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Skylex retweeted
A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship
Not being able to tag agents in your iMessage family group chat at this point is an absolute travesty.
Hans Zimmer in the speakers. A few notes. A pulse. Same thing, again and again.
And still I get chills. I can see the scene.
We keep thinking genius is the extra. More notes. More parts. More plot. It is the other way.
Anyone can add. A note. A part. A twist. That is the easy move. The hard thing is the cut. Sitting there with the extra in your hand and putting it down. Doing that again. And again. Until what is left cannot hide.
This is true in all of life.
Look at the stories. Books. Movies. TV. Lore on lore. Twists on twists. I leave hungry. They added everything except the thing that hurts. Adding is cheap.
A rocket does not get better because you bolted more onto it. The greatest rocket company took parts out until what was left could fly without lying.
Same with cars. We fell in love with the overbuilt ones. Then Tesla showed up simpler, and the old machines started to look tired.
The hero story they call cliché is easy to fake and hard to make true. When it is true, you do not notice the shape. You just feel it.
Keep it simple. It is the hardest part. It is the genius. That is where the soul still lives.
FSD has the wheel. Next to me, people are still driving.
Same energy as the first cars rolling past a horse-drawn carriage. They just don’t know they’re the carriage yet.
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Cool cool, your AI passed the bar exam.
Wake me up when it can build GTA: Los Angeles, 1:1, every side mission, in 12 months instead of 13 years.
Then we can talk.
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Second test: Total War, 1600s onward, the entire world on the map.
Not “Europe plus a vaguely implied India.” The whole planet. Ships, colonies, famines, stupid alliances, all of it.
If it still takes a studio a decade to fake half of Europe, we don’t have god-tier AI. We have a very expensive paintbrush.
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Imagine in 10 years everything is measured in compute. Maybe hours of compute instead of dollars. Want a banana? That’ll be 2 hours of Opus 4.8 x-high effort.
Skylex retweeted
Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket
I see significant potential for an intriguing domino effect here. As the US continues to squeeze China economically and politically, and with the specter of global economic uncertainty looming toward the end of 2027, the Chinese government may well view Taiwan as a strategic lever. In that environment, initiating or escalating conflict over Taiwan could serve as a deliberate technique to maintain or even strengthen domestic control—acting as a powerful unifying and calming force for the Chinese populace by rallying national sentiment and diverting attention from internal economic or social pressures.
Can someone explain why F1 regulations have to be so complicated and bad? They want hybrids, fine. Why not just set a specific battery size and let the manufacturers try to squeeze as much power out of that size? I bet it could do wonders for battery tech and make for a good race
