“A future like this has four prerequisites. First is access to a meaningful fraction of a star’s energy output (orders of magnitude beyond what human civilization produces today). Second is physical intelligence at scale: machines that can build, mine, refine, and repair anything, anywhere, without a human in the loop. Third is cheap digital intelligence that exceeds biological intelligence. And fourth is a way to move mass off the planet cheaply, frequently, and reliably, because none of the above scales on Earth alone”.

SpaceX & the Sentient Sun

By @mikemcg0 and myself Elon Musk’s compensation package at SpaceX is structured around two targets. The first award vests if the company reaches a valuation of $7.5 trillion and establishes a