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gh. They had enough competition. So Judge Boasberg, huh? You said the FTC failed to prove that Meta has a monopoly. Oh, surprise. Judge Boasberg. We've dealt with him before. Surprise. He thinks Facebook can do what they want here in terms of competition. I think he's probably right on this. Does it seem to you that Meta has competition on social media? Doesn't really. Does it? Maybe it's cornered…

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According to the comments, you're very anti-Vindman.

You know how China and the United States try to influence all these third world countries by giving them loans that they have trouble paying back and you know weaseling into their structure so that they depend on us one way or another. Well, it's the same with AI. So one way to influence some country that's smaller than you is to be their main investor so that they need you. It's sort of the old way of doing it. But the new way of influencing a country is to be their AI provider because once you're the AI provider, you get to have a say on what's true and what's not true. And what can be more powerful than that? Controlling what's true.

And how in the world do the Saudis get AI or any AI, how did they get xAI to not do things that would be inappropriate in their particular country and culture? But those conversations are interesting. Would you like to have an AI? Yes, we would. Would you like to buy our Grok or lease it? Yes, we would. Is there anything we should change? Well, I got a little bit of a list of things you might want to look at. Or this is possible. Does Musk say to Saudi Arabia, you know, this whole thing would be useless unless you let it be completely free, you know, free speech, free. And could it be that even Saudi Arabia would say, you know what, this is not historically how we operated, but it's the AI, it's the age of AI. It's the golden age. Maybe they'll embrace free speech and accurate information.

One of the things I love about listening to Elon Musk explain stuff is that he can explain technical things that you always wondered about, but he can explain them in a way you actually understand them. And he did that again with creating electricity energy in particular in space. Now you've heard of this before, right? That you could put a solar panel in space and it would automatically have a few advantages. One is that you would not need to pay to cool it because the temperature of space is nothing. So it's self-cooling. Secondly, you don't have to worry about a cloudy day because it's in space and it's above the clouds. And then thirdly, you don't have to wonder, you don't have to worry about it being nighttime and there being no sun. You can just put your satellite solar panel where the sun is always has access to it.

So the potential energy, as Elon explains, potential energy of space is phenomenally more than all you could do on Earth if you did everything right as fast as you could. Now those are my words, but I think that's pretty close. Did you know that and that if you looked at the next five years, this is Elon again, the odds of our energy coming mostly from the land, the Earth is actually really small. And the odds that we'll get not only the vast majority of our electricity from space by then, but that for forever more that will be where it comes from. Like it'll never be from anywhere else because the economics will be so compelling that nobody would do it

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any other way. Now, a big part of this, as you know, is that it costs a lot to put a satellite into space. But that's what Elon's been working on for the last what, 10 years, 20 years. So he's got the reusable rockets now. So at this point, the cost of putting a solar panel in space goes from a thousand times more than it was to whatever it is now and dropping. So it's going to be relatively easy…

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