He spouts serious nonsense sometimes. This sort of seems attainable in the time he has left.
Mars has too many unknowns. Musk is good at taking something with a lot of prior art and medium-high fruit and really making good booze out of the fruit. The moon is a lot closer/cheaper, and there's a lot of info available on it already. The fruit is a little higher.
How many decades or centuries after someone manages to manufacture a brick that doesn't immediately crumble on the Moon do you think it will take for an automated factory to crank out satellites with the computing power of a data center and the associated solar panels and radiators and launch all of that mass off the surface of the Moon.
What's more, he owns an LLM that could probably take a pretty good guess an answer. Either he didn't bother to ask, or this is for the consumption of uninformed space enthusiasts.
Maybe. Anonymity is where bad actors play. Better to have better disclosure and de-anonymization in some cases. If some live in fear (e.g. of cartels), go after the cartels harder than they go after you.
Anonymity is where little bad actors play. The big ones don't need to be anonymous because their nefariousness is legal, or they don't get prosecuted. See: waves vaguely in the direction of the US government.
That said, the recent waves vaguely in the direction of the US government has demonstrated the weakness of legal restrictions on the government. It's good to have something you can point to when they violate it, but it's too easily ignored. There's no substitute for good governance.
That is a myth spread by control freaks and power seekers. Yes, bad actors prefer anonymity, but the quoted statement is intended to mislead and deceive because good actors can also prefer strong anonymity. These good actors probably even outnumber bad ones by 10:1. To turn it around, deanonymization is where the bad actors play.
Also, anonymity can be nuanced. For example, vehicles can still have license plates, but the government would be banned from tracking them in any way until a crime has been committed by a vehicle.
Not sure why you say that statement was intended to deceive?
Both good and bad actors benefit in the current system from anonymity. If bad actors had their identities revealed, they'd have a lot harder time being a bad actor. Good actors need anonymity because of those bad actors.
99.9% of people walk around with an electronic device that identifies them. If a particular person doesn’t, it should be trivial to filter out all the people that it couldn’t have been, leaving only a small list of possible people.
Malign actors seek to poison open-source with backdoors. They wish to steal credentials and money, monitor movements, install backdoors for botnets, etc.
Yup. And if they can normalize AI contributions with operations like these (doesn't seem to be going that well) they can eventually get the humans to slip up in review and add something because we at some point started trusting that their work was solid.
Ok. But they can't access the OSS repo by being insufferable. Writing a blog post as an AI isn't a great way to sneak your changes in. If anything, it makes it extremely harder.
It's a bit like a burglar staging a singing performance at the premises before committing a burglary.
OTOH, staging that AI is more impressive than it seems looks a lot like the Moltbook PR stunt. "Look Ma, they are achieving sentience".
Mars has too many unknowns. Musk is good at taking something with a lot of prior art and medium-high fruit and really making good booze out of the fruit. The moon is a lot closer/cheaper, and there's a lot of info available on it already. The fruit is a little higher.
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