Farzad: Self-Driving RVs + AI Power From Space + Tesla Semi vs Diesel + Human Slop
Farzad posted Self-Driving RVs Plus Starlink Change Where People Live, Why Elon's Craziest Prediction Might Actually Come True, AI Needs Power: Space and Nuclear Are Next, Tesla Semi vs Diesel: Fuel Cost Collapse and The New Products That Will Define 2027. He asked if we're about to turn Moon into a CPU/GPU cluster, compared the question of why we'd need Moon-scale AI to asking people from 1800 about electricity, said a trucker's Tesla Semi reaction means we are living in the singularity, and pitched free Starlink for counties that approve SpaceX build outs. He also posted that the world runs on human slop, said high agency people will benefit insanely from AI agents, said he rarely hits hallucinations on frontier models, praised Opus 5.5 for animations, RTd ValsAI's Opus 5.5 magnetic semiconductor candidates and CuriousPejjy's FSD poll, called a boat-pulling Model Y the do-everything car, and liked Kalshi on Elon's net worth and chrisparkX leaving X.
Self-Driving RVs + Elon's craziest prediction
Farzad, Oct 6 morning CT: Self-Driving RVs Plus Starlink Change Where People Live (native X video). Titles only. Full video reply points to YouTube The New Product Tesla's Betting Its Entire Company On.
Farzad, Oct 6 morning CT: Why Elon's Craziest Prediction Might Actually Come True (native X video). Titles only. No full video link posted with it.
Farzad, Oct 5 late morning CT: The New Products That Will Define 2027 (native X video). Titles only. Thanked DavidCarbutt_ and team for the edit and maticrobots for sponsoring. A reply links Matic.
Check Self-Driving RVs video here. Full video here. Craziest prediction video here. New Products 2027 video here. Matic reply here.
AI power: space, nuclear, Moon compute (his take)
Farzad, Oct 5 evening CT: AI Needs Power: Space and Nuclear Are Next (native X video). Titles only. Full video reply points to YouTube No One Realizes What Elon Musk Just Created.
Farzad, Oct 5 late evening CT: We're about to turn Moon into a massive CPU/GPU cluster aren't we... His take.
Farzad, Oct 5 late evening CT: Imagine asking this question to people from 1800 about electricity. Replying to Jeff153143, who asked what we could possibly need an AI for that's so powerful it needs to be built from the moon. The analogy is Farzad's.
Farzad, Oct 5 late morning CT: CPU next. Replying to CernBasher: AI is going to unleash human creativity like we've never seen before. And, yes, GPU (and memory) prices will remain high (per CernBasher). The CPU call is Farzad's.
Farzad liked lacrosse_al, Oct 5 late evening CT: Someone is going to sue on behalf of moon rocks. I am zero percent kidding.
Check AI Needs Power video here. Full video here. Moon cluster here. Electricity reply here. CPU next here. lacrosse_al here.
Tesla Semi: fuel costs + a trucker feels the acceleration
Farzad, Oct 5 evening CT: Tesla Semi vs Diesel: Fuel Cost Collapse (native X video). Titles only. Full video reply points to YouTube Elon's New Product Will Slash the Price of Everything.
Farzad, Oct 5 late evening CT: When everyone starts to feel the acceleration, you know we are living in the singularity. Quoted SawyerMerritt: million-mile trucker adamlwingfield, in a new interview after going to the Tesla Semi launch event a couple weeks ago, said "The trucking industry has adopted technology so much slower. As we toured the Tesla Semi factory, I'm just like, wow, this doesn't feel like trucking." (per SawyerMerritt, who links Adam's full 1+ hour MotorTrend interview). The singularity framing is Farzad's.
Check Semi vs Diesel video here. Full video here. Singularity QT here. SawyerMerritt trucker here.
Starlink discount + free for build-out counties (his idea)
Farzad, Oct 5 afternoon CT: They should consider giving it for free to all counties that approve SpaceX build outs (including data centers). Replying to SawyerMerritt: SpaceX has introduced a 50% discount on Starlink Residential monthly subscriptions for new and existing customers in Cameron County, Texas, where SpaceX's HQ is located, with no upfront hardware costs on Residential (per SawyerMerritt). The free-Starlink idea is Farzad's.
Check Starlink reply here. SawyerMerritt Starlink discount here.
Human slop + software slop
Farzad, Oct 5 late afternoon CT: The world runs on human slop. His take.
Farzad, Oct 5 late afternoon CT: Corporate America Exhibit #1. Replying to ChrisCamillo, who called the slop post an "under appreciated take" (Farzad liked it).
Farzad RTd reddit_lies, Oct 5 late afternoon CT: I think we're about to discover that our computers are FAR more powerful than we realized after AI starts optimizing all the software slop we've been served over the years. Quoted paolino's Spotifast 0.12, Spotify in 200MB of RAM at 0% CPU when idle (per paolino). The projection is reddit_lies'.
Check human slop here. Corporate America reply here. reddit_lies RT here. reddit_lies here.
High agency, hallucinations, the AI trade
Farzad, Oct 5 afternoon CT: High agency people will benefit insanely from AI agents. Low agency people will continue rotting their brains online. It's not a technology problem. Replying to esaagar, who argued nobody actually needs a personal AI assistant given average US screen time of 7 hours/day (per esaagar). His take.
Farzad, Oct 5 afternoon CT: Here and there but in niche places and if you’re downgrading your model. If you’re going on high+ efforts on frontier models I haven’t ran into it forever. Replying to DirtyTesLa asking if hallucinating is still a big AI problem. His experience.
Farzad, Oct 5 afternoon CT: So invest in the US economy? Replying to ChrisCamillo: "AI might be the most overthought trade in the world right now."
Check agency reply here. Hallucination reply here. US economy reply here.
Opus 5.5 animations + materials discovery
Farzad, Oct 5 late morning CT: I think you're 100% right. Playing around with animations using Opus 5.5 for my videos and it's pretty insane the kind of stuff it can spit out. Replying to davelee, who thinks Anthropic has no image generation model on purpose because future models will write the code that draws the image (per davelee).
Farzad RTd DavidCarbutt_, Oct 5 late afternoon CT: OMG i can’t believe AI just made this animation for me on AMD + Meta’s deal. AI is getting SOOOOOOO good.
Farzad RTd ValsAI, Oct 5 late evening CT: In 3 days, 90+ Opus 5.5 agents helped us uncover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates in simulations: YBaMnFeO₅ and KV[Cr(CN)₆] (per ValsAI).
Farzad, Oct 5 afternoon CT: It’s so good. Replying to poteto's "grok bot will keep getting better!"
Farzad liked davelee, Oct 5 late evening CT: I asked Fable 5.1 to create an animation about the human body and how people learn. 1,409 lines of code, 87 KB file.
Check Opus 5.5 reply here. davelee here. DavidCarbutt_ RT here. ValsAI RT here. ValsAI here. Grok bot reply here. davelee Fable 5.1 like here.
Do-everything car + FSD price poll
Farzad, Oct 5 late morning CT: The do-everything car. Quoted CuriousPejjy: a $TSLA Model Y pulling a 26-foot cruiser out of the water (per CuriousPejjy).
Farzad, Oct 5 afternoon CT: YOU GET IT LARRY. Replying to TeslaLarry's "That's only because it has a steering wheel!" (Farzad liked it).
Farzad RTd CuriousPejjy, Oct 5 afternoon CT: If $TSLA increases FSD monthly sub to $149 from $99, would you continue? A poll question, not an announced price change.
Check do-everything car QT here. CuriousPejjy Model Y here. Larry reply here. FSD poll RT here.
Also liked
Farzad liked Kalshi, Oct 5 late morning CT: JUST IN: Elon Musk officially becomes a trillionaire again (per Kalshi).
Farzad liked chrisparkX, Oct 5 evening CT: chrisparkX is leaving X after 7 years, pointing to his work rebuilding the Business and Product, the early days of xAI and the Developer Platform (per chrisparkX).
Farzad liked Austen, Oct 5 late evening CT: Quoted ChanduThota on Markdown files now working natively across Google Drive and Docs (per ChanduThota).
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