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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": "Well, that would certainly be better for all involved if they made better stuff.",
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"content": "Yeah, absolutely. Manufacturing used to be highly valued in the United States, and these days it’s not. It’s often looked down upon, which I think is wrong.",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, I think that people are kind of learning that particularly because of this whole pandemic and this relationship that we have with China, that there’s a lot of value in the making things and in the making things here.",
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"content": "Yes. Somebody’s got to do the real work. You know, like, making a car, it’s an honest day’s living, that’s for sure. Making anything, really, or providing a valuable service like providing good entertainment, good information, these are all valuable things to do. Yeah, there should be more of it.",
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"content": "But does it know how to like correct? You know how, like, when your ass end kicks out, you know, how to counter-steer?",
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"content": "Oh, yeah. No, it’s really good.",
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"content": "It knows how to do it?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "(reads aloud a question from saytechnologies.com)\nHow have the technology advancements and increased vertical integration of battery manufacturing influenced your ability to improve the environmental and social impact of the supply chain?",
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"content": "We sort of have said that already.\n(to the person who’s in charge of the screen)\nDo we have some ability to scroll through this? Just scroll away.",
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"content": "We covered recycling.",
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"content": "Yeah. Just scroll until we’ve got stuff that we haven’t covered.",
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"content": "Not exactly. I mean I was going to get to that later, but let’s go for it now. It’s officially objected to that term. Do you want to respond to it?",
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"content": "Yeah. So our goal is simply to be as truthful and accurate as possible. So I think we’re adjusting the label to be “publicly funded” which I think is perhaps not too objectionable? We’re trying to be accurate.",
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"content": "I’m not the BBC, but publicly funded is how the BBC describes itself.",
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"content": "Okay. So that would be accurate. If we use the same words that the BBC uses to describe itself, that presumably would be okay. I’m not asking you for a yes or no, since you’re not running BBC per se. It probably seems to pass a reasonable test.",
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"content": "Something you said about conspicuous acts of kindness as a geopolitical policy, it almost seems naive, but I’d venture to say that this is probably the path forward, how you avoid most wars. Just as you say it sounds naive, but it’s kind of brilliant. If you believe in the goodness of underlying most of human nature, it just seems like conspicuous acts of kindness can reverberate through the populace of the countries involved and deescalate.",
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"content": "Absolutely. So after World War I, they made a big mistake. They basically tried to lump all of blame on Germany and saddle Germany with impossible reparations. And really there was quite a bit of blame to go around for World War I, but they try to put it all in Germany and that laid the seeds for World War II. So a lot of people, were not just Hitler, a lot of people felt wronged and they wanted vengeance and they got it.",
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"content": "People don’t forget.",
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"content": "Yeah, you kill somebody’s father, mother or son, daughter, they’re not going to forget it. They’ll want vengeance. So after World War II, they’re like, “Well, the Treaty of Versi was a huge mistake in World War I. And so this time, instead of crushing the losers, we’re actually going to help them with the module plan, and we’re going to help rebuild Germany. We’re going to help rebuild Austria and Italy and whatnot.” So that was the right move.",
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"content": "Fun time.\nEnjoyed that.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Thanks for doing it.\nThe entertainment.",
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"content": "You’re most welcome. All right, thanks. Signing off guys.",
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"content": "I’m talking about the great replacement theory is also part of a Jewish conspiracy theory and when you did the tweet or you responded to the tweet about that, you ended up apologizing, which I think it is good that you ended up apologizing. You went to Auschwitz with Ben Shapiro.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "You said you learned your lesson. What did you learn?",
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"content": "I said I learned my lesson?",
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"content": "But good vibes, comradery humor, like friendship.",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, I don’t know AOC. I was at the Met ball when she attended, and she was wearing this dress. But I can only see one side of it, so it looked like eat the itch, but I don’t know-",
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"content": "What the rest of it said? Yeah.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "What was that movie with — What’s his face? Bradley — Not Bradley Cooper, Christian? No. What the fuck is his name? Batman. Who is Batman?\nChristian Bale.\nChristian Bale, where they fought dragons. Him and Matthew McConaughey. He went down deep into the earth. How deep can you go?",
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"content": "I don’t think that was Batman.",
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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": "I would hope so.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "It’s just, I mean, once you enjoy the\nDoctor Manhattan\nlifestyle, once you become a god seems very unlikely you’re going to want to go back to being stupid again. I mean, you literally could fundamentally change the way human beings interface with each other.",
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"content": "Yes. You wouldn’t need to talk.",
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"content": "Symbiosis is a scary word when it comes to AI.",
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"content": "It’s optional.",
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"content": "I would hope so.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "So obviously, the issues we’re facing are very serious with climate change, and we’re experiencing these issues on a day-to-day basis. It’s incredibly important that we accelerate the advent of sustainable energy. Time really matters. This presentation is about accelerating the time to sustainable energy. The past five years were the hottest on record. We have what looks like a wall for CO2 ppm. It’s obviously… This time is not like the past. It’s really important that we take action. Running this climate experiment is insane, so…",
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"content": "Especially when it’s just a transitory one, anyway.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "So what was next? We were in boiler rooms – and then?",
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"content": "Yeah, I meant, literally I was like a lumberjack who’s chainsawing logs, and just doing lumber stuff, basically, for a few months there. And then applied for college, went to Queen’s University in Kingston. I was there for a couple years, and then somebody said I should apply to UPenn. I didn’t think I’d be able to go because I paid my way through university, which is actually not that hard in Canada because the tuition is highly subsidized in Canada. So with basically some… – if you sort of work during the summer semester and take out some loans and get some scholarships, you can pretty much go to any college in Canada, I think.\nBut I met someone who was at UPenn, and they said you should at least apply, and I applied, and they actually gave me quite a big scholarship. That allowed me to go there, and so I did the physics and economics there . And then, that’s what led to the road trip to Stanford with Robin Ren. It was during that summer that I was like, “Okay, I can either spend several years kind of doing a Ph.D. in ….” – Not that I cared about the Ph.D., actually. I just needed a lab. But I could either spend a bunch of years working in a lab and maybe the technology would pan out, or maybe it wouldn’t. But the internet was definitely about to go supernova in 95. So it was like, “Okay, look, I can always come back to working on electric cars, basically,” which I did. “But the internet is not going to wait.”\nSo then I put Stanford on deferment and started up to which was really just … we started off with maps and directions, Yellow Pages, White Pages, that kind of thing. It was – that’s my knowledge – the first map and directions on the internet. So there’s still some patents I have – I don’t know if I have them anymore like I think they lapsed at this point – but for maps and directions and Yellow Pages and advertising and stuff. The whole initial codebase I wrote personally because there wasn’t anyone else. It was just me.\nI only had a few $1,000. My brother joined, and he brought like $5,000, which was a lot. Yeah, at least for the first few months, there was literally only one computer. So, when the website wasn’t working, it was because I was compiling code. And even to get an internet connection was pretty hard. But there was an internet service provider on the floor below us. We more or less squatted in this office because the landlord was always like out of the country or something, and nobody was using it.",
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"content": "So you lived in there?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "But once you get literally safe hands-off driving, the power to disrupt the whole industry seems massive, because at that point you’ve spoken of people being able to buy a car that drops you off at work, and then you let it go and provide a sort of Uber-like service to other people, earn you money, maybe even cover the cost of your lease of that car, so you can kind of get a car for free. Is that really likely?",
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"content": "Yes, absolutely. This is what will happen. There will be a shared autonomy fleet where you buy your car, and you can choose to use that car exclusively, you could choose to have it be used only by friends and family, only by other drivers who are rated five stars, you can choose to share it sometimes but not other times. That’s 100 percent what will occur. It’s just a question of when.",
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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": "How did it feel when it was a success? First, when the launch was a success and when they returned back home, or back to Earth?",
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"content": "There was a great relief. Yeah. For high-stress situations, I find it’s not so much elation as relief. I think as we got more comfortable and proved out the systems because we really… you got to make sure everything works. It was definitely a lot more enjoyable with the subsequent astronaut missions. And I thought the Inspiration Mission was actually very inspiring – the “Inspiration4” mission. I’d encourage people to watch the Inspiration documentary on Netflix; it’s actually really good. And it really isn’t… I was actually inspired by that. So that one I felt, I was kind of able to enjoy the actual mission and not just be super stressed all the time.",
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"content": "So, for people that somehow don’t know, it’s the all civilian, first time all civilian out to space, out to orbit.",
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"content": "Yeah, it was, I think, the highest orbit that in like, I don’t know, 30 or 40 years or something. The only one that was higher was this one shuttle, sorry, a Hubble servicing mission. And then, before that, it would have been Apollo in 72. It’s pretty wild. So it’s cool. It’s good. I think as a species, we want to be continuing to do better and reach higher ground. I think it would be tragic, extremely tragic, if Apollo was the high watermark for humanity, and that’s as far as we ever got. It’s concerning that here we are 49 years after the last mission to the Moon – so almost half a century. And we’ve not been back. That’s worrying; it’s like, does that mean we’ve peaked as a civilization or what?\nSo I think we got to get back to the Moon and build a base there, a science base. I think we could learn a lot about the nature of the universe if we have a proper science base on the Moon. We have a science base in Antarctica and many other parts of the world. So that’s what I think the next big thing we’ve got to have like a serious Moonbase. And then get people to Mars and get out there and be a spacefaring civilization.",
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"content": "Oh, yeah, take your time. What was your… – did you always think you were going to be doing this or– when did it dawn on you that you would try to revolutionize three industries?",
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"content": "Well, when I was in college… – I didn’t actually expect to do it. It was not like this is some long-fulfilled expectation. But when I was in college, I thought about what were the areas that would most affect the future of humanity, in my opinion. The three areas were the internet, sustainable energy, and space exploration, particularly if humanity becomes a multi-planet species. You know, there’s kind of like a pretty substantial bifurcation in our future, if we’re either out there among stars on multiple planets, or if we’re confined to Earth until some obviously eventual extinction. Not that I’m pessimistic about life on Earth. I mean, things are likely to be good. More likely to be good by far than bad.",
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"content": "Yellowstone’s due for an explosion every several hundred thousand… Shandra\n(in the audience)\nknows about that. It’s been 700,000 since.",
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"content": "Right. Right. Yeah.",
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"content": "Autopilot. Tesla Autopilot has been through an incredible journey over the past six years, or perhaps even longer in your mind, in the minds of many involved.",
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"content": "I think that’s where we first connected, really, was the autopilot stuff, autonomy and…",
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"content": "And with very little energy trade-off. Just enough to have, you still want to use 100% nickel for something like a semi-truck, but really not much of a sacrifice at all.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "And beyond the metals – because a lot of people spend time talking about the metals – actually, the cathode process itself is a big target. 35% of the cathode $/kWh is just in transferring it into its final form. And so we see that as a big target. And we decided to take that on.\nHere’s a view of the traditional cathode process. Effectively, if you start at the left and you have the metal from the mine, the first thing that happens is the metal from the mine is changed into an intermediate thing called a metal sulfate, because that just happened to be what chemists wanted a long time ago. And then when you’re making the cathode, you have to take this intermediate thing called the metal sulfate, add chemicals, add a whole bunch of water, a whole bunch of stuff happens in the middle, and at the end, you get that little bit of cathode and a whole bunch of wastewater and by-products.",
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"content": "It’s insanely complicated. If you look at the total, it’s a small world journey of, “I am a nickel atom, what happens to me?” And it is crazy. Like, you’re going around the world three times… there’s like the moral equivalent of digging the ditch, filling the ditch, and digging the ditch again. It’s total madness, basically.\nAnd these things just grew up; they’re just kind of like legacy things; it’s like how it was done before, and then they connected the dots but really didn’t think of the whole thing from a first principle standpoint saying, “How do we get from the nickel ore in the ground to the finished nickel product for a battery?” So we’ve looked at the entire value chain and said, “How can we make this as simple as possible?”",
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"content": "It’s like, it gives you this weird thrill like you’re on this clunky ride, and there’s all this feedback. There’s something to that.",
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"content": "Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, yeah. My E-Type is like basically no electronics.",
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"content": "Yeah. So, you like that, but you also like electronics.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "2012, you came to DealBook and sat on this stage and we’re thrilled to have you back, but there’s been so much that’s happened between now and then and there’s been so much that’s happened in the past week, week and a half. And a lot of folks, and I want to tell you this, a lot of folks called me up and said, you really going to host Elon Musk here? Can you believe what he just said on X?",
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"content": "No idea what this Twitter thing is you keep talking about.",
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"content": "Should you platform him? That’s what they said. Should you platform him? Then I said that I think that it’s our role and I know you have issues with journalists.",
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"content": "I have a platform.",
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"content": "Work of art. He did a new one today, Lord of the Rings, I think.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s amazing. And actually, even the AI fashion is great.",
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"content": "Right. If I was a fashion designer, I’d be taking ideas from this because the stuff that makes-",
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"content": "Absolutely.",
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"content": "Yeah. To make the best cars in the world, we designed vehicles in factories from the ground up. And now we do this for batteries as well.\nLet’s get started. We have a plan to halve the cost per kilowatt-hour. And it’s not a plan that rests on a single innovation, some research project that will never see the light of day. It’s a plan that has taken creative engineering and industrialization across every facet of what makes a cell into a battery pack, from raw material to the finished thing. And we’re going to go through that plan with you today, step-by-step, and build up how we get to these goals and how we accelerate this transition and make our vehicles and our grid batteries more affordable.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, we basically thought through every element of the battery, or almost every element. There are a few more elements that we won’t get to today, but we will get to in the future.",
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"content": "Yes. So first, before we get too far into it, let’s talk about what is in a battery cell. We’ve got the cap and the can, negative and positive terminals of the cell. When you open that cell, you’ve got a tab connected to those terminals, what we call the jelly roll, which is the wound electrodes on the inside. You can actually see what this looks like as you unwind it. This is over a meter long in a typical 2170 cell. So, it’s quite a long winding process. And you can see the tab still there. And then to explain what’s actually going on here, we’ve identified, we’ve got anode, cathode, separator, positive and negative terminal.\nWatch what happens as we – there we go – discharge the cell. Got lithium moving from anode to cathode. And then the reverse, when we charge the cell, lithium moving from cathode to anode across the separator. This is the basic of what makes all lithium-ion batteries, no matter what the form factor is.\nAnd when we look at what’s happened today, at least in our products, we’ve moved from the 18650 form factor to the 2170 form factor through great collaboration with our partners, Panasonic, new partners like LG and CATL, and probably others in the future.",
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"content": "Actually, slight note on why is the one called 18650, although not on the slide, versus the 2170, is that the first two digits refer to the diameter, and the second two digits refer to the length. So that helps explain what’s up with these weird numbers. But nobody could explain to me why there was an extra zero. So I, so I said, “Okay, well, we’re deleting the zero that nobody can explain in future form factors.” So that’s why it’s technically, it’s like the 18650 bizarrely, but going forward, it’s the 2170 because we just got rid of the extra zero because it’s pointless.",
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"content": "I’ve always wondered as a layperson, do you try to achieve the same results as the human brain but through different methods? Or do you try to copy the way a human brain achieves results?",
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"content": "I mean, the essential elements of an AI neural net are really very similar to a human brain neural net. Yeah. It’s having the multiple layers of neurons and, you know,\nbackpropagation\n. All these things are what your brain does. You have a layer of neurons that goes through a series of intermediate steps to ultimately cognition, and then it’ll reverse those steps and go back and forth and go all over the place. It’s interesting. Very interesting.",
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"content": "Yeah, I would imagine. The thought of programming something that is eventually going to be smarter than us that one day it’s going to be like: “Why did you do it that way?” When artificial intelligence becomes sentient, they’re like: “Oh, you tried to mimic yourself. This is so much better process. Cut out all this nonsense.”",
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"content": "Like I said, there are elements that are the same but just like an aircraft does not fly like a bird.",
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"content": "For sure, yeah.",
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"content": "They would crash into somebody.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "And, in fact, the thing that really, you know, got me to — It’s like, „Man, we better get autopilot going and get it out there.“ A guy was in an early Tesla driving down the highway, and he fell asleep, and he ran over a cyclist and killed him. I was like, „Man, if we had autopilot, he might have fallen asleep, but, at least, he wouldn’t run over that cyclist.“",
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"content": "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": "Have you seen that company’s stuff? What they do?",
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"content": "I don’t know specifically, but there’s…",
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"content": "Well, so if you had a dramatic experience?",
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"content": "This whole thing right now could be a replayed memory.",
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"content": "It could be.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "But I’ve also been discriminated against and I know that I have, and I know that that’s real. And for someone to say that that isn’t happening and I should just move forward and not think about that and ignore the past is insulting.",
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"content": "I’m not saying it. Don, you keep putting words in my mouth. I’m not saying it’s not happening.",
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"content": "I didn’t say that you said it.",
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"content": "I’m saying that we as a country should move beyond questions of race and gender and we should treat people like individuals and base our opinions on their character and their skills.",
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"content": "Listen, I’m not asking you anything that anyone else hasn’t asked you about your controversial stuff that you tweet. You post a lot of controversial stuff. Is that considered blowing off steam?",
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"content": "I guess I do enjoy using the platform. I do call the X platform the PVP or player-versus-player platform. In video games there’s a player versus environment, where you’re not playing against other people, and then there’s PVP, which is hardcore, you’re actually playing against other people.",
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"content": "But that’s blowing off steam for you.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "The reason I mentioned this though, is because you’ve had the success in the physical physics world, you now have these very difficult decisions that have huge impacts on the world that are not physical decisions at all. They’re decisions of the mind. They’re decisions that you and others have to make. And there’s a question whether you should be making these decisions at all. And I think about it in the context of Starlink. Obviously there was the report about how it’s being used in Ukraine and the Russia war. There’s questions about Taiwan, whether Taiwan should use it or will use it. I believe they’re not right now, because they’re worried that at some point maybe the Chinese will tell you that they have leverage over you and you’re going to have to turn that off. These are very difficult decisions and I’m so curious how you think about that. And not just the decisions, the fact that you have that power.",
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"content": "I think it’s important for the audience to understand that the reason I have these powers is not because of some anti-competitive actions. It’s simply because we’ve executed very well.",
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"content": "Oh, I’m not dismissing that. I think there’s so many people, by the way, who are huge supporters of what you’ve created.",
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"content": "There are other satellites out there, you know?",
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"content": "But I think once we had the Java map, which was really quite impressive – I mean if you’ve never seen… if you’ve never seen Google Maps or Yahoo Maps before, it really is a remarkable thing to see. We started to go… we got some audiences with some venture capitalists. And it just went from, we were starving, we had no car or the car we had had broken…",
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"content": "The wheel fell off.",
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"content": "The wheel fell off, yeah.\nWhat kind of car was it?\nI remember that.\nAn old BMW 3 Series. Where we did a road trip across the country.\nWas this the one you (…1:12:17)?",
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"content": "Yeah, the one that my mom has some pictures of.",
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"content": "Okay. Yes.",
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"content": "And generally, you want to embark on something… it’s desirable to figure out if success is at least one of the possibilities.",
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"content": "Right, exactly.",
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"content": "Because for sure, failure is one of the possibilities. But, ideally, you want to try to bracket it and say success is in the envelope of outcomes. I wasn’t quite sure if that was the case. I think success on an academic level would have been quite likely because you can publish some useless paper. And most papers are pretty useless…",
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"content": "I understand. Last time you were here, you convince me to buy a Tesla. I bought it, and it’s fucking insane.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Oh great. Glad you like it.",
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"content": "Aw, man.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Pretty fun.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "So, non-linguistic, consensual, and conceptual.",
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"content": "Yes, exactly. Non-linguistic consensual conceptual telepathy.",
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"content": "I’ve actually been excited from the beginning sort of about the like side benefit of these devices. I sort of see them as… essentially like an oscilloscope to a printed circuit board is our device to the brain, where just by virtue of having this in there, and being able to see what’s actually going on, you’ll end up learning a ton about how the brain works. And so sort of augmenting people, but also just using that to learn a lot more about neurological diseases is really exciting to me.\nAbsolutely.\nSo to sort of follow up on Elon’s thought – you know, I feel – and I imagine a lot of other people feel the same way – that there’s a lot of sort of trapped creativity in your mind. You can, for example, close your eyes and conjure up an incredible, like Dali-esque scene. But you know, if I wanted to actually show someone that it would take years of honing a craft to be able to paint that. And so, you know, potentially with enough electrodes in the right places, you could begin to sort of tap into those raw concepts or thought vectors and be able to decode that and show people. It could be for art, you mentioned music, or even for engineering, like a three-dimensional model.\nSo, mental artistry as a new field.\nI like to think about ways to interface devices with biology better. And so one of the things I’m looking forward to is getting this thing to look less like technology and more like biology, so that it really is, you know, seamlessly interfaced with the brain, stable for a very long time. And then similar to that, having stimulation be much more precise and multidimensional, such that, eventually, the brain sort of doesn’t really know if it’s being stimulated from outside or inside, and you end up just sort of completely merging.\nYou know, following up on stimulation, one of the things our device can do is simultaneously read and write on every channel, stimulate and record. And that’s, you know, both a more challenging problem than it may seem like at first, but also, you know, incredibly exciting, the sort of the vistas that it opens up is really kind of the whole game in terms of interfacing with the nervous system. And I’m very excited to use that.\nYeah, I’m excited just because of the scalability of the device. We’re doing everything in-house, and all of it can scale to more channels, more brain regions, etc. I think, yeah, I’m really interested about solving things related to anxiety or depression, or even like removing fear, like an athlete until like rock climb without fear would be…",
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"content": "Maybe a little bit of fear.",
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"content": "And what did you tell him about this pit? I mean, you just said this is the beginning of this idea.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "We’re going to build tunnels under L.A. to help funnel traffic better, and there you go? And they just go ‘okay’? We’ve joked around about this in the podcast before that, like, what other person can go to the people that run the city and go ‘hey, we’re going to dig some holes in the ground and put some tunnels in there’, and they go ‘oh yeah, okay’.",
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"content": "It’s just another hole in the ground. People dig holes in the ground all the time.",
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"content": "What does this mean…",
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"content": "What does this mean for our future products? So we’re confident that long-term, we can design and manufacture a compelling $25,000 electric vehicle. This has always been our dream from the beginning of the company. I even wrote a blog piece about it. Because our first car was an expensive sports car, then it was a slightly less expensive sedan, and then finally sort of a, I don’t know, mass-market premium, like the Model 3 and Model Y. But it really was always our goal to try to make an affordable electric car. And I think probably, like I said, about three years from now, we’re confident we can make a very compelling $25,000 electric vehicle that’s also fully autonomous.",
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"content": "And when you think about the $25,000 price point, you have to consider how much less expensive it is to own an electric vehicle. So actually, it becomes even more affordable at that $25,000 price point.",
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"content": "Yeah. So we have “\nAnd\nExtreme Performance and Range”. And we should probably talk about the Model S Plaid. What about that?\nSo, yeah. Anyway, we took the latest Plaid out to Laguna Seca on Sunday, it got a minute thirty, and we think probably there’s another three seconds or more to take off that time. So we’re confident the Model S Plaid will achieve the best track time of any production vehicle ever, of any kind, two-door or otherwise. And you can order it now. And it’s available basically end of next year.\nAnd now we’ll move to Q&A.",
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"content": "And each one is exactly the same.",
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"content": "Yeah. It’s got to be, if Lego’s two presses is too soft or too hard – if it was too soft the presses won’t work, it’s too hard you can’t get it on. But they can get make something that is a tiny fraction of a millimeter accurate, and it’s a low-cost toy, by 20 box for a Lego set. If Lego can be that precise and so could a car.",
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"content": "Exactly. Actually, I got to tell you; I applaud BMW for putting out the i3 but (… 30:01). But the thing we got from it was that carbon fiber body was absolutely perfect. If you had the stiffness of the castings down below and you take a carbon fiber, basically, structure and put it over the top, absolutely every door is always going to be perfect. You won’t have to have fixtures; you won’t have to have anything. It just goes, “Boom, done.”\nThat’s ultimately what I think a perfect build is probably going to go for. But most people don’t want to do it because they’re talking about “Oh, carbon fiber is so expensive.” No, it’s not. It’s not really that expensive. At the end of the day, you have to take a look at the total account it costs. How much does it cost to, basically, where is all the tooling and whatnot, how about all the scrap that you get on and on and on?",
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"content": "There are some other issues with carbon fiber, which is that carbon fiber with resin has a coefficient of thermal expansion, which is basically zero. If you have parts that are aluminum or steel that’s, aluminum’s got quite a high\nCTE\n; stainless has about halfway. So, if you have a hot versus a cold environment like you can’t have your doors jam. Matching CTE is pretty important for things like a door frame. If we’re using steel, we probably need to stay with a steel door because otherwise, we’re going to get CTE issues.",
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"content": "And half the population is confused whether it’s true or not. But more seriously, thinking about the wars going on in the world today, and as you know, war and military conquest has been a big part of Roman society and culture, and I think has been a big part of most empires and dynasties throughout human history.",
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"content": "Yeah, they usually came as a result of conquest. I mean, there’s some like the Hapsburg Empire where there was just a lot of clever marriages.",
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"content": "But fundamentally there’s an engine of conquest and they celebrate excellence in warfare, many of the leaders were excellent generals, that kind of thing. So a big picture question, Grok approved, I asked if this is a good question to ask.",
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"content": "Tested, Grok approved. Yeah.",
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"content": "But in some places, a panic is deserved, right? Like if you’re in the ICU in Manhattan and people are dying left and right and everyone’s on intubators. It seems like when you see all these people on ventilators, and so many of them are dying, and you see these nurses are dying and doctors are getting sick. In some places, that fear is justified, but then in other places, you’re reading these stories about hospitals that are essentially half empty. They’re having to furlough doctors and nurses because there’s no work for them.",
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"content": "Most of the hospitals in the United States right now are half empty. In some cases, they’re at 30% capacity.",
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"content": "Is this because they’ve decided to forgo elective procedures and normal things that people would have to go to the hospital for?",
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"content": "Yes. I mean, we’re not talking about just…- some of these elective procedures are quite important. Like you have a bad heart.",
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"content": "What’s the way out of this? What do you think is, if you had the president’s ear, or if people wanted to just listen to you openly, what do you think is the way out of this?",
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"content": "Let’s just clear up the data. Clear up the data. So like I said, somebody should be recorded as Covid only if somebody has been tested – has received a positive Covid test. Not if they simply have symptoms, one of like a hundred symptoms. And then if it is a Covid death, it must be separated: Was Covid a primary reason for death, or did they also have stage three cancer, or heart disease, emphysema, and got hit by a bus and had Covid?",
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"content": "Yeah. I’ve read all this stuff about them diagnosing people as a Covid death despite other variables.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "This is not a question. This is what is occurring.",
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"content": "Hey, sweetie.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Exactly.",
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"content": "Why don’t you wake up?",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "You could pick whatever you want. Yes.",
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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": "Never saw that?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "No.",
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"content": "Just a quick add-on to the content counsel. Will they also weigh in on account suspension? And how you think about banning folks?",
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"content": "I think\nweigh in\nis the correct word. You know, at the end of the day, I am the chief twit here. So the responsibility is mine. I think it’s difficult to really say anything… To say anything else would be what I think be disingenuous. It is both. If things go wrong, it’s my fault. Because the buck stops with me. But I would like to hear what people have to say and then we’ll make our decisions accordingly. And obviously, if we make or if I make decisions that people don’t like, then advertisers will leave the system and users will leave the system and we will fail.",
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"content": "I appreciate you saying that actually, because I would like to know what you would have to say to the brands that are paused or holding on running right now during this transition.",
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"content": "Yeah, well, I understand if people wanting to kind of, you know, give it a minute and kind of see how things are evolving. But really, you know, the best way to see how things are evolving is just use Twitter and see how’s your experience. Has your experience changed? Is it better? Is it worse? As you’re always saying, actually, we’ve been more rigorous about clamping down on bad content and bots and trolls, not less.\nSo my observation of Twitter over the past few weeks is that the content is actually improving, not getting worse. But actually, if there’s anyone on the call who would like to speak up, if they think this is actually not the case, please say so.",
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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": "Listen, I think that ketamine and drug therapy is increasingly becoming more in the mainstream.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "And the nickel reserves have actually grown.",
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"content": "Yes, there’s more, exactly. And you only need nickel for basically aircraft, long-range boats, and very long-range cars or trucks. But the vast majority of the heavy lifting for electrification will be iron-based cells. Iron is actually literally the most common element on Earth. So – trivial point – if you say like, what is Earth made of? By mass, it is made of iron more than anything else, and second, oxygen, and then everything else after that. So basically, a muddy rust ball is what Earth is. You’re definitely not going to run out of iron. There’s so much iron, it’s insane.",
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"content": "And ultimately, you know, this resource extraction, we go through this effort, we build these batteries, and then we recycle these batteries – so ultimately, we’re doing this to build this sustainable energy economy. But the maintenance amount of ore that we require is really an order of magnitude less because of recycling. So, in the end, a sustainable energy economy is within our reach. And we should accelerate it.",
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"content": "This is really the main message of today, and I really wanted today to be not just about Tesla investors who own stock, but really anyone who is an investor in Earth. And what we’re trying to convey is a message of hope and optimism. Optimism that is based on actual physics and real calculations. It’s not wishful thinking. Earth can and will move to a sustainable energy economy and will do so in your lifetime. Thank you.",
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"content": "And where did the original investment come from? Your own pocket money, or financed by your mother?",
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"content": "Yes. Well, I had about $3,000 and a computer. And then my brother came and joined, and he had about I think $5,000. And then another friend of ours came, he had $6,000. So really, this is not a lot. And in the beginning, we didn’t have enough money to rent an apartment and an office. So the office was actually cheaper. So we slept in the office. And we thought maybe it was more impressive to have an office; you can’t have people come to an apartment. But at night, we would just sleep on the couch in the office, and then we would go to the YMCA to shower. And in the very beginning, we only had one computer, so the website only worked during the day because at night, I was programming software.",
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"content": "Well, I mean, your brother and a friend joined you, but you were ready to fail. How did you convince them to join you?",
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"content": "Oh, they thought we would fail, too.",
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"content": "So, magnet road?",
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"content": "Yes, underground magnet roads.",
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"content": "Underground magnet roads?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah. Otherwise, you’re going to really create a lot of trouble because there are metal things.",
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"content": "… because you’re a super genius. But I, as a normal person, I know there’s people way dumber than me. And they really, really believe. They watch YouTube videos, which go on uninterrupted, and spew out a bunch of fucking fake facts very eloquently and articulately. And they really believe. These people really believe.",
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"content": "I mean, if it works for them, sure. Fine.",
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"content": "It’s weird though, right, that in this age where, you know, there’s ludicrous mode in your car, goes 1.9 seconds, 0 to 60.",
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"content": "That’s 2.2.",
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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": "And you think that the public is going to say that Disney is making a mistake. And they’re going to boycott Disney.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "They already are.",
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"content": "Well, there are some that are for lots of different reasons. But this goes to actually the interesting of power and leverage.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Let the chips fall where they may. Let the chips fall where they may.",
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"content": "He made me shit my pants. Talking about A.I. I realized like, oh well, this is a genie that once it’s out of the bottle, you’re never getting it back in.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "That’s true.",
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"content": "There was a video that you tweeted about one of those Boston Dynamic robots, and you’re like, in the future it’ll be moving so fast you can’t see it without a strobe light.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It could probably be that right now.",
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"content": "Why do you want people to go? When you just keep saying that – because you’re worried about this planet? Or are you just betting the odds are, we’ll either blow it up or (…20:08). It’ll be the ‘Day after Tomorrow’ movie.",
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"content": "It’s really, you know, if we just step away from our sort of internecine squabbles and say, let’s look at the big picture here. What sort of actions can we take that maximize the probability that the future is going to be good for civilization and consciousness? And I think we should regard consciousness on Earth as delicate, you know, just fragile. And, you know, what sort of actions can we do to ensure that it continues and that the scope and scale of consciousness expands.\nI’m in favor of expansion because, like, you know, if we want to understand what the universe is about and what’s the meaning of life, we need to get out there and find out. And the more we expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we will be able to understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe.",
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"content": "So when you get a lot of criticism, say about Starlink’s Space pollution – you see a lot of stories about Space pollution – why is Elon putting some of these astronomers get mad at you? Or with the rockets. So, you have these big defense contracts that you’re doing, correct? The first time someone’s broken into the area. How do you meet those criticisms? Is this just small potatoes?",
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"content": "Well, first of all, with respect to the astronomers, we are in constant dialogue with the leading astronomers of the world and taking great pains to ensure that our satellites do not interfere with their telescopes. I believe at this point, they are satisfied that they will not. We take great pains to ensure that the satellites do not reflect or otherwise interfere with the telescopes, including the most sensitive telescopes. There may be a few sort of amateur astronomers who aren’t happy. But the professional ones are satisfied that we’re taking reasonable steps to ensure that we are not standing in the way of science, nor would we ever want to.\nAnd we’re also looking at launching some new telescopes using Starship. Because Starship’s much bigger vehicle, we can launch satellites that have 10 times the resolution of the Hubble, which would be great for science. And, in fact, there’s an exciting program, working with Saul Perlmutter at Berkeley, on a big new Space telescope. And I think we’ll do more of those. I think at the end of the day, Starship and SpaceX are gonna do a lot to advance our understanding of astrophysics and astronomy.",
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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.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "That’s true. You’re right, that’s inexpensive. It’s nothing.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Relative to them, it’s pretty inexpensive.",
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"content": "I saw that many years ago. It just changed how, if I go, ‘oh, this is why people are so crazy. We came from that thing’.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, exactly. And there’s the Bonobos. They got, like, a better philosophy.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Yeah, they’re like swingers. Yeah, they really are. They seem to be way more – even than us – way more civilized.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "They just seem to resolve everything with sex.",
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"content": "You send out a post or an X or a tweet. I don’t know what you want to describe it as.",
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"content": "I’m trying to change… When things were just 140 characters, it made sense to call them a tweet because a bunch of little bit chirping, but point in which you can put three-hour videos on, it’s a very long tweet.",
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"content": "So here we are.",
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"content": "This is more descriptive I think.",
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"content": "Yes. We should…",
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"content": "Those are the two options.",
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"content": "But given that – I mean, one, that’s kind of as epic as one can think about things, literally. How did you make that concrete? How does that turn into SpaceX, Tesla, and PayPal?",
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"content": "Well, so I thought about these things kind of in the abstract. Not from the expectation that I would actually have careers in those arenas. But, I wanted to be involved in at least one of them. At first, I thought the best bet was going to be electric cars. So, the area that I was studying was advanced capacitors, essentially, capacitors that have an engine density exceeding that of batteries. Because they have a very high power density but a low energy density. Maybe you have a lecture to that effect, I don’t know.",
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"content": "Is that yours? (\nshows more pictures\n)",
"role": "user"
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"content": "That is — It’s not mine. It’s extremely close to mine, but I don’t have a front license plate on mine.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "It’s a beautiful car. They nailed it. That new type-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Mine looks like that.",
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"content": "You’ll have to show us that because I don’t like that one. But it’s following the rules, and that’s great. But you have to have the roads at the same thing. I want to make sure that we’ve got this on tape or on whatever, not tape, but video, because I’m guaranteeing you somebody is going to screw up somewhere, and people have to know it’s the road that can bugger the things up as well as your autopilot thing.",
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"content": "It would certainly be helpful to have roads with accurate markings and everything. But like I said, really, for self-driving, it’s got to be even if somebody tries to trick the car, they do not succeed in tricking the car. Because, you know, people will do weird things, so it’s got to maintain safety no matter what and don’t let yourself get tricked.",
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"content": "Maybe that’s the best segue ever because what I want to do is, I wanted to talk about, John – (\nto Cory\n) what’s John’s last name? The guy that gave us a ride. Okay, I’ll just say John – he gave us a ride, and we taped it. And you can hear me going – you know, my voice went up about three octaves, I was so excited, Cory said he’s got a sore ear from me giggling or whatever.\nI’ve sat in F18s; I didn’t fly them, but I was sat in them, and I saw how everything was supposed to work on the ground. I flew a C17 through a simulator. I know what you can do and what you can’t do with autopilot. And I never ever seen anything quite like what you’ve got in the new self-driving thing. This is just absolutely brilliant. This should get into the marketplaces as fast as possible.\nIt’s accurate; it’s much more accurate than what we have in the Model 3. It’s kind of aggressive because if there’s a hole, it will find that hole. It makes left-hand turns, which I’ve heard from everybody can’t be done. I mean these are the things that – this will save more lives than airbags, seat belts, and anything else that anybody’s ever gotten.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "That’s correct.",
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"content": "And it makes adjustments in real-time.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes, in milliseconds.",
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"content": "That would be so much safer than a regular car.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes, it is.",
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"content": "Okay, all right.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I’m literally saying get rid of all subsidies. But also for oil and gas.",
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"content": "If you think about also how this affects your competitors, is that impact how some of your views on this?",
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"content": "Um, I mean, maybe they need it, I don’t know. But I think just generally, I’m in favor of deleting subsidies. I mean, when we started Tesla, there were no EV subsidies at all, and gasoline was super cheap. We did not anticipate any subsidies. That came later. And the $7,500 tax credit came as a result not of Tesla activity but of General Motors lobbying for it. So, you know, I would just say, just delete them all.",
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"content": "But even a horse will get you home sometimes. In the olden days, they’d get drunk, fall asleep in a buckboard, and a horse would take them home. Self-driving, as far as I’m concerned – we just getting back…",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Well, actually, that’s one of the things we’re going to program into the car, that if you fall asleep in the car, it’ll just take you home. It’s most likely that’s where you want to go.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Yes, that’s a great idea.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "And then we’re even going to have it like if it detects that you’re having issues, it’ll take you to the hospital. You know, just like, having a heart attack or something, it’ll just take you straight to the emergency room.",
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| 2,760 |
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"content": "I’ll take you word for it.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "In the seasonal realm, it’s pretty easy to beat Uber Lilith because you get these vapor powers that out amplify your damage and increase your defense and whatnot. So really quite easy to defeat Hatred seasonally, but to defeat Hatred eternally very difficult, almost impossible. It’s very impossible. It seems like a metaphor for life.",
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"content": "Yeah. I like the idea that Elon Musk, because I was playing Diablo yesterday and I saw Level 100 Druid just run by, I will never die and then run back the other way. And this metaphor, it’s hilarious that you, Elon Musk is restlessly, fighting Hatred in this demonic realm.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Yes.",
"role": "assistant"
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| 2,761 |
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"content": "Hypermiled it? What does that mean?45 miles an hour or something?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, like 30 miles an hour or so. It’s like on level ground with — You pump the tires up really well, and go on a smooth surface, and you can go for a long time. But, you know, like definitely comfortably do 300 miles.This is fine for most people. Usually, 200 or 250 miles is fine. 300 miles is — You don’t even think about it, really.",
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"content": "Is there any possibility that you could use solar power that solar-powered one day, especially in Los Angeles? I mean, as you said about that giant nuclear reactor, a million times bigger than Earth just floating in the sky. Is it possible that one day, you’ll be able to just power all these cars just on solar power? I mean, we don’t ever have cloudy days; if we do, there’s three of them.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Well, the surface area of a car is – without making the car look really blocky or having some-",
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"content": "There’s no way to create some sort of a magnetic something or another that allows you to float?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Technically, yes. You could have a strong enough magnet, but that magnet would be so strong that you would create a lot of trouble.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "It would just suck cars up into your car? Just pick up axles and shit?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I mean, you’d have to repel off of either material on the ground or in a really nutty situation off of Earth’s gravitational field, and somehow make that incredibly light, but that magnet would cause so much destruction. You’d be better off with a helicopter.",
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"content": "Assuming you all are successful, and you all have proven yourself to be successful on these audacious things in the past, I mean, what happens? I mean, that seems like it’s… what happens in the next five, ten years in the space industry, if you all are successful there? I mean, do we get to Mars? Do we have kind of market forces, commercialization of space starting to happen?",
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"content": "Yeah. Let’s see. Well, the first step is that we need to earn enough money to keep going as a company. So we have to make sure that we’re launching satellites. Commercial satellites like broadcast communications, mapping, government satellites that do scientific missions. Earth-based or space-based missions. GPS satellites. That kind of thing. And then also servicing the Space Station, transferring cargo to and from the Space Station, which we’ve done a few times. And then taking people to and from the Space Station.\nSo we’ve got to service the sort of Earth-based needs to launch satellites, and that pays the bills. But in doing that, keep improving the technology to a point where we can make full reusability work. And we have sufficient scale and sophistication to be able to take people to Mars.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Wow. So you think this is going to be a reality? What’s your best guess of when we’re going to have someone on Mars?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I think probably about 12 years.",
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| 2,764 |
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"content": "Is the Ford Model T all stocked? Oh, there’s your car. Look at that. (\nshows picture\n)",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I have the convertible with a…",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "That is a gorgeous car.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "…soft top.",
"role": "assistant"
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| 2,765 |
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"content": "It’ll be exciting times.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "True. Exactly. I was just thinking about that. It was like, oh, those time frames are kind of coincident. The nature of new technology adoption is it tends to follow an S-curve. What usually happens is people under-predict it in the beginning because people tend to extrapolate in a straight line. And then they’ll over-predict it at the midpoint because there’s late adopters. And then it’ll actually take longer than people think at the mid-point, but much shorter than people think at the beginning. But I’m pretty excited about how things are going. And, in fact, I think that the pace of technology improvement in electric energy storage is really moving faster than anyone thinks.",
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"content": "Wow. I got one more…\n(asking Ester)\nHow are we doing on time? Where’s Ester? Oh, 9 o’clock. So how much time do you have? I want to make sure we don’t go over.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Well, I guess maybe another 15 minutes.",
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| 2,766 |
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"content": "It’s so weird.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I mean, just think like how your phone…- you can record videos from your phone. There’s no way you could remember a video as accurately as your phone or a camera could. So now, if you’ve got like some version 10 Neuralink, whatever and far in the future, you could recall everything, just like it’s a movie.",
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"content": "Crystal clear.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Including all the entire sensory experience.",
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| 2,767 |
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"content": "And so, a mistake… there aren’t lives at stake, there might be embarrassment at stake.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "As long as AI doesn’t take it over and murder us in our sleep or something.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "But let’s talk about… I think the first applications you’ve mentioned are probably going to be manufacturing. But eventually, the vision is to have these available for people at home.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Correct.",
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"content": "They can’t. They tried. They say, every few months, whether it’s four months, or five months, or six months, it’s going to be a couple of minutes fast.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Okay. It seems like they should really recalibrate that because if it’s always fast, you can just, you know, delete those minutes.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "You should figure that shit out. You need to fucking kick down the door at Rolex and go, „You bitches are lazy.“",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It’s kind of amazing that you can keep time mechanically on a wristwatch with these tiny little gears.",
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| 2,769 |
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"content": "Wow. Well, you thought, „This is so radically different than the people that are around me. If they find out, I got this stream coming in.“",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Yeah.",
"role": "assistant"
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{
"content": "Whoa.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "But, you know, I was only like five or six probably.",
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| 2,770 |
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"content": "All your books!\nBut your clothes, too?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Actually, weirdly, I think I might have had the books thing but not my clothes.",
"role": "assistant"
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{
"content": "That was priorities.\nAll you needed.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, because I knew I was sitting in the bus station reading, waiting for the bus to get ready. And I think I had the books, but no clothing. So anyway, but I managed to get to Swift Current in Saskatchewan. And then my…\n(Elon addresses Maye)\nIt’s your cousin?",
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"content": "All right, well, I’m in the ivory tower here with in front of a lot of CEOs and a live audience here in Washington, DC. And we are also joined by lots of people all over the internet; we are streaming this to wsj.com, Twitter, and YouTube. We have a very brief amount of time, only 30 minutes. But I’m very excited to talk about a wide range of things. I want to start with talking about our world, the world we currently live in, then I want to move to the future of the world and then talk a little bit about your world. We’ll start right here in Washington, DC, where everyone is talking about the infrastructure plan and the bill. And I wanted to ask you, say, tomorrow, you get a phone call from Joe Biden, and he says…",
"role": "user"
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"content": "(laughs)\nI think that’s unlikely, but sure…",
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"content": "You know, he just gives you a call. And he says: “You know, I haven’t been talking a lot about Tesla lately. But, you know, what do you need from this bill? What are your needs?” What do you answer him?",
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"content": "Um, well, if I have to be totally frank, I don’t know, if we… at least no one at Tesla has actually brought up whether they care about this bill or not. I think if this bill happened or didn’t happen, I don’t know… we don’t think about it at all, really.",
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"content": "And what is the bottleneck in regards to electric cars, and trucks, and things like that? Is it battery capacity?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah. You got to scale up production. You got to make the car compelling, make it better than gasoline or diesel cars.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Make it more efficient in terms of, like, the distance it can travel? You’re going to be fueling-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, you’re going to be able to go far enough, recharge fast.",
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"content": "Well-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I mean, I think we should take the actions, the set of actions that are most likely to make the future better.",
"role": "assistant"
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{
"content": "Yes, right.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "And then, we evaluate those actions to make sure that it’s true.",
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"content": "But the fact that a human did it too.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Yeah, absolutely.",
"role": "assistant"
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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?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I like electronic music.",
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"content": "That’s it.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Yeah, it was a pit in our parking lot.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "But do you have to give them some sort of blueprint from your ultimate idea, and do they have to approve it? Like, how does that work?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "We just started off with the pit.",
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"content": "Oh, yeah, I have a bunch of suggestions. Not right now, but I do. Being on Twitter spaces every single day, there are a host of problems. First of all, where’s the desktop app? I want to connect with my nice microphone. And the phone overheats.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It’s pretty good, but a lot of things need to be improved. That’s for sure.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Oh yeah, there’s a laundry list of things. So how often do you stalk Twitter spaces? I’m sure you have an alt account or something. Do you stalk Twitter spaces?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "No, not really. And I actually didn’t even have a burner account. I do have a second account at this point because I need to test the app before it goes out so it’s like a beta test account. But no, I don’t have a burner or anything like that. Yeah, never have had.",
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"content": "Oh, why A-XII?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Archangel 12\n, the precursor to the SR-71. Coolest plane ever. True.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "I agree with you. I don’t know. I’m not familiar with it. I know what the SR-71 is.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "The SR-71 came from a CIA program called Archangel. It’s the Archangel project.",
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"content": "Yeah. It’s like a tattoo. You keep it.\nWell, it’s this thing where there’s a lack of compassion. It’s a lack of compassion issue. People are just intentionally shitty to each other all the time online and trying to catch me. They’re more trying to catch people doing something that’s arrestable, like a cop trying to, like, get, you know, arrests on his record. It’s like they’re trying to catch you for something, more than they’re logically looking at it thinking it’s a bad thing that you’ve done, or that it’s an idea they don’t agree with so much, they needed to insult you. They’re trying to catch you.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, it’s way easier to be mean on social media than it is to be mean in person.",
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"content": "It’s weird. It’s not a normal way of human interacting. It’s cheating. You’re not supposed to be able to interact so easily when people are not looking at you.You would never do that. You don’t be so mean when somebody is looking in their eyes. If you did, you’d feel like shit.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Most people.",
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"content": "That’s interesting for other people.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Yes.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Do you think that that is maybe the way you recognize that you have this unusual position in the culture where you can uniquely influence certain things because of this? I mean, you essentially have a gift, right.I mean, you would think it was a curse, but I’m sure it’s been fueled by many, many years of discipline and learning. But you, essentially, have a gift, and that you have this radical sort of creativity engine when it comes to innovation and technology. It’s like you’re just you’re going at very high RPMs.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "All the time. That doesn’t stop.",
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"content": "It’s not what we feared. We feared something much worse.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "That is correct.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "So the adjustment’s difficult to make. So you said, first of all, we need real data. We need-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Just parse out the data. Don’t lump it all together. If you give people, just parse out the data better, clearer information about, like I said, was this an actual COVID diagnosis? Did they get the test, and the test came back positive, or do they just have some symptoms? Just parse those two out, and then parse out just, if somebody died, did they even have a Covid test, or did they just have one of many symptoms? How do you die without weakness? I don’t know. It’s impossible, basically.",
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"content": "It’s amazing that you had the time to come down here. And I really appreciate that. I appreciate everything you do, man. I’m glad you’re out there. And I really appreciate you coming down here and sharing your perspective.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Well, I think you’ve got a great show. Thanks for having me on.",
"role": "assistant"
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{
"content": "Thank you. My pleasure.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "All right.",
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| 2,782 |
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{
"content": "Let me pivot the conversation for a second.",
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"content": "Certainly, my company’s overseen by regulators. Since SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla are overseen by cumulatively over 100 regulators, and actually more than that, a few hundred regulators because you’ve got, we’re in fifty-five countries. If you sum up all the times that I had an argument with regulators, of hundreds of regulators over decades, it can sound really terrible, except but they forgot to mention that there were 10 million regulations we complied with and only five that I disagreed with. But they list all the five and it sounds like, wow, this guy’s a real maverick. I’m like, yeah, but what about the 10 million we complied with?",
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"content": "One related thing on this and the leverage of countries and things over you and regulators. X is this free-speech platform. You do business in China, lots of business in China. That’s an important part of your business, I imagine.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Well, it’s not SpaceX.",
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"content": "You’re building a factory that is geared for half a million cars.",
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"content": "Yes. To be clear, I very much think – I’ve said this many times – the making of a prototype is easy. But production is hard, especially if you have advanced production techniques that people have not used before. The vast majority of our engineering effort is in manufacturing, basically designing the machine that makes the machine. So, I can’t emphasize this enough. The factory, especially an advanced factory, is the hard part; the vehicle design is comparatively easy.\nSo, we will aim for half a million vehicles a year. That is our goal to get there as quickly as possible. The only limitation on growth is how quickly we can make cars that are high quality, high reliability. That’s the only governing element on the rate of progress. But nonetheless, even with extreme effort, I think it probably takes us until – this is just a guess – until roughly the end of 22 to reach that level of production.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "What about demand? Not many Europeans drive electric cars yet. Yet you’re building a Giga factory as it’s called. Is demand or creation of demand an issue in your mind, or do you think if the car is good, if the car’s workable, if it’s affordable, it will be sold?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Absolutely.",
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"content": "„I just don’t have the time.“",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "I have a design for a plane.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "You do?",
"role": "user"
},
{
"content": "Yes.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Mind viral immunity, meaning that once something like Neuralink gets established, the real concern is something that..- I mean, you said it’s Bluetooth, right? Or some future version of that? The idea is that something could possibly get into it, fuck it up.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "No, I’m talking about, like somebody, some cockeyed concept that happens right now.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Well, I know this virus is in embedded chips, right? They’ve embedded chips and then acquired viruses.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Well, when I’m talking about a mind virus, I’m talking about a concept that infects people’s minds.",
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| 2,786 |
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"content": "I see. I see.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "The Boeing Delta II would have cost $65 million each, so two would have been $130 million. And then I was like, woah, okay, that breaks my budget right there. I tried to negotiate with them. And that was not… I did not make progress.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "How much does an ICBM go for? I’m curious what’s the market rate for one of those?",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Well…",
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| 2,787 |
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"content": "Elon, great job with everything that you’re doing. It’s Ross Gerber from Gerber Kawasaki. Your team’s amazing. What I’m most curious about, these innovations are incredible, but on my drive up here fully on autopilot for 400 miles, the entire state is brown, and this is ultimately about climate. Has there been some analysis done if all these things are achieved, what will its direct impact be on climate?",
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"content": "I think it will have a very significant impact because it will stop the\nCO2 ppm\nfrom growing as it is every year. I should say, I try to view the whole climate thing as a science question as much as possible. Science, you always question your hypothesis. Is it true? Is not true? Or assign a probability to a given hypothesis. And I should say that my original interest in electric vehicles predates the climate issue. When I was in high school, I thought, “Man, if we don’t figure out electric cars, the whole economy’s going to collapse when we run out of oil.” So we better figure out electric cars and sustainable energy, or civilization’s going to crumble.\nAnd then it was only later that the significance of the climate risk became apparent. And we were also able, using\nfracking\nand other types of technology to access a lot more fossil fuels than previously thought, which is helpful for lowering the cost of gasoline, but it’s pretty bad for the total tonnage of CO2 that you could put in the atmosphere. It’s now greatly beyond what people previously thought.\nAs we were just going through this presentation, it is an absolutely monumental task to accelerate the advent of sustainable energy. The entire global economy is still more than 99% dependent on – or call it roughly 99% – dependent on fossil fuels. So although electric cars get a lot of press right now, as a percentage of the total global fleet, it’s practically nothing. I would say, yes, less than 1% of the global fleet is electric right now because of two billion cars and trucks and whatnot in use.\nSo there’s a massive amount of work ahead. Just insane, like hard to comprehend how much work is ahead to get the new vehicle production to be sustainable, to massively increase the amount of stationary storage, which is critical because renewable energy is intermittent. Wind and solar are intermittent. Sometimes the wind doesn’t blow and, this is obvious, the sun doesn’t shine at night. So you got to have batteries – a massive, massive number of batteries.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s hard to measure in direct impact, but it’s an experiment that we shouldn’t be performing. And the sooner we can end the experiment, the sooner we can kind of move on in a fully sustainable way that is actually lower cost. I think the thing that people haven’t fully internalized is once we do get to the 25k car, the ownership cost of that car is incredibly lower than the prior car. And then on the solar side and wind, with the cost of solar wind coming down and with batteries coming down with them, the actual cost of energy on the grid is going down. So we’re sort of moving towards a sustainable lower-cost future. So there’s not like a sacrifice.",
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"content": "That’s true. It is a false dichotomy to say that it’s either prosperity or sustainability. This is often used by oil and gas to say like, “Oh, well, do you want people to lose their jobs? Do you want to lower people’s standards of living? Do you want to make all these economic sacrifices really in order to have sustainability?” And the reality, as Drew was saying, is that sustainable energy is going to be lower cost, not higher cost than fossil fuels.\nA speaker from the audience:\nElon, quick question for you, right here in front. First, thanks for having everyone. I was telling a friend, the one company to go work for that’s going to have the biggest structural impact over the next ten years at scale, it’s probably Tesla. So kudos to everyone at Tesla for what they’ve done to this point and going forward.\nThe two questions for you: As you’ve looked at the auto in the storage markets – I know you’ve talked about it at kind of 50/50 long-term – but it seems like a lot of the battery cost curve achievements that you presented today really make some of these storage opportunities much more feasible over the next five years. And so I guess the first part of the question is, does your calculus upon learning and improving these things change on that 50/50 mix, or is there a role where storage becomes bigger?\nAnd then the second part of the question: With all these huge grand visions, who’s going to be with Tesla from a corporate perspective, accomplishing these things? Obviously, Tesla can’t do it alone, but when you look at some of the traditional auto industry or power, et cetera, I don’t see a lot of other Teslas.\nWell, actually, there’s a lot of companies in China that I think are doing great work with electric vehicles and also with stationary storage, although we don’t see that much in the US yet, but I think probably we will in the future. I don’t know, obviously we’re doing everything we can to encourage other companies to move to sustainable transport and also make stationary storage batteries.\nWe made our patents freely available. We really try to tell these companies, “Hey, you really need to do this, or you won’t exist in the future,” but they don’t believe it. So we’ve talked until we’re blue in the face. What are we supposed to do? But we really are hopeful that other companies will also do what we’re doing and that will make a sustainable future come sooner.",
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"content": "Wow.",
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"content": "And it’s much like a 747. It costs about as much to refuel our rocket as it does to refuel a 747 within… well, pretty close, essentially.",
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"content": "Assuming you all are successful, and you all have proven yourself to be successful on these audacious things in the past, I mean, what happens? I mean, that seems like it’s… what happens in the next five, ten years in the space industry, if you all are successful there? I mean, do we get to Mars? Do we have kind of market forces, commercialization of space starting to happen?",
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"content": "Yeah. Let’s see. Well, the first step is that we need to earn enough money to keep going as a company. So we have to make sure that we’re launching satellites. Commercial satellites like broadcast communications, mapping, government satellites that do scientific missions. Earth-based or space-based missions. GPS satellites. That kind of thing. And then also servicing the Space Station, transferring cargo to and from the Space Station, which we’ve done a few times. And then taking people to and from the Space Station.\nSo we’ve got to service the sort of Earth-based needs to launch satellites, and that pays the bills. But in doing that, keep improving the technology to a point where we can make full reusability work. And we have sufficient scale and sophistication to be able to take people to Mars.",
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"content": "And capable of producing, eventually, like a hundred gigawatt-hours of batteries a year.",
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"content": "A hundred gigawatt-hours. We think probably more, but yeah.",
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"content": "And they’re actually being produced right now.",
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"content": "They’re in production already.",
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"content": "And that affects your control decisions and all those kinds of things. Okay.",
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"content": "The car is just going to fundamentally maneuver better with lower jitter.",
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"content": "Got it.",
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"content": "The cars will maneuver with superhuman ability and reaction time, much faster than a human. I mean, I think over time, the autopilot full self-driving will be capable of maneuvers that are far more than what James Bond could do in the best movie type of thing.",
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"content": "That’s a good question.",
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"content": "Let’s say you’re just the average citizen trying to just get the facts, figure out what’s going on. How to live your life and looking for what’s going on in the world. It’s hard to find something that’s good. Not trying to push some partisan angle, not doing sloppy reporting, and just aim it for the most number of clicks and trying to maximize ad dollars and that kind of thing. You’re just trying to figure out what’s going on. It’s like, I’m hard-pressed to where do you go?",
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"content": "I don’t know. I don’t think there’s any pure form. My favorite places are the New York Times and the LA Times, and I don’t trust them a hundred percent. Because also, there’s individuals that are writing these stories. And that seems to be the problems, these individual biases, and these individuals… there’s purposely distorted perceptions, and then there’s ignorantly reported facts, and there’s so many variables. And you got to put everything through this filter of, “Where’s this person coming from? Do they have political biases? Did they have social biases? Are they upset because of their own shortcomings? And are they projecting this into the story?” It’s so hard.",
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"content": "Yeah. I think maybe just trying to find individual reporters that you think are good and kind of following them as opposed to publication.",
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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": "Judge was selling young boys to prisons. He was like literally-",
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"content": "What?",
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"content": "Yeah, literally, under bribes for — He was-",
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"content": "Was this an elected judge?Because sometimes you have a judge that’s like actually a politician.",
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"content": "…out of control countdown?",
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"content": "Out of control, yeah. People call it the singularity and that’s probably a good way to think about it. It’s a singularity, it’s hard to predict, like a black hole. What happens after the event horizon?",
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"content": "Right. So, once it’s implemented it’s very difficult because it would be able to…",
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"content": "Once the genie’s out of the bottle, what’s going to happen?",
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"content": "But does it know how to like correct? You know how, like, when your ass end kicks out, you know, how to counter-steer?",
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"content": "Oh, yeah. No, it’s really good.",
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"content": "It knows how to do it?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "So you’re not worried about becoming shorter and stupider by moving to Mars?",
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"content": "No, I think we might become taller, actually, on Mars. A little bit taller because the gravity is roughly 40% of ours.",
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"content": "Okay, that would be good for me. When you think about…",
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"content": "I do think that’s like an important thing for… If you think of the various great filters – few people are familiar with the sort of great filter I thought – one of the filters is ‘Do we become a multi-planet species or not?’ So that is at least one of the great filters, and it would be great to pass that and be a multi-planet species where the critical threshold is on for a Mars city. If the resupply ships from Earth stop coming for any reason, whether that is civilization on Earth, it could be a mundane reason or could be World War III – but does Mars prosper or die out?\nAnd if Mars is missing anything at all, like the civilizational equivalent of vitamin C, then it will eventually die out. So you need to get to the point where a Mars city is self-sustaining, even if the ships from Earth stop coming. Then you have passed the great filter or at least passed particularly that great filter. I think we should endeavor to pass that great filter as soon as possible.",
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"content": "…will love them and count on them? You have your own butler, basically.",
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"content": "Yeah, you will have your sort of buddy robot probably, yeah.",
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"content": "I mean, how much of a buddy? How many applications do you thought is that? You know, can you have a romantic partner, a sex partner, lover?",
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"content": "It’s probably inevitable. I mean, I did promise the internet that I’d make catgirls. We could make a robot catgirl.",
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"content": "But because of our fear of danger, we tend to — our thoughts tend to gravitate towards the worst-case scenario. And we want to frame that. And that’s one of the real problems with prejudice; whether it’s prejudice towards different minorities, or prejudice towards police officers, or anything, it’s like we want to look at the worst-case scenario and say, „This is an example of what this is all about.“\nAnd you see that even with people, how they frame genders. Some men frame women like that. They get ripped off by a few women, and they decide, „All women are evil.“ Some women get fucked over by a few men, „All men are shit.“ And this is very toxic.And it’s also — It’s a very unbalanced way of viewing the world, and it’s very emotionally based, and it’s based on your own experience, your own anecdotal experience. And it can be very influential to the people around you, and it’s just a dangerous way. It’s a dangerous thought process and pattern to promote.",
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"content": "It is. It is a very dangerous pattern. I really think people should give other people the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are good until proven otherwise. And, I think, really, most people are actually pretty good people. Nobody’s perfect.",
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"content": "They have to be. If you think of vast numbers of us that are just interacting with each other constantly – we have to be better than we think we are.There’s no other way.",
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"content": "I mean, here are these weapons but how many times, like, …nobody’s presumably try to murder you and you’re-",
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