Those targets don’t seem like they would generate in excess of $1 trillion in profits. Not entirely sure they would generate that much in revenues, so why wouldn’t Elon just buy that many robotaxis and AI bots himself as a profitable strategy to unlock his comp package?
According to the chart in the linked document, Elon’s 2012 compensation plan captured 8% of the increased shareholder value. His 2018 plan captured 8.9% of the increased shareholder value, and this 2025 plan captures 13.3% of the increased shareholder value. I guess it is getting harder and harder to get him to focus.
Also, I don’t see anywhere in this incentive package where Tesla has to continue manufacturing EVs, or any vehicles at all. A joint venture with someone that provides the vehicle, ICE or EV, while Tesla adds the AI self driving tech, slaps their logo on the hood, and puts it into service via their own channels will count toward these incentives.
Good that it's not just market cap I suspect he'd find some way to get there.
I also dont doubt if it just came down to it they could claim 1m robotaxis with some words nothing ("Supervised" or "Robotaxi capabilities") whatever state it actually is in, the robots will be trickier.
It's possible to simultaneously believe that private companies should have control over what messages are shown on their own platform while also believing that exerting such control can be negative to the world.
It's the same reason libel and defamation laws exist: someone realized that countries operate better when spreading falsehoods to tarnish a party is illegal, and so laws exist to influence public discourse.
5GHz WiFi has a wavelength of ~6cm and 2.4GHz ~12.5cm. Anything achieving smaller is a result of interferometry or a non WiFi signal. Mentioning this might not add much substance to the conversation, but it felt worth adding.
Slightly misleading title- this is the overall blueprint for a large ongoing effort by the Imperial College London to formalize FLT in Lean, not the proof itself (which is huge).
The project webpage has more information about the efforts and how to contribute:
A good step forward. Reading the referee reports and rebuttals from papers that previously opted in to transparent reviewing was incredibly useful to my own paper publishing process. In many ways Nature is ahead of Science on this.
I hope that making things transparent will help reduce the situation where big labs have an easier time getting their work into high impact journals through relationships with the editor.
The parent commenter is not speaking about science as a whole, they are speaking about US dominance in science.
You state that "hiccup won't stop or even slow down science in the US. All it will do is take government out of the equation." I disagree and I would suspect most scientists reading that statement would also disagree. I too have seen many bright people turning away from the US because of this. I am personally certain that these policies will significantly slow down science in the US.
After all, when David Hilbert was asked in 1934 "How is mathematics at Göttingen, now that it is free from the Jewish influence?", he replied “There is no mathematics in Göttingen, anymore”.
That they didn't is not only because of German antipathy to origin of some of the ideas. Despite official condemnation, the Germans remained interested in the technology. One of the lesser-known allied successes in the war was a series of commando actions on a Norwegian power plant which was the largest producer of heavy water in the world at the time.
Correct that OP did not imply those things, but a lot of people will read it that way. There are implications behind the implications, and I think that DiffEq is referencing the latter. I'm not taking a side in this fight.
So you're saying that if we ignore what he wrote, close our eyes, and make stuff up, then we can pretend his post says whatever we want? Sounds like you should work for US government.
The entire class of "biologics" drugs only came about in the past 15 years thanks to advances in sequencing and biotech. They are the mainstays of treatment for dozens of serious dermatologic, rheumatologic, and GI diseases, not to mention they directly cured multiple cancers.
Looks like they are really doubling down on the 2018 compensation package and the idea that Elon's attention is worth more than anything.
More details on the milestones can be found in the SEC statement: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000110465925...