Ad astra

Oh, oh, oh.

Ad Astra.

To the stars.

Ad Astra.

To the stars.

To the

And he sees Elon Musk playing a completely different, much larger game than Altman or Amodei.

While the public and the media think Musk is simply focused on building a rocket company to colonize Mars, Weinstein suspects Musk's true Ad Astra, his path to the stars program, is actually his AI company, xAI, and its Grok model.

Because Musk looked at the landscape and realized he couldn't rely on human physicists to figure out the propulsion mechanisms required for true interstellar travel.

Yes.

But I wanna leave you with one final thought to ponder, something that builds directly on the implications of Weinstein's vision.

What is it?

If Elon Musk and his Ad Astra initiative actually succeed, if XAI cracks the fundamental physics required for us to bypass the academic cartel and leave the solar system, what specific baggage of our managed reality will we inevitably carry with us to the stars?

Oh, wow.

And-

I think that the thing is I don't, I, I have one set of words Uh, Atera Ad Astra, like right on my chest.

Mm-hmm.

And I don't have words anywhere else.

So it's, it's, it's uncomfortable because I don't know the answer.

I think Elon figured out that he has to leg in to his Ad Astra program, and Ad Astra means to the stars, right? It's like, a full quote is, "To the stars with struggle," or something like that.

Elon doesn't trust physicists because they're not trustworthy, and, and this is the frustration that I'm having with the AI, is that we can't trust the leadership of the math physics community, and y-you've just seen crazy behavior on the part of Terry Tao and 24 other Fields medallists, and, you know, trying to get AI to slow down the, the pace of progress, and this is absolutely cr-crazy and, and also wonderful because it's being done in full view of everyone.

It's been very hard for me to explain we have been trying to hold back mathematics and physics.

Well, everybody, as always, uh, Thank you so much for listening, being part of the Dice and Mine community.

As our friends Adam Good and Jamie Perez of Stations and an affinity of ships would say, Ad Astra Perludar.

to the stars through play.

Speaking of which, and this will be in our show notes, they were very kind if you order an Infinia ships and their other things, if you use the coupon code in the show notes, you will also receive a free Ad Astra Per Ludar sticker.

And I will say Brad and I have the pins.

And they're very cool.

And so they're still kind of trying to figure out what happens if there are any survivors from the ship and seeing if especially Cassius and Aja are around.

So they're scanning the mountains, looking through the snow, and they see that one of the stones was carved with a razor in their phrase, Per Aspera Ad Astra.

And they realize that it's Cassius' handwriting.

So he probably made it off the ship and is still around.

Ah, easy.

That makes sense.

I know Ad Astra is to the stars.

Then, yeah, probably from planet to stars, something like that.