Musk: future discoveries are 100% engineering, with compute as the bottleneck
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-19
On Oct 2 Elon Musk replied to physicist David Deutsch that the light cone of future discovery is, "rounding up, 100% engineering" — he skipped physics because he didn't want to wait for the next collider. A Chinese commentator extends the point: the ones doing that engineering are no longer just humans; the bottleneck of discovery is shifting from colliders to compute, and verification becomes the scarcest resource. Source: a 7-minute video summary of Alan Walker's "The Light Cone of Discovery," with AI-synthesized voiceover and visuals.
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