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Peter Thiel: Elon Musk has given up on Mars

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27 points elsewhen | 1 comments | 28 Jun 25 16:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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da-x ◴[28 Jun 25 16:51 UTC] No.44406155[source]▶
This is unlikely. It's his life's mission.
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turnsout ◴[28 Jun 25 17:22 UTC] No.44406416[source]▶
I’m no Peter Thiel fan, but I love his critique of DOGE:

> I had a conversation with Elon a few weeks ago about this. He said we’re going to have a billion humanoid robots in the U.S. in 10 years. And I said: Well, if that’s true, you don’t need to worry about the budget deficits because we’re going to have so much growth, the growth will take care of this.

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IshKebab ◴[28 Jun 25 19:06 UTC] No.44407271[source]▶
You mean you won't have to worry about the budget deficits because society will probably have collapsed.
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1. turnsout ◴[29 Jun 25 03:17 UTC] No.44410091[source]▶
Right. I guess either way, dystopia or utopia, if we have 1B humanoid robots in 2035, literally no one will remember saving $10M by cutting one scientific grant program.