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+# xAI / Tesla Embodied Authority Checklist
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+Status: Planning / execution checklist  
+Date: 2026-06-11  
+Parent index: `docs/planning/AUTHORITY-SUBSTRATE-OUTREACH-PLAN.md`
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+This checklist organizes the xAI, X, Tesla, and robotics-adjacent outreach lane. The center of this lane is truth-seeking AI, epistemic authority, local authority boundaries, and careful embodied-systems safety framing. It is not a deployment plan for a robot controller.
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+## 1. Core Thesis
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+Primary
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