Musk's Curiosity

The Old Boy of Mar-a-Lago was accustomed to governing through social media, and upon receiving an anonymous digital currency donation of ten thousand US dollars, he immediately instructed his secretary to retrieve the divination email mentioned by the donor.

“What does it mean?”

The colorful pages in the email were filled with symbols of Taoist elements such as the Bagua and Tai Chi.

“It seems like from…”

“Wo! There’s SpaceX!”

On one of the colorful pages of the email, a Taoist priest in an ancient robe was seen holding a peach wood sword and performing a ritual dance towards a rocket standing tall between heaven and earth.

The word “SpaceX” was clearly printed on the rocket’s body.

SpaceX was Old Ma’s company, so the Old Boy naturally forwarded the email to Old Ma.

“Oh, Elon, come look at this. I got it from one of my donors. Looks like one of your Chinese fans?” (For a better reading experience, I will try to use a translated tone instead of English.)

“Oh, My King, you’re up quite early today!”

“This guy donated ten thousand US dollars to me. Heaven knows what a generous person he is.”

“My King, your glory shines upon every corner of the human world. Let me see what this loyal believer has sent to you.”

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Out of his fascination with various mysterious cultures around the world, Old Ma subconsciously used ChatGPT to convert the “Jiachen Year, Bingzi Month, Gengwu Day, Mao Shi San Ke” mentioned in the email.

He soon realized that this was precisely the optimal astronomical launch time for his next Falcon rocket experiment.

Due to various uncertainties, the optimal astronomical launch time for a rocket is not necessarily the actual launch time. Just as ovulation does not guarantee conception, those who wish to conceive will try to choose the ovulation period.

Old Ma’s attention was immediately captured.

He instructed his information department to investigate everything related to this email, but they found nothing. This was because the email’s source server was entirely virtual. This email was like a letter from an unknown address.

This non-existent sender address tricked the postman (email system) and was accurately delivered to the Old Boy’s public donation inbox.

(Lin Yuan, of course, would not be foolish enough to use a real email address. Deceiving the email server and fabricating a non-existent email address is not difficult. After all, in the IT field, your remote computer doesn’t necessarily have to be a real computer; it can also be a virtual machine.)

This made Old Ma even more interested.

Because this person donated ten thousand US dollars to the Old Boy, it must have been to attract the Old Boy’s attention. However, they didn’t leave any real contact information, clearly not wanting to expose themselves.

Wanting to attract attention but unwilling to expose oneself, the purpose was the “Feng Shui” mentioned in this email.

And the sender had drawn SpaceX-related elements on the colorful images in the email, so it was clear that the sender wanted to use the Old Boy to get his attention.

“Bastard!” Old Ma couldn’t help but curse at the guy, whose whereabouts he didn’t even know.

There weren’t many people Old Ma was willing to call a “bastard.”

Only because this person went through such a large detour just to get his attention.

Old Ma decided to humor this interesting fellow. He had always been extremely interested in such mysterious people.

Soon, Old Ma immediately downloaded the email and forwarded it, unchanged, to his social platform.

“A very interesting fellow, using traditional Dragon Country divination to suggest this time for my next rocket experiment. I am considering his suggestion.

Compared to his suggestion, I appreciate the model he used to derive this time even more. I like this guy. Who can help me find this bro? I’ll pay one million US dollars.”

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Lin Yuan nervously scrolled through Musk’s post.

“System, you are truly amazing.”

The suggested rocket launch time was calculated by him using the system’s AI model.

He fed the system all relevant elements from past SpaceX rocket launches, such as location, time, climate, and anything obtainable from public networks, and then let the system calculate.

And then this time was calculated.

Lin Yuan wasn’t sure why the system recommended this time.

Perhaps it was because rocket launches need to consider Earth’s rotation? Magnetic field effects? Weather conditions? So this time point is optimal?

Or perhaps the system estimated SpaceX’s experimental progress from public information and then predicted the time by combining various factors?

Who knows, the system wouldn’t say anyway.

But Lin Yuan could now confirm one thing: this Feng Shui stuff was truly amazing.

“System, what element does The Other Shore, Americaland, belong to according to the Five Elements?”

“Can I use this Feng Shui AI model to speculate on stocks?”

“Are the Five Elements of Feng Shui and the book of changes given by aliens?”

“Or were the ancestors of Dragon Country taught by aliens?”

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In fact, even Lin Yuan himself did not know the full reason why Musk would forward that email at this time.

Lin Yuan only thought about how to attract the attention of the Old Boy at Mar-a-Lago. But he still didn’t understand why Musk would forward his email after seeing it.

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Just three days later, hundreds of open-source projects combining Feng Shui and AI had emerged on GitHub. This world never lacks people who jump on trends, and the programmer community is no exception.

And a trending topic was circulating on major social platforms worldwide— “Searching for Musk’s long-lost brother.”

Old Ma had always been excellent at online engagement, often creating various hot topics, and was himself a tech rogue who lived on trends.

Furthermore, if Old Ma said he would reward the person who found the bro with one million US dollars, he would truly give one million US dollars. After all, he had indeed given one million US dollars in a lottery to those who voted for the blonde Old Boy before.

This immediately created a ripple effect.

Lin Yuan couldn’t help but marvel, this was the power of the chief guru in the tech world; one call brought a hundred responses, followers gathered like clouds, and even unfinished buildings could be sold at the price of fully furnished ones.

This was what soft cultural power meant. Lin Yuan could only admire it.

If he had even one-tenth of their skill, he wouldn’t be toiling away writing code for money despite having the system.

At the same time, discussions about the combination of Feng Shui and AI also arose on the domestic internet in Dragon Country.

The most heated discussions were among a group of ordinary netizens who clearly hadn’t even typed “hello world.”

Some people beat their chests and stomped their feet, “Our ancestors’ stuff has been stolen again…”

Some people busily flattered, “Thanks to Musk for promoting traditional Dragon Country culture, otherwise it would have been buried by our own people again…”

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But what prevented this topic from being a flash in the pan was the attention from the IT world worldwide, especially from the AI field.

Many people, out of curiosity, downloaded and ran the AI model parameters that Musk made public.

People filled in the parameters related to SpaceX rocket launches according to the definitions in the document. Finally, they were surprised to find that the model’s calculation process actually considered the influence of astronomical factors on rocket launches.

Lin Yuan himself hadn’t thought of this, because he knew nothing about astronomy.

He only learned this from a dynamic shared by an astronomy Ph.D. on the X platform because he was following this matter.

Due to the power of AI, it was no news for the field of astronomy to use AI as a tool. This astronomy Ph.D. took Musk’s public parameters and ran them, and to his great surprise, found that although the model’s prediction for the SpaceX rocket launch time was absurd.

However, this model actually achieved a general summarization of astronomical elements using traditional Dragon Country “Feng Shui.”

That is to say, the Five Elements of Feng Shui secretly corresponded to astronomy.

This was something one dared not think too deeply about, because if not handled well, it could lead to four terrifying words—Heaven’s Mandate. Of course, foreigners would not have Lin Yuan’s sensitivity.

At this point, Lin Yuan finally understood why Old Ma forwarded his email.

He had originally thought the system was amazing, but after all that, it was the system’s unintentional success.

Lin Yuan reviewed the entire matter.

To attract Musk’s attention, to make Musk recognize the correlation between Feng Shui and AI, and to form a trend of dissemination, leading the AI industry to truly consider the connection between Feng Shui and AI.

So he used the AI model provided by the computing power system to predict the optimal launch time for SpaceX’s next rocket, and by donating ten thousand US dollars in digital currency to the Old Boy at Mar-a-Lago, after successfully attracting his attention, he then prompted the Old Boy to forward it to Old Ma through the SpaceX-related information in the email.

Then Old Ma discovered that the launch time predicted in the email was actually the optimal astronomical launch time for the rocket’s next experiment.

Coupled with the mystery of the email sender, Old Ma forwarded the email, attempting to find this sender.

Lin Yuan had initially thought the system could truly predict the next Falcon rocket launch time. Now it seemed that the Feng Shui AI model still could not escape the underlying principles of an AI model. Because the system could not obtain detailed information about SpaceX, the calculated launch time only considered astronomical elements.

But even so, merely demonstrating through the language of AI that the Five Elements of Feng Shui secretly corresponded to astronomy was enough to attract people’s attention.

So, this could be considered an unintentional success to some extent.