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🇺🇸Eric Weinstein on Elon’s persona: “Elon is very mysterious in a way that somehow nobody seems to notice… he’s not investing in physics. He is focused on getting to the stars. His real space company I think isn’t SpaceX, it’s xAI (Grok)…. I think he’s given up on the...

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SpaceX builds rockets. Rockets run on chemical propulsion. Chemical propulsion has a ceiling. It can reach Mars. Maybe deeper into the solar system. But interstellar travel requires physics that doesn’t exist yet. Weinstein: “You can’t get to the stars using SpaceX because it’s a chemical rocket company.” The ceiling isn’t the universe’s. It’s ours. Weinstein: “One of his slogans is ad astra, to the stars.” To the stars. From a man who knows better than anyone that his rockets can’t reach them. You don’t declare a destination your vehicle can’t reach unless you already know what replaces it. The rockets were never the endgame. Weinstein: “I think he’s given up on the corruption of science. He keeps talking about the fact that he doesn’t like the term researcher, he believes only in engineers.” The breakthroughs that would get humanity past chemical propulsion should have happened decades ago. They didn’t. Not because the physics is impossible. Because the institutions responsible for discovering it optimized for everything except discovery. Grant cycles. Tenure politics. Citation metrics. The entire incentive structure of modern science rewards safe, incremental work and punishes the kind of risk that produces breakthroughs. The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed. It was just never designed for discovery. Weinstein: “I think what he’s doing is he’s building Grok to do science in a time when humans are too corrupt to be truthful and real.” Musk looked at the entire global scientific establishment and decided it was faster to build a mind that could do the physics than to fix the institutions that wouldn’t. That calculation alone tells you everything about the state of modern science. Everyone sees xAI competing with OpenAI and Anthropic in the chatbot race. Weinstein is saying it was never in the chatbot race. It’s in the physics race. The one nobody else is running. Weinstein: “Look at the logo for Grok, I think it’s like a black hole profile. Look at its slogan, to understand the universe.” Not to assist. Not to optimize. To understand the universe. SpaceX is the vehicle. xAI is the destination. One builds the ship. The other discovers how far it can go. The distance to the stars was never measured in light years. It was measured in the limits of the mind reaching for them. The most ambitious project on Earth right now isn’t a rocket program. It’s an AI being built to find the physics that makes rockets obsolete.

Dustin

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.Naval: There was a story that I read about Elon Musk that really affected me, which was when he was talking to Bill Gates, and Bill Gates had just taken out some huge short on Tesla. It was like a billion dollar short or something. And, Elon was like, “Why would you do that? Why would you short Tesla?” And Bill goes, “Well, you know, I talked to my financial advisors and I looked at the math and there’s no way it’s overvalued. And so I’m going to make money on the short.” And Elon goes, “What do you care about making money? I thought you were into electric cars and climate change and saving the world. What are you doing trying to save a few bucks and betting against Tesla?”. And he just walked away in disgust. And I think he never talked to Bill Gates after that. And that’s when I realized, like, Elon’s a purist. He means what he says. The money is a tool for him to get what he’s trying to do. And so I take him at face value, which is the crazy thing, because a lot of people who set these audacious goals to inspire people, you kind of know they don’t really mean it. Elon, I take at face value. So I really do think he intends to get to Mars. I don’t think he’s joking about that. And I think he means to get there within a defined window of time. And I don’t think it’s just like an inspirational, faraway goal. I think he’s very, very concretely going to do whatever it takes. Because Elon doesn’t want to go down in history as the electric car guy or even the guy who saved America guy. He wants to go down as a guy who got humanity to the stars. Again, I’ll give him more credit than that. I don’t even think he wants to go down as the “I got humanity to the stars” guy. He’s just like, “I want to get to the stars, and so I have to make it happen in this lifetime. The only way that I get to experience the science fiction world in my head is if I get to the stars.” And so that’s so inspirational. I think that drives everything. So I think the government was just a thing that got in his way.

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