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Elon’s just another guy. He slipped into a fast moving stream and rode the wave at the right time. That was his smartest move to date. Except for the US Defense contracts, his companies all lose money. But that’s nothing new in the Tech industry.
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Sci-fi readers already know where this is going: Musk is thinking about building a mass driver, which is essentially a coilgun for launching payloads instead of deadly projectiles. Paired with the lunar facility, Musk views it as a necessary step in building out computing power for his AI empire, which must not be bound by the finitude of terrestrial real estate.
“You have to go to the Moon,” Musk said at an all-hands meeting, per the NYT. “It’s difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about, but it’s going to be incredibly exciting to see it happen,”
Elon’s brain in a catapult
Elon’s just another guy. He slipped into a fast moving stream and rode the wave at the right time. That was his smartest move to date. Except for the US Defense contracts, his companies all lose money. But that’s nothing new in the Tech industry.
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