Astral Codex Ten

Mueller

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Mueller

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Mueller is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 19, 2021 and September 13, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Mueller’s investigation gets cancelled”; “Mueller’s investigation gets cancelled (eg Trump fires him)”; “Musk introduced Mueller to the rest of his roundtable of space experts”. It most often appears alongside Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, Twitter.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 19, 2021
  • Last seen: September 13, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Mantic Monday: Grading My Trump Predictions
April 19, 2021 · Original source
1. Donald Trump remains president at end of year: 95% 2. Democrats take control of the House in midterms: 80% ***3. Democrats take control of the Senate in midterms: 50% ***4. Mueller’s investigation gets cancelled (eg Trump fires him): 50% 5. Mueller does not indict Trump: 70% ***6. PredictIt shows Bernie Sanders having highest chance to be Dem nominee at end of year: 60% 7. PredictIt shows Donald Trump having highest chance to be GOP nominee at end of year: 95% 8. [This was missing in original] ***9. Some sort of major immigration reform legislation gets passed: 70% 10. No major health-care reform legislation gets passed: 95% 11. No large-scale deportation of Dreamers: 90% 12. US government shuts down again sometime in 2018: 50% 13. Trump’s approval rating lower than 50% at end of year: 90% ***14. …lower than 40%: 50% ***15. GLAAD poll suggesting that LGBQ acceptance is down will mostly not be borne out by further research: 80%
Book Review: Elon Musk
September 13, 2023 · Original source
And although of course employees do the bulk of the work, it’s not a coincidence that Musk’s companies have better employees than their competitors4. Regarding Tom Mueller, the acclaimed chief engine designer at SpaceX:
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Mueller ended up chatting with Musk for hours. The next weekend, Mueller invited Musk to his house to continue their discussion. Musk knew he had found someone who really knew the ins and outs of making rockets. After that, Musk introduced Mueller to the rest of his roundtable of space experts and their stealthy meetings. The caliber of the people impressed Mueller, who had turned down past job offers from Beal and other budding space magnates because of their borderline insane ideas. Musk, by contrast, seemed to know what he was doing.
Years later, a number of SpaceX’s executives still agonize over the way Hollman and his team were treated. “They were our best guys, and they kind of got blamed to get an answer out to the world,'“ Mueller said. “That was really bad. We found out later that it was dumb [bad] luck.”