With a trillion-dollar net worth, Elon Musk is the world’s wealthiest person. But how much even is a trillion dollars? Try your best to dilapidate that fortune with our tool, developed in partnership with Neal.fun👇
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With a trillion-dollar net worth, Elon Musk is the world’s wealthiest person. But how much even is a trillion dollars? Try your best to dilapidate that fortune with our tool, developed in partnership with Neal.fun👇
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Are AI executives begging for immunity from damage they created? Is the sudden concern about "humanity" a smokescreen for a technology with a 95% failure rate? Have AI executives been making knowingly false promises for years (i.e. fraud)? What do you think? www.thedataexperts.us/writing/ente...
Let’s start with your morning coffee. 16,000 cups (almost 44 years’ worth of caffeine) would afford you slightly more than a median house down payment ($80,000)—but would leave Musk with a 12-figure fortune. www.wired.com/story/spend-...
You clearly need to be more ambitious, so let’s try and buy “rich people stuff.” We’ve tried with race horses, lawyers, Boeing 737s and almost 7 times the aircraft carriers the US military has. It still left us with more than $12 billion. www.wired.com/story/spend-...
In fact, you could buy a personal army (with double the tanks of the US military) and oil rigs to power it and you would still be left with hundreds of millions. www.wired.com/story/spend-...
And the tool doesn’t account for Musk’s political operations. As of October 6, the main Musk-affiliated super PAC had deployed $21 million into seven key US Senate contests. You can add that to the total.
Buying 25,000 of these bsky.app/profile/mexi...