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Tesla FSD + Robotaxi "Zero to One" moments:
✅ FSD point-to-point
✅Supervised Robotaxi
✅Unsupervised Robotaxi testing
✅Unsupervised Robotaxi paid rides
⬜Unsupervised FSD for Tesla owners
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People genuinely don't understand this:
1. The global average IQ is 84. It's not the only factor but it's a major one.
2. Most successful ethnic groups have an average IQ of 100-105. The highest (Ashkenazi Jews) sit at about 107-112.
3. In order for a society to thrive, it needs to have an average IQ over 100. 103-105 or so seems to be the threshold.
At 103-105, you get peak England, the Scandinavian countries or peak Germany. At 100 you get France, and at 98 Spain.
The difference between global domination and also-ran is surprisingly small; just 2-3 IQ points. Another 4-5 and you're a basket case country like the Philippines or Bulgaria or modern Greece.
4. IQ can, within a population, shift solely through genetics, by 0.5-1.0 points per generation.
Social factors can magnify that effect by 5-7 points.
Consequently, the functional IQ of a population can change enough in one generation for a society to go from "world domination" to " basket case."
A more realistic outcome is that this can take 2 or 3 generations to happen. Well, that is what happened.
People often misinterpret the Flynn effect and think that IQs are rising but they're not. They're declining.
5. America is now too low IQ to maintain its position as world hegemon. More so, current birthrate trends have us rapidly entering not just "also ran" territory but "basket case."
The only reason we will stay on top is because we're absurdly rich compared to the rest of the world so we have a long way to fall before anyone catches us.
6. Successful countries become successful usually through a long process of breeding themselves into a higher IQ and then matching that with a social organization that maximizes it.
All it takes is one bad generation to destroy what took centuries to gain.
This is why today's Greeks aren't like the Greeks of golden age antiquity, and today's Romans aren't like the Romans of old.
7. The highest IQ populations today are both not reproducing but also replacing themselves with low IQ populations.
Even Israel is only 1/3 Ashkenazi with lower IQ groups making up the majority of the country. It is worth noting that the Haredi (the cohort with the highest total fertility rate) is about 80% Ashkenazi, but I have no available data on their average IQ.
My point is that IQ does not appear to be an evolutionary advantage in the modern age and as such, it isn't being selected for.
This suggests that we're in a race against decline. We need to solve the IQ problem through technology before we simply run out of smart people living in functioning societies.
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I think this is the most concise, clear and accurate articulation of what gender is that Iv ever heard.
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I have voted Dem all my life, and only in this most recent cycle voted Republican.
I have to say, Republican voters handle total annihilation way better than dem voters. The discussion is about how badly the GOP fucked up, not about wanting people to die or anything like that. And nothing gonna be set on fire.
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To understand most things Musk says, you have to understand that engineers are born, not made. You have to understand that he has always been an engineer and pretty much nothing else. And you have to understand that 99% of an engineer's job isn't to create a thing... it's to teach ourselves how to create a thing.
So when he says cooling in space is "easy", that doesn't mean what normies mean by "easy", which is "doesn't take a lot of resources, time, or expense".
He means what engineers mean by "easy", which is "contains no unsolved problems".
You take in X amount of energy, you know it's all gonna end up as heat, you know that to radiate X amount of heat you need Y amount of radiator. It's all just math.
If you build a satellite that takes in 2X energy, you need 2Y radiator.
There's no unsolved problem, here. There's nothing to figure out. You know the answer. You just have to design the layout.
If you're been beating your head against "how land booster" and "how make engine not boom" and "how make rocket lighter" for years, this is like drawing stick figures by comparison.
So if guy comes along and says "vacuum is a near-perfect insulator", which is both technically true and completely irrelevant, of course Musk is gonna call guy a retard.
Because guy has just revealed that he doesn't understand the basic nature of the problem, or of the design conversation.
The only significance that "vacuum is a near-perfect insulator" has is that it means you can't do cooling in space the same way you would on Earth.
Well, duh.
We've known that since we first understood what space is.
And we've successfully dealt with that challenge since the very first times we put things in space.
Fusion containment is hard. Rocket engines are hard. New AI capabilities are hard. Cheap and reliable manufacturing at scale is hard. Estimating costs and schedules is hard.
Waste heat is not hard.
Yeah, much easier to cool in space.
~1300 W/m^2 is easily achievable for an aluminum radiator pointed away from the Sun, as it is mostly just seeing cosmic background radiation at ~3 degrees above absolute zero!
Solar panels generate ~250 W/m^2, so you should expect them to have ~5 times the area of the radiator. Most of the mass of the satellite is solar panels.
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Instead of teaching my child Critical Race Theory I accidentally taught them Critical Thinking and now I'm finding it basically impossible to convince them they are Trans.
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Notice how the headlines work.
A Toyota crashes: "Driver injured in crash."
A Ford crashes: "Two cars collide on highway."
A BMW crashes: "Accident on Route 1."
A Tesla crashes: "TESLA crashes."
Not the driver. Not "a car." The brand, in the headline, every single time.
Millions of crashes happen on the roads every year, and almost none come with a brand name. But when it's a Tesla, legacy media suddenly cares which car it was.
Meanwhile, Tesla publishes its own safety data every quarter. With Autopilot engaged, Teslas go far more miles between crashes than the US average.
That's not journalism. That's a campaign.
The cars keep getting safer. The headlines just keep getting louder.
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Phoenix, AZ - Sky Harbor Airport
(OCT. 28. 2026)-
Team Waymo shuts down one-way service road. Indications are that the Chinese Ojai started the trouble.
#SunsetProject
🎥 mike_maher on TT
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East Hartford, CT -
Tesla Full Self Driving solves extreme edge case for the win. Impressive.
(Did have to squeeze in a couple of unnecessary windshield wipes🤣🤣)
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Here’s my gift for the day. She thinks having sex with a 9 year old is DISGUSTING when she thinks Trump did it; runs away when she finds out it was Muhammad.
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Count me a Dave Rubin fan. This is high art.
Got chills when they put the black hood over Schumer’s head and dragged him away. For some reason though while Schumer is a victim of DSA, Obama laughs as the country burns.
Inspired.
