But that was the one place that hadn't been corrupted by capitalism!
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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.
What if we put the pedophilia...in space??
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.
It's all a scam that would be investigated in normal times. Tesla's cars and robots will need AI to function (albeit xAI seems to be failing spectacularly), and xAI is hemorrhaging cash, but he loses leverage over Tesla's board if the AI division went to the Tesla. SpaceX investors should be pissed they're going to be carrying it now, and Tesla investors should be pissed as well.
“Valuable”
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.
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.
@Grok the primary fuel flow regulator is showing a red light, what's wrong with it?
Lol "Valuable" ooookay then
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.
Valuable to whom?
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")
https://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
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?
“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.
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It's a bunch of technobabble loosely related to his harebrained scheme to launch a fuckload of solar powered AI servers into LEO.
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Fucking, Wired.
Suck daddy harder, Wired.
where is the regulation
Same place as the bill of rights.
Space solar panels and datacenters is pure fraud. Merger is purely to ruin one established company with revenue, mostly government funded, with an anchor to sink it, but help mecha hitler control skynet.
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Makes sense. Wants the bailouts when it all crashes, doesn't want terrestrial data center regulations so he can get away with whatever.
Definitely getting bail outs when it fails. Fucking plutocracy sucks, privatized profits, socialized losses.
Putting AI datacenters in space has got to the be dumbest idea conceived by Elon yet. There has to be several dozen engineering challenges to even make that happen and when all is said and done it would make absolutely no financial sense to actually do it. This is just yet another attempt by Elon to hype up spacex for an IPO. It's a very poor attempt at that.
it's getting hard to differentiate his ideas that are intentionally scams and his ideas that are just ketamine fueled insanity
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Hide the company losing money in the company making money. He has done this before.
And I’m sure this has nothing to do with grok on X creating CA.
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The government will not let SpaceX fail, it’s a strategic asset and Musk knows this. He is going to tie his Xai to it and saddle it with all the debt it is incurring. When the AI bubble pops he will be able to ask for bail outs to keep SpaceX afloat.
Companies that are too big to fail and need a bail out, should be automatically nationalised.
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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.
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.
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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"
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