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Peter Thiel: Elon Musk has given up on Mars

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27 points elsewhen | 3 comments | 28 Jun 25 16:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.975s | 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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dzhiurgis ◴[28 Jun 25 23:55 UTC] No.44409179[source]▶
Ah yes society is made up of folding clothes and cleaning up after cooking.
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1. IshKebab ◴[29 Jun 25 06:40 UTC] No.44410796[source]▶
And construction, retail, warehousing, mining, farming, social services, etc.

We aren't going to have 1 billion clothes folding robots.

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2. dzhiurgis ◴[29 Jun 25 08:58 UTC] No.44411425[source]▶
Let's solve that first maybe?

Robot arm vacuums were just released few months ago. It can barely pick up socks and some types of slippers. There's still a long way to folding clothes.

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3. IshKebab ◴[29 Jun 25 21:42 UTC] No.44416695[source]▶
Folding clothes is notorious as one of the most difficult tasks. It will probably be solved last.