Austin Cooper
@AustinCooper90
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Lifelong Learner & First Principles Thinker, Disruptive Technology Investor, $TSLA since 2014, #Bitcoin since 2016, Former U.S. Navy Pilot, #OccupyMars
Tulsa, OK
Joined January 2011
I want there to be no question on where I stand and what I believe is right. $TSLA
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How it felt to get Elon's permission to publish this book after 4 years of working on it:
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if you actually cared about poor people you'd tax billionaires at 0% and if you *really* cared about poor people you'd invest in them someone who compounded nothing into billions is the most efficient poverty-reduction machine in recorded history saying this makes people
My 5% billionaire wealth tax will raise $4.4 trillion to: ✔ Give $3,000 to everyone in a household making $150,000 or less ✔ Build 7 million homes & apartments ✔ Enact a $60,000 minimum teacher salary ✔ Expand Medicare for dental, vision & hearing And much more...
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Germany let people like this win. We must not.
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200k likes for celebrating the blocking of compute infrastructure during an agi race no park in human history will matter if you lose the next 1000 years of civilizational trajectory to the country that builds it first this is what decline looks like btw you don’t even need
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Best NASA administrator ever.
Below is the note that I sent to the NASA workforce today as we release the report on the Starliner Crew Flight Test Investigation. We will achieve success through extreme ownership, immense competence, and decisive action.
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Back in 2019 @elonmusk promised a $40K @cybertruck. Adjusted for inflation? That’s about $51K today. Tonight's $59k Cybertruck announcement is arguably more compelling. 2019 • RWD • 250 mile range • 6.5 sec 0–60 2026 • AWD • 325 miles • 4.1 sec 0–60 And here’s the
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I've been getting real into history in the past few years, and have been real humbled at how many incorrect assumptions I held. 1. I sort of assumed people in the past had more freedom from their governments, but they absolutely did not. The people with the guns consistently
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I am pro: - Capitalism - Property rights - Free speech - Gun rights - Reason over mystical thinking That is why I want the government out of our lives and wallets.
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Imagine explaining this to a Victorian child
You can play around with this interactive wiring diagram in Service Mode Tap any connector to see what each wire does & where it runs, all in real time
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It’s that simple
Sentiments of Venezuelans I’m going to say this once, and I don’t care if it makes people uncomfortable. If you have never lived in Venezuela If you did not grow up there If you did not watch your country collapse in real time If you did not stand in food lines If you did not
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Damn. Friedberg is amazing
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The concept of disinformation is inherently authoritarian. It presumes some faultless source from which truth flows, such that all speech can be judged by its alignment with this source. Yes, sometimes certain issues are fairly clear-cut and people are just lying, but more often
X is coordinated disinformation packaged as Free Speech
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Great Tweet 💯
"Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. Gold does!" Oh, does it now? Let me blow your mind: 95% of gold sits in vaults doing absolutely nothing. It's not powering electronics at scale. It's not being worn. It's just... sitting there. Because humans decided it's valuable. That's not
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@AnnieForTruth Elon Musk’s short list: 1. Donated thousands of Starlink terminals to Ukraine (initial shipments; total in Ukraine >50,000, many funded by governments). 2. Covered ~$80M+ in Starlink costs/service for Ukraine (2022 estimate; ongoing support). 3. $55M to St. Jude Children’s
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Thiel is underselling it. The “maybe he understands risk better” framing implies Musk got lucky twice and we should update our priors. The actual story is more instructive. SpaceX had launched three rockets. All three failed. The third in August 2008 was carrying customer
Peter Thiel on Elon Musk’s success: “Maybe the rest of us are too risk averse” “When Elon was building both Tesla and SpaceX in the 2000s, people thought he was just really, really crazy — even those of us who’d worked with him at PayPal. There was this PayPal book that David
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This idiotic attack, by an inept California politician, on a productive California resident caused him to leave. It should not be lost on anyone that this has already cost California $10’s of billions in lost taxes from Elon and the plethora of well paid employees that followed
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My politics are 100% the exact opposite of whatever this is…
I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
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Happy Friday...and remember... - The easiest way to get rich is own assets, do nothing and let inflation do its trick - The biggest tax on the rich you could implement is end inflation - Ending inflation is the best thing you can do for the poor - Governments don't want to
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