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1. hasole+vy6[view] [source] 2024-02-02 05:49:03
>>alden5+(OP)
I just noticed that they were launching their first satellites in 2019. It's impressive that they are now able to casually talk about the different routing options for the data streams to remote areas just 5 years after that.

At first this sounded like an utopian dream but now it looks like common infrastructure that has a place in everyones life.

This must have been the same feeling when the first landlines were installed. The very first lines were a sensation and then after only a few years it becomes normal quickly.

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2. loceng+2U6[view] [source] 2024-02-02 09:35:54
>>hasole+vy6
I think it's likely a bad idea at this point to bet against Elon - he seems to make more good decisions than bad decisions, and is able to attract and keep the talent that is enabling his companies to snowball exponentially towards reaching the abundance of the universe.

My deepest hope currently is that the riches of the universe now on the horizon of being relatively easily accessible, in a systematic and efficient way, will lead to the military industrial complex profit seeking to redirect their efforts to mining the riches of the our solar system and beyond, rather than likely mostly inadvertently driving for hell on Earth.

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3. robbie+Q27[view] [source] 2024-02-02 11:15:04
>>loceng+2U6
Past performance is a piss poor indicator of future performance.

You can’t deny (I don’t think) that the things he’s done are amazing. He’s in the zone where he’s smelt too many of his farts though, and believes he can do no wrong, which is historically a very bad place to be. I hope, for all of the awesome things he’s said he’d like to do, that they don’t come agutsa due to that

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4. menset+bw7[view] [source] 2024-02-02 14:54:40
>>robbie+Q27
Past performance is the only data available to help predict the future.
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5. prosse+oQ7[view] [source] 2024-02-02 16:23:42
>>menset+bw7
Don't forget about prophecy
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6. loceng+9i8[view] [source] 2024-02-02 18:21:30
>>prosse+oQ7
Prophecy generally falls in line with "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

If you have enough real-world data, and learned the patterns of history, along with fundamental principles that seem to be precursors or prerequisites to change, then a prophet is more or less someone with a honed and an extended-expanded open mind neural network compared to most.

P.S. It's why it's a really good idea to allow immigrants fleeing from communist countries, as they'll be best and perhaps first to detect and sound the alarm bells if fascism patterns begin to emerge in their new country.

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