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|content=Open to other ideas of course. Just haven’t heard enough that sound plausible.
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|content=I am not looking to “Escape Earth”. I want to escape running a single undiversified experiment in human consciousness survivability.
 
Where I appear to differ w @elonmusk is just that I don’t yet see the claimed diversity benefit from Mars via Rockets. But I may not get his plan.
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|content=It’s as if we’ve got one really nice house, one shack and one lean-to. It’s like deciding that if the US doesn’t work out we can move to Rockall if we just spruce it up or Sealand.
 
And that’s not even the main problem. The problem is even *that* is not sufficiently diversified.
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|content=The idea that we can’t spend money on trying to diversify humanity beyond one planetary surface with nukes, bio hacking & climate issues until we have solved problems here is ludicrous.
 
By the same token, rockets can’t be the answer to spacefaring. Our solar neighborhood sucks.
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|content=Physics may not work, but new physics is our best hope. And we don’t even believe that story anymore.
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|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>I
 
So I get taking #btc. And I get not taking #btc. But not doing it to undo it over energy(?) concerns.
 
With Rockets, you can maybe get Mars/Moon for planetary diversification. That’s *not* enough even *if* you get it done (a huge ‘if’).
 
Relativity is what must be superceded.
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|content=I’m usually see @elonmusk as one of the few seeing our long game. This feels bizarre so I’m not getting something.
 
Why do #BTC only to undo it in the face of the easily foreseeable? This and focus on Rocket propulsion(?) over fundamental physics are 2 things I clearly don’t get.
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|content=I mean obviously our government and science establishment should be the ones leading this...but that currently makes no sense in their degraded states.
 
The universities could do it. But they are too degraded.
 
Perhaps China is the only capable player left in the game. Sad if so.
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|content=Makes sense. I guess. Sorta. It’s just super disappointing that we aren’t focused on actually saving ourselves.
 
And slightly bewildering. If not @elonmusk who?? Jim Simons? Yuri Milner? Anyone?
 
There is no one with both the vision &amp; money to organize this.
 
Oh well. Onward...
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|content=My issue has been “How can the richest man worried that we have to preserve human consciousness focus on Rockets(?)&amp;Mars, when he has a physics background &amp; the ability to personally lead an attack on getting beyond Einstein’s limits?”
 
Thinking: “So, survival isn’t real either?”
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|content=@agoonforhire Thank you for this!
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|content=I think that’s great. Where we differ is that I don’t think Earth, our Moon &amp; Mars plus space stations connected by rockets give us much real diversity. It’s barely doable. But assume you could make it work. I would want to run 1000s of uncorrelated experiments as most will fail.
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|content=Let’s be clear about this weird sounding issue.
 
@elonmusk is one of the only minds properly focused in public on the issue of the current danger to human consciousness from having all known intelligent life in the universe on a single terrestrial surface. His top idea: rockets.
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|content=But yes, he believes. In fun. In hope. In ending the epidemic of learned helplessness that has infected everyone else. So I’m a pretty die hard Elon supporter. Not because I agree w/ everything. But he gets **the** big issue right. We need to end the single correlated experiment.
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|content=And if we are stuck in this solar system with the physics we know there is only one good surface and two marginal ones.
 
Faster than light spacetime travel is bullshit. But going beyond Einstein is not.
 
It’s unbelievably hard, but everything Elon does is hard. Like hope.
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|content=But because Elon is so smart, I don’t discount the idea that he isn’t interested in finding out if post-Einsteinian physics for some reason. I just doesn’t add up to me, but maybe he knows something I don’t. But north of $100B w/ his knowledge of physics, he could change it all.
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|content=Now he may have a reason. But I have never heard him address this so it just makes no sense to me. No one is taking the need to go beyond Einstein seriously so we are pretty much trapped here in this solar system with the physics we know. That means three terrestrial surfaces.
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|content=So on the main issue we agree. The second issue is where we differ. A
multi multi billionaire (12 digits!) as smart as Elon w a physics background could diversify &amp; place a small 2nd bet on rendering General Relativity a mere effective theory by single handedly fixing physics.
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|content=I just want to know why no one asks this question. Lex could do it. Joe could do it. But he doesn’t seem to address it so I have no idea what is going on. It’s not some special insight of mine. Our best hope for his stated dream is new physics. And making physics rich is cheap.
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|content=And the two multi billionaires I believe have the best technical chops to do this are Jim Simons and Elon Musk. But no one wants to build institutions that can do this because our institutions haven’t worked well enough since the Apollo program. So, I’m hopeful he gets asked.
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|content=Now that doesn’t strike me as a small ask. It’s a big bill. But it is also our best hope. Imagine COVID was radioactive fallout from a serious nuclear exchange and compute half lives. Or imagine a climate disaster.
 
Elon shouldn’t have to do this. But government can’t anymore.
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|content=Imagine you wanted to pay 2m salary to all the top 50 theorists in the world for 10 years to get them all to move to a couple of centers to free them from careerist temptations so they could at last swing for the fences. The salaries would be about 0.005 of current net worth.
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|content=#OccupyMars is good, but #FreeThePhysicists isn’t even as popular as #FreeTheNipple or #FreeBeer
 
Take a look around you. Much as I love it, this place is likely going to blow.
 
Elon is right: time to diversify. And we need to have fun if we are going to be saving ourselves. 🙏
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|content=There isn’t much left that works in this area. I’m still betting on Elon making sense. It’s one of our last really good hopes. And returning fun and mischief to public spirited scientific attempts to “preserve the light of human consciousness” is something I’m 100% behind.
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|content=Either way I want to encourage him. But I want to know why rockets over physics. Why not both? Why is a physics guy w a HUGE risk appetite not trying to do for Einstein &amp; his speed limit what Einstein did for Newton’s Gravity? If you know the answer, I’d love to know it as well.
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|content=@finaltoe Physics is subject to survivor bias in a system of perverse incentives. We induce physicists to work within failed paradigms if they want to eat or house their families. It’s an insane thing to do. We shoot ourselves in the foot when we take away their independence.
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|content=@jetpen No one sane wants to have to lean on time dilation for the reason you state.
 
But I *formally* agree.
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|content=@AndrewS65627884 Sure: @elonmusk, you have an open invitation to talk whenever you want. In confidence if preferable. On a podcast if desired.
 
No reply needed. Keep doing you.
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|content=@Liv_Boeree @peterwoit @garrettlisi @stephen_wolfram @DavidDeutschOxf @FQXi @penrose @JulianBarbour @DrBrianKeating @skdh Anytime Liv.
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|content=It’s not that I’m not interested in stewardship of planet earth. It’s that we can’t rid ourselves of people who should *never* have power achieving god-like ability to screw up everything. Like the @EcoHealthNYC and/or PRC may have with their virus tinkering god-complex in Wuhan.
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|content=COVID could be climate destruction. It could be ocean poisoning. It could be nuclear fallout. It represents how what happens in one location will no longer stay there. It will get everywhere.
 
At this point we have physics, rockets &amp; isolation if we want to avoid one shared fate.
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|content=What do PostEinsteinian physics, @elonmusk’s Mars agenda &amp; the still COVID-free super remote Island of St Helena have in common?
 
COVID is a test showing there to be almost no true diversity on 🌍 left. They are 3 paths to escaping our shared fate when our human leaders screw up.
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|content=I’m overjoyed that St Helena has made it this far with 5k souls, flights, shipping &amp; no Covid. But their strategy can work with viruses in a way it cannot with nuclear fallout. Plus, they’re not truly self sufficient in any way.
 
The rich planning escapes aren’t thinking clearly.
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|content=So that’s a large part of why tiny St Helena, @SpaceX and theoretical physics should be watched by all of us. I’m happy if Elon puts his eggs in SpaceX but if he is serious about what he says on saving humans, it is crazy not to save all of theoretical physics as a side project.
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|content=That leaves post-Einsteinian physics. And our theoretical physics community isn’t really even doing fundamental physics anymore as a focus of research. They do physics adjacent mathematics and call it physics if they want to be employed and keep their jobs. And no one steps in.
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|content=I’m not against @elonmusk’s rocket agenda. Super impressive.
 
But I totally disbelieve we are going to terraform Moon and/or Mars anytime soon using rockets. And if we do? We simply get two more spheres with rockets to safeguard the only know intelligent conscious life we know.
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|content=Stewardship has so-far worked w/ @StHelenaGovt and Covid. It’s just very extreme and hasn’t been effective at isolating larger land masses. Good luck trying to stop billions of people around the world tinkering with the twin nuclei of Cell &amp; Atom as they get easier to manipulate.
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|content=So I hope this explains why, in part, I’m focused on physics, but am also keen on St Helena and @spacex / @elonmusk as well. I even care about people trying to upload us into silicon. Everyone working on diversifying away from a shared fate has my admiration. No matter how crazy.
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|content=We need our physics community to work with 4 dimensional, 1+3 signature three generation models again and to stop pretending that they are doing physics when they work exclusively on toy models over a career. And we need to insulate them. It’s insane to nickel &amp; dime our top 🧠s.
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|content=@Liv_Boeree I’d look at @peterwoit, @garrettlisi, @stephen_wolfram, Nima, @DavidDeutschOxf, @FQXi, @penrose, @JulianBarbour, myself and others who are trying new things. @DrBrianKeating and Curt Jaimangul are talking about this on their podcasts. @skdh seeks to be a counterweight to hype.
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|content=@PeterMcCormack @Breedlove22 You don't need to hustle.
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|content=@CameronSepahi @bryce_waddell @stephen_wolfram @DavidDeutschOxf @notevenwrong @garrettlisi Open to this. But let’s not declare victory just yet.
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|content=@elonmusk, point blank: why not save the independence of physics so that it can attempt not to break the speed of light, but to render Einstein an *effective* theory. We can’t use rockets to do much. We are talking pennies to you. I just don’t get it. Why is this even an ask????
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|content=Finally. (Yes)**100
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|content=We should talk. But you should also be talking to @stephen_wolfram, @DavidDeutschOxf, @notevenwrong (Woit), Penrose, @garrettlisi, Julian Barbour, to say nothing of Nima, Lisa, Ed, Juan, Nati, etc. Our window is closing from groupthink and neglect.
 
But you do you. And good luck!
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|content=$100m for theoretical physics. Just explain to me why this isn’t obvious. Do rockets all you want.
 
I simply don’t believe that $10B is worth that much to you. Surely you have bigger dreams for your own field’s hope of solving the problem you talk about all the time.
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|content=It may be a waste of money. But it is far more likely to render Einstein’s speed limit irrelevant in a deeper theory, than it is to terraform Mars and stay in this regime of hopelessness. You could dwarf the @the_IAS. Send a jolt of optimism to end the postmodern nonsense.
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|content=Dms open.
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|content=@ProNaif No. GR is “True” but as an effective theory. We don’t know what happens in a deeper theory.
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|content=@ProNaif He knows this.
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|content=@benkellyreid The biggest issue is committing to a diverse portfolio of research programs over time.
 
The less cash, the less time &amp; diversity. So even $1000 dollars helps. But not that much because you want to say “Here’s a commitment that allows a community to take longterm collective risk.”
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|content=@benkellyreid If someone says “you are fully funded for 2 years” I don’t know that the recipient takes risk.
 
Tell someone “You and 5 colleagues are fully funded for 10 years at levels that cover your opportunity costs.” It gets more expensive given the skill set and it’s use in finance/CS.
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|content=@ks_kulk I would imagine. But many people think Relativity is an absolute theory rather than an effective one. It’s very weird.
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|content=@bryce_waddell @stephen_wolfram @DavidDeutschOxf @notevenwrong @garrettlisi Wildly disagree. Resource constraints kept old programs alive which could not make contact with physical reality well past their exploratory honeymoon periods. It is almost 40 years since the G-S anomaly cancellation result. Yet, here we are.
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|content=@CameronSepahi @bryce_waddell @stephen_wolfram @DavidDeutschOxf @notevenwrong @garrettlisi When did this happen? Show me. I must have missed that one.
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|content=@very_real_guy @elonmusk Elon and I barely intersect despite many common friends and colleagues. Don’t know him at all so I can’t comment. But he has dropped more than one knowing comment about advanced physics theory (e.g. 6-dimensional superconformal field theory) like he is signaling. Maybe nothing.đŸ€·â€â™€ïž
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|content=@elonmusk Do you yourself have a fundamental theory? Do you have a theory group working on a T.O.E.?
 
It would make sense with your background and attempts to keep us from self-extinguishing. If it is quiet, there is no need to answer. If not, it would be great to know. Thx.
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|content=@very_real_guy @elonmusk He had made other noises. Mostly it’s rockets, crypto, batteries and engineering. But there is more going on. He clearly knows that Mars ain’t gonna be sufficient. I can’t shake the feeling he deeply gets it at another level from public Elon which is more cryptic and chaotic.
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|content=@NotoriousMHB @elonmusk People always say that
 ;-) https://t.co/MuRZC2IFIb
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|content=@nostaticzone @elonmusk No. He is partially aware (I’m told) and physically knowledgeable, but curiously focused on rockets. At least so far.
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|content=I’ve been perfectly consistent to the point of perseveration. And we are here now.
 
The Portal wasn’t a show. The show was just the vehicle. Go listen again. Start with the essay in front of the Ross Douthat episode maybe.
 
I can’t help you. Many want to play games. I don’t. 🙏
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|content=Twin Nuclei Problem:
 
COVID-19 Furin Cleavage Site: likely to do with understanding the Nucleus of the cell and its Nucelic acids.
 
Russia Invading Ukraine: a thermonuclear nation weaponizing the strong force fusion of the other nucleus (of the atom).
 
https://t.co/H7KQY7xyyK.
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|content=I understand many of you can’t handle the idea that we BOTH have to support our leadership in a crisis AND *simultaneously* pressure them to step aside as too old, out of touch and militarily / technically incapable of handling the Twin Nuclei Problem.
 
Maybe follow someone else.
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|content=COVID and Russia as the Twin Nuclei Problem: listen again with fresh ears and an open mind.
 
https://t.co/j4bCtAD6CS
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|content=@jbdaughtry Will not be the first time. But, as someone who has talked about civil disobedience and pressuring the octogenarians to resign, consider what I am saying.
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|content=Time to see whether we can diversify off this planet via physics rather than rockets. Onwards.
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|content=Feel free to say such insulting things powered by semiconductors, transmitted over the WWW, encrypted by Elliptic Curves, carried to you via Electromagnetic Radiation after 70 years of peace brought to you by the Teller Ulam design while you navigate by GPS.
 
It sounds so clever.
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|content=Get science back on track.
It’s time to try, because it’s time to leave.
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|content=It is far more likely that we will voyage the cosmos using new science, than that we will make Mars inhabitable using rocketry.
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|content=It can’t be clearer. I can’t be clearer.
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|content=Rockets ain’t gonna cut it. We’re gonna need a “bigger boat”.
We need to take on the issue of *whether* we humans can get out of here to diversify our risk using *physics*. Not rockets.
Rockets only buy us Mars. If that. Think bigger. #Physics
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|content=Hence my interest in UAP. UAP from distant worlds would be a strong indication that it is possible to diversify our shared risk which is that all known technological life is dependent on one atmosphere linking our three main existential risks:
|content=Hence my interest in UAP. UAP from distant worlds would be a strong indication that it is possible to diversify our shared risk which is that all known technological life is dependent on one atmosphere linking our three main existential risks:


A) Climate
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|content=@DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr Wow. Hard core.
Well good luck to you doctor.
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|content=Here’s a little secret. Some (e.g. @elonmusk) search for good human beings who are also great interviewers when their reach is still *small*.
I encourage such hosts not to ask the same questions everyone else does. I then try to help them get bigger by giving them new material. https://t.co/D82HnihsMy
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|content=As for high “clout” podcasts: a good guest remembers who helped them and publicly acknowledges it. The following people really helped me get reach early on.
@tferriss</br>
@samharrisorg</br>
@rubinreport</br>
@joerogan</br>
@bariweiss</br>
@benshapiro</br>
Etc.
Too many of us forget who invested early.
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|content=In my world, @joerogan is quietly one of the most generous people in podcasting. Ask anyone. He offered early on to do my podcast. I never wanted to have him on early because he’s SO big. I thought I would build it up first organically before having him on, as he did JRE.
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|content=Another weird thing is that the ideal guest is someone you can help get reach who is NOT a household name. I started The Portal with two monster guests. But my 3rd guest was pretty obscure. Why? Because he is wildly important to me: @timurkuran, a super innovative economist.
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|content=How do you signal early on that you’re a great podcast investment? I don’t know
but I’ll give you my favorite question when I started that seemed to work ok: “What are you tired of talking about &amp; what should I research that you are dying to discuss but somehow never get asked?”
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|content=So here is my advice for what it is worth: clout matters
but NOT the way people assume. The guests you want, mostly want to help you get good and get big. They will do your podcast as a non-transactional investment in you and your future. But you need to be investment worthy.
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|content=And thanks for *always* being a great and generous friend. Generosity beats  Clout every time because it is so rare in social and new media where mean is everywhere.
Remember: the beginning is the romantic phase. The best part. Can’t wait to see what you do. Good luck Nicole!🙏 https://t.co/7zlqgtF0xF
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|content=@Bill_LessThan3 @elonmusk I don’t know him, but he is the only person I know who gets the need to diversify humanity’s planetary habitats and is willing to say it in public. So that makes him a pivotal human to me, despite the many flaws we all have. Myself included.
My issue is about chemical rocketry.
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|content=@DrDrhello10 My wife @PiaMalaney is senior economist at INET &amp; a Harvard PhD.
@noatishby brought “In Treatmebt” to the US &amp; is Israel’s Special Envoy.
@LeahLamarr is killing it as a standup comedian specializing in lighting fast unscripted crowd work.
Etc.
Try lifting each other up, Dr.?
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|content=@DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr Honest question: How do we stop the epidemic of amazing accomplished women cutting each other down? Okay. I also see dramatic necklines. But I see entrepreneurs. Authors publishing in @Nature. Film makers.
And I see women enjoying themselves as women. And? So? Help me get this.
|timestamp=4:21 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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|content=@Vihmunhoz Like ambush journalism but as a podcast?
|timestamp=4:31 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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|content=@rationaloptmist @elonmusk Huh. People tell me they love our interviews together. Which one of them is lousy?
Pretty sure I was at MIT too. And I am pretty clear that I was interviewed by Lex at MIT in the library building. Didn’t seem to be fake.
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|content=@armysman30 @tferriss @SamHarrisOrg @RubinReport @joerogan @bariweiss @benshapiro @glennbeck Thanks friend!
|timestamp=5:15 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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|content=@NicoleBehnam @elonmusk When invited.
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|content=@DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr @Nature *Treatment
in the above.
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|content=@witchcliff @DrDrhello10 @PiaMalaney @noatishby @LeahLamarr @Nature Let me ChatGPT that for you: https://t.co/ODDRBN2Y4U
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|content=Are we still trapped here in this solar system, even after assuming complete knowledge of physics? What do you think?
Q: Given full knowledge of physical law, the Cosmos well beyond the reach of rockets is likely:
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|content=@asmotek @elonmusk @ZihangDai @xai Nah.
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|content=@elonmusk @ZihangDai @xai Finally: science beyond chemical rocketry! Just skipped physics and leapfrogged to AI apparently. Wild.
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|content=@5adcru @elonmusk @ZihangDai @xai I am assuming that one of the primary targets of this effort will be physics and resolving the possibility of interstellar travel through basic physics research beyond Einstein.
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|content=@DrBrianKeating Since Saint Helena is a great isolated island to practice making  a small colony truly independent on a terraformed Mars, why is he not there practicing?
That is not the point my friend. See what I did there? It is a portfolio problem
With many zero allocations to be explained.
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|content=Long digression ahead. Please skip if not generally interested in interplanetary/interstellar issues.
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We should hold a competition: who can figure out how to best make this argument and not sound crazy to the general public?
If I were to try to steelman what I find odd about Musk's position, I would say that anyone this smart is tempted to use Mars and Rockets to make "Interplanetary" *not* sound like "Interstellar".
Perhaps I have been uncharitable if this is the case. It seemed self-evident to my mind that anyone smart enough to be able to see the necessity of moving to interplaentary objectives would gamble mostly on post-Einsteinian physics and not rockets as the Moon and Mars are totally inadequate to diversify our risk and that rockets get us little else.
But maybe the issue is that Musk truly understands people and that he has found the best argument to make interplanetary not sound insane. I admit, that I never considered that the point of SpaceX is a gateway to getting normal people to dream about what I have termed "restoring an indefinite human future" which was lost due to thermonuclear innovations of the 1950s.
If humans were rational, a "go for broke" emphasis on finding the theory or theories beyond General Relativity would be our top priority. But somehow this apparently makes no sense to ordinary people who cannot contemplate that the speed of light may not be the last word in a larger theory that contains GR as an effective limit in the sense of field theory.
I listened to this and wondered: is it simply so hard to imagine interplanetary human life as a top funding priority for ordinary people, that Musk has worked backwards from people and not forward from 'interstellar'? After all, his idea of making dorky electric cars cool by emphasizing speed was more about people's cognitive distortions around making EV not sound like golf carts or boring battery specifications.
The thing I never understood was Musk's own zero allocation to post-Einsteinian physics. The best I can figure under this rubric is that someone could believe that the optimal research strategy is to first make make planetary diversification to avoid extinction sound as normal as possible. Mars already sounds crazy and he is clearly struggling here to make the world's most important point.
Sorry to bother many of you with this digression. But I was just touched by how hard it was for him obviously struggling to find any way possible to make such an important point seem sensible. If I have gotten him wrong on this point, then I understand better why he avoids interstellar post-einsteinian physics.
Said differently, perhaps he has figured out that man's first priority is convincing his fellow man that the only sane strategy for long term human survival through diversification is to make the sane goal of interstellar diversification not sound crazy to the people at scale.
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe this is a difference in strategies and that "Occupy Mars" is syntatic sugar for ordinary humans who cannot contemplate interstellar diversification outside of a movie theater. If so, I understand where the difference in emphasis lies.
I may still disagree given my perception of the urgency, but I never considered the idea before seeing this clip. Which, under any circumstance, was my mistake.
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|content=I don’t think that is right. That is the argument that sounds slightly right. If a grizzly bear is starting to snarl from
100 meters, I don’t pick up and comit to the first twig I see. I scan the forest  floor and environment while there is still time to think.
But thanks. I got your point.
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|content=Many of you are asking me to comment on this video.
I was trying very hard not to do so.
@skdh has not been treated properly by the physics community in my opinion. We are generally in agreement and I recommend her.
She is now bigger by herself than all of @bgreene’s World Science Festival. And I believe that she has to think through  these comments at her new scale.
Bottom Line: @skdh is far more in the right than her critics will acknowledge. But she is now at a new scale and these remarks are misleading in my opinion.
Fundamental Physics is, to me, what Mars and Rockets are to @elonmusk: man’s only hope for long term survival.
My belief is that @skdh is now so negative based on her egregious treatment at the hands of her community that her righteous position is  actually endangering physics itself in the era of @DOGE.
I would consider debating her as a friend to give a more positive view.
Her and my tormentors in physics are our enemies basically because they are precarious. And precarious scientists are dangerous. Should we starve them or pay them?
@skdh and I agree that there are a lot of shitty physics folks behaving badly. Sabine is closer to saying cut off the bad scientists. I am closer to saying “We have a Fauci problem in physics. Get rid of the means by which our ‘Faucis’ control us by making their colleagues precarious. Wealth is the solution to the ethics crisis in physics. The physics community that brought you the wealth of the modern world cannot be controlled by our Fauci’s. Honor the community by freeing them from economic tyranny and the problem gets solved in a positive manner.”
I despise the cowardly enemies of science, and of Sabine. In my opinion they are bullies and cowards really only because they were wrongly made precarious.
We desperately need our physicists. Free them. Pay them. Free them from our Fauci’s.
I would be happy to debate Sabine (and @bgreene, @seanmcarroll, @michiokaku and others) on this. It’s literally life and death to me in the long term [See my pinned tweet.] and Sabine is wildly too negative here. Happy to defend this.
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|content=@sluitel34 Nope. Everything until the after the dash I totally agreed with
but then it went wrong.
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|content=Spacetime is the map we have confused for the territory for &gt;100Yrs.
We don’t live in spacetime.
It’s time to put away Strings and Toy models if we are to go beyond General Relativity’s gravity.
The Solar System is an Escape Room.
And it’s time we set out for new worlds.
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|content=Scientists and mathematicians urgently need a cutting edge post-Einsteinian Engineering project, the way Mars needs a chemical rocket project.
This is our womb, not our home.
Clouds gather.
It’s time to leave.
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|content=@sluitel34 Bingo.
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|content=@sluitel34 Geodesic
in GR.
Energy-Momentum
in GR.
Expensive
in GR.
I hear you. We are realistically trapped if we are in GR.
We aren’t in GR. That is what I am saying.
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=== 2026 ===
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|content=I am going to try to say this once clearly at scale. Many people have developed an @elonmusk fetish where they don’t take inspiration from Elon to go out and change the world. They wait for Elon to do it. Including in science.
They are now just waiting for Elon to build robots to do all science.That’s a defeatist demotivating bet. It’s anti human.
@elonmusk is astounding. But he is not a research scientist, just as a world altering research scientist like Einstein is not Elon Musk. Einstein could NEVER have done what Musk did. Impossible. They are different intelligences.
So when it comes to science, you can’t just mumble “Well, we have Elon!” No shade against Elon, but It’s a total non-sequitor. It’s like saying “We don’t need to worry about food or ammunition or shelter because we have an abundant source of the world’s cleanest water!”
The reason Elon is building [[Chemical Rockets|rockets]] to go to Mars despite a slogan of “Ad Astra” is because the SCIENCE hasn’t progressed to a point where a world class Technologist / Engineer / Buisness Visionary knows how to dream practically beyond the Moon, Mars and Earth.
And if you just can’t think beyond Elon, this about it this way: we are failing Elon.
Elon is part of an ecosystem involving markets, research, engineering, education. supply chains, government, etc. He is not the whole system. And science is at the center of that system. He is able to do what he does because earlier generations invested in planting the trees of science from which he harvests the fruit of technology.
Lastly, betting the world’s future on one flesh and blood human being to be able to do everything seems like a mental illness to me. And I’m pretty sure Elon would agree.
He’s smart, after all

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