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"content": "Now, I showed you the\nisolation tank\n, and you’ve never experienced that before. I think that could help you turn it off a little bit just for the night.",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "Yeah. Just give you a little bit of sleep, a little bit of perspective. It’s magnesium that you get from the water as well that makes you sleep easier because the water has Epsom salts in it. But maybe some sort of strategy for sacrificing your — or not sacrificing but enhancing your biological recovery time by figuring out a way, whether it’s through meditation or some other ways to shut off that thing at night. Like you must have like a constant stream of ideas that’s running through your head all the time.\n(\nElon looks at his phone\n) You’re getting text messages from chicks.",
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"content": "No. I’m getting text messages from a friend saying, „What the hell are you doing smoking weed?“.",
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"content": "Elden Ring the greatest game of all time. I still haven’t played it, but to you-",
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"content": "Elden Ring is definitely a candidate for best game ever. Top five for sure.",
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"content": "I think I’ve been scared how hard it is or how hard I hear it is, but it’s beautiful.",
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"content": "Elden Ring, feels like it’s designed by an alien.",
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"content": "Neural nets all the way down, so you want.",
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"content": "It’s not even all neural nets, but this is a game-changer to not have the bag of points, the giant bag of points, that has to be assembled with many lines of C++, and have a neural net just assemble those into a vector, so that the neural net is outputting much, much less data. It’s outputting, “This this is a lane line, this is a curb, this is drivable space, this is a car, this is a pedestrian or cyclist,” or something like that. It’s really outputting proper vectors to the C/ C++ control code, as opposed to this sort of constructing the vectors in C, which we’ve done, I think, quite a good job of, but it’s kind of hitting a local maximum on how well the C can do this. So this is really a big deal.\nAnd just all of the networks in the car need to move to surround video. There’s still some legacy networks that are not surround video. All of the training needs to move to surround video. The efficiency of the training needs to get better, and it is. Then we need to move everything to raw photon counts as opposed to processed images, which is quite a big reset on the training because the system is trained on post-processed images. So we need to redo all the training to train against the raw photon counts instead of the post-processed image.",
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"content": "So ultimately, it’s kind of reducing the complexity of the whole thing.",
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"content": "Lines of code will actually go lower.",
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"content": "But how do you have the time to do that? I don’t understand. While you’re digging holes under the earth, and sending rockets into space, and powering people in Australia, like, how the fuck do you have time to make the car dance ballet?",
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"content": "Well, I mean, in that case, there were some engineers at Tesla that said, „You know, what if we make this car dance and play music?“ I was like, „That sounds great. Please do it. Let’s try to get it done in time for Christmas.“ We did.",
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"content": "Is there a concern about someone just losing their mind and making it do that on the highway?",
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"content": "No, it won’t do that.",
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"content": "Mine is for sure.",
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"content": "It might actually, literally. I mean, if you’re a big guy, your skull is actually fairly thick. A skull is like seven to 14 millimeters.",
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"content": "Mines probably a couple of inches.",
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"content": "A half inch. Half inch thick skull. Yeah, that’s a fair bit of like… We’ve got quite a coconut going on here. It’s not like some eggshell.",
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"content": "Which are public.",
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"content": "Which are public. The court conclusions, they’re completely the opposite of what the media wrote.",
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"content": "So, always striving for the ground truth, beyond the reporting.",
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"content": "Yeah. What did the judge actually write? What does the jury and the judge actually conclude? And in both cases they found me innocent. And that’s after the jury shot for trying to find the venue where I’m most likely to lose. I mean, obviously, it can be a much better critique than this. I mean, I’ve been far too optimistic about autopilot.",
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"content": "I think everyone can agree that you shouldn’t lower standards.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "But you’re implying that they’re lowering standards because of people of color or women because someone is not a white male. You’re saying that they’re less skilled and less intelligent, that’s what you’re saying?",
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"content": "No, I’m not saying that. I’m simply saying that they are-",
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"content": "Right. Many other people are going the LIDAR route. You want cameras plus radar is most of it.",
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"content": "You can absolutely be superhuman with just cameras. Like, you can probably do it ten times better than humans would, just cameras.",
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"content": "So, the new cars being sold right now have eight cameras in them. They can’t yet do what that showed. When will they be able to?",
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"content": "I think we’re still on track for being able to go cross-country from LA to New York by the end of the year, fully autonomous.",
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"content": "See, I find this amazing. You can picture what it would take to move the world off this vast fossil fuel thing. It’s like you’re building one, it costs five billion dollars, or whatever, and maybe the next one, five to 10 billion dollars. Like, it’s kind of cool that you can picture that project. And you’re planning to do, at Tesla – announce another two this year.",
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"content": "I think we’ll announce locations for somewhere between two and four Gigafactories later this year. Yeah, probably four.",
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"content": "No more teasing from you for here? Like – where, continent? You can say no.",
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"content": "We need to address a global market.",
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"content": "And how ridiculous you are with your TV.",
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"content": "TVs no problem. Air conditioning is the problem. If you have an efficient air conditioner, and you don’t — and depending on how — like, are you air conditioning rooms when they don’t need to be air-conditioned, which is very common because it’s a pain in the neck, you know. It’s like programming a VCR. It’s just a blinking 12:00. So, people are just like, „To the hell with that. I’m just going to make it this temperature all day long.“.",
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"content": "Right. They don’t have a smart home where if you’re in the room, then it stays cool, right?",
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"content": "Yeah, it should predict when you’re going to be home, and then cool the rooms that you’re likely to use with a little bit of intelligence. We’re not talking about like genius home here. We’re talking like elementary basic stuff. You know, like if you could hook that into the car, like manage you coming home. Like there’s no point keeping the home really cool when you’re not there.But it can tell that you’re coming home; it’s just going to cool it to the right temperature right when you get there.",
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"content": "Realize you’re fucking Elon Musk. You can do whatever you want, man. If you ever get confused, call me.",
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"content": "I’ll swear in private. Swear up a storm.",
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"content": "Okay, just say fricken. It’s a fun way. It’s like old house moms. Wives and shit that have children, „Oh, this fricken thing.“",
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"content": "Yeah. But, anyway, it’s kind of incredible how well Porsche handles given that it’s the physics. The moments of inertia are so messed up. To actually still make it work well is incredible.",
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"content": "Will that happen?",
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"content": "Do I think that will be what?",
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"content": "Centrist.",
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"content": "I hope so.",
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"content": "Well-",
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"content": "I mean, I think we should take the actions, the set of actions that are most likely to make the future better.",
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"content": "Yes, right.",
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"content": "And then, we evaluate those actions to make sure that it’s true.",
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"content": "Yeah. It’s weird. Acceptable deaths are weird. And that’s the slippery slope about these people shaming people for wanting to go back to work. “Other people are going to die.” Well, if you drive: Do you drive? Agree you should stop driving because people die from driving. So you definitely should fill up all the swimming pools because like 50 people die every day in this country from swimming. So let’s not swim anymore.",
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"content": "Yeah, water is really dangerous.",
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"content": "We need to chop down all the coconut trees.",
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"content": "Stop water.",
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"content": "Why don’t you wake up?",
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"content": "You could pick whatever you want. Yes.",
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"content": "Yeah, I choose the Australian girl from Siri. I like her voice.",
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"content": "Do you want it seductive?",
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"content": "They’re letting the kids think that they’re equal.",
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"content": "Yeah, let me give you an example of that a fair man told me. His daughters go to high school in the Bay Area. And he was asking them like: “Well, so who are the first few presidents of United States?” They could name Washington. “So, what do you know about him?” “Well, he was a slave owner.” “What else?” “Nothing.” Maybe you should know more than that.",
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"content": "Yeah. That is the woke mind virus, exactly.",
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"content": "Exactly. It’s like, you know, slavery is obviously a horrific institution. But we should still know more about George Washington than that.",
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"content": "So failures are not the most terrible things; however, you have to learn from it and react to it.",
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"content": "Yeah, exactly. When you’re building something new, there’s going to be mistakes. And it’s important to recognize those mistakes, acknowledge them, and take corrective action. And the success of a company is very much more about how quick are you to fix the mistakes – not, will you make mistakes.",
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"content": "Or admit the mistakes.",
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"content": "Absolutely. And if you see the difference between a startup that is successful and one that is not, and it is because the successful one – they both made mistakes – but the successful one recognizes the mistakes, fix them very quickly. And the unsuccessful one tries to deny that the mistakes exist.",
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"content": "I want to go back in time.",
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"content": "I can make it fly.",
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"content": "You make it fly?",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "The following is a conversation with Elon Musk – his third time on this, the “Lex Fridman Podcast”.\n(to Elon)\nYeah, make yourself comfortable.",
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"content": "Boo.",
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"content": "Oh, wow, okay.",
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"content": "You don’t do the headphone thing?",
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"content": "Yes, when the hurricane came in, they got overwhelmed with water, and they all started exploding. There’s a fucking great video of it. Did you watch the video?",
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"content": "I didn’t watch the video, but I did see — It’s like some pictures of the aftermath.",
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"content": "If I was you, I’d be naked, lubed up, watch that video, laugh my ass off. They all blow up. They got wet, and they blew up. That’s not good.",
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"content": "Yeah, we made our battery waterproof, so that doesn’t happen. Actually-",
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"content": "Yeah. You’ve streamed yourself dominating Tier 100 Nightmare Dungeon. And still-",
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"content": "I can cruise through Tier 100 Nightmare Dungeon like a stroll in the park.",
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"content": "And still you’re defeated by Hatred?",
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"content": "Yeah. I guess maybe the second hardest boss is Duriel. Duriel can even scratch the paint. So I killed Duriel so many times and every other boss in the game, all of them kill him so many times, it’s easy. But Uber Lilith, otherwise known as Hatred Incarnate, especially if you’re Duriel and you have no ability to go to be vulnerable, there are these random death waves that come at you.\nReally I am 52, so my reflex is not what they used to be, but I have a lifetime of playing video games. At one point, I was maybe one of the best quake players in the world. I actually won money in what I think was the first paid eSports tournament in the US. We were doing four person quake tournaments and I was the second best person on the team and the actual best person that… We were actually winning, we would’ve come first, except the best person on the team. His computer crashed halfway through the game. So we came second, but I got money for it and everything. So basically I got skills, albeit no spring chicken these days. And to be totally frank, it’s driving me crazy to beat Lilith as a Druid, basically trying to beat Hatred Incarnate in the eternal realm.",
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"content": "Right. And it’s a roof over their head.",
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"content": "Yeah, if the building owner lets us, we will do it.",
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"content": "Yeah. So if the building owner let owner lets you, you would happily do that?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "So, in terms of the signals that we’re collecting, you know, we’re digitizing them at 20 kilohertz – generally, the signals of interest are anywhere between about a millisecond in width. And so we sort of sample it at 20 times that speed. And we have analog to digital converters that divide that into 1024 levels, so 10-bit resolution. And the spike detection is done in less than 900 nanoseconds, which is really, really fast time, and it’s only sort of determined by the speed of the clock. And for making sure that our implant is low power, we’re running them actually at a very slow speed.\nAnd then for stimulation, you know, we can actually create any arbitrary waveforms with about seven microseconds of resolution. So, basically, whatever you want to draw, we can stimulate and generate those pulses through any combination over electrode.",
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"content": "And this is just the version 0.9 or, aspirationally, version one. As we go to version 2, 3, 4, these things will expand, I think, ultimately by orders of magnitude, many orders of magnitude.",
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"content": "Great. ‘Everyday Tesla’ asks, “How big is the Neuralink team? And how much do you expect it to grow in the near future?”",
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"content": "There are about 100 people right now. I think, over time, there might be 10,000 or more people at Neuralink. So I think, couple orders of magnitude – one of my favorite phrases. Yeah, just you know, couple orders of magnitude – there we go. So, probably the number of electrodes will grow with the number of people at the company.",
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"content": "Okay. Do you think it’s a feature or a bug that he’s anonymous, or she, or they? It’s an interesting kind of quirk of human history that there’s a particular technology that is a completely anonymous inventor, or creator.",
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"content": "Well, I mean, you can look at the evolution of ideas before the launch of Bitcoin and see who wrote about those ideas. And then, I don’t know, obviously, I don’t know who created Bitcoin for practical purposes. But the evolution of ideas is pretty clear before that, and it seems as though Nick Szabo is probably more than anyone else responsible for the evolution of those ideas. So, here he claims not to be Nakamoto, but I’m not sure that’s neither here nor there. But he seems to be the one more responsible for the ideas behind Bitcoin than anyone else.",
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"content": "So it’s not, perhaps, like singular figures aren’t even as important as the figures involved in the evolution of ideas that led to things.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "But that’s still 1/100 of what’s needed. How much of the rest of that 100 is Tesla planning to take on, let’s say, between now and 2030, 2040, when we really need to see the scale-up happen?",
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"content": "I mean, these are just guesses. So please, people shouldn’t hold me to these things. It’s not like this is like some… what tends to happen is I’ll make some like, you know, best guess, and then people, in five years, there’ll be some jerk that writes an article: “Elon said this would happen. And it didn’t happen. He’s a liar and a fool.” It’s very annoying when that happens. These are just guesses. This is a conversation. I think Tesla probably ends up doing 10% of that. Roughly.",
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"content": "Let’s say 2050 we have this amazing, you know, 100% sustainable electric grid made up of some mixture of the sustainable energy sources you talked about. That same grid probably is offering the world really low-cost energy, isn’t it, compared with now. And I’m curious about, like, are people entitled to get a little bit excited about the possibilities of that world?",
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"content": "People should be optimistic about the future. Humanity will solve sustainable energy. It will happen if we are, you know, continue to push hard. The future is bright and good from an energy standpoint. And then, it will be possible to also use that energy to do carbon sequestration. It takes a lot of energy to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, just because in putting it in the atmosphere, it releases energy. So now, you know, obviously, in order to pull it out, you need to use a lot of energy. But if you’ve got a lot of sustainable energy from wind and solar, you can actually sequester carbon. You can reverse the CO2 parts per million of the atmosphere and oceans.\nAnd also, you can really have as much freshwater as you want. Earth is mostly water. We should call Earth water. It’s 70% water by surface area. Now, most of that is seawater, but it’s like, we just happened to be on the bit that’s land.",
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"content": "Okay, I’ll get the car you drive.",
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"content": "It will blow your mind out of your skull.",
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"content": "How far can I drive?",
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"content": "About 300 miles.",
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"content": "I do wish the people on X will be better at seeing the good in other people’s behavior. There seems to be a weight towards seeing the negative. Somehow, the negative is sexier. Interpreting the negative is sexier, more viral. I don’t know what that is exactly about human nature.",
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"content": "I mean, I find the X platform to be less negative than the legacy media. I mean, if you read a conventional newspaper, it makes you sad, frankly. Whereas, I’d say on the X platform, I mean, I really get more laughs per day on X than everything else combined from humans.",
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"content": "Laughs, it overlaps, but it’s not necessarily perfectly overlapping, with good vibes and celebrating others, for example. Not in a stupid, shallow, naive way, but in an awesome way. Something awesome happened, and you celebrate them for it. It feels that that is outweighed by shitting on other people. Now, it’s better than mainstream media, but it’s still…",
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"content": "Yeah, mainstream media is almost relentlessly negative about everything. I mean, really, the conventional news tries to answer the question, what is the worst thing that happened on Earth today? And it’s a big world. So on any given day, something bad has happened.",
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"content": "Whoa. So, like if you’re going sideways, it knows how to correct itself?",
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"content": "It generally won’t go sideways.",
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"content": "It won’t?",
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"content": "No.",
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"content": "You did?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "How so?",
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"content": "Walter Isaacson goes into it in the book, and we only have a couple minutes left, so-",
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"content": "Two orders of magnitude cheaper. A 100th of the price?",
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"content": "That’s right. For you.",
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"content": "Only today. Memorial Day sale.\nI’ve seen some… you are doing like these vertical landings, literally out of like the 1950s Sci-Fi movies. And that’s what you’re talking about?",
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"content": "Yeah. Essentially, the rocket needs to come back and land at the launch site and then reload propellant and take off again, like an airplane in its reusability.",
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"content": "Maybe a good question to ask is, what are some things about China that people don’t understand, positive just in the culture? What’s some interesting things that you’ve learned about the Chinese?",
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"content": "Well, the sheer number of really smart, hardworking people in China is incredible. There are really say how many smart, hardworking people are there in China? There’s far more of them there than there are here, I think, in my opinion. And they’ve got a lot of energy. So I mean, the architecture in China that’s in recent years is far more impressive than the US. I mean the train stations, the buildings, the high speed rail, everything, it’s really far more impressive than what we have in the US. I mean, I recommend somebody just go to Shanghai and Beijing, look at the buildings and go to take the train from Beijing to Xian, where you have the terracotta warriors. China’s got an incredible history, very long history, and I think arguably in terms of the use of language from a written standpoint, one of the oldest, perhaps the oldest written language, and then China, people did write things down.\nSo now China historically has always been, with rare exception, been internally focused. They have not been inquisitive. They’ve fought each other. There’ve been many, many civil wars. In the Three Kingdoms war, I believe they lost about 70% of their population. So they’ve had brutal internal wars, civil wars that make the US Civil War look small by comparison. So I think it’s important to appreciate that China is not monolithic. We sort of think of China as a sort of one entity of one mind. And this is definitely not the case. From what I’ve seen and I think most people who understand China would agree, people in China think about China 10 times more than they think about anything outside of China. So it’s like 90% of their consideration is internal.",
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"content": "Well, isn’t that a really positive thing when you’re talking about the collaboration and the future piece between superpowers when you’re inward facing, which is focusing on improving yourself versus focusing on quote, unquote improving others through military might.",
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"content": "The good news, the history of China suggests that China is not inquisitive, meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries. Now they do feel very strongly… So that’s good. I mean, because a lot of very powerful countries have been inquisitive. The US is also one of the rare cases that has not been inquisitive. After World War II, the US could have basically taken over the world in any country, we’ve got nukes, nobody else has got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want? And the United States could have taken over everything and it didn’t. And the United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.\nThe US did conspicuous acts of kindness like the Berlin Airlift. And I think it’s always like, well, America’s done bad things. Well, of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record and just generally, one sort of test would be how do you treat your prisoners at war? Or let’s say, no offense to the Russians, but let’s say you’re in Germany, it’s 1945, you’ve got the Russian Army coming one side and you’ve got the French, British and American Army’s coming the other side, who would you like to be just surrendered to? No country is perfect, but I recommend being a POW with the Americans. That would be my choice very strongly.",
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"content": "Yes. But in the\nUFC\n(Ultimate Fighting Championship)\n, when Royce Gracie, off of his back, was strangling Dan Severn with his legs. You’re like, “Holy shit, this guy’s being pinned by this big giant wrestler, and he wraps his legs around his neck and chokes him to the point that guy has to surrender.” Amazing.",
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"content": "Yeah, it was amazing. I mean, Royce got beaten up pretty bad in some of those.",
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"content": "Well, he definitely had some rough fights.",
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"content": "But he won.",
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"content": "Don’t you think?",
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"content": "They’re delicious.",
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"content": "Yeah, right. They’re good for you too. All of them. All kinds of them.\nWhat do you see in terms of, like, when you think about the future of your companies, what do you see as bottlenecks? What do you see in terms of bottlenecks of things that are holding back innovation? Is it regulatory commissions and people that don’t understand the technology that is influencing policy? What could potentially be holding you guys back right now? Is there anything that you would change?",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s a good question. You know, I wish politicians were better at science. That would help a lot.",
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"content": "How do you hope the war in Ukraine comes to an end? And what’s the path, once again to minimizing human suffering there?",
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"content": "Well, I think that what is likely to happen, which is really pretty much the way it is, is that something very close to the current lines will be how a ceasefire or truce happens. But you just have a situation right now where whoever goes on the offensive will suffer casualties at several times the rate of whoever’s on the defense because you’ve got defense in depth, you’ve got minefields, trenches, anti-tank defenses. Nobody has air superiority because the anti-aircraft missiles are really far better than the aircraft. They’re far more of them. And so neither side has air superiority. Tanks are basically death traps, just slow moving, and they’re not immune to anti-tank weapons. So you really just have long range artillery and infantry ranges. It’s World War I all over again with drones, thrown old drones, some drones there.",
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"content": "Which makes the long range artillery just that much more accurate and better, and so more efficient at murdering people on both sides.",
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"content": "So whoever is… You don’t want to be trying to advance from either side because the probability of dying is incredibly high. So in order to overcome defense in depth, trenches and minefields, you really need a significant local superiority in numbers. Ideally combined alms where you do a fast attack with aircraft, a concentrated number of tanks, and a lot of people, that’s the only way you’re going to punch through a line and then you’re going to punch through and then not have reinforcements just kick you right out again. I mean, I really recommend people read World War I warfare in detail. That’s rough. I mean, the sheer number of people that died there was mind-boggling.",
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"content": "I can’t really cut you off when you’re talking about that.",
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"content": "It’s a super big deal. I don’t want to raise hopes unreasonably, yet I’m increasingly convinced that this can be done.",
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"content": "Alright, so the last one is Starship.",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "Well, they do now.",
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"content": "Yes. There’s so many things about the Model X, and the Model S, and the Model 3 that people don’t know about. We should probably do a video or something to explain it because I have close friends of mine, and I say, „Do you know the car can do this?“ and they’re like, „Nope.“",
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"content": "Do you want to do a video of that? Do you like the fact that some people don’t know?",
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"content": "No, I think it’s probably not. We should tell people.",
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"content": "I mean, that’s a different question.",
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"content": "Yeah. But you are sort of saying who knows best, the average citizen or someone who is a journalist? And I think in a lot of cases, it is the average citizen that knows more than the journalist. In fact, very often when I see an article about something that I know a lot about, and I read the article, and it’s like they get a lot wrong. And the best interpretation is there is someone who doesn’t really understand what’s going on in the industry, has only a few facts to play with, has to come up with an article. It’s going to be… It’s not going to hit the bullseye.\nSo then generally, this is how I would explain it, if you read an article that’s something you know about, how accurate is that article? Now, imagine that is how essentially all articles are, they’re an approximation of what’s going on, but not an exact situation. So if somebody’s actually, let’s say, in the fray or an expert in the field and was actually there and writes about their experience of being actually there, I think that actually that’s, in a lot of cases, going to be better than the journalist, because the journalist wasn’t there.",
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"content": "I think you said the legacy verified blue ticks are going to go next week? There’ve been a few deadlines on this.",
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"content": "4/20.",
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"content": "You don’t have a watch on.",
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"content": "No.",
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"content": "Ever?",
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"content": "I used to have a watch.",
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"content": "What’s been your-",
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"content": "It’s been good to get negative feedback.",
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"content": "Right. When you talk about the emotional strain, you’ve gone back to feedback. Is that the thing that’s been most difficult to take, the sort of negative feedback?",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, if the media’s writing nonstop stories about why you’re a horrible person, it’s hurtful, obviously.",
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"content": "But we might not be there yet. So, it might not be a simulation here. But it most likely is you feel other places.",
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"content": "This notion of a place or where is-",
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"content": "Flawed?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Hm. So you used to have more hope. And you gave up some of it, and now you don’t worry as much about A.I. You’re like, this is just what it is.",
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"content": "Yeah, pretty much, yes. But it’s not necessarily bad; it’s just, it’s definitely going to be outside of human control.",
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"content": "Not necessarily bad, right?",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s not necessarily bad; it’s just outside of human control. Now, the thing that’s going to be tricky here is that it’s going to be very tempting to use A.I. as a weapon. In fact, it will be used as a weapon. So, the on ramp to serious A.I., the danger is going to be more humans using it against each other, I think, most likely. That will be the danger.",
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"content": "So, I suppose he carries the flame of the same kind of thinking that you’re talking about now. And I guess I see that same thing at Tesla and SpaceX. Folks who worked there, they kind of learned this way of thinking, and it kind of becomes obvious almost. But anyway, I had an argument – not argument; he educated me – about how cheap it might be to manufacture a Tesla bot. We had an argument, how can you reduce the cost at scale of producing a robot?\nBecause so far I’ve gotten the chance to interact quite a bit, obviously, in the academic circles with humanoid robots, and then Boston Dynamics and stuff like that, and they’re very expensive to build. And then Jim kind of schooled me on saying like, okay, like this kind of first principles thinking of how can we get the cost of manufacturing down. I suppose you have done that kind of thinking for Tesla Bot and for all kinds of complex systems that are traditionally seen as complex. And you say, “Okay, how can we simplify everything down?”",
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"content": "Yeah, I think if you are really good at manufacturing, at high volume you can basically make anything for a cost that asymptotically approaches the raw material value of the constituents, plus any intellectual property that you need to license. Anything.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "But it’s hard. That’s a very hard thing to do. But it is possible for anything. Anything in volume can be made, like I said, for a cost that asymptotically approaches its raw material constituents, plus intellectual property license rights. So what will often happen in trying to design a product is, people will start with the tools and parts and methods that they’re familiar with and try to create a product using their existing tools and methods. The other way to think about it is, actually try to imagine the platonic ideal of the perfect product, or technology, whatever it might be. What is the perfect arrangement of atoms? That would be the best possible product. And now let us try to figure out how to get the atoms in that shape.",
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"content": "That is a lot.",
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"content": "Let’s see, how do we see, okay. Let me see who… I’ll just look at my tweet and see what people are saying or what questions they have. Do you like the BBC? Do you like BBC?",
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"content": "Okay. Yeah, we’re not going to do this.",
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"content": "Can I interview you?",
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"content": "You know those people.",
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"content": "Yeah. We literally run a payroll. They are still there.",
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"content": "Do you think there’s a danger of politicizing this? Where this becomes like opening up the country as Donald Trump’s, it’s his goal, and then anything he does, there’s people that are going to oppose it and come up with some reasons why he’s wrong, particularly in this climate, as we’re leading up to November and the 2020 elections. Do you think that this is a real danger in terms of public’s perception that Trump wants to open it up, so the knee-jerk oppose it because they oppose Trump?",
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"content": "I think this has been politicized in both directions, really. Which is not great. But like I said (…1:25:54), I think there’s the question of where do civil liberties fit in this picture? And what can the government make you do, what can they make you not do, and what’s okay? And I think we went too far.",
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"content": "Yeah. Like, what if there’s a million Elon Musks?",
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"content": "Well, that would be very, very weird.",
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"content": "Whoa.",
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"content": "Yeah, it would be pretty weird. I agree. What if there were a million Joe Rogans?",
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"content": "Right, right.",
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"content": "It’s more like my hip is…- I’m in extreme pain because my hip’s blown out or my knee, and I don’t want to go to the hospital. I can’t go to the hospital. People are in extreme pain, people that need a kidney, people that have quite serious issues that are choosing not to go out of fear. So I think it’s a problem; that’s not good.",
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"content": "It seems like the state of public perception is shifting.",
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"content": "It is.",
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"content": "So with that… and I apologize to all of you guys for hogging up all of the time, because, obviously, I could talk for hours about this stuff. But we do have time, probably 5 or 10 minutes, for a handful of questions. If none of you all have any, I have about nine more. But, yes.\nSpeaker A:\nI noticed… I picked up two kinds of themes from what you were discussing. One was somewhat audacious goals. And the other was I don’t think I heard you use the word profit in anything that you spoke about. Each thing is pointed at, like re-invigorating an industry or bringing back space missions. How much of your success do you attribute to having really audacious goals or versus just not being focused on the short term, money coming in, or I don’t know, investors?",
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"content": "Unfortunately, one does have to be focused on the short time and money coming in when creating a company because otherwise, the company will die. So I think that a lot of times people think creating a company is going to be fun. I would say it’s really not that fun. I mean, there are periods of fun. And there are periods where it’s just awful.\nAnd, particularly, if you’re the CEO of the company, you actually have a distillation of all the worst problems in the company. There’s no point in spending your time on things that are going right. So you’re only spending your time on things that are going wrong. And there are things that are going wrong that other people can’t take care of. So you have like the worst. You have a filter for the crappiest problems in the company. The most pernicious and painful problems. So I think you have to feel quite compelled to do it. And have a fairly high pain threshold.\nThere’s a friend of mine who says starting a company is like staring into the abyss and eating glass. And there’s some truth to that. The staring into the abyss part is that you’re going to be constantly facing the extermination of the company. Because most start-ups fail. It’s like 90%, it could be 99% of start-ups fail. So that’s the staring into the abyss part. You’re constantly saying, “Okay, if I don’t get this right, the company will die,” which can be quite stressful. And then the eating glass part is you’ve got to work on the problems that the company needs you to work on and not the problems you want to work on. And so you end up working on problems that you really wish you weren’t working on. And so that’s the eating glass part. And that goes on for a long time.\nSpeaker A:\nSo how do you keep your focus on the big picture when you’re constantly faced with, we could be out of business in a month?\nWell, it’s just a very small percentage of mental energy is on the big picture. Like, you know where you’re generally heading for, and the actual path is going to be some sort of zigzaggy thing in that direction. You’re trying not to deviate too far from the path that you want to be on, but you’re going to have to that to some degree. But I don’t want to diminish the… I think the profit motive is a good one if the rules of an industry are properly set up.\nThere’s nothing fundamentally wrong with profit. In fact, profit just means that people are paying you more for whatever you’re doing than you’re spending to create it. That’s a good thing. And if that’s not the case, then you’ll be out of business. And rightfully so. Because you’re not adding enough value. Now there are cases, of course, where people will do bad things in order to achieve profit, but that’s actually quite unusual. Because usually, the rules are set up mostly correctly. Like not completely, but mostly correctly.",
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"content": "I think we have time for one more question. Joel.\nYeah, I have an important one.\nOkay, very good. Yes, please.\nA few months ago, you teased Hyperloop, and we haven’t heard anything since. So, first of all, a few of us engineers were talking about it, and I think we have a few ideas if you need help. But, if you feel comfortable, maybe you could tell us a little bit more.",
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"content": "I was reading about the California high-speed rail, and it was quite depressing. Because California taxpayers are going to be on the hook to build the most expensive high-speed rail per mile in the world – and the slowest. Those are not the superlatives you want. And, it’s like, damn, we’re in California, we make super high-tech stuff. Why are we going to be spending – now the estimates are around $100 billion – for something that will take two hours to go from LA to San Francisco? I’m like, well, I can get on a plane and do that in 45 minutes. It doesn’t make much sense. And isn’t there some better way to do it than that?\nSo if you just say, what would you ideally want in a transportation system? You’d want something that relative to existing modes of transportation is faster – let’s say twice as fast – costs half as much per ticket, can’t crash, is immune to weather, and is… you know, can make the whole thing like self-powering with like solar panels or something like that. That would be pretty…",
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"content": "Yeah, I love old cars.",
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"content": "Yeah, the only two gasoline cars I have are that and an old — like a Ford Model T that a friend of mine gave me. Those are my only two gasoline cars.",
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"content": "Is the Ford Model T all stocked? Oh, there’s your car. Look at that. (\nshows picture\n)",
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"content": "I have the convertible with a…",
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"content": "He’s not a good friend.",
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"content": "I said I wouldn’t swear.",
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"content": "Realize you’re fucking Elon Musk. You can do whatever you want, man. If you ever get confused, call me.",
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"content": "I’ll swear in private. Swear up a storm.",
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"content": "Interesting, yeah. But you’re obviously going to, so you’re going to rent a place?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Okay, and get rid of everything except clothes?",
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"content": "No, I said almost everything, so it’s like…",
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"content": "Is that real?",
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"content": "Basically.",
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"content": "Not that bad, but heart attacks, strokes-",
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"content": "You get hit by a bus.",
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"content": "But like a physical barrier, like-",
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"content": "Well, the wheels work pretty well.",
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"content": "The wheels do.",
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"content": "Yeah, they work pretty well. Decelerated at, you know, 1.1 to 1.2 Gs, that kind of thing.",
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"content": "It is, or it can be. But just can you just talk me through the emotional strain of this?",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, look, I’m been under constant attack. I mean, it’s not like I have a stone-cold heart or something like that. If you’re under constant criticism and attack and then that gets fed to you nonstop, including through Twitter, that is rough. Now, at the end of the day, I kind of think that if you do lose your feedback loop, that’s actually not good. So I think it is actually important to get negative feedback. I don’t turn replies off, and I actually got rid of… I removed my entire block list, so I don’t block anyone either. So I get a lot of negative feedback.",
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"content": "What’s been your-",
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"content": "It’s been good to get negative feedback.",
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"content": "If there’s any chance that you could put a roof rack on the X, that’s what she’s looking for. We need a roof rack on the X. If you can figure that out. That’s almost more important than going to Mars. We have not figured that out.",
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"content": "I mean, it’s tricky because we have the fancy doors.",
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"content": "They’re awesome.",
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"content": "Yeah, the doors are awesome. But you know if you have a roof rack and like how do you stop the doors from smashing?",
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"content": "Let’s hope it holds up.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "In the political climate where it’s so divisive and there’s so many intensely viral posts, community notes, it seems like an essential breath of fresh air.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s great. In fact, no system is going to be perfect, but the batting average of Community Notes is incredibly good. I’ve actually, frankly, yet to see an incorrect note that survived for more than a few hours.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, I would imagine that for someone like you, it’s not. For someone like you, it would be more like a cup of coffee, right. You have a mate.",
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"content": "Yeah. It’s more like the opposite of a cup of coffee.",
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"content": "What is that?",
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"content": "It’s like a cup of coffee in reverse.",
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"content": "Why would they do that, though?",
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"content": "Well, right now, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I mean, it’s mostly paved with bad intentions, but there’s some good intentions in saving (…1:28:36) in there, too. And the stimulus bill that was intended to help with the hospitals that were being overrun with Covid patients created an incentive to record something as Covid that is difficult to say no to, especially if your hospital’s going bankrupt for lack of other patients. So, the hospitals are in a bind right now. There’s a bunch of hospitals, they’re furloughing doctors, as you were mentioning. If your hospital’s half full, it’s hard to make ends meet. So now you’ve got like, “If I just check this box, I get $8,000. Put them on a ventilator for five minutes, I get $39,000 back. Or, I got to fire some doctors.” So, this is a tough moral quandary. It’s like, what are you going to do? That’s the situation we have.",
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"content": "What’s the way out of this? What do you think is, if you had the president’s ear, or if people wanted to just listen to you openly, what do you think is the way out of this?",
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"content": "Let’s just clear up the data. Clear up the data. So like I said, somebody should be recorded as Covid only if somebody has been tested – has received a positive Covid test. Not if they simply have symptoms, one of like a hundred symptoms. And then if it is a Covid death, it must be separated: Was Covid a primary reason for death, or did they also have stage three cancer, or heart disease, emphysema, and got hit by a bus and had Covid?",
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"content": "Maybe that’s why everybody is like into like Mason jars and shit. Suede shoes. People are going to, like, craft restaurants, and they want raw wood. Everyone wants to see metal. It seems, people are like longing towards some weird log cabin type nostalgia.",
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"content": "Sure, reality.",
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"content": "Yeah, like holding on. Like clinging.",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "No, extremely smart people are sometimes quite arrogant because they believe in what they believe in, right. And so when they face criticism, it’s less likely to admit, you know, they can make mistakes. Was that in your case?",
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"content": "I learned when I was studying physics that… – in physics, you’re taught to always question yourself, you’re taught to always assume that you’re wrong, not to assume that you’re right. And you have to prove yourself not wrong. And so I think that that physics framework is really where I learned it, and it’s very effective for learning counterintuitive things that aren’t obvious.",
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"content": "You’re very famous for saying that failure is actually an option. And if you’re not failing, that means you’re not innovative.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s not like that I like failure. I mean, who likes failure – it’s terrible. But if you only do things that are certain to succeed, then you’re only going to be doing very obvious things.\n(21:50 – 22:03)\nA documentary sequence about Elon Musk in Chinese, translation not available",
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"content": "Do you think they’re ever going to get their arms around it? We talked to the Vice President this afternoon. She said she wants to regulate it. People have been trying to regulate social media for years and have done nothing, effectively.",
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"content": "Well, there’s regulation around anything which is a physical danger, a danger to the public. So cars are heavily regulated, communications are heavily regulated, rockets and aircraft are heavily regulated. The general philosophy about regulation is that, when something is a danger to the public, that there needs to be some government oversight. So I think, in my view, AI is more dangerous than nuclear bombs and we regulate nuclear bombs. You can’t just go make a nuclear bomb in your backyard. I think we should have some kind of regulation with AI. Now, this tends to cause the AI accelerationist to get up in arms because they think AI is heaven, basically.",
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"content": "But you typically don’t like regulation. You’ve pushed back on regulators, for the most part, in the world of Tesla and so many instances where we read articles about you pushing back on the regulators. I’m so curious why, in this, instance now you own one of these businesses.",
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"content": "As I said a moment ago, one should not take what is viewed in the media as being the whole picture. There are literally hundreds, this is not an exaggeration, say, there are probably 100 million regulations that my companies comply with and there are probably five that we don’t. And if we disagree with some of those regulations, it’s because we think the regulation that is meant to do good doesn’t actually do good.",
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"content": "Using a reusable rocket.",
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"content": "Yeah, sure. It’s really gigantic. With Falcon 9, we still have to lose the upper stage. And you can think of each stage being like the equivalent of a jet airplane. So the boost stage is like the big jet airplane, the upper stage is the small jet airplane. We still throw away the small jet airplane every time. So Falcon 9 is able to be the most competitive rocket in the world because we recover the boost stage and the fairing. But still, our best-case marginal cost of launch, not taking into account overhead allocation, is about $15 million.",
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"content": "Per launch?",
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"content": "Yeah, for 15 tons to orbit. Which is quite big. SpaceX – over the last year or so – has delivered about, I think, roughly two-thirds of all payloads to orbit of Earth. And most of the remaining third is China, and then everyone else is kind of miscellaneous. But it’s still $15 million, most because…",
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"content": "Is that flexing your muscle overly?",
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"content": "No, it’s just realtime doxing is not allowed because-",
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"content": "But if I take a picture of someone in the street and then tweet it, is that doxing?",
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"content": "It’s against their will and you’re following them around, then yeah, that would be doxing.",
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"content": "They hate dogs.",
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"content": "Only dog haters would be opposed to making the dog a CEO.",
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"content": "I see people saying, oh, you promised to quit and step down. I’m like, “Well, no, the dog’s the CEO. Floki is the CEO.”",
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"content": "Yeah, the dog’s the CEO. What are you complaining about? It’s great dog.",
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"content": "What other possibilities are out there? Like, it feels like if you’re going to create 1,000 of these things, they can only fly to Mars every two years. What are they doing the rest of the time? It feels like there’s this explosion of possibility that I don’t think people are really thinking about.",
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"content": "I mean, I don’t know. We’ve certainly got a long way to go. As you alluded to earlier, we still have to get to orbit. And then, after we get to orbit, we have to really prove out and refine full and rapid reusability. That’ll take a moment. But I do think we will solve this. I’m highly confident we will solve this at this point.",
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"content": "Do you ever wake up with the fear that there’s going to be this Hindenburg moment for SpaceX where…",
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"content": "We’ve had many Hindenburg… well, we’ve never had Hindenburg moments with people, which is very important. Big difference. We’ve blown up quite a few rockets. There’s a whole compilation online that we put together and others put together. It’s showing rockets are hard. I mean, the sheer amount of energy going through a rocket boggles the mind. So, you know, getting out of Earth’s gravity well is difficult. We have a strong gravity and a thick atmosphere. And Mars, which is less than 40%, it’s like 37% of Earth’s gravity and has a thin atmosphere. The ship alone can go all the way from the surface of Mars to the surface of Earth. Whereas getting to Mars requires a giant booster and orbital refilling.",
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"content": "Right, I think that’s an extremely powerful thing for people to get an understanding, sort of becoming one with the system and understanding what the system is capable of. Now, have you considered showing more? So if we look at the computer vision, like road segmentation, lane detection, vehicle detection, object detection, underlying the system, there is at the edges, some uncertainty. Have you considered revealing the parts that the uncertainty in the system, the sort of …",
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"content": "Probabilities associated with, say, image recognition or something like that?",
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"content": "Yeah, so right now, it shows the vehicles in the vicinity, a very clean crisp image, and people do confirm that there’s a car in front of me, and the system sees there’s a car in front of me, but to help people build an intuition of what computer vision is, by showing some of the uncertainty.",
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"content": "Well, in my car, I always look at this with the debug view. And there are two debug views. One is augmented vision, which I’m sure you’ve seen, where it’s basically we draw boxes and labels around objects that are recognized. And then there’s what we call the visualizer, which is basically vector space representation, summing up the input from all sensors. That does not show any pictures, but it basically shows the car’s view of the world in vector space. But I think this is very difficult for normal people to understand, they would not know what thing they’re looking at.",
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"content": "100 more though than 15 – you said 15.",
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"content": "Yes. 100 tons likely, and with refinements of the design, probably 150 tons. So essentially, it will be 10 times the payload of Falcon 9 for 15 times lower cost.",
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"content": "When is this happening?",
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"content": "100-fold better, you know, it’s really profound. Essentially with Starship, it is possible to make the economics close for creating a self-sustaining city on Mars and a base on the Moon for those who want to go there. And so it is really very, very profound development. And that’s what I’m spending most of my time on is driving the development of Starship.",
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"content": "Yeah, so you’ve presented the Tesla Bot as primarily useful in the factory. First of all, I think humanoid robots are incredible. From a fan of robotics, I think the elegance of movement that the humanoid robots, that bipedal robots show are just so cool. So it’s really interesting that you’re working on this, and also talking about applying the same kind of all the ideas of some of which you’ve talked about with data engine and all the things that we’re talking about with Tesla Autopilot, just transferring that over to the just yet another robotics problem.\nI have to ask since I care about human-robot interaction, so the human side of that. So you’ve talked about mostly in the factory. Do you see as part of this problem that Tesla Bot has to solve is interacting with humans and potentially having a place like in the home? So, interacting, not just replacing labor but also like, I don’t know, being a friend or an assistant?",
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"content": "I think the possibilities are endless. Yeah, I mean, it’s obviously, it’s not quite in Tesla’s primary mission direction of accelerating sustainable energy, but it is an extremely useful thing that we can do for the world, which is to make a useful humanoid robot that is capable of interacting with the world and helping in many different ways. So, in factories… I think if you say like, extrapolate to many years in the future, it’s like, I think, work will become optional.\nThere’s a lot of jobs that if people weren’t paid to do it, they wouldn’t do it. It’s not fun necessarily if you’re washing dishes all day – it’s like, even if you really like washing dishes, do you really want to do it for eight hours a day, every day? Probably not. And then there’s dangerous work. Basically, if it’s dangerous, boring, has potential for repetitive stress or injury, that kind of thing, then that’s really where humanoid robots would add the most value initially. So, that’s what we’re aiming for is for the humanoid robots to do jobs that people don’t voluntarily want to do. And then that will have to pair obviously with some kind of universal basic income in the future. So, I think.\nLex Fridman: (\n1:39:01) Do you see a world when there’s like hundreds of millions of Tesla Bots performing different tasks throughout the world?\nYeah, I haven’t really thought about it that far into the future. But I guess that there may be something like that.",
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"content": "Can I ask a wild question? The number of Tesla cars has been accelerating, has been close to two million produced. Many of them have autopilot.",
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"content": "I think we’re over two million now.",
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"content": "And the leaders don’t seem to be the ones with the nukes talking to each other.",
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"content": "No, there are wars which are tragic and difficult on a local basis. And then there are wars which are civilization ending or has that potential. Obviously, global thermonuclear warfare has high potential to end civilization, perhaps permanently, but certainly to severely wound and perhaps set back human progress to the Stone Age or something. I don’t know. Pretty bad. Probably scientists and engineers want to be super popular after that as well. You got us into this mess. So generally, I think we obviously want to prioritize civilizational risks over things that are painful and tragic on a local level, but not civilizational.",
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"content": "How do you hope the war in Ukraine comes to an end? And what’s the path, once again to minimizing human suffering there?",
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"content": "Well, I think that what is likely to happen, which is really pretty much the way it is, is that something very close to the current lines will be how a ceasefire or truce happens. But you just have a situation right now where whoever goes on the offensive will suffer casualties at several times the rate of whoever’s on the defense because you’ve got defense in depth, you’ve got minefields, trenches, anti-tank defenses. Nobody has air superiority because the anti-aircraft missiles are really far better than the aircraft. They’re far more of them. And so neither side has air superiority. Tanks are basically death traps, just slow moving, and they’re not immune to anti-tank weapons. So you really just have long range artillery and infantry ranges. It’s World War I all over again with drones, thrown old drones, some drones there.",
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"content": "If you look at Twitter today… I mean, it’s a platform. Sometimes there is a lot of misinformation on Twitter. Sometimes I don’t feel comfortable because there is this negativity between nations, between people, between different ethnic groups – that is the same thing. How are you going to fix this issue where you are in a mission for humanity to get them together?",
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"content": "I think there’s something that we’re putting a lot of effort into called “Community Notes”. It’s currently just in English, but we will be expanding it to all languages. That is, I think, quite a good way to assess the truth of things where it’s the community itself, basically the people of Earth, who are basically not exactly voting but competing to provide the most accurate information. So it’s sort of a competition for truth. I think it’s a very powerful concept to have a competition for truth.\nBecause, like, what is truth? Because what may be true to some, may not be viewed as true to others. But you want to have the closest approximation of that. So I think the Community Notes thing is very powerful. I think we are trying to have as many organizations and people and institutions verified as being legitimately those people and organizations is important, and to have the organizational affiliation clearly identified so that if you want to find out if somebody’s actually… if an account is actually from a member of parliament or a journalist or if let’s say, a Twitter handle actually belongs to, say, Disney corporation or something like that, you can go on Twitter and it’s sort of an identity layer of the Internet. You can confirm that is, in fact, the case.\nI think once you’ve got these interlocking sort of identities, it’s actually very hard to be deceptive in that case. And it’s also, you have a reputation to protect at that point. So I think then people are far more likely to be measured in their response and will be more reasonable since they have reputational value at that point. So these are some of the ideas that I have, and you know I’m not saying that for sure it will succeed or that it’s going to be perfect. But I am confident that it will, over time, head in a good direction. And I think that the evidence for that will be, do people find it useful?\nAs we’re measuring sort of the total user minutes, but not just user minutes, unregretted user minutes, which I think that that’s the key figure of merit. For example, TikTok has a very high usage. But I often hear people say: “Well, I spent two hours on TikTok, but I regret those two hours.” I’m not trying to knock TikTok, but it’s just we don’t want that to be the case with Twitter. We want to say like, ‘okay, you spent half an hour on Twitter, but you found it to be useful and entertaining and a good thing in your life.’ And ultimately be a force for good for civilization – that’s the aspiration.",
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"content": "Thank you. Elon, we have over 150 governments within the World Government Summit, global leaders. They have eight billion customers, their citizens. How can governments use Twitter better to serve their citizens?",
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"content": "I think, generally, I would recommend really communicating a lot on Twitter. And I think it’s good for people to speak in their voice as opposed to how they think they should speak. Sometimes people think, ‘I should speak in this way that is expected of me,’ but it ends up sounding somewhat at times stiff and not real. You know, like, if you read a press release from a corporation, it just sounds like propaganda. I would encourage CEOs and companies and legislators and ministers and so forth to speak authentically. If there’s, say, a particular policy, to explain it. I think there’s sometimes a concern about criticism. But I think, at the end of the day, having some criticism is fine. It’s really not that bad.\nI’m constantly attacked on Twitter, frankly. And I don’t mind. You have to be somewhat thick-skinned, I suppose, at times, because they really try and twist the knife. But I think, just like I said, as a forum for communication, it’s great. I would just encourage more communication and, like I said, to sort of speak in an authentic voice. Like sometimes, people will have someone else be their sort of Twitter manager or something like that. And I think people should just do their own tweets. Sometimes you make a mistake or something. It’s fine. But I think doing your own tweets, just like you would give a talk here or have a meeting at a summit, that’s the way to do it. To actually do the tweets yourself and convey the message that you want directly.\nOne thing I should say: I know this is called the “World Government Summit”, but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government, if I may say that. We want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having, frankly – this may sound a little odd – too much cooperation between governments. If you look at history and the rise and fall of civilizations: really, all throughout history, civilizations have risen and fallen. But it hasn’t meant the doom of humanity as a whole because they’ve been all these separate civilizations that were separated by great distances.\nWhile Rome was falling, Islam was rising. So you had, you know, the sort of caliphate doing incredibly well while Rome was doing terribly. And that actually ended up being a source of preservation of knowledge and many scientific advancements. So I think we want to be a little bit cautious about being too much of a single civilization because if we are too much of a single civilization, then the whole thing may collapse.\nI’m obviously not suggesting war or anything like that. But I think we want to be a little bit wary of actually cooperating too much. It sounds a little odd. But we want to have some amount of civilizational diversity such that if something does go wrong with some part of civilization that the whole thing doesn’t collapse, and humanity keeps moving forward.",
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"content": "Have the past few years and considering everything that’s gone on, has it been difficult for you and your family life?",
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"content": "It’s been okay.",
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"content": "So then how do you see your legacy, Elon? How will people see you in the-",
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"content": "First of all, I’d say if I died knowing that I did what was right or did my best to do what was right, and even if in the history books they say I did wrong, I would still feel okay about that. I care about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. I think we should view civilization as tenuous, as fragile. If you do study history broadly, you’ll see that there’s a rise and fall of civilizations. They don’t always go up. So we should do everything we possibly can to preserve and extend civilization as we know it and improve it to become more enlightened over time.\nAnd we therefore want to address civilizational risks. We want to make sure that we don’t have, for example, demographic collapse, which is the case in a lot of countries, just very low birthrate. We want to obviously avoid World War III, anything that is a civilizational risk. That’s what I care about, civilizational risks. How do we extend consciousness into the future such that we are able to better understand the nature of reality? That’s what I care about. That’s my motivation.",
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"content": "Yeah. That’s the thing, right? Gaining more than we lose. Something that makes us interesting is that we’re so flawed.",
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"content": "That’s for sure. I mean, look at civilization through the ages; most of them they rose and fell.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I do think the globalization that we have, sort of like the memesphere, there’s not enough isolation between countries or regions. It’s like if there’s a mind virus that that mind virus cannot infect too much of the world. I actually sort of sympathizing with the anti-globalization people because it’s like, man, we don’t ever want everywhere to be the same for sure. Then we need some kind of mind viral immunity. So that’s a bit concerning.",
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"content": "I feel like you’re the one who could ring the bell better. Because if Mike Pence starts talking about A.I., I’m like, shut up, bitch, you don’t know anything about A.I. Come on, man, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. That’s just games.",
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"content": "But I don’t have the power to regulate other companies. I don’t if I’m supposed to, but you know.",
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"content": "Right. But maybe companies could agree. Maybe there could be some sort of a…- We have agreements where you’re not supposed to dump toxic waste into the ocean, you’re not supposed to do certain things that could be terribly damaging even though they’d be profitable. Maybe this is one of those things. Maybe you should realize that you can’t hit the switch on something that’s going to be able to think for itself and make up its own mind as to whether or not it wants to survive or not, and whether or not it thinks you’re a threat, and whether or not it thinks you’re useless.\nLike why do I keep this dumb, finite life form alive? Why keep this thing around? It’s just stupid, it just keeps polluting everything, it shits everywhere it goes, lighting everything on fire and shooting each other. Why would I keep this stupid thing alive? Because sometimes it makes good music, you know. Sometimes it makes great movies, sometimes it makes beautiful art, and sometimes it’s cool to hang out with.",
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"content": "Yeah, for all those reasons.",
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"content": "Right away.",
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"content": "I mean, let’s make sure it works.",
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"content": "How do we make sure it works? We try it on prisoners? What do you do? Take rapists? Cut holes in their head?",
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"content": "No, like I said if somebody has got a serious brain injury and people that have very severe brain injuries and then you can fix those brain injuries. Then you prove out that it works and envelope expands and make more and more brain injuries, solve more and more. At a certain age, we all are going to get Alzheimer’s, or we’re all going to get senile. Then moms forget the names of their kids and that kind of thing.\nIt’s like you said, okay, well this would allow you to remember your names of your kids and have a normal, a much more normal life where you were able to function much later in life. So I think essentially almost everyone would find a need at some point if you get old enough to use a neural link. Then it’s like, okay, so we can improve the functionality and improve the communication speed. So then you will not have to use your thumbs to communicate with the computer.",
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"content": "Oh yeah, there’s a laundry list of things. So how often do you stalk Twitter spaces? I’m sure you have an alt account or something. Do you stalk Twitter spaces?",
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"content": "No, not really. And I actually didn’t even have a burner account. I do have a second account at this point because I need to test the app before it goes out so it’s like a beta test account. But no, I don’t have a burner or anything like that. Yeah, never have had.",
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"content": "So also, no, Pierre, what was that guys name?\nPierre Delecto.\nMitt Romney’s Pierre Delecto. Pierre Delectos and Zaza Demons, none of those? Okay.",
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"content": "Nope. Well, let’s see. Any key points anyone wants to make, otherwise, I’ll sign off in a few minutes.",
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"content": "If that was a skyscraper, that’s like, did I read that, a 40-story skyscraper?",
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"content": "Probably a little more, yeah. The thrust level of this is really… – This configuration is about four times the thrust of the Saturn V moon rocket.",
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"content": "Four times the thrust of the biggest rocket humanity ever created before.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Yeah, I love old cars.",
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"content": "Yeah, the only two gasoline cars I have are that and an old — like a Ford Model T that a friend of mine gave me. Those are my only two gasoline cars.",
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"content": "Is the Ford Model T all stocked? Oh, there’s your car. Look at that. (\nshows picture\n)",
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"content": "I have the convertible with a…",
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"content": "Wow. So you think this is going to be a reality? What’s your best guess of when we’re going to have someone on Mars?",
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"content": "I think probably about 12 years.",
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"content": "That’s nothing. And you think it’ll be a round trip? It won’t just be some type of permanent colony on Mars?",
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"content": "I think it’s probably a round trip. It’s not for sure. Aspirational, it’d be a round trip.",
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"content": "What does that mean to you when you say AI Extension of yourself?",
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"content": "Well, like I said, you already have a computer extension of yourself with your phone and computers and stuff. So, and now online, it’s like somebody dies, there’s like an online ghost, they’re still… their online stuff is still alive.",
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"content": "That’s a good way to put it. It is weird when you read someone’s tweets after they’re dead.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I think, Shakespeare had a thing about roses and stuff, whatever he said.",
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"content": "“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”",
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"content": "I got Elon to quote Shakespeare. I feel like I accomplished something today.",
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"content": "“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”\n(both laughing)",
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"content": "I mean, right.",
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"content": "You literally can’t give me one.",
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"content": "I think it’s something like the Strategic Dialogue Institute in the UK. They will say that. So they-",
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"content": "People will say all sorts of nonsense. I’m literally asking for a single example and you can’t name one.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "And, in fact, the thing that really, you know, got me to — It’s like, „Man, we better get autopilot going and get it out there.“ A guy was in an early Tesla driving down the highway, and he fell asleep, and he ran over a cyclist and killed him. I was like, „Man, if we had autopilot, he might have fallen asleep, but, at least, he wouldn’t run over that cyclist.“",
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"content": "So, how did you implement it? Did you just use cameras and programmed the system so that if it sees images, it slows down?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I understand. Last time you were here, you convince me to buy a Tesla. I bought it, and it’s fucking insane.",
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"content": "Oh great. Glad you like it.",
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"content": "Aw, man.",
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"content": "Pretty fun.",
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"content": "Do you think this is like — I mean, there are outliers biologically. You mean, there are people that are 7 foot 9, there’s people that have giant hands, there’s people that have eyes that are 20/15 vision. There’s always outliers. Do you feel like you like caught this, like you have got some — you’re like on some weird innovation creativity sort of wave that’s very unusual? Like you tapped into — I mean, just think of the various things you’ve been able to accomplish in a very short amount of time, and you’re constantly doing this. That’s a weird — You’re a weird person, right.",
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"content": "Right, I agree.",
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"content": "Yeah. Like, what if there’s a million Elon Musks?",
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"content": "Well, that would be very, very weird.",
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"content": "What are they going to burn?",
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"content": "Nothing. Ultrahigh pressure compressed air.",
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"content": "Whoa. Just air?",
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"content": "Just cold gas thrusters.",
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"content": "It’s confusing. It really is. The instant torque and just the sheer acceleration is baffling.",
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"content": "They’ve never felt it. It’s faster than falling.",
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"content": "It’s crazy. It’s so fast. It’s a roller coaster. And my family yells at me when I stomp the gas. Like I tell my kids, I’m like, “You want to feel it? You want to feel it?” they’re like, “Do it, do it, do it.” my wife’s like, “Don’t do it.” Boom. And even if I just do it on the highway for a couple of seconds, it’s very exciting.",
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"content": "Yeah, pretty fun.",
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"content": "If they do, that’s kind of on them.",
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"content": "Yeah. National spy agencies do not give a rat’s ass which porn you watch. They do not care. So, like, what secrets does a national spy agency have to learn from the average citizen? Nothing.",
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"content": "Well, that’s the argument against the narrative. And the argument by a lot of these tech people is that the real concern is that these companies, like Huawei, are innovating at a radical pace, and they’re trying to stop them from integrating into our culture and letting this… Like right now, they’re the number two cell phone manufacturer in the world.Samsung is number one. Huawei is number two. Apple is now number three. They surpassed Apple as number two. And the idea is that this is all taking place without them having any foothold whatsoever in America. There are no carriers that have their phones. You have to buy their phones unlocked through some sort of a third party, and then put-",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "They won’t let you.",
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"content": "No. In fact, they wouldn’t even let us take the W off the sign.",
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"content": "So how were you going to do that?",
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"content": "We were quite-",
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"content": "Earth is pretty good, and also, we should clarify, in the solar system.",
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"content": "Yes. In the solar system.",
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"content": "There might be nice like vacation spots.",
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"content": "There might be some great planets out there. But it’s hopeless…",
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"content": "For sure, yeah.",
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"content": "They would crash into somebody.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "And, in fact, the thing that really, you know, got me to — It’s like, „Man, we better get autopilot going and get it out there.“ A guy was in an early Tesla driving down the highway, and he fell asleep, and he ran over a cyclist and killed him. I was like, „Man, if we had autopilot, he might have fallen asleep, but, at least, he wouldn’t run over that cyclist.“",
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"content": "Gonna get it done. Can you then zoom back into specific problems with Starship or any engineering problems you work on? Can you try to introspect your particular biological neural network, your thinking process and describe how you think through problems, the different engineering and design problems? Is there like a systematic process? You’ve spoken about first principles thinking, but is there a kind of process to it?",
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"content": "Well, you know, I like saying, physics is law, and everything else is a recommendation. I’ve met a lot of people that can break the law, but I have never met anyone who could break physics. So first, for any kind of technology problem, you have sort of just make sure you’re not violating physics.\nFirst-principles analysis, I think, is something that can be applied to really any walk of life, anything really. It’s really just saying let’s boil something down to the most fundamental principles, the things that we are most confident are true at a foundational level, and that sets your axiomatic base, and then you reason up from there. And then you cross-check your conclusion against the axiomatic truth. Some basics in physics would be like, are you violating conservation of energy or momentum or something like that? Then it’s not going to work. That’s just to establish, is it possible? Another good physics tool is thinking about things in the limit. If you take a particular thing, and you scale it to a very large number or to a very small number, how does things change?",
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"content": "Both in number of things you manufacture, something like that, and then in time?",
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"content": "Yeah, let’s say, take an example of manufacturing, which I think is just a very underrated problem. And like I said, it’s much harder to take an advanced technology part and bring it into volume manufacturing than it is to design it in the first place. More is magnitude. Let’s say you’re trying to figure out, why is this part or product expensive? Is it because of something fundamentally foolish that we’re doing? Or is it because our volume is too low? And so then you say, okay, well, what if our volume was a million units a year? Is it still expensive? That’s what I mean with thinking about things in the limit. If it’s still expensive at a million units a year, then volume is not the reason why your thing is expensive. There’s something fundamental about the design.",
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"content": "I’m literally asking you about, you changed the labels, the COVID misinformation labels. There used to be a policy, and then it disappeared. Why do that?",
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"content": "Well, COVID is no longer an issue. Does the BBC hold itself at all responsible for misinformation regarding masking and side effects of vaccinations and not reporting on that at all? And what about the fact that the BBC was put under pressure by the British government to change its editorial policy? Are you aware of that?",
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"content": "This is not an in scoop about the BBC.",
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"content": "Oh, you thought it wasn’t?",
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"content": "Let’s try it.",
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"content": "It sounds a little concerning.",
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"content": "But why?",
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"content": "It’s like running the engine with no resistance. That is-",
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"content": "Okay, I understand that, but that’s a hypothetical. That doesn’t mean it’s happening.",
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"content": "I didn’t say it’s happening.",
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"content": "You didn’t say it was happening.",
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"content": "I said it will. I said if we lower standards, people will die.",
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"content": "His rant yesterday, or today, on Twitter did more than every cable news monologue, something like that. Is that right?",
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"content": "Well, Twitter has a tremendous audience. So there’s 250 million people that spend an average of half an hour a day on Twitter. So it’s about 120 to 130 million user hours per day, and it’s been increasing. We didn’t do anything. To be clear, we did nothing special whatsoever. I learned about it afterwards that he had posted something on Twitter. It’s just that Twitter has a lot of people’s attention. And it tends to be the people that read a lot or are interested in current events and generally are pretty influential.",
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"content": "But most of the people who tweet are the same people, right? I mean, the people who actually tweet. It’s mostly just reading it. I’ve read this many times. It’s a very, very small percentage of the people on Twitter. See, here’s why I don’t tweet anymore, because you may be the mayor of Tweet Town now.",
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"content": "“I’m the Mayor of Tweet Town.” I’m getting a cap with that.",
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"content": "If you look at the history of the medical industry, especially when it comes to Black Americans, it shows the exact opposite. If you look at the Tuskegee experiment and on and on, only 5% of doctors in America are black, all of them are white. So are you saying that if the majority of doctors are white, are you saying that… And there are still these inequities, right? And there’s still mistakes. Are you blaming DEI for that?",
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"content": "No, I’m very basically saying that if we lower standards for what it takes to become a board certified surgeon or an oncologist or something where the kind of disease we’re talking about, if you make a mistake causes someone to die, then more people will die than if we don’t lower the standards. Therefore, we should not lower the standards.",
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"content": "But why do you think they’re lowering the standards for minority doctors or women doctors or…",
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"content": "That’s what that article suggested? Yes, at Duke University.",
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"content": "What do you think of Sam Altman?",
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"content": "I have mixed feelings about Sam. The ring of power can corrupt, and he has the ring of power. So I don’t know. I think I want to know why Ilya felt so strongly as to fire Sam. This sounds like a serious thing. I don’t think it was trivial. And I’m quite concerned that there’s some dangerous element of AI that they’ve created.",
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"content": "Discovered.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "We need to chop down all the coconut trees.",
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"content": "Stop water.",
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"content": "Coconuts kill 150 people every year. Cut down all the coconut trees. We need those people. It’s, at a certain point in time, it’s… Yeah, we’re vulnerable, and also, we have a finite existence no matter what.",
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"content": "We do. Nobody lives forever.",
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"content": "I know, that’s why I thought…",
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"content": "I just got a new phone, so I think this is not accurate. It’s one minute. Pretty sure it’s more than that. Wait, it’s over the week. There we go.",
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"content": "Yeah, go to the week.",
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"content": "Okay, so it’s still wrong. It’s more than four minutes. I just got a new phone, so this is not accurate. It literally says four minutes.",
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"content": "What do you like to do exercise-wise?",
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"content": "To be totally frank, I wouldn’t exercise at all if I could. I prefer not to exercise, but if I’m going to exercise, I’ll lift some weights and then kind of run on a treadmill and maybe watch a show if there’s a compelling show that pulls you in.",
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"content": "Right. Yeah. That’s a good thing to do. Watch a good movie or episode of\nBlack Mirror\nor something like that, it’s great.",
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"content": "Man, don’t watch Black Mirror before going to bed either.",
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"content": "Like when you were little, you thought this?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Wow. Well, you thought, „This is so radically different than the people that are around me. If they find out, I got this stream coming in.“",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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