CBS '60 Minutes' interview with Elon Musk

Did not expect to see him tearing up (at 12 minutes 30). Neil Armstrong, you mean.

On whilst.

“Whilst” is proper and accepted in England, even though it’s strange to Americans.

Thanks, Hermione. I never got to go to Hogwarts.

Good lookin’ out, though. Say hey to Harry for me.

Oh, come on, Coquette, that’s a fair shout.

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coketalk:

Demons - Sleigh Bells

I’m angry today. I need some power yoga and a steak and an orgasm. Would it be too much to attempt all three at once? Probably. That would require considerable logistics, or at the very least a dude with a clean kitchen floor. Fuck it. I’ll take ‘em as they come.

Reblogged for the music rather than the anger. Just the adrenalin shot I need pulling an all-nighter.

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As a citizen of a democracy, it is your patriotic duty not to be any stupider than you absolutely have to be.

laughingsquid:

This Is My Home, Charming Film of Man’s Unique New York City Home

This is just about the sweetest thing I’ve seen in ages. Lovely.

The real appeal of immortality isn’t not dying. It’s the absence of time pressure.

A question for the future: what happens when any job you can do, a robot can do more cheaply?

ixthil:

Answer: There are some things robots cannot do. Such as the halting problem. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.

A robot doesn’t have to be a Turing machine - maybe you give it a biological brain, or whatever it is about our minds that differentiates them from Turing machines. (Actually, how do you know they’re not? Might there be some halting problem that’s in principle solvable but which the human mind cannot solve?)

Anyway, the point is that we can make ourselves economically obsolete.

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