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Yet there’s potentially a more sinister angle. California Forever aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states”—private zones where tech zillionaires can abandon democratic society to live under the rule of their own private micro governments. The secret plot to assemble vast swaths of land and build a new city fits…
If any of you reading this happens to be a family member of a multi-billion dollar dynasty, I have great news — you are much richer than you were last year! A new report from Bloomberg states that the wealth of global dynasties increased by 43% in the last year.
But fiscal policy wonks who feared that Moore could blow a massive hole in the federal government’s finances can probably heave a sigh of relief. At the end of the day, Grossman’s arguments appeared to be too weak, and too rooted in discredited legal theories that the Court abandoned nearly a century ago, to persuade even this…
Hassabis was, per the NYT‘s retelling, very skilled at convincing rich men to fund his dream of creating artificial general intelligence (AGI), and his interaction with Musk was no different. During a tour of SpaceX’s headquarters, the South African-born billionaire began bragging about his plans to take humanity to Mars to escape global overpopulation and the…
“California Forever” is a pet project of some Silicon Valley billionaires to build “a new walkable city of 50,000 people” on a traunch of agricultural land in Solano County, located in the northeastern region of the San Francisco Bay. While there is no shortage of billionaires in California, water rights (amongst other things) are essential, and these guys…
“Tesla has a product problem,” Bernstein analysts warned, pointing to “an older line-up that does not address enough of the market, and has no new mass market offerings until likely late 2025.” https://fortune.com/2023/12/01/cybertruck-tesla-lineup-staleness-elon-musk-electric-vehicles/
DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis scored an investment from Elon Musk after he pointed out the shortcomings in Musk’s plans to colonize Mars. Musk told Hassabis that he’d hoped humanity could avoid the threats from living on Earth by colonizing Mars, per a story by The New York Times published on Sunday. https://www.businessinsider.com/deepmind-founder-elon-musk-ai-could-destroy-mars-colonies-nyt-2023-12
At one point in his career, Musk was the heir apparent to the late Steve Jobs. He ran multiple tech corporations at once and seemingly did so with élan, and with genuine interest in improving the lives of his customers. He launched the first reusable space rockets. He had nascent plans to reinvent modern public…
“I’ve been arguing now for a year and a half that the enactment of bold new climate policies—bold enough to quickly drive US greenhouse-gas emissions down to zero—can succeed only if we defeat the looming threat of far-right authoritarianism. And today, the nation’s anti-democracy, fossil-fuel-loving political minority appears more determined than ever to gain enough power to…
“Sir James Dyson yesterday lost his libel claim against The Daily Mirror, which had published an opinion article mocking the billionaire inventor as a hypocrite for supporting Brexit in the name of bringing economic opportunity home then moving offices to Singapore: “talk the talk but then screw your country and if anyone complains, tell them to suck it…
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