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The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!

Realized what I have in common with environmentalists, but also why they’re so annoyingly wrong: They are conservationists of what is, whereas they should be conservationists of our potential over time, our cosmic endowment. (From a friend)

@WholeMarsBlog There are so many crazy rules like this that make it extremely difficult to build anything new in California

From Shakespeare’s The Tempest, but I much prefer it literally vs ironically

O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't.

@mlakan @EpochTimes Earth could sustain many times its current human population and the ecosystem would be fine. We definitely don’t have “too many people”.

@nytimes This sounds promising

@Neuro_Skeptic We are a brain in a vat – the vat is our skull. All our senses and memories are electrical signals.

Some hate humanity, but I love humanity so much

@baierm588 Build 1000+ Starships to transport life to Mars. Basically, (very) modern Noah’s Arks.

@RenataKonkoly Maybe we should make an actual Starship model that dispenses pez for our merch store

Making life multiplanetary expands the scope & scale of consciousness. It also enables us to backup the biosphere, protecting all life as we know it from a calamity on Earth. Humanity is life’s steward, as no other species can transport life to Mars. We can’t let them down.

Deck from SpaceX all-hands update talk I gave last week https://t.co/ApsdPjjukh

@GalaxyHeroesGHC It should be possible

@lexfridman That is why we must expand the scope & scale of consciousness – so that we may learn the answers to these questions

@Tesmanian_com Accurate

@TimDOES @chazman @aelluswamy Not perfect, but should be better

@chazman @aelluswamy 10.13 will solve your left turn most of the time

@GasOff2 Yes, car will navigate to a pin location, even if in a complex surface parking lot or hotel entrance. When in covered or underground parking lots, car will have to navigate using only inertial measurement, wheel movement & vision, as GPS signal is no longer available.

@slashdot Remarkable, although, as noted, there are big differences between humans and mice. We can cure a mouse of almost any cancer, but most of those cures don’t work with humans.