.

We’re awarding $1M, $500K, and $250K to the top three videos about @grok, created with Imagine 1.0.

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RT @Geiger_Capital: Republicans in Indiana took the "high road" and didn’t redraw 2 Democratic seats in a state that Trump won by +19 pts.

Democrats in Virginia took power and are immediately eliminating 4 Republican seats in a state Kamala barely won by +5 pts.

There’s a powerful lesson here.

NEW: Virginia Dems’ proposed congressional map would almost surely torpedo four GOP seats, converting delegation from 6D-5R to 10D-1R this fall. Still faces several hurdles to passage. - Dave Wasserman

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The smart people are here

It always amazes me that there there are a tiny sliver of geniuses in the world and so many of them post on X.

You can read them for free.

Sometimes, they answer your questions too. - Grummz

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Big upgrade to @CommunityNotes

We're launching something new: Collaborative Notes

The idea: when you request a note, AI drafts one — then the community refines it together through ratings and suggestions. You can watch it get better in real time.

It’s a whole new way for the public to work with AI — and each other — to make information more accurate. And a whole new way to contribute to Community Notes.

For now, only requests from Top Writers on English-language posts generate Collaborative Notes, and you must have 2+ Writing Impact to make suggestions. We plan to expand that & shape the experience based on your feedback.

As usual, it’s open-source: communitynotes.x.com/guide/c… - Community Notes

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For sure

Corporations that are purely AI and robotics will vastly outperform any corporations that have people in the loop

You can think of it like how 'computer' used to be a job that humans had. You would go and get a job as a computer where you would do calculations. They had entire skyscrapers full of humans....20, 30 floors of humans...just doing calculations. Now, that entire skyscraper of humans doing calculations can be replaced by a laptop with a spreadsheet. That spreadsheet can do vastly more calculations than an entire building full of human computers

So, you think about it: what if only some of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by humans? That would be much worse than if all of the cells in your spreadsheet were calculated by the computer. And so, really what will happen is the pure AI, pure robotics corporations or collectives will far outperform any corporations that have humans in the loop. It will happen very quickly - X Freeze

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RT @beffjezos: Keep it entertaining

ELON MUSK: "I have a theory that if simulation theory is correct, the most interesting outcome is the most likely. Simulations that are not interesting will be terminated. If simulation is going in a boring direction, we terminate the boring simulation." - DogeDesigner

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RT @MarioNawfal: Blooming creative life with Grok Imagine.

Light gathers. A fairy rises.

Fantasy becomes reality.

Update to V1.0.

Grok Imagine - Elon Musk

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RT @MarioNawfal: A Tesla Model S ran LA to NYC on FSD. Zero interventions.

3,081 miles, winter weather, camera-only confidence.

58h 22m at a 64 mph average, charging included.

Robotaxi energy, coast to coast. @Tesla, @elonmusk

Well done! - Elon Musk

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