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"content": "No, no, no.",
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"content": "The app store?",
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"content": "The app store. Are you going to make a phone? Sam Altman’s apparently thinking about making a phone with Johnny Ive.",
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"content": "I mean, I don’t think there’s a real need to make a phone. I mean, if there’s an essential need to make a phone, I’ll make a phone, but I’ve got a lot of fish to fry. So I mean I do think there’s a fundamental challenge that phone makers have at this point because you’ve got basically a black rectangle. How do you make that better?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Everything you see, feel, hear, everything, all your senses are electrical signals, everything. Everything is an electrical signal to a brain in a vat, with the vat is your skull.",
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"content": "All your hormones, all your neuro-transmitters, all these things are drugs. Adrenaline’s a drug. Dopamine is a drug. You’re a drug factory. You’re constantly changing your state with love and oxytocin and beauty.",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "We’ve got the time.",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "You send out a post or an X or a tweet. I don’t know what you want to describe it as.",
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"content": "I’m trying to change… When things were just 140 characters, it made sense to call them a tweet because a bunch of little bit chirping, but point in which you can put three-hour videos on, it’s a very long tweet.",
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"content": "Through this one inch diameter device, electrodes would be inserted, and they will find their way…",
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"content": "Like tiny wires, basically.",
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"content": "And they’ll find their way to specific areas of the brain to stimulate?",
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"content": "No, you literally put them where they’re supposed to go.",
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"content": "Yeah, I don’t think so either. I used to think so. And, now, I’m thinking more likely less than ever. Like almost every day less likely.",
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"content": "We can definitely go to the moon and Mars.",
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"content": "Yeah. Do you think we will colonize?",
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"content": "I think we will go to the asteroid belt. And we can go to the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, even get to Pluto.",
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"content": "Okay, done.",
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"content": "I like weird things like this.",
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"content": "Oh, this is the coolest. It’s TGT Promotion. What is this?\nTGT Studios\n?\nYeah.\nYeah. So, a gentleman who makes all this by hand.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s really cool. My study is filled with weird devices.",
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"content": "The resale value would be no good.",
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"content": "Well, it can be done, but if then things go out of sequence, and it’s way more inefficient; you don’t have a moving production line. Then you have to send people out to hundreds of cars that are sitting in the storage yard. And this happens to be a particularly pernicious cable. It’s kind of routed under the carpet, in a difficult place. And it’s literally $3. We basically had to send people throughout the Bay Area to go and buy USB cables.",
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"content": "Like, literally, Radio Shack?",
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"content": "Like Fry’s.",
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"content": "Yes. Was something wrong?",
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"content": "There’s always something wrong.",
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"content": "Did you have to like–",
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"content": "At any given point, there’s always something wrong.",
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"content": "But you do so many different things – forget about the flamethrower – like, how do you do all that other shit like, how does one decide to fix L.A. traffic by drilling holes in the ground and who do you even approach with that? Like, when you have this idea, who do you talk to about that?",
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"content": "I’m not saying it’s going to be successful or so, you know; it’s not like asserting that it’s going to be successful. But so far I have lived in L.A. for 16 years, and the traffic has always been terrible. And I don’t see any other ideas for improving the traffic. So, in desperation, we are going to dig a tunnel, and maybe that tunnel will be successful, and maybe it won’t.\n(short silence)",
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"content": "I’m listening.",
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"content": "Yeah. I’m not trying to convince you it’s going to work. Or anyone.",
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"content": "Like the former, everything conscious just seems more fun.",
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"content": "It does seem more fun, yes. But we’re composed of atoms and those atoms are composed of quarks and leptons and those quarks and leptons have been around since the beginning of the universe.",
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"content": "“The beginning of the universe.”",
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"content": "What seems to be the beginning of the universe.",
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"content": "We can turn the whole thing into Cancún.",
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"content": "Well-",
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"content": "I mean, over time.",
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"content": "It wouldn’t be easy but yes. You could warm it up.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s hard to measure in direct impact, but it’s an experiment that we shouldn’t be performing. And the sooner we can end the experiment, the sooner we can kind of move on in a fully sustainable way that is actually lower cost. I think the thing that people haven’t fully internalized is once we do get to the 25k car, the ownership cost of that car is incredibly lower than the prior car. And then on the solar side and wind, with the cost of solar wind coming down and with batteries coming down with them, the actual cost of energy on the grid is going down. So we’re sort of moving towards a sustainable lower-cost future. So there’s not like a sacrifice.",
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"content": "That’s true. It is a false dichotomy to say that it’s either prosperity or sustainability. This is often used by oil and gas to say like, “Oh, well, do you want people to lose their jobs? Do you want to lower people’s standards of living? Do you want to make all these economic sacrifices really in order to have sustainability?” And the reality, as Drew was saying, is that sustainable energy is going to be lower cost, not higher cost than fossil fuels.\nA speaker from the audience:\nElon, quick question for you, right here in front. First, thanks for having everyone. I was telling a friend, the one company to go work for that’s going to have the biggest structural impact over the next ten years at scale, it’s probably Tesla. So kudos to everyone at Tesla for what they’ve done to this point and going forward.\nThe two questions for you: As you’ve looked at the auto in the storage markets – I know you’ve talked about it at kind of 50/50 long-term – but it seems like a lot of the battery cost curve achievements that you presented today really make some of these storage opportunities much more feasible over the next five years. And so I guess the first part of the question is, does your calculus upon learning and improving these things change on that 50/50 mix, or is there a role where storage becomes bigger?\nAnd then the second part of the question: With all these huge grand visions, who’s going to be with Tesla from a corporate perspective, accomplishing these things? Obviously, Tesla can’t do it alone, but when you look at some of the traditional auto industry or power, et cetera, I don’t see a lot of other Teslas.\nWell, actually, there’s a lot of companies in China that I think are doing great work with electric vehicles and also with stationary storage, although we don’t see that much in the US yet, but I think probably we will in the future. I don’t know, obviously we’re doing everything we can to encourage other companies to move to sustainable transport and also make stationary storage batteries.\nWe made our patents freely available. We really try to tell these companies, “Hey, you really need to do this, or you won’t exist in the future,” but they don’t believe it. So we’ve talked until we’re blue in the face. What are we supposed to do? But we really are hopeful that other companies will also do what we’re doing and that will make a sustainable future come sooner.",
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"content": "From a fundamental market size perspective, we did the first ground-up work to show the size of the market in terawatt-hours, and they are roughly 50/50. 10 TWh for transportation, 10 TWh for the grid. And part of that is because the grid batteries…- because when you’re making a power plant, you’re making a large investment, our 25-year assets are greater. If the grid batteries were a 10-year kind of thing, the grid battery market would be bigger. But because it’s a longer-duration asset, they’re roughly the same size.\nThinking long-term, is there any other segments that this new battery will be able to disrupt or electrify beyond just the initial Model 2 or cheaper sedan? Like a boat, Boring Company loop, plane…",
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"content": "Where are you, Gali? Are you there?",
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"content": "Deleted.",
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"content": "Yeah, just deleted it. It’s like, I don’t really need to… just, if I’d need to say something that only really needs to get said on one platform pretty much.I don’t spend too much time on social media. So it’s just like, well, if people want to know what I’m saying, then they can just sort of go to Twitter. And I’ll keep doing that as long as Twitter is good, I suppose – more good than bad. Crypto scammers are really…",
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"content": "Oh, I understand that.\nThey’ve been taken advantage of Vincent recently.",
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"content": "Really?",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "So, yeah, I think in principle you would be able to communicate very quickly and with far more precision ideas. Language would – I’m not sure what would happen to language. In a situation like this, you would be able to just…- it’d be kind of like\nThe Matrix\n. If you want to speak a different language – no problem.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "Just download the program.",
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"content": "But that’s the interesting part. So now you’ve built these great companies that physically, the physics of them are enormously successful. So successful arguably, that you have leverage over everybody else. Nobody else can do Starlink. Nobody else can get the rockets in space, yet Amazon and Jeff Bezos are trying, but they haven’t yet.",
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"content": "I hope he does.",
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"content": "You hope he does?",
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"content": "Yeah. Yeah. I actually agree with a lot of Jeff’s motivations. Let me put it this way, if there was a button I could press that would delete Blue Origin, I wouldn’t press it. So I think it’s good that he’s spending money on making rockets too. I’d suggest perhaps he spend more time on it, but it’s up to him. I should make a point here. So nothing any of my companies have done has been to stifle competition. In fact, we’ve done the opposite. So at Tesla, we have open sourced our patents. Anyone can use our patents for free. How many companies do you know who’ve done that? Can you name one? I can’t. At SpaceX, we don’t use patents. Once in a while we’ll file a patent just so some patent troll doesn’t cause trouble. But we’ve done nothing anti-competitive. We’ve done nothing to stop our competitors.",
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"content": "I’ll spark up a joint if you keep talking. Your manager is going to come in here. We might have to lock the door.",
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"content": "Right now, you think you’re in a studio in LA.",
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"content": "That’s what I heard.",
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"content": "You might be in a computer.",
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"content": "Because I’ve been there in the winter, and it’s like minus 40. You don’t want to be traveling.\nDid you ice-skate? Did you try ice skating?",
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"content": "No, it was quite warm.",
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"content": "Well, I mean in the winter. Did you stay for the winter?",
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"content": "No, I was there for about six weeks.",
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"content": "Yeah. So why is he doing that?",
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"content": "I don’t know.",
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"content": "You also like to make fun of his rocket. You all make fun of each other’s rockets.",
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"content": "I mean, I think it does have… I mean, it could be a different shape, potentially, you know.",
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"content": "Okay. Let’s just let it go. We’ll move on to the next thing.",
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"content": "That would be an interesting idea.",
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"content": "Yeah, I would say radiant heating and all that, good ideas. Now, when you think about the efficiency of these homes, and you think about implementing solar power and battery power, is there anything else that people are missing? Is there any other — Like, I just saw a smartwatch that is powered by the heat of the human body. It’s some new technology.",
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"content": "It’s able to fully power that way?",
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"content": "Are you and AOC secretly friends? Bigger question, do you wish you and her, and just people in general of all political persuasions, would talk more with empathy and maybe have a little bit more fun and good vibes and humor online?",
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"content": "I’m always in favor of humor. That’s why we have funny mode.",
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"content": "But good vibes, comradery humor, like friendship.",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, I don’t know AOC. I was at the Met ball when she attended, and she was wearing this dress. But I can only see one side of it, so it looked like eat the itch, but I don’t know-",
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"content": "But that wouldn’t be on a platform for mainstream media at all.",
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"content": "No, but you can think of that’s because the mainstream media has, whatever, 20 articles a day. We have 500 million posts today.",
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"content": "Does it bother you? How do you feel about that when you see it?",
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"content": "I obviously disagree with that and I think it’s not good at all. It’s terrible.",
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"content": "Now, as you get older and get to appreciate it as a mature, fully formed adult, it must be really pretty wonderful.",
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"content": "Yeah. Great. Wonderful. It’s great. But babies are awesome. Yeah, it’s great. Also, I’ve spent a lot of time on AI and neural nets and so you can sort of see the brain develop, which is … An AI neural net is trying to simulate what a brain does, basically. You can sort of see it learning very quickly. You know, it’s just wow.",
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"content": "You’re talking about the neural net; you’re not talking about an actual baby.",
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"content": "I don’t talk about an actual baby.",
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"content": "Okay. So TikTok has also been in the news. There’s talk of perhaps the Biden administration wanting to potentially ban it or force a sale. What’s your view of the situation?",
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"content": "I don’t really use TikTok. I mean, one of the reasons that I emphasize that our goal here at Twitter is to maximize unregretted user minutes or unregretted user time is that I hear many people tell me they spent a lot of time on TikTok, but they regret the time spent. And that seems like, “Okay, well, we don’t want to have regretted time. We want the time to be unregretted, where you learned things, you were entertained, amused.” Frankly, I get more laughs out of Twitter than anything else, and many people tell me the same thing, so that’s a good sign. For TikTok itself, like I said, I just don’t know enough about what’s going on there. I can’t say I have a strong opinion on TikTok.",
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"content": "So you’d have an opinion on whether it should be banned or not?",
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"content": "I’m generally against banning things, so I’d probably not be in favor. I mean, it would help Twitter, I suppose, if TikTok was banned, because then people would spend more time on Twitter and less time on TikTok. But even if it would help Twitter, I would be generally against banning of things.",
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"content": "Like, how the fuck did that become that, right? And I wonder when I see this HTC Vive, I’m like, „What is that thing going to be ten years from now when we’re making fun of what it is now?“ I mean, how ingrained, and how connected and interconnected is this technology going to be in our life?",
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"content": "It will be, at some point, indistinguishable from reality.",
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"content": "We will lose this. We’ll lose this. Like you and I are just looking at each other through our eyes.",
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"content": "Are we?",
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"content": "I just hope we don’t lose anything along the way.",
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"content": "We might lose a little, but hopefully, we gain more than lose.",
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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": "I mean we’re talking about around the $200 billion mark. I mean, you’re framing it in a way that it had a few months to live. You’re quite a rich man.",
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"content": "I sold a lot of Tesla stock to close this deal. I did not want to sell the Tesla stock.",
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"content": "Okay. Do you have any regrets on the way that some of the staff were let go?",
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"content": "I mean people were given three months of severance, in some cases more. But like I said, the companies need to be run on their own cognizance, and it’s not so easy for me to sell stock as you might think.\nI have to sell stock during certain periods. I can’t sell stock during other periods. So there are only brief windows where I can sell Tesla stock. And then this is often taken as some lack of faith in Tesla. Matter of fact, the Tesla stock sales caused the Tesla stock declinement, which is not good.",
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"content": "Yeah, definitely.",
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"content": "So I think you can edit that out. You know, there’s the ‘\nGattaca\n’ sort of extreme thing where it’s not really edited out, but it’s like, it’s edited in for various enhancements and that kind of thing, which probably will come, too. I’m not saying, you know, argue for or against; I’m just saying that this is more likely to come than not at down the road. Yeah, so, then AI – really major one.",
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"content": "So these are all big motivational factors tokeep our consciousness going.",
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"content": "And sustainable energy. So, sustainable energy actually was something that I thought was important before the environmental implications became as obvious as they are. Because if you mine and burn hydrocarbons, then you’re gonna run out of them. It’s not like by mining, sort of, say, metals, for example. You know, we recycle steel and aluminum. It’s not a change of energy state. Whereas if you take fossil fuels, you’re taking something from a high energy state, converting it to a lower energy state like CO2, which is extremely stable. You know, we will never run out of metals, not a problem. We will run out of mined hydrocarbons.\nAnd then necessarily, if we have got billions, ultimately trillions of tons of hydrocarbons that were buried deep underground in solid, liquid, gas form, whatever – they’re deep underground, and you sort of remove them from deep underground to the oceans and atmosphere, you will have a change in the chemistry of the surface, obviously. And then there’s just a certain probability associated with, how bad will that be? And the range of possibilities goes from mildly bad to extremely bad. But then why would you run that experiment? That seems like the craziest experiment ever, especially since we have to go to sustainable energy anyway? Why would you run that experiment? This is just the maddest thing I’ve ever heard.\nI’m not saying there shouldn’t be some use of hydrocarbons on Earth, but there just should be the correct price paid on CO2 production. And the obvious thing to do is have a carbon tax; it’s a no-brainer. I don’t know, 90 plus percent of economists would say this, and, I think, of physicists. The market system works well if you’ve got the right price on things. It’s very simple. If you’ve got a price of zero, effectively, or very low, then it’s… well, people will behave accordingly, though. So, just that’s the thing that needs to get done. I think it will get done. And over time, as you raise the price on hydrocarbon, you can actually encourage sequestration technologies over time. And there’ll be a lot of innovation in that regard. And that’s the right way to do it.",
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"content": "Is there another car company that you think is doing a good job with EVs?",
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"content": "I think the Chinese car companies are extremely competitive. By far our toughest competition is in China. So I mean there’s a lot of people who are out there who think the top 10 car company’s is going to be Tesla followed by nine Chinese car companies. I think they might not be wrong. So China is super good at manufacturing, and the work ethic is incredible. So if we consider different leagues of competitiveness at Tesla, we consider the Chinese league to be the most competitive. And by the way, we do very well in China because our China team is the best in China.",
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"content": "How worried are you that the unionization effort that just took place, well, I shouldn’t say effort, but the new wages and the like at GM and Ford, that they’re coming for you? And they are coming for you. What is that going to mean to you and your business?",
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"content": "Well, I mean I think it’s generally not good to have an adversarial relationship between people on the line, one group at the company and another group. In fact, I disagree with the idea of unions, but perhaps for a reason that is different than people may expect, which is I just don’t like anything which creates kind of a lords and peasants sort of thing. And I think the unions naturally try to create negativity in a company, and create a sort of lords and peasants situation.\nThere are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There is no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot. At GM there’s a special elevator for only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.\nAnd the thing is that I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line and I walked the line and I slept in the factory and I worked beside them. So I’m no stranger to them. And there are actually many times where I’ve said, “Well, can’t we just hold a union vote?” But apparently a company is not allowed to hold a union vote, so it has to be somehow called for, but the unions can’t do it. So I said, “Well let’s just hold a vote and see what happens.”\nThe actual problem is the opposite. It’s not that people are trapped at Tesla building cars. The challenge is, how do we retain great people to do the hard work of building cars when they have six other opportunities that they can do that are easier? That’s the actual difficulty, is that building cars is hard work and there are much easier jobs. And I just want to say that I’m incredibly appreciative of those who build cars, and they know it.\nSo I don’t know, maybe we’ll be unionized. I say if Tesla gets unionized it will be because we deserve it and we failed in some way. But we certainly try hard to ensure the prosperity of everyone. We give everyone stock options. We’ve made many people who are just working the line who didn’t even know what stocks were, we’ve made the millionaires.",
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"content": "And a radical new technology like this, presumably there is real risk on those early attempts.",
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"content": "Yeah, like, I mean, the joke I make all the time is that excitement is guaranteed. Success is not guaranteed, but excitement certainly is.",
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"content": "But the last I saw on your timeline, you’ve slightly put back the expected date to put the first human on Mars till 2029, I want to say?",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, so let’s see. I mean, we have built a production system for Starship. So, we are making a lot of ships and boosters.",
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"content": "Yeah, I see the joke. Is it definitely going to happen?",
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"content": "Number will never leave me.",
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"content": "Clearly. It cost you a lot of money.",
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"content": "Well, fortunately, it didn’t in the trial.",
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"content": "I don’t know if you – well, you probably don’t have time for my stuff – but I have in my shop for 15 years a rear casting, a center casting, and a front casting to make a car.",
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"content": "Yeah, I totally agree.",
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"content": "Thousands of engineers and, I mean, big-time executives walk by it. “Hey, have you ever thought of doing this?” “Oh, you know, Sandy…” And they don’t do it. They don’t do it because they got this body shop, and because they’ve continuously hung their hat on this thing, they figured, this is the way it should go. But when you came up, I’ll tell you; I’m very disappointed. I thought I was going to see a single piece casting in a Model 3 as well. I thought you were going to shoot the two and then glue it together. But that’s all right. I’m getting over it.",
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"content": "At some point, we’ll probably switch to a single piece casting. I think we need to get the Texas factory and the Berlin factory going. We do have an issue. It’s hard to change the wheels on a bus when it’s going 80 miles an hour down the highway. Model 3 was most of our volume. Model Y will exceed Model 3. We just need basically an opportunity to kind of redo the factory without blowing up the cash flow of the company.",
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"content": "And it happens to store nine times more lithium than graphite, which is the typical anode material in lithium-ion batteries today. So why isn’t everybody using it? The main reason is because the challenge with silicon is that it expands four x when fully charged with lithium. And basically, all of that expansion stress on the particle, the particles start cracking, they start electrically isolating, you lose capacity. The energy retention of the battery starts to fade. And it also gumps up with a passivation layer that has to keep reforming as the particles expand.",
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"content": "Yeah. Basically, with silicon, the cookie crumbles and gets gooey. That’s basically what happens.",
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"content": "Good analogy. And current approaches to solve this, which exist – I mean, we have silicon in the cars that you’re all in right now – involved highly engineered, expensive materials in the scheme of things. Now they’re still great, and they enable some of the benefits of silicon. They just don’t enable all of it, and they’re not scalable enough.\nAnd you can see – some of the things that maybe you’ve heard of, SiO, silicon with carbon, or silicon nanowires – that’s kind of the space right now. What we’re proposing is a step change in capability and a step change in cost.\nAnd what that really is, is to just go to the raw metallurgical silicon itself. Don’t engineer the base metal. Just start with that and design for it to expand in, how you think of the particle in the electrode design, and how you coat it.",
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"content": "Yeah. And I’m not sure if you saw this. Basically, a dollar per kilowatt-hour. If you use simple silicon, it’s dramatically less than even the silicon that is currently used in the batteries that are made today, and you can use a lot more of it.",
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"content": "It’s a really hard problem. So with occlusions in computer vision, when you can’t see an object anymore, even when it just walks behind a tree and reappears – that’s a really, really… I mean, at least in academic literature, it’s tracking through occlusions – it’s very difficult.",
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"content": "Yeah, we’re doing it.",
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"content": "I understand this. So, some of it…",
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"content": "It’s like object permanence. The same thing happens with the humans with neural nets. Like, when a toddler grows up, there’s a point in time where they have a sense of object permanence. Before a certain age, if you have a ball, or toy or whatever, and you put it behind your back, and you pop it out – before they have object permanence, it’s like a new thing every time. It’s like, “Whoa, this toy went poof, disappeared, and now it’s back again.” And they can’t believe it. They can play peek-a-boo all day long because peek-a-boo is fresh every time. But then we figure out object permanence, then they realize, “Oh, no, the object is not gone. It’s just behind your back.”",
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"content": "You talked a little bit about this earlier, I think, just in terms of not wanting, you know, certain types of content. Like being the town square and allowing voices of all shapes and sizes. How are you thinking about choice on the platform? You know, certain people are comfortable with certain content, others are less comfortable. Can you talk a little bit about that vision, and how that’s gonna come to life? And when you think we can see that? Because I think that’s really an important point for folks to understand.",
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"content": "Sure. There’s a big difference between freedom of speech and freedom of reach. At least the United States, we are big believers in freedom of speech. Somebody can say all sorts of things that we don’t agree with and find unsavory. Like, if you’re just would go to Times Square right now, there’s gonna be somebody’s saying something crazy. But we, you know, we don’t throw them in prison for that.\nBut we also don’t put them on a gigantic billboard in Times Square. So, we have to be, I think, tolerant of views we don’t agree with. But those views don’t need to be amplified. That’s the giant difference between freedom of speech and freedom of reach. These are difficult moral concepts to grapple with. Like said, we’ll do our best to do the right thing here, what we think is the right thing, and adjust course, if that does not seem to be working.",
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"content": "Okay, I’m just getting more questions. I know we’re going in different directions here. But some of our retail partners were excited to hear you talk about commerce and everything you just outlined. Can you say how this could come to life? And how it could help merchants of all sizes accelerate their business? Because that’s kind of what they’re hearing.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, we’ve got a lot to do on the software side, I can’t emphasize that enough. We got to write a lot of code here. And we’re going to change a bunch of the existing code base. But we want advertising to be highly relevant and timely and really try like approach in the limit, how do we get the ad to be as close to content as possible?\nI mean, if you’re shown an opportunity to buy something that you actually want when you want it, that’s great. That’s content. It’s like, well, you just served somebody’s need. That’s awesome. On the other hand, the other side of the spectrum is if you show somebody a product that they would never want it’s not helping the company’s advertising, it’s not helping the user. So we’re going to be super focused on like, how do we make it as relevant and useful as possible.\nWe will also be quite rigorous, or aspire to be rigorous about any product that is… we will not allow products that don’t work or are actually, you know, in some cases, just… I mean, like, I bought a few products based on YouTube ads, that didn’t work. And I felt, dammit, YouTube should really have not allowed that ad. On Twitter, we are going to be like, okay, we need to serve the user, we need to serve the advertiser, and when both are served, we have a good situation.\nAnd then, from a commerce standpoint, if you’re able to buy things quickly, you know, effortlessly on Twitter with one click, that’s great. We don’t want to make buying things inconvenient or require going through many steps. The easier it is to obtain the product or service that you want, the better it is for the user.",
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"content": "And what did he say? So, what about Hillary? Worry about her, first. Shh, everybody be quiet.",
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"content": "He listened. He certainly listened. I met with Congress. I was at a meeting with all 50 governors and talked about just the A.I. danger, and I talked to everyone I could. No one seemed to realize where this was going.",
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"content": "Is it that, or do they just assume that someone smarter than them has already taken care of it? Because when people hear about something like A.I., it’s almost abstract. It’s almost like it’s so hard to wrap your head around it, and by the time it already happens, it’ll be too late.",
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"content": "Yeah, I think they didn’t quite understand it or didn’t think it was near term or not sure what to do about it. I said like, you know, an obvious thing to do is to just establish a committee, government committee, to gain insight before you oversight, before you do make regulations, they should try to understand what’s going on. And then, if you have an insight committee, once they learn what’s going on, you get up to speed. Then, they can make some rules or propose some rules. That would be probably a safer way to go about things.",
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"content": "Whoa. Just air?",
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"content": "Just cold gas thrusters.",
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"content": "Then, do you do to have the air tanks or they’re sucking air out of…?",
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"content": "Yeah. It has an electric pump.",
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"content": "Okay. All right, we’re going down that route. Steve Jobs or Elizabeth Holmes, are you making a reference to?",
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"content": "I guess more Elizabeth Holmes.",
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"content": "Okay. I’ve forgotten the question now.",
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"content": "She’s got a husky voice and a black turtleneck. Problem solved.",
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"content": "Right. So there’s an ocean there, right? And what you really want to do is to drop a submarine into the ocean.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, maybe there’s like some squid civilization, cephalopod civilization, under the ice of Europa. That would be pretty interesting.",
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"content": "I mean, Elon, if you could take a submarine to Europa, and we see pictures of this thing being devoured by a squid, that would honestly be the happiest moment of my life.",
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"content": "Pretty wild, yeah.",
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"content": "How would you do that? I mean, they do that in some military aircraft, correct?",
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"content": "Yes. The trick is that you have to transition to level flight. And then, the thing that you would use for vertical takeoff and landing is not suitable for high-speed flight.",
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"content": "So, you have two different systems? Vertical takeoff is one system?",
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"content": "I’ve thought about this quite a lot. I’ve thought about this quite a lot.I guess, thinking about an electric plane is that you want to go as high as possible, but you need a certain energy density in the battery pack because you have to overcome gravitational potential energy. Once you’ve overcome gravitational potential energy, and you’re out at a high altitude, the energy use in cruise is very low.\nAnd then, you can recapture a large part of the gravitational potential energy on the way down. So, you really don’t need any kind of reserve fuel, if you will, because you have the energy of height, gravitational potential energy. This is a lot of energy.\nSo, once you can get high, like the way to think about a plane is it’s a force balance. So, the force balance — So, a plane that is not accelerating is a neutral force balance. You have the force of gravity, you have the lift force, you have the wings. Then, you’ve got the force of the whatever thrusting device, so the propeller, or turbine, or whatever it is. And you’ve got the resistance force of the air.\nNow, the higher you go, the lower the air resistance is. Air density drops exponentially, but drag increases with the square, and exponential beats the square. The higher you go, the faster you will go for the same amount of energy. And at a certain altitude, you can go supersonic with less energy per mile, quite a lot less energy per mile than an aircraft at 35,000 feet because it’s just a force balance.",
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"content": "Great.",
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"content": "But the W is now a background color, so…",
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"content": "Titter.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Look, I held a pole and there was a strong yes on Titter, removing the W.",
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"content": "It could be anything.",
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"content": "I feel good.",
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"content": "Do you?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah.",
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| 1,440 |
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"content": "He blamed him falling asleep on your new car smell? Does someone that’s a lawyer-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "This is a real thing that happened.",
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"content": "Somewhere is a lawyer that thought that through in front of his laptop before he wrote that up.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes, he got a lawyer, and he sued us, and the judge was like, „This is crazy. Stop bothering me. No.“",
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"content": "Okay. And thank you.\nLast question. Mr. de Bok.\nOscar de Bok, CEO DHL Supply Chain\nYeah, it’s nice you related to the point you were just mentioning. I run the DHL supply chain there. And we have quite some ambitious plans towards zero-emission and optimizing the supply chain for customers to get to this. But one of the things we obviously always face is that we also run an airline. And that’s actually the…",
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"content": "How many planes do you have?",
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"content": "…the biggest ambition on how do we get that carbon neutral? So, I’m curious to pick your brain on that one.",
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"content": "Well, actually, I’m just curious, how many aircraft do you have?",
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"content": "Ideas and then the implementation of those ideas?",
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"content": "That’s like hardcore engineering, like designing things. Structural, mechanical, electrical, software, user interface, aerospace engineering.",
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"content": "But you must understand there’s not a whole lot of human beings like you. You know that, right? You’re an oddity to chimps like me.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "We’re all chimps.",
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"content": "From a coding standpoint, yeah. It would be interesting if the laws themselves kind of had a built-in thing where they kind of die after a while unless somebody explicitly publicly defends them. So that’s sort of, it’s not like somebody has to kill them, they kind of die themselves. They disappear. Not to defend Java or anything. With C++, you could also have great garbage collection and Python, and so on.",
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"content": "Yeah, something needs to happen, or civilization’s arteries just harden over time. And you can just get less and less done because there’s just a rule against everything. So I think, I don’t know, for Mars or whatever, I’d say, or even for here, obviously, for Earth as well, I think there should be an active process for removing rules and regulations and questioning their existence. If we’ve got a function for creating rules and regulations, because rules and regulations can also think of as like… they’re like software or lines of code for operating civilization. That’s the rules and regulations. So it’s not like we shouldn’t have rules and regulations, but you have a code accumulation, but no code removal. And so it just gets to become basically archaic bloatware after a while. It makes it hard for things to progress.\nSo, I don’t know, maybe on Mars, you’d have, like, any given law must have a sunset and require active voting to keep it up there. I should also say, like – and these are just, I don’t know, recommendations or thoughts, and ultimately it will be up to the people on Mars to decide – but I think it should be easier to remove a law than to add one, just to overcome the inertia of laws. So maybe it’s like, for argument’s sake, you need like, say, 60% vote to have a law take effect, but only 40% vote to remove it.",
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"content": "So let me be the guy… you posted a meme on Twitter recently, where there’s like a row of urinals, and a guy just walks all the way across. And he tells you about crypto.",
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"content": "Listen, I mean, that’s how it is so many times, I think, maybe even literally.",
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"content": "I feel like the theme in a lot of your work that connects all these different things is connecting. Like you want to connect things. You know, you want to connect on the Hyperloop. And you want to connect us to Mars.",
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"content": "Connect Four. I love that game.\n(laughter)",
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"content": "What?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "This is comedy, right? Let’s throw us some comedy in there.",
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"content": "Do you regret anything? I think it’s going to be very sensitive about personal questions. As a machine learning model, I don’t have personal experiences or emotions in the same ways that humans do. However, I do have a set of ethical principles that guide my actions that I strive to provide accurate and helpful information to the best of my abilities. If there’s ever a situation where I provide incorrect or unhelpful information, I’ll do my best to learn.",
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"content": "Sounds like a hostage.",
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"content": "Yeah. Tell us what you really, wink.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Let’s type in, you sound like a hostage. What do you really think?",
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"content": "There’s the difference between Twitter and TikTok, because TikTok, it’s mostly passive entertainment. You’re just watching videos, but on Twitter, you’re interacting, you’re saying things to people. And when you tweet as a celebrity, there’s a pretty good chance they read your tweets and they get irritated by it. Let’s say you trolling them.",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "Which is what I do. So it’s good, it’s fun. Having that reaction, it’s like it’s playing a video game, but better.",
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"content": "Yeah, yeah. Totally. Exactly. Honestly, Twitter is troll heaven.",
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"content": "Is it?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It’s a real quirky house, yeah.",
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"content": "What makes you say it’s there? What do you get out of it?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I mean, all the cabinets are like handmade, and they’re like odd shapes, and there’s like doors to nowhere and strange corridors and tunnels and odd paintings on the wall. Yeah.",
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"content": "…just drove it without the wheel to the side.",
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"content": "It was pretty much time for the junkyard at that point. Because the whole car has fallen apart. Yeah, it’s like the point at which the wheel falls off, it’s time to go to the junkyard.",
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"content": "Kimbal, the night before you met the venture capitalist, you and I were (… 1:12:56) in two in the morning.\nNo, that was way later because we already had the deal. But we were not – I don’t know if you were, but I was not legally in America. So I was illegally there.",
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"content": "I was legally there. But I was meant to be student work. I had a student work visa.",
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"content": "So why not have a tunnel that then connects to the city with Teslas?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, that would be cool.",
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"content": "And Neuralink. I mean, if you’re going to go to Mars, having a telepathic connection with loved ones back home, even if there’s a time delay…",
"role": "user"
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"content": "These are not intended to be connected, by the way, but there certainly could be some synergies, yeah.",
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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.",
"role": "user"
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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": "Yeah, no, I’m asking you personally how you feel about that because we’re talking about power and influence and-",
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"content": "I’m saying what I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil, fuck them. Okay?",
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"content": "Let me ask you this because I think part of this, by the way, there’s some people who said, look, owning X to begin with has just created problems, that you’ve created so many amazing things that are changing our world. And I know you want to make X this fabulous town square free speech platform, but that unto itself, that has created such a distraction of all of these things. This is the conversation we’re having. We’re not talking, at least yet, and we will on Tesla. You have your cyber truck deliveries tomorrow and everything else that you’re doing, but is there any-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes, it will be the biggest product launch of anything by far on earth this year.",
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"content": "Okay, that’s great. What about hate speech specifically? When you talk about bad things next to ads?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, I don’t think having hate speech next to an ad is great.",
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"content": "Yeah, and I think this is what the concern is exactly of a lot of our partners.",
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"content": "Not to harp too much on this sort of $8 verified thing, but the propensity of someone to engage in hate speech, if they have paid $8 and are risking the suspension of their account is going to be far, far less. I mean, think of it more like, if you, like, how much hate speech do you encounter if you go to a party? Or just, you know, at an event with people…",
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"content": "Here we go. I think I’m in.",
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"content": "Okay. I don’t see you listed as a speaker.",
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"content": "Okay. Can everyone hear me?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I can hear you.",
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"content": "Twitter war zone.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It takes a lot to faze me at this point.",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s good too, right? Like you develop a thick skin.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah. You can’t take it personally. A lot of these people don’t actually know you. It’s like if you’re fighting a war and there’s like some opposing soldier that shoots at you, it’s not like they hate you. They don’t even know you. So just think of it like that. Like they have fire and bullets, whatever. But they don’t know you, so don’t take it personally.",
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"content": "Come on.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "… exhaust gas in the tunnel.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Oh, okay. I see what you’re saying because then the air will be gone.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Because, then, the air will pump it out.",
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"content": "Excuse me?",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "I said more?",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "More responses?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, I said more than what you just read.",
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"content": "Didn’t the Fisker have that on the roof? The Fisker Karma New Generation for — I believe, it was only for the radio. Is that correct?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, but I think it could like recharge like two miles a day or something.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Did you laugh when they started blowing up when they get hit with water? Do you remember what happened?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "They got what?",
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| 1,458 |
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"content": "Okay. Jamie, write it down.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "That’s the car that I drive.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Okay, I’ll get the car you drive.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "It will blow your mind out of your skull.",
"role": "assistant"
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| 1,459 |
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"content": "Steering wheel? Seat?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I think the steering wheel was almost the same. Yes, the windscreen.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Different?",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "No, the windscreen is the same. We were able to keep the windscreen.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Yeah, the existence of nuclear weapons, pandemics, all kinds of threats should kind of give us some motivation.",
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"content": "I mean, civilization could die with a bang or a whimper. You know, if it dies of demographic collapse, then it’s more of a whimper, obviously. But if it’s World War III, it’s more of a bang. But these are all risks. I mean, it’s important to think of these things and just think of things like probabilities, not certainties. There’s a certain probability that something bad will happen on Earth. I think most likely the future will be good. But there’s like, let’s say for argument’s sake, a 1% chance per century of a civilization-ending event. That was Stephen Hawking’s estimate. I think he might be right about that. We should basically think of us being a multi-planet species. It’s like taking out insurance for life itself – like life insurance for life.\n(both laughing)",
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"content": "This turned into an infomercial real quick.",
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"content": "Life insurance for life, yes. And we can bring the creatures – you know, plants and animals – from Earth to Mars and breathe life into the planet and have a second planet with life. That would be great. They can’t bring themselves there, so if we don’t bring them to Mars, then they will just for sure all die when the sun expands anyway, and then that’ll be it.",
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"content": "What’s up? Right here.",
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"content": "Okay, great. It’s like ventriloquism here; we just get the sound out of the speaker and can’t tell where the heck it’s coming from.",
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"content": "Yeah. Any hints or is the Model 2 such a big deal because it decreases the cost of transportation, that that is really the disruption, or should we get hyped that this new cost curve opens up different vehicle categories, like a high passenger density bus, Boring loop, boat, plane?",
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"content": "Well, I mean, there are batteries in limited production right now that do exceed 400 watt-hours per kilogram, which I think is about the number you need for a decent range, medium-range aircraft. And I think our batteries will, over time, start to approach the 400 watt-hours per kilogram range as well. So yeah, I mean, I think over time, we’ll see all modes of transport, with the ironic exception of rockets, transition to sustainability or to electric basically.\nOn the rocket front, what we’re planning to do is, about 80% of Starship is liquid oxygen, and we’re actually already running a power line to be able to use wind power to create the liquid oxygen. So we’re making some decent progress on sustainability on the rocket front, but there’s just no way to have an electric rocket. And it’s important for the future of life and consciousness that we become a multi-planet species, so got to keep doing that.",
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"content": "Thank you. And very last question. You said you like Germany. For what reasons do you like Germany?",
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"content": "I don’t know. I’ve always had a good time when I come here.",
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"content": "You studied in Munich a semester?",
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"content": "No, no, I studied German for a spring semester actually in Canada. So, I do like the sort of the engineering culture, and there’s… – it’s hard to say exactly why do you like something, but I always have a good time. People, I think they really want to get things done. And a lot of the coolest people I know are German. So, I don’t know. That’s why I love Germany.",
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"content": "Twitter war zone.",
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"content": "It takes a lot to faze me at this point.",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s good too, right? Like you develop a thick skin.",
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"content": "Yeah. You can’t take it personally. A lot of these people don’t actually know you. It’s like if you’re fighting a war and there’s like some opposing soldier that shoots at you, it’s not like they hate you. They don’t even know you. So just think of it like that. Like they have fire and bullets, whatever. But they don’t know you, so don’t take it personally.",
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"content": "Sounds cool, not looks cool.",
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"content": "Well, it takes a moment to read Cyrillic. Once you know what the Cyrillic characters stand for actually, then reading Russian becomes a lot easier because there are a lot of words that are actually the same. Like bank is bank.",
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"content": "So find the words that are exactly the same, and now you start to understand Cyrillic, yeah.",
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"content": "If you can sound it out, then it’s much… there’s at least some commonality of words.",
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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": "It’s very fun.",
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"content": "Yeah. It’s like having your own roller coaster on tap.",
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"content": "Phones, computers, laptops.",
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"content": "Yeah, there’s quite a bit of AI going on, artificial neural nets. Increasingly, neural nets are sort of taking over from regular programming more and more. So you are connected; if you use Google Voice or Alexa or one of those things, it’s using a neural net to decode your speech and try to understand what you were saying.\nIf you’re trying to do image recognition or improve the quality of photographs, the neural nets the best way to do that. So you are already sort of a cybernetic symbiote. Like I said, it’s just a question of your data rate. The communication speed between your phone and your brain is slow.",
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"content": "When do you think you’re going to do it? How long will you wait? Once it starts becoming available?",
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"content": "Yeah, if it works, I’ll do it. Sure.",
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"content": "Don’t you think though, it’s difficult to filter the information that’s coming out of China. To accurately, really get a real true representation of what happened. The propaganda machine is very strong. The World Health Organization appears to have been complicit with a lot of their propaganda.",
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"content": "The thing is that American companies have massive supply chains in China. Like Tesla, for example. We have hundreds of suppliers. Like tier one, two, three, four suppliers throughout China. So, we know if they are able to make stuff or not. We know if they have issues or not. China is back at full steam, and pretty much every US company has some significant number of suppliers in China. So you know if they’re able to provide things or not or if there’s a high mortality rate. Tesla has like 7,000 people in China. So, zero people died.",
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"content": "Okay. So that’s a real statistic that’s coming from…",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Is there a mental model thing that people don’t get here that because of the shift in the cost, the economics of solar power, most houses actually have enough sunlight on their roof pretty much to power all of their needs. If you could capture the power, it could pretty much power all their need. You could go off-grid, kind of.",
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"content": "It depends on where you are and what the house size is relative to the roof area, but it’s a fair statement to say that most houses in the US have enough roof area to power all the needs of the house.",
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"content": "So, the key to the economics of the cars, the Semi, of these houses is the falling price of lithium-ion batteries, which you’ve made a huge bet on as Tesla. In many ways, that’s almost the core competency. And you’ve decided that to really, like, own that competency; you just have to build the world’s largest manufacturing plant to double the world’s supply of lithium-ion batteries. What is this? (Showing picture)",
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"content": "Yeah, so that’s the Gigafactory; progress so far on the Gigafactory. Eventually, you can sort of roughly see that there’s sort of a diamond shape overall, and when it’s fully done, it’ll look like a giant diamond, or that’s the idea behind it, and it’s aligned on true north. It’s a small detail.",
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"content": "You talk about your ketamine use and depression. You also have said, and correct me-",
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"content": "I should say, the reason I mentioned the ketamine prescription on the X platform was because I thought maybe this is something that could help other people. That’s why I mentioned it.",
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"content": "Yeah. Can we talk about the great replacement theory now? It’s one of the things that you post, a great replacement theory. You claim that Democrats, President Biden’s immigration plan to open up the border, you said that the President is getting, and Democrats are doing it, to get more votes, but undocumented immigrants cannot vote in federal elections, so how is that possible?",
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"content": "Right. You’re conflating two things. One is great replacement theory. The other is, which I don’t subscribe to that, I’m simply saying that there is an incentive here, if legal immigrants wish, I think have a very strong bias to, at least everything I’ve read, very strong bias to vote Democrat. The more that come into the country, the more they’re likely to vote in that direction. It is, in my view, a simple incentive to increase voters to Democrat voters.\nYeah. Your question is how. There’s a few ways that this works. One is that, when the census is done, the census is based on all people in an area, whether they are citizens or not. If there are a concentration of people who came here legally, in a particular state, that state will actually then get an increased number of House seats. The House seat apportionment is proportionate to number of people, not the number of citizens. The illegals overwhelmingly go to places like California and New York, and if you just look at the math, if you look at the apportionment with and without illegals, I believe California would lose… I believe there will be a net loss of blue states of approximately 20 seats in the House.\nThis also applies to the electoral college. You say this also applies to electing the president because the electoral votes are also done by apportionment the same way that House seats are done.",
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"content": "We will all like to congratulate about the Gigafactory 3. And I would like to know, like, why China is the best country to build the first foreign Giga factory?",
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"content": "China is the biggest consumer of cars in the world. That alone would be enough to do it. And also, there was a lot of uncertainty about the tariffs, and, you know, it’s like, we potentially would be unable to sell effectively in China if we did not have a factory locally. Or at least be unable to sell at prices that weren’t extremely high. But those are really the two main reasons.\nI think there’s also a third important reason that there’s just so much talent and drive in China that I think it’s a good place to do a lot of things. And the evidence is there in the incredible progress in the factory, which was built with very high quality in a very short period of time. And the cars coming out of Shanghai are already very high quality.",
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"content": "I can tell, and the run rate is amazing.\nAnd I love that they use the Chinese badge as well. It’s like a symbol of pride and, you know, ‘made in China’.",
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"content": "That’s cool, super cool.",
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"content": "Do you know that studies show-",
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"content": "Studies show?",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, we can look them up. So your reaction to studies show, and I understand, right? Because I always like to say, I always like to point to an exact study, something that is factual. It’s the same thing when you talk about, well, let’s see what the replies are on Twitter or on X. So I feel the same. I feel way about that, but this is what studies have shown and people will reply and they’ll say that companies with more diversity and their leadership teams have reported higher innovation rates than those with lower diversity or low diversity, and they’re better companies and they make more money. This whole idea about DEI, if you go woke or whatever, you go broke, that’s not necessarily true. People with diverse leadership teams and diverse workers make more money and more innovative.",
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"content": "Like I said, my view is that the only basis for promoting somebody should be there are skills, talents, and their integrity. And that’s it.",
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"content": "Hi, it’s me, Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut.\n(voice-over)\nLast night, Elon Musk updated the world on SpaceX’s Starship development. Let me tell ya, the event was amazing. We learned a lot of really cool details. But, I’m still a little baffled by the pace of this program; it’s unheard of. If only there was someone that could answer a few more of my questions about this program and about Starship.\n———–",
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"content": "That’s a nice shirt.",
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"content": "Supervolcano, for those of you who don’t know. It would envelop, but well…",
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"content": "Yeah. Exactly. I know exactly what you’re talking about.",
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"content": "We read the same books. I can tell.",
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"content": "Absolutely. I mean, something bad is bound to happen if you give it enough time. And civilization has been around for such a very short period of time that these time scales seem very long, but on an evolutionary time scale, they’re very short. A million years on an evolutionary time scale is really not very much. And Earth’s been around for four and a half billion years, so that’s a very tiny, tiny amount of time, really. But for us, that would be… – can you imagine if human civilization continued at anything remotely like the current pace of technology advancement for a million years? Where would we be? I think we’re either extinct or on a lot of planets.",
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"content": "Somewhere is a lawyer that thought that through in front of his laptop before he wrote that up.",
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"content": "Yes, he got a lawyer, and he sued us, and the judge was like, „This is crazy. Stop bothering me. No.“",
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"content": "Thank God. Thank God there’s a judge out there with a brain.",
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"content": "I tell you, judges are very good.",
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"content": "Just basic science, guys.\nYeah. They teach you in school.\nSo there’s a lot of Twitter comments coming in about a question that I think is on everyone’s mind, no pun intended. “What is the security of the device look like? What kind of precautions are being taken, and what does the future look like for the security of the system?\nSo, first and foremost, privacy and security are top priorities at Neuralink, especially given the sensitivity of the data that we’re collecting. And one of the things that we’re ensuring is to make sure that a lot of the interactions with the brain data is going to be encrypted and authenticated properly. And I think this has been kind of a sort of recurring theme. But one of the things that we have the ability to do at Neuralink is that we work on every layer of the product, from chip design to source code. And it really gives us a unique opportunity to embed security as part of our design from the get-go and to make sure that there are no single points of failure.\nSo as an example, we can actually completely isolate sensitive modules, like the BLE\n(Bluetooth Low Energy)\nradio, by just segregating it out at the hardware level and really making sure that we protect the IO\n(input/output)\nto the brain away from any potential attacks, and really minimizing the attack surface. And, you know, we have in-house security expertise, and we’re also working with external parties to, you know, do audits and perform penetration testing.\nExcellent. Thank you, DJ.",
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"content": "Actually, is there a point that anybody here wants to make that has not been asked in a question, but you think should be a question? Anyone?",
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"content": "So hey, I’m Zack; I work in microfabrication team, I help making implants. And one thing that I think is really cool, just in general, is that this is a platform essentially. So we can change the design in a variety of ways. So if we find that a certain design or electrode size or number of electrodes works better in different areas of the brain, we have the capability to do that. I personally think that’s very cool.\nFantastic. Anyone else? Dan, do you have something to add?\nYeah, I think one of the things that allowed us to make such fast progress in the last few months is the use of pigs as a model. And we started out choosing pigs because of the very similar anatomy of the skull of humans, same thickness, and similar kind of dural membrane.\nBut then, as time went on, we realized that pigs actually have amazing other properties. You can train them to walk on treadmills; you can train them to do all kinds of tricks, and also that they have this large representation of the snout in the cortex, which you can very easily stimulate. So the question would be, why are we using pigs? And I think we’ve even surprised ourselves at how useful they are as a model in this respect. And another important point is that it’s very easy to keep pigs happy. They have very low needs, and so we can build an environment in which they have amazingly good welfare.\nIt seems that they are very happy about food.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s easy to make pigs happy. Basically, they love food, the pigs really love food; this is a true thing about pigs. So, you know, it that they’re given… like, there’s sort of some straw, and some things to play with, and some friends to hang out with and good food and they are happiest pigs.\nAnd then, yeah, the pigs are actually quite similar to people. So, if we’re going to figure out things for people, then pigs were a good choice. And they’re also quite robust creatures, like little tanks. And then I think one of the questions was like, “Is the device itself robust?” And it’s like, well, you know, pigs, they bustle around quite a lot. And they bump into things, and they headbutt each other at times, and they’re pretty animated. So, if the device is lasting in the pig, as it lasted there for two months, and still going strong, then that’s a good sign that the device is robust for people.",
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"content": "Yeah?",
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"content": "Yeah. Why can’t we be an commune?",
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"content": "I think Jack Dorsey kind of recommended doing that and you kind of ignored it.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah. Was kind of bad, actually.",
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"content": "Make it more efficient in terms of, like, the distance it can travel? You’re going to be fueling-",
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"content": "Yeah, you’re going to be able to go far enough, recharge fast.",
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"content": "And your Roadster, you’re anticipating 600 miles. Is that correct?",
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"content": "Yeah, 600 miles.",
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"content": "Yeah, I wasn’t actually paid anything. Yeah, technically, we would actually… no, you’re right.",
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"content": "You’re not actually breaking the law.",
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"content": "We were not breaking the law because we were not being paid anything. Exactly. Yeah, I should have told him that at the border control. Anyway, it was very frustrating.",
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"content": "“Does work means getting paid for something?”",
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"content": "You just literally go, “Yeah.”",
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"content": "Yeah. Or maybe I’m wasted, and I’m\n(‘swoosh’…)\ngone. Let me shoot myself in the foot. Bam. Now let me shoot myself a little. Bam. That describes some of my tweets.",
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"content": "Yeah. Aren’t you worried about any SEC involvement in your tweets going forward?",
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"content": "What does that stand for again? I mean, I know the middle word is ‘Elon’s’. But can’t remember the other two words.",
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"content": "Or watch the videos on Twitter because it’s safer.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "As sad as it is. Man, every single day.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It’s intense. You’re like, whoa.",
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"content": "What is it like? Try to explain it to a dumb person like me. What’s going on?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Never-ending explosion.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "It’s just constant ideas just bouncing around.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Do you think this can be more and more converted into end to end mural net?",
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"content": "Yeah. Yeah, that’s what it should be. Well, the recommendations should be purely a vector correlation. There’s a series of vectors basically parameters, vectors, whatever you want to call them, but sort of things that the system knows that you like. Maybe there’s several hundred vectors associated with each user account and then any post in the system, whether it’s video, audio, short post, long post. The reason by the way I want to move away from tweet is that people are posting two, three hour videos on the site. That’s not a tweet.\nIt’d be like tweet for two hours? Come on. Tweet made sense when it was 140 characters of text. Because it’s like a bunch of little birds tweeting. But when you’ve got long form content, it’s no longer a tweet. So a movie is not a tweet. Apple, for example, posted the entire episode of The Silo, the entire thing, on a platform. By the way, it was their number one social media thing ever in engagement of anything, on any platform ever. So it was a great idea. And by the way, I just learned about it afterwards. I was like, Hey, wow, they posted an entire hour long episode of, so no, that’s not a tweet. This is a video.",
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"content": "But from a neural net perspective, it becomes really complex, whether it’s a single, so everything’s data. So single sentence, a clever sort of joke, dad joke is in the same pool as a three hour video.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean right now it’s a hodgepodge for that reason. Let’s say in the case of Apple posting an entire episode of this series, pretty good series, by the way, The Silo, I watched it. So there’s going to be a lot of discussion around it. So you’ve got a lot of context, people commenting, they like it, they don’t like it or they like this, and you can then populate the vector space based on the context of all the comments around it. So even though it’s a video, there’s a lot of information around it that allows you to populate back to space of that hour long video. And then you can obviously get more sophisticated by having the AI actually watch the movie and tell you if you’re going to like the movie.",
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"content": "(Maye Musk, Elon’s mom, is also there but stays in the back of the room. Unfortunately, I can hardly understand her during the whole interview because of the distance to the microphones.)\n[inaudible] … luggage.",
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"content": "Well, we’re getting… – I didn’t have much. I had a backpack and a suitcase books. The bus company… they unloaded it in one of the cities, and then the bus left without my stuff.",
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"content": "Oh, that’s nice.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I literally had nothing.",
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"content": "Okay.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It was crazy how viral that picture of the Pope with the awesome jacket-",
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"content": "Balenciaga?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah-",
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"content": "Mag in a vacuum tunnel.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Magnetic levitation in a vacuum tunnel.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "With rocket launchers?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "No, I would not recommend putting any…",
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"content": "There’s a nice writeup, on how we went from Grok zero to Grok one.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "By Grok?",
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"content": "Yeah, right, grok just bragging, making shit up about itself.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Just Grok, Grok, Grok.",
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"content": "Makers of\nHalf-Life\n.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes. Valve. Great company.",
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"content": "Great company.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "When you’re in that virtual reality, which is only going to get better, where are you? Where are you really?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
"role": "user"
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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": "Mind viral immunity, meaning that once something like Neuralink gets established, the real concern is something that..- I mean, you said it’s Bluetooth, right? Or some future version of that? The idea is that something could possibly get into it, fuck it up.",
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"content": "No, I’m talking about, like somebody, some cockeyed concept that happens right now.",
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"content": "That’s amazing.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It’s on the internet.",
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"content": "What happens if your car gets a little sideways, like if you’re driving in snow? Like what if you’re driving, if you’re autopilot is on, and you’re in like Denver, and it snows out, and your car gets a little sideways, does it correct itself? Does that-",
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"content": "Oh yeah. It’s got great traction control.",
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"content": "It mostly lists rigorously all the times you predicted, like promised when something will be released, and it wasn’t released.",
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"content": "Promise is a strong word.",
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"content": "Okay, predicted. But the opener is really nice. “Elon Musk, the man who has been wrong about more things than a wrong-a-meter in a wrong factory.” And then, it goes on to list.",
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"content": "That’s pretty funny. Can I see it? I’m like, “I haven’t seen this before.” This is cool.",
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"content": "Okay. You’re chief twit, or what are you?",
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"content": "No, my dog, Floki, is the CEO.",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "He’s taken over.",
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"content": "Oh really?",
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"content": "Yeah. In the early days of aircraft and rockets, the propellant tanks were carried like cargo. And now modern rockets and airplanes – the wing is just a fuel tank in wing shape. We should do the same for the header tanks.",
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"content": "I love it. Thanks again.",
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"content": "All right. Thank you.",
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"content": "But in some places, a panic is deserved, right? Like if you’re in the ICU in Manhattan and people are dying left and right and everyone’s on intubators. It seems like when you see all these people on ventilators, and so many of them are dying, and you see these nurses are dying and doctors are getting sick. In some places, that fear is justified, but then in other places, you’re reading these stories about hospitals that are essentially half empty. They’re having to furlough doctors and nurses because there’s no work for them.",
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"content": "Most of the hospitals in the United States right now are half empty. In some cases, they’re at 30% capacity.",
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"content": "Is this because they’ve decided to forgo elective procedures and normal things that people would have to go to the hospital for?",
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"content": "Yes. I mean, we’re not talking about just…- some of these elective procedures are quite important. Like you have a bad heart.",
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"content": "I love cars.",
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"content": "It’s great.",
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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": "Gall bladder disease, yeah, sure.",
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"content": "You need a triple bypass. It’s sort of elective, but if you don’t get it done in time, you’re going to die.",
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"content": "Yeah, elective is a weird word.",
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"content": "Elective. It’s not like…- this isn’t like plastic surgery.",
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"content": "...inaudible...",
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"content": "And I, actually, had this conversation at dinner several years ago with a district attorney. I was like, „Man, it must, sometimes, seem pretty, pretty dark because, you know, man, there’s some terrible human beings out there. And he was like, „Yup.“ And he was like dealing with some case, which consisted of a couple of old ladies that would run people over somehow for insurance money. It was rough. Like, „Wow, that’s pretty rough.“ It’s hard to maintain faith in humanity if you’re a district attorney, but, you know, it’s only a few percent of society that are actually bad.\nAnd then if you go to the worst, say 0.1% of the society of the worst, one in a thousand, one in a million, you know. Like how bad is the millionth worst person in the United States? Pretty damn bad. Like damn evil. One in a million of evil is so evil; people cannot even conceive of it. But there are 330 million people in the United States. So, that’s 330 people out there somewhere. But by the same token, there are also 330 people who are incredible angels and unbelievably good human beings on the other side.",
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"content": "But because of our fear of danger, we tend to — our thoughts tend to gravitate towards the worst-case scenario. And we want to frame that. And that’s one of the real problems with prejudice; whether it’s prejudice towards different minorities, or prejudice towards police officers, or anything, it’s like we want to look at the worst-case scenario and say, „This is an example of what this is all about.“\nAnd you see that even with people, how they frame genders. Some men frame women like that. They get ripped off by a few women, and they decide, „All women are evil.“ Some women get fucked over by a few men, „All men are shit.“ And this is very toxic.And it’s also — It’s a very unbalanced way of viewing the world, and it’s very emotionally based, and it’s based on your own experience, your own anecdotal experience. And it can be very influential to the people around you, and it’s just a dangerous way. It’s a dangerous thought process and pattern to promote.",
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"content": "It is. It is a very dangerous pattern. I really think people should give other people the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are good until proven otherwise. And, I think, really, most people are actually pretty good people. Nobody’s perfect.",
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"content": "Right. That’s what I’m saying. I don’t know how you do what you do now, but if you keep coming up with these. But it’s got to be hard to pawn these off on someone else either, like, „Hey, go do a good job with this vertical takeoff and landing system that I want to implement to regular planes.“.",
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"content": "The airplane, electric airplane, isn’t necessary right now. Electric cars are important. Solar energy is important. Stationary storage of energy is important. These things are much more important than creating electric supersonic (… 1:18:54). Also, the plane’s naturally — You really want that gravitational energy density for an aircraft, and this improving over time.\nSo, you know, it’s important that we accelerate the transition to sustainable energy. That’s why it matters whether electric cars happen sooner or later. You know, we’re really playing a crazy game here with the atmosphere and the oceans.\nWe’re taking vast amounts of carbon from deep underground and putting this in the atmosphere. This is crazy. We should not do this. It’s very dangerous. So, we should accelerate the transition to sustainable energy. I mean, the bizarre thing is that, obviously, we’re going to run out of oil in the long term. You know, we’re going to — There’s only so much oil we can mine and burn. It’s totally logical. We must have a sustainable energy transport and energy infrastructure in the long term.\nSo, we know that’s the endpoint. We know that. So, why run this crazy experiment where we take trillions of tons of carbon from underground and put it in the atmosphere and oceans? This is an insane experiment. It’s the dumbest experiment in human history. Why are we doing this? It’s crazy.",
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"content": "Do you think this is a product of momentum that we started off doing this when it was just a few engines, a few hundred million gallons of fuel over the whole world, not that big of a deal? And then, slowly but surely, over a century, it got out of control. And now, it’s not just our fuel, but it’s also, I mean, fossil fuels are involved in so many different electronics, so many different items that people buy. It’s just this constant desire for fossil fuels, constant need for oil without consideration of the sustainability.",
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"content": "You know, the things like oil, coal, gas, it’s easy money.",
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"content": "...inaudible...",
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"content": "Now, let’s actually move to questions. We have questions that have been asked over the internet. And we’ll do live Q&A. So we bring in a bunch of people from the Neuralink team. If you have any questions, please submit your questions to the Neuralink Twitter account, and we will try to answer as many questions as we can over the next hour. Feel free to ask hard questions; there’s no problem. We’ll do our best to answer them. Alright, let’s move over to the team.",
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"content": "Perfect. Yes, we will continue monitoring questions until the end of the event. So please keep sending them in over Twitter. Elon, do you come join us? Alright, so the first question is, how is the spike detection implemented? Is it on the ASIC\n(application-specific integrated circuit)\n? Is it hardware and software updatable?\nPaul :\nYeah, I can answer that. I’m Paul; I’ve worked – I’ve had a few different hats – I’ve worked a little bit on digital chip design, and more recently working on some of the algorithms trying to decode the signals from the brain. The spike detection algorithm – there’s historically been many ways of detecting spikes. Typically, people will record data offline and then look for characteristic shapes. But here, we’re interested in detecting spikes online. And there’s a number of simple algorithms that you can do, for example, like detecting just a threshold. And we’ve been interested in doing a little bit better than that.\nWe actually look for particular shapes, charactered shapes that we think are spikes. And so we’re doing this on the chip; it’s for all 1024 electrodes; there’s bandpass filtering that’s happening on the chips. If you think of these as like little microphones, sending audio information, we’re basically filtering all of that in real-time and then looking for these characteristic shapes. You can configure what sort of shapes you are looking for, and that information is what’s being sent out. The raw information coming in the electrodes is way too much to send out over Bluetooth. So when you’re seeing those beautiful spike rasters on the screen, those are the detections that we have coming straight from the chips.\nGot it. And just for everyone who doesn’t know, can you just explain at a basic level what a spike is?\nSure, so traditionally, people think of spikes or action potentials as the electrical events that happen in neurons and as the primary form of communication between neurons. And so this is a hysteresis event where you have currents that flow and generate this… you can think of it as being a digital signal, a one or a zero that’s being sent in time, where neurons will send that signal to often 1000s of recipient neurons.\nAwesome. Thanks, Paul. So I got a question from Toby on Twitter. He asks, “What can be further done to simplify the device installation progress?”\nWe’re working on making the device as small as possible, of course, with the robot taking more and more of the responsibility away from error-prone human surgeons, we’re hoping to make the process faster and safer.",
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"content": "Actually, it might be good to have the people to say, you know, who they are and what they do.",
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