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"content": "Elon, I’d like to, as we wrap up now, just pull the camera back and just think… you’re a father of seven surviving kids, and…",
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"content": "Well, I mean, I’m trying to set a good example because the birthrate on Earth is so low that we’re facing civilizational collapse unless the birthrate returns to a sustainable level.",
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"content": "Yeah, you’ve talked about this a lot, that depopulation is a big problem. And people don’t understand how big a problem it is.",
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"content": "Yes, population collapse is one of the biggest threats of the future of human civilization. And that is what’s going on right now.",
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"content": "Flawed perception.",
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"content": "Like that, if you have that, sort of, that Vive you have, that’s made by\nValve\n, and it’s really Valve that made it. HTC did the hardware, but it’s really a Valve thing.",
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"content": "Makers of\nHalf-Life\n.",
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"content": "Yes. Valve. Great company.",
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"content": "Okay. And has it been hard letting that many people go?",
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"content": "Yeah. Not fun at all. It’s painful.",
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"content": "I guess in what way? Do you feel like you need to speak to people when they leave?",
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"content": "It’s not physically possible to speak to that many people.",
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"content": "I mean, it’s fascinating that there’s something about social media that could help you grow as a human being, but then the cheap fun is also valuable.",
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"content": "Should we ask Grok, do you regret anything?",
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"content": "Do you regret anything?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I think that’s powerful, and I think a lot of people will be inspired by that vision. So the reason you need the million people is because there has to be enough people there to do everything that you need to survive.",
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"content": "Really, like, the critical threshold is, if those ships from Earth stop coming for any reason, does the Mars city die out or not? And so we have to pass… you know, people talk about like, the sort of, the great filters, the things that perhaps… you know, we talk about the Fermi Paradox, and where are the aliens? Well, maybe there are these various great filters that the aliens didn’t pass and so they eventually just ceased to exist. And one of the great filters is becoming a multi-planet species. So we want to pass that filter. And I’ll be long dead before this is, you know, a real thing, before it happens. But I’d like to at least see us make great progress in this direction.",
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"content": "Given how tortured the Earth is right now, how much we’re beating each other up, shouldn’t there be discussions going on with everyone who is dreaming about Mars to try to say, we’ve got a once in a civilizations chance to make some new rules here? Should someone be trying to lead those discussions to figure out what it means for this to be the people of Mars’ city?",
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"content": "Well, I think ultimately, this will be up to the people of Mars to decide how they want to rethink society. Yet there’s certainly risk there, and hopefully, the people of Mars will be more enlightened and will not fight amongst each other too much. I mean, I have some recommendations, which people of Mars may choose to listen to or not. I would advocate for more of a direct democracy, not a representative democracy, and laws that are short enough for people to understand. And where it is harder to create laws than to get rid of them.",
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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": "Hi Elon, Josh Phillips here, retail investor. I have a question in regards to the lithium and nickel industries and the likely price spikes and shortages of high-grade materials the EV industry is likely to see if they don’t act fast to address future supply. Tesla has clearly made the right moves that are necessary, but there’s a real worry that the potential supply issues and price spikes will create a drag on the rest of the EV industry and, therefore, a drag on global EV adoption. What advice would you give to the EV and mining industries to quickly solve this looming hurdle? Because for a sustainable energy future, the\nspice\nmust flow. Thank you.",
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"content": "Yeah, indeed. The spice must flow. The new spice. I don’t know. I’m not sure. I guess we can try to basically overdo it in cell production and perhaps supply cells to others, but we do see the fundamental constraint as total cell production. That’s why we’re putting so much effort into making cells and try to reinvent every aspect of cell production, from mining the ore to a complete battery pack, because it’s the fundamental constraint.\nWe’re not getting into the cell business just for the hell of it; it’s because it’s the fundamental constraint. It’s the thing that is the limiting factor for rapid growth. But we could certainly try to overdo it on cell production and perhaps sell cells to others, although we are going at absolute top speed, so it’s not like we’re holding it back.\nI think just making really efficient cars that have lower drag coefficient, low rolling resistance, efficient powertrains – I mean, that’s kind of what we’ve done in order to make iron phosphate still have a good range. So the iron phosphate’s a lower energy density solution, but while there are some limitations on the total amount of nickel produced every year, there’s really no limit on the iron. There’s so much iron it’s ridiculous. So you can really scale up iron phosphate at a raw materials basis, more than you can nickel.",
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"content": "Right. You know what doxing generally means, which is revealing someone’s address.",
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"content": "Yes, where they are.",
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"content": "Right but as I say, taking a picture is revealing where someone is. It could be in concert and take a picture of lights of people and then tweet it.",
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"content": "If you can’t recognize them, then it’s not a thing.",
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"content": "Oh, good, yes, it’s an excellent idea. Smaller box.",
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"content": "It’s got way more capacity, and the calendar and cycle life match that of the main pack. So, we should have done it before now, but it’s great that we’re doing it now. Also like, this is one of those inside baseball victories that’s kind of a big deal. But the 12 volts is very much a vestigial voltage, and it’s absurdly low. Even basically powered ethernet is around 50 volts. You can have powered ethernet, and nobody’s sweating at that. This is powered by ethernet, this phone here. Nobody’s worried about powered ethernet, like, 40, 48, 50 volts. That’s really what the car’s low voltage system should be at.",
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"content": "Absolutely, I agree. In fact, when we talked about the Y, I was expecting to see that because you’d said that you’re getting rid of weight and the length of wires and whatnot. When I pulled it off, the harness looked kind of similar. So, it is what it is.",
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"content": "You really want to put power and data over the same wires and have a higher speed than\nCAN bus\n, so you can basically dump data on the bus instead of having all these point-to-point wires.",
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"content": "Hm. So you used to have more hope. And you gave up some of it, and now you don’t worry as much about A.I. You’re like, this is just what it is.",
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"content": "Yeah, pretty much, yes. But it’s not necessarily bad; it’s just, it’s definitely going to be outside of human control.",
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"content": "Not necessarily bad, right?",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s not necessarily bad; it’s just outside of human control. Now, the thing that’s going to be tricky here is that it’s going to be very tempting to use A.I. as a weapon. In fact, it will be used as a weapon. So, the on ramp to serious A.I., the danger is going to be more humans using it against each other, I think, most likely. That will be the danger.",
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"content": "Wow. And these things are happening all the time or this was an unusual circumstance?",
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"content": "Yeah. That’s like one example, but there’s many things like that.",
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"content": "I guess, I mean, that’s actually a really good example, because that leads into what I’ve always been fascinated by a lot of what you’re doing. Well, I’ll start with, how did you get into this?",
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"content": "Into cars?",
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"content": "That’s a pretty big step. I’ve been saying for a long time, in fact – I had a lot of executives come in after I gave a speech and said – this was a couple of years ago now – and I said the crossover point for electric over ICE is 2030. Basically, that was because of tearing apart your car, the Model 3.",
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"content": "majority … crossover point, how you’re finding that?",
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"content": "50% of the vehicles are sold, or more than 50% are going to be pure EVs, or they’re going to be hybrid.",
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"content": "I would say hybrid is not, for sure. I think ten years it’s probably a majority EV.",
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"content": "And also, it’d be great if we could make the pigs fly…\nI think we have an incredible opportunity to limit human suffering to a tiny fraction of what it is today, in all kinds of different avenues. Pain, being the essence of suffering, we might be able to control that finally. And so many other diseases, so much other suffering in the world, I think the Neuralink device could help a lot with.",
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"content": "I think all these things are great functions for a Neuralink. On a species level basis, I think it’s going to be important for us to figure out how we coexist with advanced artificial intelligence. And, you know, I think, achieving some kind of AI symbiosis, where you have an AI extension of yourself, like a tertiary layer above the limbic system and cortex, and having that symbiosis be good, such that the future of the world is controlled by the combined will of the people of Earth. I think that that’s obviously going to be the future that we want, presumably, if it’s the sum of our collective will. So I think it’s going to be important from an existential threat standpoint to achieve a good AI symbiosis. And that’s what I think might be the most important thing that a device like this achieves.",
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"content": "I have, in many ways, a very basic science interest, which is I’m really interested in the nature of consciousness. And there’s a lot of very silly philosophy that’s been written about it over the last 1000 years. But I think that it’s really… we’ve been very limited by the tools and our ability to interrogate and measure the brain. And as these tools get better, it will pull it into the realm of physics, and it’s really one of the last big great mysteries in science.\nSo for me, can you imagine a disease-free future. A future where you know what’s going to happen to you before it happens so you can prevent it. With these devices, we will be able to not just pick up electrical signals where you can also pick up chemical clues in the brain. And if you’re successful, which you know we are, we’ll be able to kind of prevent ahead of time, you know, diseases. And really, the functions of these devices are widespread. So I’m looking forward to the future.\nI’m really excited about the opportunity to help people overcome challenges that they face through life circumstances, bad luck, through no fault of their own spinal cord injury, brain disease, some devastating things that completely change your life. Hopefully, we can help them get some function back.\nI know and love many humans with autism spectrum disorder. So I’m really interested to see how the Neuralink might be able to support them if they chose to do that.\nYeah, so I mean, everyone else along the line has had, you know, amazing ideas and suggestions. For me, it’s about memories, and everyone loses those memories over time. You know, I already can’t remember what happened to me when I was younger, and you know, I will only get worse. And so having a repository of memories that you can access whenever you want, if you’re feeling down, you can go access some good memories, you know, if you miss something or miss somebody, you can go and access those memories. And I think that would just be such a life-changing experience to be able to just tap into that.\nThat was such a beautiful and diverse array of answers there.",
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"content": "Yeah. All right. Well, thanks for tuning in. And as I said, please consider working at Neuralink and helping us solve these problems. There’s a tremendous amount of work to be done to go from here to a device that is available, widely available, and affordable and reliable. So please consider joining us and supporting us in our mission. Thank you very much.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, I would imagine that for someone like you, it’s not. For someone like you, it would be more like a cup of coffee, right. You have a mate.",
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"content": "Yeah. It’s more like the opposite of a cup of coffee.",
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"content": "What is that?",
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"content": "It’s like a cup of coffee in reverse.",
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"content": "That’ll work?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "And these tunnels that you’re building right now, these are basically just like test versions of this ultimate idea that you have?",
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"content": "You know, it’s just a hole in the ground.",
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"content": "But now I’m so interested.",
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"content": "Okay, well. Okay. Okay. I am overdue for doing a Starship update. So we live on a planet where the gravity is actually very strong. We actually live on the densest planet in the solar system. Our atmosphere is very thick. And what this comes down to is that, you know, a typical orbital rocket might be able to put about 2% of its liftoff mass into orbit. And then this is what smart people trying hard, maybe 2.5% then. And no rocket, the best of my knowledge, has ever gotten above 4% of its liftoff mass to orbit.\nSo in order to make a rocket fully reusable, you’ve got to basically create a rocket that can do about 4%, if not more than 4%, of its lift-off mass to orbit, which hasn’t happened before. So that means you have to have basically A+’s across the board, incredibly efficient engines, incredibly efficient structure. You do need scale because there are some efficiencies of scale. That’s why our Starship is so gigantic. Because for example, the brain of the rocket really weighs about the same if it’s a small rocket or a big rocket. So with a big rocket, you get to have the avionics be basically around down to 0% or will be inconsequential in the mass of the vehicle.\nYeah, then you need to make incredibly light heat shield. And just, there’s so many things that need to be done to have both the booster and the upper stage be reusable. Insanely difficult. (…) Many super smart people have tried to do this before, and no one has succeeded. And most of the time, they’ve just given up partway through. But if full and rapid reusability can be achieved, it reduces the cost of access to orbit by a factor of 100 or more.\nIt’s like an aircraft. Imagine if an aircraft or car or any form of transport was not reusable. Imagine if you had to buy a new plane every time you flew. That would make every flight insanely expensive. Or a car – if you had to get a new car every time you drove somewhere, that would be unbelievably expensive as opposed to simply refueling it. So we’ve got to get rockets to the point where we simply refuel the rocket, and we don’t throw it away.\nWith Falcon 9, we’ve managed to make the booster reusable and the fairing/nosecone reusable, but not the upper stage. So we’ve made, I think, the most progress in reusability that has ever been done. But with Starship, we’re hoping to make the whole thing reusable. This is profound like says this is the difference between humanity being a single planet species and a multi-planet species. It’s really that big of a deal.",
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"content": "All right, Elon. They’re running the clock down on me. So I want to ask you one last question. And we’ll try to go to at least one or two audience questions. I wanted to ask you a little bit about humor. You’re a pretty funny guy. You show it on Twitter a lot. You’ve hosted SNL. And I’m wondering how that plays into your management style. I mean, would your co-workers say you’re funny? Is this something you’re sort of bringing to the office now? Has it helped with managing your teams?",
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"content": "I mean, I think I’m funny. I find my jokes funny.\n(laughs)\nI don’t know. I guess, yeah… I do crack a lot of jokes. They don’t all land. But I am aspirationally funny. I mean, we try to have a good sense of humor at the office, too.",
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"content": "Okay. I was definitely illegal. We needed to get it sorted. And so they were great. I mean, the lead investor’s wife was from Canada. They knew the whole challenge of being an immigrant. And we had Canadian passports. And so they funded the company, and they gave us some money to each buy a car. And they gave us a salary so we could rent an apartment and I got a visa through the company. But the morning we were supposed to present to the partners, I went to Toronto because my mother was freaking out because she needed her computer fixed.",
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"content": "What, really?",
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"content": "Seriously. This is brutal. So I flew out there, planning to fly back on Sunday, and the meeting was on Monday. And I get to the airport on Sunday, and the border control, they actually called me out. They’re like, “You’re going down for work, you’re not going down for travel.” I was like, “No, no, I’m not going out for work.” I explained… actually, no, I didn’t. I said, “I’m not going to work,” because I think that’s what I was supposed to say. The lawyers told me not to say anything. And so they rejected me from the border, and I was supposed to do the presentation with Elon the next morning.\nAnd so a friend of mine came to pick me up at the airport and drove me across the border. We went to the Buffalo border and just said, we’re going to go see the David Letterman Show. And the border patrol guy was like, “Yeah, go ahead.” I took the late-night flight from Buffalo to San Francisco, and we made the meeting in the morning.",
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"content": "So yeah, technically, you’re not going out for work because that would have required to have been paid something.",
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"content": "What about the Matthew McConaughey, Austinite here? “President Kennedy: Do you know how to put men on the Moon yet? NASA: No. President Kennedy: Be a lot cooler if you did.”",
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"content": "Pretty much, sure. Six. Six or seven, I suppose.",
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"content": "This is the last one.",
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"content": "That’s funny.\n(laughing)",
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"content": "You know what’s fucked up about that, though? We accept a certain amount of like fuckery with those watches. Like I brought my watch. I have a Rolex that my friend, Lorenzo, gave me, and I brought it to the watch store, and I said, „This thing’s always fast.“ I said, „It’s always like after a couple of months, it’s like five minutes fast.“ And they go, „Yup.“ They go, „Yeah.“",
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"content": "Really?",
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"content": "„It’s just what it does.“",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "Only today. Memorial Day sale.\nI’ve seen some… you are doing like these vertical landings, literally out of like the 1950s Sci-Fi movies. And that’s what you’re talking about?",
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"content": "Yeah. Essentially, the rocket needs to come back and land at the launch site and then reload propellant and take off again, like an airplane in its reusability.",
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"content": "How far do you think we are from that? When do you think…you know, your best guess, when we’ll actually see that happening?",
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"content": "Well, I’m hopeful we can do it next year.",
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"content": "Wasn’t there a Thoreau quote, that „Comparison is the thief of joy.“",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, “Happiness is reality minus expectations.”",
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"content": "That’s great too, but the ‘comparison is the thief of joy’ really holds true to people. Is it?\nTheodore Roosevelt.\nRoosevelt, fascinating. And when you’re thinking about Instagram, because what essentially Instagram is for a lot of people is you’re giving them the opportunity to be their own PR agent, and they always go towards the glamorous, you know. And when anybody does show, you know, #nofilter, I don’t know if they really do that. Like, „Oh, you’re so brave. Look at you, no makeup,“ you know. They look good anyway.\n“You look great. What are you doing? Oh my God. You don’t have makeup on. You still look hot as fuck. You know what you’re doing. I know what you’re doing too.” They’re letting you know. And then, they’re feeding off that comment section, sort of sitting there like it’s a fresh stream of love. Like you’re getting right up to the sources as it comes out of the earth, and you’re sucking that sweet, sweet love water.",
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"content": "A lot of emojis.",
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"content": "It is the answer.",
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"content": "Yup.",
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"content": "Yeah, it is. It sounds corny because we’re all scared. You know, we’re all scared of trying to love people, being rejected, or someone taking advantage of you because you’re trying to be loving. But we all could just relax and love each other.",
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"content": "It wouldn’t hurt to have more love in the world.",
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"content": "Yeah, no, that’s right. That’s right.",
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"content": "This is a peanut. I mean, Google’s got $50 billion. Apple’s got $150 billion, some crazy amount of money. That’s just cash.",
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"content": "Yeah. So it’s not an outlandish… I didn’t realize that was so core.",
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"content": "Like 1% of Google’s cash would be $500 million. You know, that’s 0.1% percent of Google’s cash.",
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"content": "The clarity of information will certainly help, but altering perceptions, public perception, from people that are basically in a panic. Well, at least a month ago, we’re clearly in a panic. I mean, when you look around April 5th, April 6th, people were really freaking out. But here we are, May, and May people are relaxing a little bit. They’re realizing like, “Hey, I actually know a couple of people that got it. It was just a cough,” and I know some people that got it where nothing happened.",
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"content": "I know a lot of people who got it. I know zero people who died, but I know a lot of people that got it.",
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"content": "It’s not what we feared. We feared something much worse.",
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"content": "That is correct.",
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"content": "And suffering. It’s really complicated to consider that some amount of human suffering is necessary for human flourishing.",
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"content": "Is it possible to appreciate the highs without knowing the lows?",
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"content": "And that all is summarized there in a single statement from God. Okay.",
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"content": "No highs, no lows, who knows?",
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"content": "What the rest of it said? Yeah.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I’m not sure.",
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"content": "Something about the itch, eat the itch.",
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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": "Is that bad for you? It’s legal.\nYeah.\nIt’s government-approved.",
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"content": "It’s not — You know, I’m not a regular smoker of weed.",
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"content": "Do you think it’s one of those things where once we’ve gone in this certain direction, it’s very difficult to make a correction? Make an adjustment to realize like, okay, we thought it was one thing. It’s not good, but it’s not what we thought it was going to be. It’s not what we feared, so let’s back up and reconsider, and let’s do this publicly and say we were acting based on the information that we had initially. That information appears to be faulty, and here’s how we move forward while protecting civil liberties while protecting what essentially this country is founded on, which is a very agreed-upon amount of freedom that we respect and appreciate.",
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"content": "Absolutely. Well, I think we’re rapidly moving towards opening up the country. It’s going to happen extremely fast over the next few weeks. So, yeah. Something that would be helpful just to add from an informational level is when reporting Covid cases to separate out diagnosed with Covid versus had Covid like symptoms. Because the list of symptoms that could be Covid at this point is like a mile long. So, it’s hard to… if you’re ill at all, it’s like it could be cover it. So, just to give people better information. Definitely diagnosed with Covid or had Covid like symptoms. We’re conflating those two so that it looks bigger than it is. Then if somebody dies, was Covid a primary cause of the death or not? I mean, if somebody has Covid, gets eaten by a shark, we find their arm, their arm has Covid, it’s going to get recorded as a Covid death.",
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"content": "Is that real?",
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"content": "Basically.",
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"content": "I bet it is. And it is getting better every day.",
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"content": "It’s really good.",
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"content": "Are you honestly legitimately concerned about this? Is A.I. one of your main worries in regard to the future?",
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"content": "Yes. It’s less of a worry than it used to be, mostly due to taking more of a fatalistic attitude.",
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"content": "Yeah.\nYou want to tell us what it is?",
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"content": "Like I said, my goal is to create X the everything app. That’s the goal. It’s what we’re working towards.",
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"content": "Nice, and Twitter is, what, a first step?",
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"content": "Twitter is an accelerant to X the everything.",
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"content": "For us.",
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"content": "Yes. If you can’t beat it, join it. From a long-term existential standpoint, that’s like the purpose of Neuralink is to create a high bandwidth interface to the brain such that we can be symbiotic with A.I. Because we have a bandwidth problem. You just can’t communicate through your fingers. It’s too slow.",
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"content": "And where is Neuralink at right now?",
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"content": "I think, we have something interesting to announce in a few months that’s at least an order of magnitude better than anything else. I think, better than, probably, anyone thinks is possible.",
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"content": "Yeah, we basically took the existing foils, laser pattered them, and enabled dozens of connections into the active material through this shingled spiral you can see with simpler manufacturing, fewer parts, 50-millimeter versus 250-millimeter electrical path length, which is how we get all the thermal benefits.",
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"content": "Yeah. This is important to appreciate. Basically, the distance that that electron has to travel, it’s just much less. You actually have a shorter path length in a large tabless cell than you have in the smaller cell with tabs. This is a big deal. So even though the cell is bigger, it actually has more power. The power to weight ratio is actually better than the smaller cell with tabs.\nThis is, again, this is quite hard to do. Nobody’s done it before, and it really took a tremendous amount of effort within Tesla Engineering to figure out how do we make a frigging tabless cell and have it actually work and then connect that to the top cap. There’s a whole bunch of things that we’re keeping a little secret sauce here that we’re not telling everything, but…",
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"content": "Sometimes what’s elegant and simple is still hard. And it took us a lot of trials, but we’re happy where we ended up.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, everything is simple in recollection, after you… it’s hard until it’s discovered, and then it’s simple. So anyway, there’s a lot of really cool things going on that enable tabless. And it was really due to a really great engineering team. Drew and the rest of the team had done amazing work in achieving this tabless construction. I think it may sort of sound a bit silly to some people, but for people that really know cells, this is a massive breakthrough.",
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"content": "Yeah, well, no, this is…",
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"content": "Or is it referring to Laika or something?",
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"content": "It’s Laika’s husband. “Hello. Yes, this is dog.” “Your wife was launched into space.” And then the last one is him with his eyes closed and a bottle of vodka.",
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"content": "Yeah, Laika didn’t come back.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I regret nothing.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Edith Fiaf.",
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"content": "Pointing a camera at me with Twitter behind doing a news story.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Really? Are you serious?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Okay. Why? Because it sort of gives an ambiance or something?",
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| 2,533 |
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"content": "This was right after the fall; it might have gone up.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s gone up a lot since then. But in 2001, it would’ve been about $10 million each. Two would have been $20 million. And then I thought I could get the rest of the mission down to also around $10 million per, so we’d have a dual mission with like two identical launches, two identical spacecraft for roughly $40 million. And I thought, okay, I can do that.",
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"content": "But you must have had some like rocket scientists advising you at this point? This sounds like you were serious. I mean, you were…",
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"content": "Yeah. I engaged a bunch of consultants and started to kind of get familiar with the space industry. But then, after the third trip to Russia, I came to realize that I was actually wrong about my first premise, that there was a lack of will. In fact, I think that there’s a tremendous amount of will in the United States for space exploration. Because the United States is essentially a nation of explorers. I mean, it’s a distillation of the human spirit of exploration.\nSo, of course, it was quite silly of me to think that people lacked motivation. But what people don’t want to think is that, okay, sending people to Mars is going to be so expensive that they’ll have to give up health care or something. They’re not going to do that. It’s got to be that going to Mars is not going to cause some meaningful drop in their standard of living. So, if it’s like maybe a quarter of a percent or half a percent of GDP – something like that is palatable. Anyways, I thought, okay, it’s not really going to maybe matter that much if I do this mission because what really matters is having a way. I was wrong; I thought there wasn’t enough will, but there actually was plenty of will if people thought there was a way.\nSo I said, okay, well, I need to work on the way. How hard is it really to make a rocket? Historically, all rockets have been expensive, so, therefore, in the future, all rockets will be expensive. But actually, that’s not true. If you say, what is a rocket made of? And say, it’s made of aluminum, titanium, copper, carbon fiber, if you want to go that direction. And you can break down and say, what is the raw material cost of all these components. And if you have them stacked on the floor and could wave a magic wand so that the cost of rearranging the atoms was zero, then what would the cost of the rocket be.\nAnd I was like, wow, it’s really small. It’s like 2% of what a rocket costs. So clearly, it would be in how the atoms are arranged. You’ve got to figure out to how can we get the atoms in the right shape much more efficiently. I had a series of meetings on Saturdays with people, some of whom were still working at the big aerospace companies, just to try to figure out, is there some catch here that I’m not appreciating. And I couldn’t figure it. There didn’t seem to be any catch. So I started SpaceX.",
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"content": "But no, but the question-",
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"content": "My name is Super George.",
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"content": "Do you ever think to yourself, you know what, I’m going to go online and I’m going to say these people, I condemn these people that are on my site saying these things. Because-",
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"content": "I have said-",
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"content": "A million per ton?",
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"content": "Yes. Ideally, much less than a million a ton. You have to say like, well, how much can society afford to spend or want to spend on a self-sustaining city on Mars? The self-sustaining part is important. It’s just the key threshold. The great filter will have been past when the city on Mars can survive even if the spaceships from Earth stopped coming for any reason. It doesn’t matter what the reason is. But if they stopped coming for any reason, will it die out or will it not? And if there’s even one critical ingredient missing, then it still doesn’t count. It’s like if you’re on a long sea voyage, and you’ve got everything except vitamin C, it’s only a matter of time, you know, you’re gonna die. So, we’re gonna get a Mars city to the point where it’s self-sustaining.\nI’m not sure this will really happen in my lifetime, but I hope to see it at least have a lot of momentum. And then you could say, “Okay, what is the minimum tonnage necessary to have a self-sustaining city?” And there’s a lot of uncertainty about this. You could say like – I don’t know – it’s probably at least a million tons because you have to set up a lot of infrastructure on Mars. Like I said, you can’t be missing anything that… in order to be self-sustaining, you can’t be missing… like you need semiconductor fabs, you need iron ore refineries – like you need lots of things. And Mars is not super hospitable. It’s the least inhospitable planet, but it’s definitely a fixer-upper of a planet.",
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"content": "Outside of Earth.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes. Earth is easy.",
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"content": "That’s why.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "But it’s pretty absurd, really.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Well, the whole of existence is pretty absurd in some kind of sense.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah. But I mean, this is a lot of computation that has gone into how can I do more of that with the procreation not even being a factor? This is, I think, a very important area of research by NSFW.",
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| 2,537 |
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"content": "Smashing the apartment?",
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"content": "No. But sleep was difficult.\n(18:45 – 18:53)\nA documentary sequence about Elon Musk in Chinese, translation not available\n(refers to the sequence shown before)\nI wasn’t expecting that they\n(NASA)\ncall. Actually, I thought they were on vacation because it was so close to Christmas. You know, I thought – it was only a few days before Christmas. So I thought, well, there’s no way they’re going to call. They must have gone home for the year.\n(19:06 – 19:11)\nA documentary sequence about Elon Musk in Chinese, translation not available\nBut they called, and they said that SpaceX had this $1.4 billion contract.",
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"content": "What was your reaction to that piece of news?",
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"content": "You know, I said, I love you. Which I don’t think is a normal response for NASA contracting officers. That was good. And then a few days later, we closed the Tesla financing round on the last hour of the last day when it was possible, which was 6 pm Christmas Eve 2008.\n(19:48 – 20:15)\nA documentary sequence about Elon Musk in Chinese, translation not available",
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"content": "Tell us about the drug called Soma. It’s going to go to Brave New World, I think.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Well, there’s a real drug as well.",
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"content": "Searching for Soma drug information. Oh boy. Soma, the wonder drug… By the way, I’m in fun mode.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Okay, fun. Yeah. So it’s talking about the real drug.",
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"content": "Right? I get trolled every day and it’s like part and parcel of being on Twitter.",
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"content": "Yeah, totally.",
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"content": "It is worth it.\nOn that note, did you see the guy who got charged for a meme on Twitter? What were your thoughts on that? I know you commented on it. I didn’t know if you got to look more into it. His name’s Douglas Mackey.",
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"content": "Oh, that’s the guy who I guess was accused of election interference or something, -",
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"content": "Yes.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "So you’d be substantially you. I mean, you’d certainly think you’re you.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "But the idea of saving yourself and then transforming that into some sort of a biological state, you can hang out with 30 year old you?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I mean, the possibilities are endless.",
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"content": "Oh. So, magnet road is the way to go, just underground.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "If you want to go really fast underground, you would be maglev in a vacuum tunnel.",
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"content": "Mag in a vacuum tunnel.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Magnetic levitation in a vacuum tunnel.",
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"content": "How much of those weigh, those cars, the Roadster?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I think it was 2,700 pounds.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "That’s still very light.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "2,700. Depending on which version, 2,650 to 2,750 pounds, something like that.",
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"content": "But why?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It’s like running the engine with no resistance. That is-",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Is that what it is, though? Maybe it’s not.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Maybe it’s fine. I don’t know.I’ll try it. I’ll try it. It’s fine.",
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"content": "You suffer from depression or you have a depressive mind state? And I ask you as someone who has suffered from depression.",
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"content": "I wouldn’t say that I have a case of extended depression. It’s just, once in a while, I get into a negative chemical mind state. Once in a while. It’s not a common thing, but once in a while, this happens.",
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"content": "Where do you think that comes from?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I think it’s just genetic, basically.",
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"content": "And the autonomous driving, you just do with some sensors,\nlidar\n, radar, etc., this, or do you need more?",
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"content": "We believe just cameras are the way to go. We don’t use lidar at all. The entire road network is designed for passive optical, essentially vision. So, if you in order to make a car drive properly, you have to solve vision. And at the point where you have solved vision, you really don’t need any other instruments. Like a careful driver, human driver, can drive with an extremely good track record. And unlike a human, the computer does not get tired. It has 360-degree surround cameras, it’s got three cameras pointing forward. So, it’s like being able to see with eyes in the back of your head, basically. It’s really, vision is the way to go.\nThere’s some value to active optical, for a wavelength that’s occlusion penetrating, so it can see through fog or rain or dust. But it has to be high resolution, such that you can rely on like, for example, for radar at roughly four millimeter wavelength. This is good for occlusion penetration. But it needs to have enough resolution to know that you’re breaking for a real object and not just a bridge or a manhole cover or something like that.",
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"content": "How do you stay ahead?\nYeah, let’s go ahead. Last question, and then we move on to Olivier. Maybe just finish the last question. They asked, how do you stay ahead? How do you keep like, …?",
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"content": "I don’t know if we will stay ahead. Maybe we won’t stay ahead. I just think about how we can improve the experience for the owner of the car. How could we make it the most fun, the most functional? What can we do to help them love the product as much as possible? And if somebody else makes a better product, then more power to them. You know, then I guess we should lose.\nOlivier Reppert, CEO Share Now",
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"content": "Exactly, full self-driving is a solved problem. So, to me, there’s amazing synergy there. With Starship, you know, Gwynne Shotwell talked about by 2028 having from city to city, you know, transport on planet Earth.",
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"content": "Yeah, this is a real possibility. The fastest way to get from one place to another, if it’s a long distance, is a rocket. It’s basically ICBM\n(Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)\nwith land landing, delete the nuke.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "But it has to land… Because it’s an ICBM, it has to land probably offshore because it’s loud.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, it is loud.",
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"content": "How do you, by the way, sorry to interrupt, get the signal, separate the signal and noise on X? That’s such a fascinating source of data. No offense to people posting on X, but sometimes there’s a little bit of noise.",
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"content": "I think the signal noise could be greatly improved. Really, all of the posts on the X platform should be AI recommended, meaning we should populate a vector space around any given post, compare that to the vector space around any user and match the two. Right now there is a little bit of AI used for the recommended posts, but it’s mostly heuristics. And if there’s a reply where the reply to a post could be much better than the original post, but will, according to the current rules of the system, get almost no attention compared to a primary post.",
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"content": "So a lot of that, I got the sense, so a lot of the X algorithm has been open sourced and been written up about, and it seems there to be some machine learning. It’s disparate, but there’s some machine.",
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"content": "It’s a little bit, but it needs to be entirely that. At least, if you explicitly follow someone, that’s one thing. But in terms of what is recommended from people that you don’t follow, that should all be AI.",
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"content": "So, not existential.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "There are many nights I sleep alone. I don’t have to, but I do.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Walter Isaacson, in his new biography of you, wrote about your difficult childhood. Will you ever find forgiveness in your heart for everything that has happened to you in that period of your life?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "What is forgiveness? At least I don’t think I have a resentment, so nothing to forgive.",
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"content": "Yeah. Maybe I’m just dismissing all the different diversity of ants.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Listen to that Werner Herzog talking about the jungle. It’s really hilarious. Have you heard it?",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "No, I have not. But Werner Herzog is a way.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "You should play it as an interlude in the… It’s on YouTube. It’s awesome.",
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"content": "No, it wasn’t Batman, but it’s Christian Bale.\n‘\nReign of Fire\n’.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Okay.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Never saw that?",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "No.",
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"content": "I couldn’t agree more. I think there’s also an issue with one of the things that happens with police officers, prosecutors, and anyone that’s trying to convict someone or arrest someone is that it becomes a game. And in games, people want to win.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "And sometimes, people cheat.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes, yes. I mean, you know, if you’re a prosecutor, you should not always want to win. There are times when you should like, „Okay. I just should not want to win this case.“ And then, you know, like just pass on that case. Sometimes, people want to win too much. That is true.I think, also, it becomes tough. If you’re like a district attorney, you know, you tend to sort of see a lot of criminals. And then, your view of the world can get negative.",
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"content": "The first uses will be for neurological injuries of different kinds.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Yes.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "But rolling the clock forward and imagining when people are actually using these for their own enhancement, let’s say, and for the enhancement of the world, how clear are you in your mind as to what it will feel like to have one of these inside your head?",
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"content": "Well, I do want to emphasize we’re at an early stage. And so it really will be many years before we have anything approximating a high bandwidth neural interface that allows for AI human symbiosis. For many years, we will just be solving brain injuries and spinal injuries. For probably a decade. This is not something that will suddenly… one day, we will have this incredible sort of whole-brain interface. It’s going to be, like, at least a decade of really just solving brain injuries and spinal injuries. And I really think you can solve a very wide range of brain injuries, including severe depression, morbid obesity, sleep, potentially schizophrenia, like a lot of things that cause great stress to people. Restoring memory in older people…",
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"content": "The critique I got, by the way, was more about that, which is it broke down a nice bullet point list for each of your companies, the set of predictions that you made, when you’ll deliver, when you’ll be able to solve, for example, self-driving, and it gives you a list. And it was probably compelling, and the basic takeaway is you’re often too optimistic about how long it takes to get something done.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, I would say that I’m pathologically optimistic on schedule. This is true. But while I am sometimes late, I always in the end.",
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"content": "Except with Uber Lilith. No.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "We’ll see.",
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"content": "Okay. Then this goes back to-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "We’ll both make our cases and we’ll see what the outcome is.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "What are the economics of that for you? I mean, you have enormous resources, so you can actually keep this company going for a very long time. Would you keep it going for a long time if there was no advertising?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I mean, if the company fails because of an advertised boycott, it will fail because of an advertised boycott, and that will be what bankrupted the company, and that’s what everybody on earth will know.",
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"content": "First of all, I just want to thank Elon for coming – hungry. You didn’t even have dinner. And we didn’t even feed you properly.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "No, sorry to be a bit late. I just came from the Tesla factory in Fremont.",
"role": "assistant"
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{
"content": "Yes. Was something wrong?",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "There’s always something wrong.",
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"content": "And you’ve tried to-",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Yeah. We would like to do it right now.",
"role": "assistant"
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{
"content": "Really?",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Yes.",
"role": "assistant"
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| 2,557 |
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"content": "Not even Fortran – COBOL, yep.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It’s COBOL. And the banks were still buying mainframes in 2021 and running ancient COBOL code. The Federal Reserve is probably even older than what the banks have, and they have an old COBOL mainframe. The government effectively has editing privileges on the money database, and they use those editing privileges to make more money whenever they want. And this increases the error in the database that is money.\nSo I think money should really be viewed through the lens of information theory. It’s kind of an internet connection, like, what’s the bandwidth, total bit rate, what is the latency, jitter, packet drop, you know, errors in network communication? Just think of money like that, basically. I think that’s probably how to think of it. And then say, what system, from an information theory standpoint, allows an economy to function the best. Crypto is an attempt to reduce the error in money that is contributed by governments diluting the money supply as basically a pernicious form of taxation.",
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"content": "So both policy in terms of with inflation and actual like technological, COBOL – cryptocurrency takes us into the 21st century in terms of the actual systems that allow you to do the transaction, to store wealth, all those kinds of things.",
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"content": "Like I said, just think of money as information. People often will think of money as having power in and of itself. It does not. Money is information, and it does not have power in and of itself. Again, applying the physics tools of thinking about things in the limit is helpful. If you are stranded on a tropical island, and you have a trillion dollars, it’s useless. Because there’s no resource allocation. Money is a databased resource allocation, but there’s no resource to allocate except yourself. So money is useless. If you’re stranded on a desert island with no food, all the Bitcoin in the world will not stop you from starving.\nSo just think of money as a database for resource allocation across time and space. In what form should that database, that data system… what would be most effective? There is a fundamental issue with… say, Bitcoin in its current form, in that it’s… the transaction volume is very limited. And the latency for properly confirmed transaction is too long, much longer than you’d like. So it’s actually not great from a transaction volume standpoint or latency standpoint. It is perhaps useful to solve an aspect of the money database problem, which is a sort of store of wealth or an accounting of relative obligations, I suppose. But it is not useful as a currency, as a day-to-day currency.",
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"content": "Wow. So, you mentioned the Semi, and I think you’re planning to announce this in September, but I’m curious whether there’s anything you could show us today?",
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"content": "I will show you a teaser shot of the truck. (showing) It’s alive.",
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"content": "That’s definitely a case where we want to be cautious about the autonomy features.",
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"content": "But the fact that a human did it too.",
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"content": "Yeah, absolutely.",
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"content": "Do you think that it will be like electronic music? Like people won’t appreciate it like they appreciate a slide guitar?",
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"content": "I like electronic music.",
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"content": "Right. But he doesn’t think it’s a problem, whereas people like you and Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking thought/think it’s a problem.",
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"content": "Yeah, it depends if some people want to live forever or for much longer period of time, and they see digital super intelligence as the only thing that can figure out how to get them to live forever. I think Kurzweil is in that category. So he would prefer to have artificial general intelligence than not because it could figure out longevity.",
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"content": "So, are you optimistic? I read in your Rolling Stone article back in the day that you said you can never be happy unless you’re in love.",
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"content": "Well, you can be half happy, I suppose. I mean, there’s two things, I think, to be most happy. If you’re happy in love, and you love your work, then you will be fully happy. If you have one of those two things, you’d be half happy. You know, roughly.",
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"content": "Because I’ve been using it. I’ve been using Twitter since you’ve taken it over for the last six months.",
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"content": "Okay, then you must have at some point seen a before you hateful content. I’m asking for one example.",
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"content": "And you can’t give us a single one.",
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"content": "They are pretty awesome.",
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"content": "They’re awesome. Yeah.",
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"content": "When I didn’t have any of my own, I would see other people’s kids, and I didn’t not like them, but I wasn’t drawn to them. But now, when I see little people’s kids, I’m like, Oh, I think of them as like these little love packages.",
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"content": "Yeah, little love bugs.",
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"content": "Yes, you can make mistakes.",
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"content": "We can make some mistakes.",
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"content": "We’re all human. We can make mistakes. Yeah, it’s hard. And people love it when you say something, and you take it back, and they’re like, „Fuck you. We saved it forever. I’ll fucking screenshot that shit, bitch. You had that thought. You had that thought.“ I’m like, „Well, I deleted it.“ „Not good enough. You had the thought. I’m better than you. I never had that thought. You had that thought, you piece of shit. Look, I saved it. I put it on my blog. Bad thought.“",
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"content": "Yeah. I’m not sure why people think that anyone would think that deleting a tweet makes them go away. It’s like, „Hello, been on the internet for a while.“ Anything is forever.",
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"content": "United States oscillating between establishing and destroying dictatorships. It’s like a metro… is that a metro?",
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"content": "Yeah, metronome. It’s, I don’t know, a 7 out of 10. It’s kind of true.",
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"content": "Oh, yeah. This is kind of personal for me. Next one.",
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"content": "Oh, man, is this Laika?",
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"content": "Right. There’s so many different things that you could attribute to Covid, too. There’s so many symptoms. There’s diarrhea, headaches, dehydration, cough.",
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"content": "Yes. But to be clear, you don’t even need to have gotten a Covid diagnosis. You simply need to have had one of many symptoms and then have died for some reason, and it’s Covid. So, then it makes the death count look very high, and we’re then stuck in a bind because it looks like the death count’s super high and not going down like it should be. So then, we should keep whatever, keep the shelter in place stuff there, and keep people in their homes, confine people to their homes. So we need to break out of this. We’re stuck in a loop. And I think the way to break out of this loop is to have clarity of information.",
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"content": "The clarity of information will certainly help, but altering perceptions, public perception, from people that are basically in a panic. Well, at least a month ago, we’re clearly in a panic. I mean, when you look around April 5th, April 6th, people were really freaking out. But here we are, May, and May people are relaxing a little bit. They’re realizing like, “Hey, I actually know a couple of people that got it. It was just a cough,” and I know some people that got it where nothing happened.",
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"content": "I know a lot of people who got it. I know zero people who died, but I know a lot of people that got it.",
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"content": "Yeah. So you were on the podcast with Dan; I just had a chat with him about it. He said, you guys went military and all that kind of stuff?",
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"content": "Yeah. It was basically… I think it should be titled ‘engineer wars’. Essentially, when there’s a rapid change in the rate of technology, then engineering plays a pivotal role in victory in battle.",
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"content": "How far back in history did you go? Did you go World War II?",
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"content": "Well, it was supposed to be a deep dive on fighters and bomber technology in World War II. But that ended up being more wide-ranging than that. Because I just went down the whole rabbit hole of studying all of the fighters and bombers in World War II, and the constant rock, paper, scissors game that one country makes this plane, that would make a plane to beat that, and that try to make a plane to beat that. And really, what matters is the pace of innovation and also access to high-quality fuel and raw materials. Germany had some amazing designs, but they couldn’t make them because they couldn’t get the raw materials. And they had a real problem with oil and fuel, basically. The fuel quality was extremely variable.",
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"content": "They’re jazzing stuff up with carbon fiber and doing a bunch of interior choices. You’re cool with… You can’t fuck with that. You don’t have time. So is it good that someone comes along and has that sort of specialty operation?",
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"content": "Yeah. I’ve got no problem.",
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"content": "That’s what it’s called, right? It’s like… Jamie, is it called Apex?\nYeah. I got an\nUnplugged Performance S-APEX\n.\nThat’s right. Unplugged Performance. Yeah.",
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"content": "Yeah. You could, for sure, lighten the car up and improve tire traction and…",
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"content": "A blink.",
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"content": "All of human civilization is a blink of an eye – if there was an eye – on an evolutionary time scale. So, I think it’s important we take the actions to ensure that the light of consciousness continues because we should really view consciousness as a small candle in a vast darkness that could easily go out.",
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"content": "So you have these missions. And somehow, whenever you have a mission, and you have this vision, and you’re a visionary, that somehow whatever you do, you develop other businesses. So when you started SpaceX, you didn’t think about satellites. When you started Tesla, you didn’t think about robots; when you don’t have enough people, you didn’t think about robots. And so you didn’t think about autonomous driving. And without Elon, there would not be electric cars. Nobody who makes cars wants to make electric cars. They’re being forced to make them. In fact, every time they sell electric cars, they sell one fewer car that they make money on. They have all that money invested in plants to make those other cars. So nobody wants to have these cars except for him. And everybody thought it was going to fail. One of the things you said is that patents are for the weak. And you share your patents with other companies. Of course, on the other hand, when they get your patents, you’re two or three years ahead of them.\nThere are definitely roles for patents. In the case of Tesla, our goal is to advance sustainable energy, and we can’t just do it by ourselves. We need the whole industry to go that way, so we gave them our patents for free.\nElon Musk",
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"content": "Well, I’m joking about patents are for the weak. I think there is a role for patents. Let’s say if some company has spent a lot of money developing a particular medicine and had to go through expensive stage three medical trials, and then they finally get some medicine that is approved, but where the drug itself is cheap to manufacture, then I think a patent, in that case, makes sense. Otherwise, no one would go to the trouble of doing stage three medical trials. So there are definitely roles for patents. In the case of Tesla, our goal is to advance sustainable energy, and we can’t just do it by ourselves. We need the whole industry to go that way, so we gave them our patents for free in order to help them accelerate electric vehicles.",
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"content": "Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. My name is Zach Kirkhorn. I lead finance here at Tesla. And welcome to our Investor Day. For those of you here in the audience at our global headquarters in Austin, Texas, we welcome you. Thank you for being here, and thank you for traveling in. For those joining us virtually, thank you for being a part of the day today.\nAs we reflect back on the history of the company, there’s been distinct phases of product advancement, technology, innovation, and rapid volume growth, the most recent of which has been the global expansion and localization of the Model Y program. And so today, we want to talk about the future. We don’t want to talk about this quarter or next quarter. We want to go further out into the future.\nAnd we’ve divided today’s presentation into three parts. The first of which we’re going to go macro. What does it take to convert Earth to sustainable energy generation and use? The second, we want to talk about Tesla’s contribution to that global need. We’re going to go function by function through the company. You’ll meet our entire leadership team. And we’re going to get into the details of what those teams are doing as part of the broader goal. And then, in the third part, we’re going to bring it back up and talk about what this all means for the company as a whole.\nSo before we get started, statements made in this presentation are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. More details can be found in our written materials. So with that, let’s get started. Part one, Elon Musk and Drew Baglino.",
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"content": "Alright, Master Plan Part 3. So, as Zach was mentioning, the thing we wanted to convey, probably more importantly than anything else that we’re talking about here, is that there is a clear path to a sustainable energy Earth. It doesn’t require destroying natural habitats. It doesn’t require us to be austere and stop using electricity and sort of be in the cold or anything. The story – and I think that this holds together quite well, and we’ll be actually publishing detailed white paper with all of our assumptions and calculations – is that there is a clear path to a fully sustainable Earth with abundance.\nIn fact, you could support a civilization much bigger than Earth. Much more than the 8 billion humans could actually be supported sustainably on Earth. And I’m just often shocked and surprised by how few people realize this. Most of the smart people I know actually don’t see this clear path. They think that there’s not a path to a sustainable energy future, or at least there’s not one that is sustainable at our current population, or that would have to resort to extreme measures. None of this is true. So we’re going to walk through the calculations for how to create a sustainable energy civilization.",
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"content": "Elon Musk,\nthis has been a pleasure.",
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"content": "Yeah, likewise.",
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"content": "It really has been.",
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"content": "It’s been an honor. Thank you for having me.",
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"content": "Yeah. That is the woke mind virus, exactly.",
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"content": "Exactly. It’s like, you know, slavery is obviously a horrific institution. But we should still know more about George Washington than that.",
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"content": "And by the way, one that was practiced all over the world forever since the beginning of time by every race. Including people of color. I’m sorry to tell you that. It’s huge in the Bible. The Bible loves it. Really.",
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"content": "Yes, they’re quite strict about, like, you know, don’t take someone else’s slave and that kind of right.",
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"content": "Actually I do have a question and well, I guess people keep DMing me. They’re wondering what’s the future of the Twitter files? Do you still have any journalists working on these things or no?",
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"content": "Yeah, at a certain point we need to move on from the Twitter files, but I think there’s a few things left, but generally I think there’s not a lot that I’m aware of that’s left. So it’s mostly just like, let’s just move on to the future.",
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"content": "That’s fair, yeah. I think that’s more or less true. What are your thoughts on companies like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok following Twitter’s footsteps? I think Facebook recently did a verification thing for $15, which is double the price. What’s your thoughts on that?",
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"content": "Yeah, like I said, my opinion is that any social media organization that does not insist on paid verification will be worthless because at this point, take Instagram for example, you can generate an infinite number of thirst pics using Midjourney and for very little. And at this point, modern AI can pass any human verification test. So the only solution that I can think of is to increase the cost of fake accounts. So if somebody’s paying on the order of $8 a month, that’s $100 a year, and they also need to get a credit card and a phone number from a reputable carrier. So then it’s much harder to create a million bots, whereas if you don’t require those things, it’s trivial, frankly, to create a million bots and they’ll all seem very human and will take very little computing effort to do so. So that’s why I think basically any social media that does not require paid verification will basically cease to be relevant.",
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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": "Yeah. There’s like 10 Vincent’s out.",
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"content": "Alright. And\nthey totally… they copy everything and just like change one…?",
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"content": "In Sachs that used to be in content moderation. And we’ve spoken to people very recently who were involved in moderation. And they just say there’s not enough people to police this stuff. Particularly around hate speech in the company. Is that something that you-",
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"content": "What hate speech are you talking about? I mean, you use Twitter?",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "Do you see a rise in hate speech? Just your personal anecdote, do you? I don’t.",
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"content": "Yeah. So it’s not an outlandish… I didn’t realize that was so core.",
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"content": "Like 1% of Google’s cash would be $500 million. You know, that’s 0.1% percent of Google’s cash.",
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"content": "That’s true. You’re right, that’s inexpensive. It’s nothing.",
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"content": "Relative to them, it’s pretty inexpensive.",
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"content": "Walk us through when you decide to do a tweet. Do you go ‘no, no, no – yes’?",
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"content": "I think about it for hours. And I consult with my strategy team.",
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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": "Right. And as I said-",
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"content": "That’s absurd.",
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"content": "I haven’t actually looked at that feed, I would say, for a few weeks.",
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"content": "Then how would you know there’s hateful content?",
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"content": "This is terrible. Yeah. That’s like fake breasts that are designed to be hard. Like fake breasts from the ’60s. It’s like if you really long for the ones with ripples, here we go. Yeah. That’s almost what that is.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "What are you going to do, man? There’s nothing, you know. There’s nothing you can do to stop certain terrible ideas from propagating.",
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"content": "Yeah. Anyway, I don’t want to sound like things are too dark because I think you kind of have to be optimistic about the future. There’s no point in being pessimistic. It’s just too negative because it is-",
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"content": "...inaudible...",
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"content": "Hi.",
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"content": "What are the determining factors would you say from an engineering perspective? Or is that not the bottlenecks?",
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"content": "No, it’s fundamentally your engineering the vehicle. I mean, Starship is the most complex and advanced rocket that’s ever been made by, I don’t know, an order of magnitude or something like that. It’s a lot. It’s really next level. And the fundamental optimization of Starship is minimizing cost per ton to orbit and ultimately cost per ton to the surface of Mars. This may seem like a mercantile objective, but it is actually the thing that needs to be optimized. There is a certain cost per tonne to the surface of Mars where we can afford to establish a self-sustaining city. And then, above that, we cannot afford to do it. Right now, you couldn’t fly to Mars for a trillion dollars; no amount of money could get you a ticket to Mars. So we need to get that like something that is actually possible at all. We don’t want to just want to have with Mars flags and footprints and then not come back for a half century like we did with the Moon.\nIn order to pass a very important “great filter”, I think we need to be a multi-planet species. This may sound somewhat esoteric to a lot of people, but eventually, given enough time, there’s something… Earth is likely to experience some calamity. That could be something that humans do to themselves or an external event like what happened to the dinosaurs. And if none of that happens, and somehow magically, we keep going, then the sun will… the sun is gradually expanding and will engulf the Earth. And probably Earth gets too hot for life in about 500 million years. It’s a long time, but that’s only 10% longer than Earth has been around.\nThe current situation is really remarkable and kind of hard to believe, but Earth has been around four and a half billion years, and this is the first time in four and a half billion years that it’s been possible to extend life beyond Earth. And that window of opportunity may be open for a long time, and I hope it is, but it also may be open for a short time. And I think it is wise for us to act quickly, while the window is open, just in case it closes.",
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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": "Awesome.\nThe robot is designed, like, the full length is like seven centimeters or eight centimeters.\nYeah, so right now we’re designed for like six millimeters. The actuator itself isn’t actually limited to six millimeters – you can go much deeper. In addition to scaling out sort of to the rest of the surgery, also scaling to deeper, which is mostly a sensing problem. So the ability to avoid deep vasculature is sort of an interesting problem that we’re working on in the robotics world here. So yeah. Lots of cool problems on robot.",
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"content": "You’re leading robot engineering.",
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"content": "Yeah, sorry, I’m Ian; I lead the robotics program here.\nRobot is a man’s best friend. Alright, next question is, “What is the most challenging problem that must be solved in order to meet Neuralink’s ultimate goal?”",
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"content": "Well, I think one of the hardest problems is kind of I’d say material science and especially the installation of the electrodes. What would you say?",
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"content": "And do you think it’s the way of the future, that everyone will follow your lead on this?",
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"content": "I don’t think anyone will ever make anything like the Roadster that we’re going to make.",
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"content": "Let’s talk now about SpaceX, Tesla. You’ve got a lot of lawsuits. You’ve got x.com, you’ve got a lot going on. How do you relax?",
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"content": "Well, I relax… I spend time with my kids, my friends, and\nI am somewhat of a neurotechnologist, so I like to play video games. I’ll play video games with friends online.",
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"content": "Another question about theory of everything, but for intelligence, as you’re exploring this with XAI, creating this intelligence system? Do you think there is a theory of intelligence where you get to understand what is the I in AGI and what is the I in human intelligence?",
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"content": "No, I in team America. Wait, there is.",
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"content": "No, it’s going to be stuck in my head now. Yeah, there’s no me and whatever in quantum mechanics, wait. I mean is that part of the process of discovering, understanding the universe is understanding intelligence?",
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"content": "Yeah. I think we need to understand intelligence, understand consciousness. I mean there are some fundamental questions of what is thought, what is emotion? Is it really just one atom bumping into another atom? It feels like something more than that. So I think we’re probably missing some really big things.",
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"content": "Right. So do you feel you have a kind of odd relationship with the media?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Go on. Explain.",
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"content": "No, it is somewhat of a love-hate relationship, although it might be tilted a bit more towards the hate. But I think that this is sort of part and parcel of having a free media situation, which is that I do take part, in that the media is actually able to trash me on a regular basis in the United States and the UK and whatnot, whereas in a lot of other places, media cannot say mean things to powerful people. But I think it’s better that we have a situation where the media can say mean things to powerful people.",
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"content": "Like I mentioned with SpaceX, you give a lot of people hope, and a lot of people look up to you. Millions of people look up to you. If we think about young people in high school, maybe in college, what advice would you give to them about – if they want to try to do something big in this world, they want to really have a big, positive impact – what advice would you give them about their career, maybe about life in general?",
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"content": "Try to be useful. Do things that are useful to your fellow human beings, to the world. It’s very hard to be useful. Very hard. Are you contributing more than you consume? Try to have a positive net contribution to society. I think that’s the thing to aim for. Not to try to be sort of a leader for the sake of being a leader or whatever. The people you want as leaders are the people who don’t want to be leaders. If you live a useful life, that is a good life, a life worth having lived. And like I said, I would encourage people to use the mental tools of physics and apply them broadly in life. They’re the best tools.",
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"content": "When you think about education and self-education. What do you recommend? There’s the university, there’s self-study. There is hands-on, sort of finding a company or a place or set of people that do the thing you’re passionate about and joining them as early as possible. There’s taking a road trip across Europe for a few years and writing some poetry. Which trajectory do you suggest in terms of learning about how you can become useful, as you mentioned? How you can have the most positive impact?",
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"content": "I encourage people to read a lot of books, basically try to ingest as much information as you can. And try to also just develop a good general knowledge, so you at least have a rough lay of the land of the knowledge landscape. Like, try to learn a little bit about a lot of things. Because you might not know what you’re really interested in. How would you know what you’re really interested in if you at least aren’t like doing it? Peripheral exploration broadly of the knowledge landscape. And talk to people from different walks of life and different industries and professions and skills and occupations. Just try to learn as much as possible. Man search for meaning.",
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"content": "You said to me last couple times ago when we talked, you want to die on Mars. You still want to die on Mars? Just not on landing, right?",
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"content": "Yes, just not on impact.",
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"content": "Well, that would be spectacular.",
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"content": "Yes, but you wouldn’t get to enjoy it much, you know, just a second or so.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "It’s your perception.",
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"content": "Is it your perceptions or is it, you know, a scale that we have under your butt. You’re right here. I’ve measured you. You’re the same weight as you were when you left. But meanwhile, your experience is probably different-",
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"content": "Why do you think you’re where you are right now? You might not be.",
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"content": "This is mind-blowing. And then on Tesla. I mean, Tesla’s obviously, from my vantage, it’s a huge success. What do you think in that industry… well, I’ll ask kind of the same question. What did you think… this is something that GM and Toyota and these massive multi-billion dollar organizations have been trying. What gave you the confidence to pursue it? And now that it seems to be a huge success, where do you think this industry’s going to be the next 5, 10 years?",
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"content": "With Tesla, the goal is to try to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. I think it would happen anyway, just out of necessity. But because we have an un-priced externality in the cost of gasoline… – We weren’t pricing in the environmental effects of CO2 in the oceans and atmosphere. That’s causing the normal market forces to not function properly.\nAnd so the goal of Tesla is to try to act as a catalyst to accelerate those sort of normal forces. The normal sort of market reaction that would occur. We’re trying to have a catalytic effect on that. And try to make it happen, I don’t know, maybe ten years sooner than it would otherwise occur. That’s the goal of Tesla. So that’s the reason we’re making electric cars and not any other kind of car. And we also supply powertrains to Toyota and to Mercedes and maybe to other car companies in the future to accelerate their production of electric vehicles. So that’s the goal there. And so far, it’s working out pretty well.",
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"content": "I mean, I just saw a news report earlier today that you sold more Model S’s than… you are leading that segment of the industry. The Mercedes S Class, the BMW 7 Series, or the Lexus LS400, or whatever it is.",
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"content": "Yeah, actually, that seems to be the case. I didn’t realize they sold so few cars in that segment. Because we don’t sell that many cars. We sell 5,000 a quarter, you know, 12,000…",
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"content": "Like your E class. That’s what it needed.",
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"content": "That E type?",
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"content": "Yeah, the Jaguar E type with a giant long hood, that could be a giant solar panel.",
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"content": "Well, at the beginning of Tesla, I did want to have this like unfolding solar panel thing. They’d press a button, and it would just like unfold these solar panels, and like charge/recharge your car in the parking lot. Yeah, we could do that, but I think it’s probably better to just put that on your roof.",
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"content": "Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was.",
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"content": "Batman fought dragons? I don’t-",
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"content": "No, it wasn’t Batman, but it’s Christian Bale.\n‘\nReign of Fire\n’.",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "Steering wheel? Seat?",
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"content": "I think the steering wheel was almost the same. Yes, the windscreen.",
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"content": "Different?",
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"content": "No, the windscreen is the same. We were able to keep the windscreen.",
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"content": "Both in number of things you manufacture, something like that, and then in time?",
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"content": "Yeah, let’s say, take an example of manufacturing, which I think is just a very underrated problem. And like I said, it’s much harder to take an advanced technology part and bring it into volume manufacturing than it is to design it in the first place. More is magnitude. Let’s say you’re trying to figure out, why is this part or product expensive? Is it because of something fundamentally foolish that we’re doing? Or is it because our volume is too low? And so then you say, okay, well, what if our volume was a million units a year? Is it still expensive? That’s what I mean with thinking about things in the limit. If it’s still expensive at a million units a year, then volume is not the reason why your thing is expensive. There’s something fundamental about the design.",
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"content": "And then you can focus on reducing complexity or something like that.",
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"content": "Got to change the design, change the part, to be something that is not fundamentally expensive. That’s a common thing in rocketry because the unit volume is relatively low. And so a common excuse would be, “Well, it’s expensive because our unit volume is low. And if we were in like automotive or something like that, or consumer electronics, then our costs will be lower.” And I’m like, “Okay, so let’s say, now you’re making a million units a year. Is it still expensive?” If the answer is yes, then economies of scale are not the issue.",
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"content": "What’s that for?",
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"content": "It’s pretty private to ask somebody about a medical prescription, but I think… Something I’d say, there are times when I have sort of a negative chemical state in my brain. Like depression, I guess. Or depression that’s not linked to any negative news and then ketamine is helpful for getting one out of a negative frame of mind.",
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"content": "Listen-",
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"content": "In fact, I generally… Obviously, I’m not a doctor, but I would say, if someone has depression issues, they should consider talking to their doctor about ketamine instead of SSRIs.",
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"content": "While your car is just traveling.",
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"content": "It’s kind of eerie. It’s kind of eerie.",
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"content": "What did you think when you saw that video of that dude fallen asleep behind the wheel? I’m sure you’ve seen it, the one in San Francisco. It’s like right outside of San Jose, the dude’s out cold, like this. And the car’s an inch bumper-to-bumper in traffic moving along. You’ve seen it, right?",
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"content": "Yeah. We changed the software. That’s, I think, an old video. We changed software. If you don’t touch the wheel, it will gradually slow down, and put the emergency lights on, and wake you up.",
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"content": "So do you want to do that? What does that look like in Elon’s head?",
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"content": "No, that’s literally… Yeah, good phrase, in the head. A neural link.",
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"content": "Well there we go. We need to touch that before it’s over.",
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"content": "The best interface would be a neural interface directly to your brain. So that would be a neural link.",
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"content": "Great to see you, and congratulations.",
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"content": "Thank you.",
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"content": "You will never forget what is going on in the world when you think about when your child is born. You will know for the rest of this child’s life; you were born during a weird time.",
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"content": "That’s for sure.",
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"content": "How many years? Before you don’t have to talk.",
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"content": "If the development continues to accelerate, then maybe five years. Five to 10 years.",
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"content": "That’s quick. That’s really quick.",
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"content": "That’s the best-case scenario.",
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"content": "Thank you very much. Can I get a selfie with you? I post it on Twitter.",
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"content": "Also, please use Twitter.",
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"content": "I’m doing this right now.",
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"content": "(addresses the audience)\nAnd please subscribe to Twitter verified, eight bucks. Actually, it’s technically at 7.99, so slightly less. But I really encourage everyone here to use Twitter. And, you know, yeah, please do that.\n(laughing)",
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