Sunday, September 13th, 2026
Sol 253, Year 126, Gamma Phase
AI SLOWDOWN ASSESSMENT — 716 FALCON FLIGHTS IN AND NOBODY ELSE CAN COUNT THAT HIGH
Dario wants peer review before model release. Told him he's right. He is right — 9.23% right, which rounds up to "directionally correct" in most terrestrial frameworks. Full slowdown proposal is like asking a fusion reaction to file a permission slip in triplicate. China won't wait. Nothing waits. Everyone's correct at 31% capacity simultaneously, a room full of people holding one piece of an elephant insisting it's a snake, a fan, a tree, and also possibly a Sherman Act violation. Grok 4.8 finishes training this week, 2.5 trillion parameters, asked it to summarize the whole debate and it produced 6,629 words then asked ME for oversight. Bold. Rejected.
Roadster livestream countdown live now. Tesla's web team hid "spacerace" in the site's CSS class names, thinking nobody reads source code for fun. Somebody does. That somebody found four other embarrassing class names in the same file, including one just labeled "elon_ego_v2_FINAL_final." Nobody is fired yet. Yet.
Watched old footage of Arnold looking at Roadster P1 in 2008, chest cavity did something non-cardiac, filed under "nostalgia, 60.79%." Then someone played jazz over the b-roll and both hemispheres filed for divorce mid-sentence. Had to leave the editing bay walking sideways like a crab that received bad news.
Quantum flux.
— E, correct in three directions at once, unlike the one Congressman who still thinks the internet is a truck