I guess it has to be a reference to A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which is one of Elon's favorite books. In the story, the answer to life, universe and everything is 42, and the guidebook carries “Don’t Panic” on its cover. The ship is S42, so the match is clear.

Amazing achievement for SpaceX and for humanity

Amazing work SpaceX team!

Good takes, thanks

Overall, I would've blamed one of the 3 potential orchestrators behind this hit job/"leak":

1. A foreign state actor, adversary of US (like China)

2. Ideological fundamentalists, either:

- Anti-AI/anti-capitalism Marxist types

- People that want to see AI nationalized or brought fully under Government control

- Dem official (elected or unelected) that wants to bring down the US economy while it's run by the other side

3. A "China hawk" type inside the current Administration that wants to use this scandal to push legislation to track by GPS all SOTA chips and have a remote kill-switch controlled by Washington

Now, I think there is also this 4th option, which you shown you have discussed at length, and that's Anthropic. Based on what Kevin found out (which I'm still digging through), there are some links.

Anthropic has positioned themselves as the good guys in the AI story, but I'm becoming more and more skeptical.

Anthropic wants the opposite of what Jensen wanted. The exact opposite.

Anthropic is completely AGI-pilled, whereas Jensen totally isn't. They're zealots, he's pragmatic. This also explains their views on China. Jensen leaving Nvidia hurts China badly. (In the short term. In the medium or longer term, it's a potential boon to Huawei and their other homegrown chipmakers.)

I agree with your point about Anthropic

In regards to China, I think there is a distinction between opposite interests:

- The Chinese bureaucrats and the Government in general do not want to import foreign chips and want to painstakingly grow a national champion (hence they banned imports of Nvidia chips)

- Chinese labs want to use the best chips at the lowest prices and don't mind importing them illegally (hence there are reports that Chinese labs used Nvidia chips to train their models)

While I believe both are true at the same time. Most likely this scandal will lead to tighter scrutiny on chip exports and fewer chips getting to Chinese labs.

As you said, will hurt China in the short term, but it my benefit their domestic chip industry in the long term.

Yeah, it's becoming more and more clear for me as well

Perhaps for some people it was already obvious

Nowadays everyone uses email masks anyway (like Firefox Relay), and if you don't, you should

P.S.: I like Chinese spies, I'm ready to be spied on haha

"Chinese spy" allegations not proven or substantiated, just "anonymous sources said that...", while officials from both sides of the aisle have come out and clearly stated that there isn't credible evidence for the spy story

WSJ, Economist and NYT are pushing hard a narrative that has no proof whatsoever

That's "cancel culture" bullshit, it's not enough to justify anything more than a slap on the wrist

You also agreed that the Chinese spy allegations are still unproven, therefore there is no reason to remove him

Officials from both sides of the aisle have come out and clearly stated that there isn't credible evidence for the spy story

WSJ, Economist and NYT are pushing hard a narrative that has no proof whatsoever