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by scoopdewoop 99 days ago
Dwarkesh was ready to whitewash Elon the day after his Epstein emails came out. None of them should be taken seriously.
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More than that the questions about space based solar vs land solar for data center calculations seemed hollow as they are easily verifiable. He let Elon get away with this admin does not like Solar as an answer instead of what he is doing to convince them otherwise
Link please!
The day after the emails came out he posted a video where they had beers while Elon LARPed as a human
Link please!
Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYXbuik3dgA
Thanks for the link because I can't stomach 3 hours of this.

First phrase: "you're saving on energy by putting data centers in space". What?

2:08 "It's harder to scale on the ground than it is in space" what?

The argument is permitting and weather proofing are harder than lifting at certain values of scale for each. We’re not there right now. But if Starship pans out we’re at least damn close, particularly if solar-panel fabrication can be done from out-of-well silicates.