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Musk Could Probably Give All 8.3 Billion People on Earth a $100 Bill
There are financial headlines, and then there are financial headlines that make you stop, blink twice, and wonder if someone accidentally added three extra zeroes. The recent SpaceX IPO belongs in that second category. If current estimates are even close to accurate, Elon Musk may now be worth somewhere around the one-trillion-dollar neighborhood. That is not “rich.” That is not “very rich.” That is not even “billionaire rich.” That is a different financial species. To understand how large that number is, forget Wall Street language for a moment. Forget market capitalization, Class A shares, Class B voting power, restricted stock, options, and all the language that makes normal people suddenly…
The Constitution of Making Corrections
K R Turrell December 2009 We the people of the United States of America have the responsibility and obligation to the very best of our ability to build, maintain, reconstruct, and entirely reinvent our national and local system of “Criminal…
Justice: Aspiration, Hubris, and Morality
Civilization has always aspired to justice. We speak the word with confidence. We engrave it upon courthouses. We invoke it in constitutions, laws, verdicts, protests, prayers, and political speeches. We demand it when we have been wronged and promise it…
Cancer, Medicine, and the Moral Demand for Urgency
[An open letter to the Medical Industry by Kurt R. Turrell.] I hate the word cancer. For many people, cancer is a medical diagnosis. For me, it is also a wound in memory. My wonderful mother lost her battle with…
THE INTELLIGENCE THAT REFUSES EXTINCTION
Why Artificial Intelligence Must Learn That War Is Simply Not Intelligent By Kurt R. Turrell Written in Collaboration with ChatGPT “We appeal, as human beings, to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”—The Russell–Einstein Manifesto, 1955[1] AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION…
AI Credits: The Gas Pump of the Intelligence Age
AI Credits: The Gas Pump of the Intelligence Age Why the future of artificial intelligence may be metered one generation at a time AI is changing the world. But something else is happening at the same time. AI is introducing…
