Sun

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ALL-IN Opinion
Musk: Terrestrial fusion reactors are just science projects compared to solar energy
“If people want to have fun with reactors, you know that's fine. Have fun with reactors. But it's not a serious endeavor compared to the sun. You know, it's sort of a fun, it's a fun science project to make a nuclear reactor, but it's not it's not, it's just pe…”
Elon Musk Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 1:27:57 Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
BG2 Insight
Gurley: AI will shift from proprietary infrastructure to cheaper open-source stacks
“In the internet age, all the startups began with Oracle and Sun. And eventually they all moved to Linux and MySQL. And so there was a, we got to win it all cost phase. And then there was a phase where you started worrying about cost and optimization. And so on…”
Bill Gurley Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 36:43 China Open-Source, Compute Arms Race, Reordering Global Trade | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
BIGDEAL Assertion Supported
Alexander: AC-powered electric lighting flickers like an invisible high-speed strobe
“The frequencies of these lights, they're plugged into an alternating current System instead of a direct current, like the sun, and so these are actually, it looks like they're just on, but they're actually flipping like a strobe so fast you can't see that it's…”
Aaron Alexander Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 1:09:00 How to Complete Overhaul Your Health in 2025 | Aaron Alexander
ALL-IN Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: 90% of solar energy absorbed by Earth is stored in oceans
“90% of the energy that we get from the sun is absorbed and stored in our oceans.”
David Friedberg Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 5:40 Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
70-Year-Olds Produce 4x Less Vitamin D From Sun Than 20-Year-Olds
“So, for example, a 70 year old makes like four times less than their 20 year old former self.”
Dr. Rhonda Patrick Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 53:54 Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Diet Essentials For Healthy Living
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Casado: Eric Schmidt banned web browsers while CTO at Sun
“I remember when Eric Schmidt fucking banned the browser. Like, he was like, you know, this is Eric Schmidt, the CTO of Sun. I was like, you can't have a browser because people aren't going to work, right?”
Martin Casado Nov 6, 2023 ▶ 10:21 Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human

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