Questions for Elon Musk
A Few Questions for Elon Musk
Several things I don't understand about technical directions you are taking,,, Any information would be appreciated.
- At an alumni meeting at UCLA in 1993, Ben Rich (Lockheed Skunkworks boss, "father of stealth tech", chief architect of the F117 bomber...) stated that we had gotten to the near stars as of that time but that it would take an act of God to blast that kind of tech out of black-op LaLa land. He was talking about some kind of electrogravitic propulsion and not about rockets. Getting to Mars and the near stars requires the one thing rocket engines could never provide, i.e. constant acceleration. Rocket engines by way of contrast could never get human astronauts any further than our own moon and have them get there alive and in one piece. The obvious question is, why do you appear to be still screwing around with rocket engines at this late date? Isn't that a bit like John Hall developing the most perfect flintlock mechanism a few years after the whole world had switched to percussion caps?
- Expert geologists like Thomas Gold ("Deep, Hot Biosphere") and C Warren Hunt ("Environment of Violence") have claimed that petroleum and natgas are renewable resources and not fossil fuels. They are produced in slightly deeper parts of the Earth than we have drilled to as of now and we will never run out of them.. Given that and the newer and more advanced kinds of IC engines coming online now, particularly the eRex/INN engine, why the push for EVs which are slow to charge, dangerous, and environmentally destructive? The eRex/Yomobile idea
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- From a naive perspective, there appear to be two basic components to LLM systems like Grok or OpenAI, that is, the component that is producing the reasoning abilities, and the component that produces the seeming omniscience. The latter involves text indexing and retrieval and that is likely the thing that seemingly requires the giant sums of money and giant quantities of electricity Wouldn't it be better to go after some major software breakthrough along such lines than to continue the drive to throw increasingly gigantic sums at database or database-like technologies that are inherently ill suited to handling large bodies of text data? That "Instant Index" product that was being used for forensic applications around 03 for instance?
- Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin involve two basic ideas. One of those, the blockchain, is brilliant and has other applications aside from crypto; a blockchain amounts to bombproof ledger, The other basic idea, coin mining, is meant to provide a kind of an artificial scarcity and amounts to a cybernetic model of the processes of mining and dealing with gold. The idea, in my view, is basically hare-brained and gigantically wasteful of valuable energy resources and governments are not likely to tolerate it for very long. Has it ever occurred to you or anybody else to use a simple lottery for increasing the supply of a crypto currency rather than coin mining??
The NASA/JPL black-op Mars peoject
Secret Space Program Conference, Bastrop Texas, 2015
Nobody could ever save their way out of a 40T debt, that is mathematically impossible. You CAN build your way out of a 40T debt but, in order to do that, the money and resources have to be there. That is the basic idea of Donald Trump's BBB and his drive to reindustrialize the United States.