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"content": "Elon, I also wanted to ask… lately on Twitter, and you’ve been poking fun at people for their age quite a bit. And I wanted to have a sense of, do you not plan to age? And what is your… how are you combating aging? Is there some secret technology we don’t know about that you’ve got?",
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"content": "I am not aware of any secret technologies to combat aging. And, I mean, I don’t know if we should really try to live for a super long time. I think it is important for us to die. Because, you know, most of the times people don’t change their mind, they just die. And so, if we live forever, then we might become a very ossified society where new ideas cannot succeed. But I’m not poking fun at age. I’m just saying, you know, if we’ve got people in very important positions that have to make decisions that are critical to the security of the country, then they need to have sufficient presence of mind and cognitive ability to make those decisions well, because the whole country’s depending on them.",
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"content": "Well, I thought you might say psychedelics were your way of not aging. But I would like to just got… if there’s anyone’s got one or two questions for this guy?",
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"content": "(laughs)\nI don’t think dropping acid makes you age less. I think it actually makes you age more, not less.",
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"content": "Will Europe lag behind, or will it be approved here at the same time like America or China?",
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"content": "It’s hard to say exactly when it will be approved. Our customers already know this, but the EU regulators are the most conservative. And I don’t know if people want that to be the case or not. Our customers are sort of unhappy about it. They only meet every six months. Maybe meet more often – I don’t know. But I think at least some jurisdictions will allow full self-driving the next year.",
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"content": "Okay. Exactly a year ago, you were announcing in this very building that you are planning to build a new site near Berlin.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "You reached out over the summer and you said, “It would be great to have Maddow, Don Lemon, others on the Left put on this platform. You’ll receive full support. The digital town square is for all.” What do you mean by that?",
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"content": "I just mean that we want to make sure that there are a wide variety of viewpoints that… We obviously have, for example, Tucker Carlson, who most people will view as being on the Right, and that’s quite a prominent name on the Right. We want to have prominent names on the Left as well, to provide different views of points of view, as well as centrist. Just basically a wide range of viewpoints on the platform so users can hear different opinions. They can hear what’s your point of view, what’s Tucker’s point of view, and people can make their own decision about what they believe.",
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"content": "You didn’t mean that I’m on the Left. Did you think that?",
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"content": "I thought you were on the Left, but I know, I’m used… Let’s just say, I don’t know what the Left is or the Right is, frankly these days because things can be quite polarized. But my impression was that you’re more likely to be described as on the Left than the Right. My sense is you’re sort of center Left. I don’t know, you tell me.",
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"content": "Who could run Twitter?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Honestly, I have no idea who could run Twitter.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s a hard job.",
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"content": "Only one way to find out.",
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"content": "You know, I have done stand-up for friends, just impromptu, you know, (…2:15:36). And they do laugh, but they’re all friends, too. So I don’t know if you got like a room of strangers, are they gonna actually also find it funny. But I could try. See what happens.",
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"content": "I think you’d learn something either way. I kind of love both when you bomb and when you do great. Just watching people how they deal with it. It’s so difficult. You’re so fragile up there. It’s just you. And you think you’re gonna be funny. And when it completely falls flat it’s beautiful to see people deal with that.",
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"content": "I think I might have enough material to do stand-up. I’ve never thought about but I might have enough material. I don’t know, like 15 minutes or something.",
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"content": "So why is this such a hard engine to manufacture? At scale?",
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"content": "It’s very complex.",
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"content": "What does complexity mean? Here’s a lot of components involved?",
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"content": "There’s a lot of components and a lot of unique materials. We had to invent several alloys that don’t exist in order to make this engine work.",
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"content": "Wow.",
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"content": "Yes. It’s exactly what you’d expect.",
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"content": "Did you request that the buyer not fuck it up?",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s a requirement.",
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"content": "No drink, no smoke, no nothing? You smoked pot with Rogan.",
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"content": "I had one puff.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I think anyone who smokes pot can tell I don’t know how to smoke pot.",
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"content": "Is the person who’s in control of it allowed to program how fast it goes?",
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"content": "Yes. You can program it to be more or less, like more conservative or like more aggressive driver. And you can say what speed you want it to — What speed is okay.",
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"content": "I know you have ludicrous mode. Do you have douchebag mode? It just cuts people off.",
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"content": "Well, for lane changes, it’s tricky because if you’re in like LA, like unless you’re pretty aggressive, right, it’s hard to change lanes sometimes.",
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"content": "And then after Paypal, then I mean… to some degree, especially us in Silicon Valley, we kind of understand the internet. We know people. PayPal’s obviously of the scale that is noteworthy, but then SpaceX just seems really, you know… well, how did you decide that I’m definitely going to do that? And then like, what’s the first thing that you do? How do you even go out… I don’t even know how to start trying to make a rocket company.",
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"content": "Well, neither did I really. In fact, the first three launches failed. So it’s not as though it was spot on. It’s like, did not hit the bull’s eye.",
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"content": "But even getting to the point that you’re launching rockets. I don’t even how do you get there? One, how did you decide it? And then what did you do on day one? Like, who did you call? Did you write a plan? Did you start…I don’t even know.",
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"content": "Actually, the origin of SpaceX is that I was trying to figure out why we had not sent any people to Mars. Because the obvious next step after Apollo was to send people to Mars. But what, in fact, happened was that we sent a few people to the moon, and then we didn’t send anyone after that to the moon or Mars or anything. But if you’d asked people in 1969 what would 2013 look like, they would have said, there will be a base on the moon. We would have least sent some people to Mars. And maybe there would even be a base on Mars. There would be like orbiting space hotels. And there would be all this awesome stuff in space. That’s what people expected.\nAnd if you said, well, actually, the United States in 2013 will not be able to send anyone to orbit. But I’ll tell you what will exist is that there will be this device in your pocket that’s like the size of smaller than a deck of cards that has access to all the world’s information, and you can talk to anyone on planet Earth. Even if you’re in some remote village somewhere so long as there’s something called the internet – they wouldn’t know what that means, of course – then you would you be able to communicate with anyone instantly and have access to all of humanity’s knowledge. They would have said, like, bullshit. There’s no way that that’s going to be true.",
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"content": "So, you can improve it – when you said you won’t have to talk to each other anymore. We used to joke around about that. I’ve joked around about that a million times in this podcast that one day in the future, there’s going to come a time where you can read each other’s minds. You’ll be able to interface with each other in some sort of a nonverbal, non-physical way where you will transfer data back and forth to each other without having to actually use your mouth to make noises.",
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"content": "Exactly, so when you… Like what happens when you, let’s say you’ve got some complex idea that you’re trying to convey to somebody else, and how do you do that? Well, your brain spends a lot of effort compressing a complex concept into words, and there’s a lot of loss, information loss that occurs when compressing a complex concept into words. Then you say those words, and those words are then interpreted, then they’re decompressed by the person who is listening. They will, at best, get a very incomplete understanding of what you’re trying to convey. It’s very difficult to convey a complex concept with precision because you’ve got compression, decompression, you may not even have heard all the words correctly and so communication is difficult. What we have here is a failure to communicate.\nCool Hand Luke\n.",
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"content": "Yes. Great movie.",
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"content": "Yeah, great one.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "So, it really is all about the journey.",
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"content": "Or transcendence from whatever we are now into something that doesn’t worry about death.",
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"content": "The universe, as we know it, will dissipate into a fine mist of cold nothingness eventually.",
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"content": "I know you have an issue with journalists oftentimes, but I said it’s our role to have conversations and to inquire and sometimes even interrogate ideas and I’m hoping we can do that. So I want to start just so we can begin this conversation and just level set, take us through everything that happened if you could.",
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"content": "Everything?",
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"content": "No, over the past week and a half.",
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"content": "How long have you got?",
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"content": "It’s not what?",
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"content": "Not cogent.",
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"content": "Cogent.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "What did he say?",
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"content": "The normal things he says, there was nothing particularly groundbreaking or new, but President Trump likes to talk and so he talked. I don’t recall him saying anything that he hasn’t said publicly, and that was it. It was just a breakfast.",
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"content": "Did he ask you for money?",
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"content": "He didn’t.",
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"content": "So you (…) Trump back?",
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"content": "Uh, no.",
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"content": "Who would you like to be President besides yourself?",
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"content": "I would not want to be President at all. Sounds like no fun being President.",
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"content": "What do you think of the other efforts to go suborbital?",
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"content": "Suborbital is a step in the direction of orbits. But just to put things in perspective, you need about 100 times more energy to get to orbit versus sub orbit. And then to get back from orbit, you need to burn off that energy, so you need like heavy-duty heat shield because you’re coming in like a meteor. So like orbit is roughly two orders of magnitude more difficult than sub orbit. But it’s still good to do something in Space.",
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"content": "What do you think watching those both Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos doing that?",
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"content": "I thought it was cool that they’re spending money on the advancement of Space. I think we ultimately want to be… humanity wants to be… should want to be a spacefaring civilization and out there among the stars. And we want… I think we really want, you know… all these things that we see in science fiction movies and books, like, you know – we want those to be like real one day and not always fiction. So I think it’s good that people are spending their money advancing space technology.",
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"content": "That is great. All right.",
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"content": "Okay, great.",
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"content": "Should we do this?",
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"content": "Yes. So I’ll keep us here I guess.",
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"content": "You make it fly?",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "Do you anticipate that as being — I mean, you’re talking about the tunnels and then flying cars. Do you really think that’s going to be real?",
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"content": "Too noisy, and there’s too much airflow. So, the final issue with flying cars — I mean, if you get like one of those like toy drones, think of how loud those are and how much air they blow. Now, imagine if that’s like a thousand times heavier. This is not going to make your neighbors happy. Your neighbors are not going to be happy if you land a flying car in your backyard.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, early growth was promising, but you can see we’re kind of plateauing. So that’s what’s motivating us to rethink how cells are produced and designed.",
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"content": "Yeah, exactly. EV market share is growing, but EVs still aren’t accessible to all. And you can see, as Drew were saying, it’s like starting to flatten out a little bit because the rate of improvement of the affordability of cars is just not fast enough. That’s why we’ve got Battery Day.",
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"content": "Yeah. To make the best cars in the world, we designed vehicles and 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": "That’s a good way to put it. It is weird when you read someone’s tweets after they’re dead.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Instagram and their stories and whatever, Facebook and stuff, the e-mails…",
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"content": "Why not?",
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"content": "I don’t think people should care what the media thinks about them. They’re terrible judges of character.",
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"content": "Even someone who has one of the biggest social media and biggest information platforms in the world, you don’t care? You don’t think that you have any… X.com, or… You don’t have any responsibility to the truth or moderating the platform?",
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"content": "You’re conflating the truth with the media and I think the media is not truthful.",
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"content": "No one. Are people more inclined to listen today? It seems like an issue that’s brought up more often over the last few years than it was maybe five, ten years age. It seemed like science fiction.",
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"content": "Maybe they will. So far, they haven’t. I think people learned like that normally the way that regulations work is very slow; very slow, indeed. So, usually there will be something, some new technology, which will cause damage or death, there will be an outcry, there will be an investigation, years will pass, there will be some sort of insight committee, there will be rule making, then there will be oversight, eventually regulations. This all takes many years. This is the normal course of things.\nIf you look let’s say automotive regulations. How long did it take for seat belts to be implemented, to be required? You know, the auto industry fought seat belts I think for more than a decade; successfully fought any regulations on seat belts even though the numbers were extremely obvious. If you had a seatbelt on, you would be far less likely to die or seriously injured. It was unequivocal. And the industry fought this for years successfully. Eventually, after many, many people died, regulators insisted on seat belts. This time frame is not relevant to A.I. You can’t take ten years from the point which is dangerous. It’s too late.",
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"content": "And you feel like this is decades away or years away from being too late. If you have this fatalistic attitude, and you feel like it’s going… – we’re in an almost like a doomsday countdown.",
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"content": "It’s not necessarily a doomsday countdown. It’s a…",
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"content": "That’s nothing. And you think it’ll be a round trip? It won’t just be some type of permanent colony on Mars?",
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"content": "I think it’s probably a round trip. It’s not for sure. Aspirational, it’d be a round trip.",
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"content": "This is mind-blowing. And then on Tesla. I mean, Tesla’s obviously, from my vantage, it’s a huge success. What do you think in that industry… well, I’ll ask kind of the same question. What did you think… this is something that GM and Toyota and these massive multi-billion dollar organizations have been trying. What gave you the confidence to pursue it? And now that it seems to be a huge success, where do you think this industry’s going to be the next 5, 10 years?",
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"content": "With Tesla, the goal is to try to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. I think it would happen anyway, just out of necessity. But because we have an un-priced externality in the cost of gasoline… – We weren’t pricing in the environmental effects of CO2 in the oceans and atmosphere. That’s causing the normal market forces to not function properly.\nAnd so the goal of Tesla is to try to act as a catalyst to accelerate those sort of normal forces. The normal sort of market reaction that would occur. We’re trying to have a catalytic effect on that. And try to make it happen, I don’t know, maybe ten years sooner than it would otherwise occur. That’s the goal of Tesla. So that’s the reason we’re making electric cars and not any other kind of car. And we also supply powertrains to Toyota and to Mercedes and maybe to other car companies in the future to accelerate their production of electric vehicles. So that’s the goal there. And so far, it’s working out pretty well.",
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"content": "It honks?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "There should be like, „Wake up, fuckface. You’re endangering your fellow humans.“",
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"content": "We could gently wake you up with a sultry voice.",
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"content": "Oh, I love it.\nFor another episode. I’ve canceled my Netflix-\nTune in next .\n… Twitter. Twitter’s taken my time. Yeah. Thank you for that. It’s very entertaining. Very entertaining.",
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"content": "It’s very entertaining. I was thinking Twitter does make me miserable at times, but it actually makes me laugh as well. And I think if it’s entertaining and informative, then we’re doing a good job.",
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"content": "There’s the difference between Twitter and TikTok, because TikTok, it’s mostly passive entertainment. You’re just watching videos, but on Twitter, you’re interacting, you’re saying things to people. And when you tweet as a celebrity, there’s a pretty good chance they read your tweets and they get irritated by it. Let’s say you trolling them.",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "So let me ask you about the wars going on today and to see what the path to peace could be. How do you hope the current war in Israel and Gaza comes to an end? What path do you see that can minimize human suffering in the longterm in that part of the world?",
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"content": "Well, I think that part of the world is definitely, if you look up… There is no easy answer in the dictionary. It’ll be the picture of the Middle East in Israel especially. So there is no easy answer. This is strictly my opinion is that the goal of Hamas was to provoke an overreaction from Israel. They obviously did not expect to have a military victory, but they really wanted to commit the worst atrocities that they could in order to provoke the most aggressive response possible from Israel, and then leverage that aggressive response to rally Muslims worldwide for the course of Gaza and Palestine, which they have succeeded in doing. So the counterintuitive thing here, I think that the thing that I think should be done, even though it’s very difficult, is that I would recommend that Israel engage in the most conspicuous acts of kindness possible, everything, that is the actual thing that we’re taught the goal of Hamas.",
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"content": "So in some sense, the degree that makes sense in geopolitics turn the other cheek implemented.",
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"content": "It’s not exactly turn the other cheek because I do think that it is appropriate for Israel to find the Hamas members and either kill them or incarcerate them. That’s something has to be done because they’re just going to keep coming otherwise. But in addition to that, they need to do whatever they can. There’s some talk of establishing, for example, a mobile hospital. I’d recommend doing that. Just making sure that there’s food, water, medical necessities and just be over the top about it and be very transparent. So can claim it’s a trick. Just put webcam on the thing or 24, 7.",
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"content": "So the whole line was stopped?",
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"content": "Yeah. Essentially, because it’s part of the wiring harness. You can’t put the interior in without this cable. And so we could either make a whole bunch of cars minus the interior, which means that you’ve got to stack them up in the yard.",
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"content": "The resale value would be no good.",
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"content": "Well, it can be done, but if then things go out of sequence, and it’s way more inefficient; you don’t have a moving production line. Then you have to send people out to hundreds of cars that are sitting in the storage yard. And this happens to be a particularly pernicious cable. It’s kind of routed under the carpet, in a difficult place. And it’s literally $3. We basically had to send people throughout the Bay Area to go and buy USB cables.",
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"content": "Elon, hey, welcome back to TED. It’s great to have you here.",
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"content": "Oh, alright, cool.",
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"content": "And Judo.",
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"content": "Oh, so you really branched out.",
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"content": "Yeah. And did Brazilian Jujitsu briefly.",
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"content": "Yeah. So we’re really excited about this, and there really is enough lithium in Nevada alone to electrify the entire US fleet.",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s true. Actually, just what’s in Nevada. Basically, there’s so much damn lithium on Earth it’s crazy. It’s one of the most common elements on the planet.",
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"content": "And eventually, as we said at the beginning, when we get to this steady-state 20 TWh per year of production, we will transfer the entire non-renewable fleet of both power plants, home heating, and industry heating and vehicles to electric. And at that point, we have an awesome resource in those batteries to recycle to make new batteries. So we don’t need to do any more mining at that point.\nAnd you can see why. The difference in the value of the material coming back from the vehicle versus the ground, you’d always go to the vehicle. And we recycle a hundred percent of our vehicle batteries today. And actually, we are starting our pilot full-scale recycling production at Gigafactory Reno next quarter to continue to develop this process as our recycling returns grow.",
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"content": "To date, it’s been done by third parties, but we think we can recycle the batteries more effectively, especially since we’re making the same battery as the thing we’re recycling. Whereas third-party recyclers have to consider batteries of all kinds.",
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"content": "Okay, next, over here.\nHello, my name is Lena, I’m a student at the University of Chicago, and I also have a podcast called “Kinda Sorta Brown”. So my question centers a little bit what you talked about, concerning that, you know, you’re building this world for not enough people yet, but the people that now are here. But concerning young people, how do you actually build infrastructure to make sure that you’re not just building resources for people to be on Mars but actually putting them in positions of power politically?\nOr educating people who don’t have access to learn about Space technology, etc.? How do you actually teach young people and bring them in, and do you feel like that’s your role? Or it’s your role to just build the spaceship to Mars?",
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"content": "Well, our primary goal is to create the technology necessary to get people to Mars, in the absence of which,… you know, it’s somewhat academic. So we wouldn’t want to get too distracted from our primary mission of we got to make it at least possible to go to Mars. And we want to do so as soon as possible and make access to Mars as widely available as possible, as affordable as possible so that if somebody wants to go, they can. So, that’s our primary mission.\nI mean, there are many good causes in the world, but we got to be careful that we do not try to take on too many. I mean, there are many noble missions, but we have to pick our battles and say, “Okay, let’s just make sure we get this done,” because nobody else is doing it. I mean, if SpaceX doesn’t do it, I’m not sure how it will happen. I think, at the least right now, SpaceX is the only hope. So we are going to get this done. And it’s far from done. I mean, we’ve got a long way to go.\nStarlink, in terms of providing internet connectivity to people that really don’t have it or it’s very expensive, I think will be helpful in empowering a lot of people who are disempowered today. I think that’s a good thing, too.",
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"content": "Alright, next.\nHi Technoking. How do you respond to allegations…?\nYou call him ‘technoking’?",
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"content": "That is my formal title.",
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"content": "Hi, it’s me, Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut.\n(voice-over)\nLast night, Elon Musk updated the world on SpaceX’s Starship development. Let me tell ya, the event was amazing. We learned a lot of really cool details. But, I’m still a little baffled by the pace of this program; it’s unheard of. If only there was someone that could answer a few more of my questions about this program and about Starship.\n———–",
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"content": "That’s a nice shirt.",
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"content": "Elon, how’s it going? Thank you, you know,\nfull-flow staged combustion\n, not a bad idea. Mind mic-ing yourself up there?\n(hands Elon Musk a microphone, which he puts on his jacket lapel)\n———–\n(voice-over)\nAfter Elon complimented my shirt, mic-ed him up and let the cameras roll. Now, for those of you new to my channel, we’re gonna get into some fairly in-depth rocket science, and if it’s over your head, don’t worry. Stick around my channel, and I promise I’ll make sense of all the stuff we talk about, like full-flow staged combustion cycle and\naerospike\nengines. There were parts of this interview that I wasn’t really planning to release at first but actually think the best thing I can do is just show you the entire thing, un-cut, from a single camera, so you can feel like you’re right there with us.\n———–\nYeah, first off, thank you so much for, you know, talking to me, I mean, we’re underneath your beautiful beast.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s crazy. Can you believe this is even here?",
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"content": "Right. Because you did say you were going to stand down.",
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"content": "I did stand down.",
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"content": "Okay, let’s move on from that then. All right. What about this office? I’m intrigued about this office. You said it was expensive.",
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"content": "Why do you even need a CEO? You don’t really need a CEO.",
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"content": "No. If I want a censorship-",
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"content": "You want censorship so bad you can taste it.",
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"content": "No, that’s not true. It’s not true. I think that there’s right and wrong.",
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"content": "And want censorship.",
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"content": "You’re very famous for saying that failure is actually an option. And if you’re not failing, that means you’re not innovative.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s not like that I like failure. I mean, who likes failure – it’s terrible. But if you only do things that are certain to succeed, then you’re only going to be doing very obvious things.\n(21:50 – 22:03)\nA documentary sequence about Elon Musk in Chinese, translation not available",
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"content": "Being innovative can be a very exciting life. Doing business sometimes requires persistence, sometimes it could be very boring. Do you have the same fun from innovation as from business, running a business? Or would you rather be just an innovator, engineer, instead of a business owner?",
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"content": "I mean, I’d love to just do innovation work and just do engineering. But you raise a good point. Because, you know, a lot of life in general, any job, there’s like, you have to do your chores. You know, there’s…",
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"content": "But that’s not bankruptcy. You’re not saving that company from bankruptcy. If it’s breaking even.",
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"content": "But then the issue is that if you then add $1.5 billion in debt servicing and have a massive drop in revenue, which we did, which was partly cyclic and partly political concerns or whatever.\nSo revenue, call it dropped by over a third. It’s not just Twitter, Facebook and Google have also seen some significant advertising revenue declines. It’s been a little higher on Twitter, but most of the advertisers are coming back. So I think we’ll just be back where there’s a cyclic demand drop, which is still pretty significant.\nBut in rough numbers, revenue dropped from 4.5 billion to 3. And expenses went from 4.5 to 6, creating a $3 billion negative cash flow situation. And Twitter having $1 billion dollars in the bank. That’s four months to live. So unless drastic action was taken immediately, this company was going to die. It would be owned by the banks.",
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"content": "Talk about that drastic action because almost immediately you sacked a lot of Twitter workers. And look, I spoke to them, it was very easy to speak to them when it happened. And the way pretty much everyone said is that it felt quite haphazard.",
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"content": "It was.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Amazing.",
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"content": "Yeah.\nDang. People really like that part of the interview where you started interviewing them. You should do it more often.\nOh yeah.\nYou’re good at grilling journals.",
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"content": "This is Elon Musk interviewing the BBC.",
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"content": "How hard is it to go from maximizing minutes on platform to maximizing unregretted minutes?",
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"content": "Well, I mean, our aspiration is certainly unregretted minutes.",
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"content": "It’s tricky. It’s a tough-",
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"content": "It is.",
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"content": "Yeah, and I think this is what the concern is exactly of a lot of our partners.",
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"content": "Not to harp too much on this sort of $8 verified thing, but the propensity of someone to engage in hate speech, if they have paid $8 and are risking the suspension of their account is going to be far, far less. I mean, think of it more like, if you, like, how much hate speech do you encounter if you go to a party? Or just, you know, at an event with people…",
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"content": "It depends who’s hosting the party.",
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"content": "I mean, most parties, let’s say. If you meet people in person, how much hate speech do you actually encounter? It’s quite rare. But if someone can create 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 troll accounts that are anonymous, and where there’s no cost to engaging in harassment or hateful behavior, then you’ll get a very small number of people that seem very loud. In general, I have a lot of faith in humanity, like the vast majority of people, I think, are good, not bad, they’re good. But there’s a small number of people who are not good.\nAnd if those people who want to engage in terrible behavior are allowed to amplify their voice tremendously with fake accounts, then they will do so. This is why I think that the only way for any social media company to solve this is with a mild paywall – a paywall for prominence. And that people will just default to looking at comments and mentions from those that are verified. And you really won’t see much of the rest. I think it’s the only solution. I cannot think of any other path to having a good system.",
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"content": "Absolutely, I agree. In fact, when we talked about the Y, I was expecting to see that because you’d said that you’re getting rid of weight and the length of wires and whatnot. When I pulled it off, the harness looked kind of similar. So, it is what it is.",
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"content": "You really want to put power and data over the same wires and have a higher speed than\nCAN bus\n, so you can basically dump data on the bus instead of having all these point-to-point wires.",
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"content": "Absolutely, that’s what I was hoping I would see when we took apart the Y. But again, you say it’s hard to change the tires when you’re going 80 miles an hour. I guess the last thing is probably the most controversial. You made comments, which I’ve been saying for years at Munro. If you want to get your master’s, I’ll pay for it. If you want to take a course in mechanics or something, I’ll pay for it, even if you want to take a wood carving thing, I’ll pay for it. But I will not pay for an MBA. I won’t do it ever.\nYou made a comment, and I started tap dancing because people listen to you – I don’t get the same kind of respect – but people listen to you, and I really, really was excited when you talked about that. If you can elaborate on that a little bit, that would be great.",
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"content": "I think just generally the path to leadership should not be through, basically, MBA business school situation. It should be kind of work your way up, do useful things. There’s a bit too much of the somebody goes to a high-profile MBA school and then kind of parachutes in as the leader, but they don’t actually know how things work. They can be good at, say, PowerPoint presentations or something like that, and they can present well, but they don’t actually know how things work because they’d parachute in instead of working their way up.",
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"content": "Fascinating. So someone’s losing their job now. This is… no, I’m kidding. You shouldn’t fire anyone.",
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"content": "I mean, it’s pretty farcical. And, anyway, so, it’s coming like tonight at 11 pm or something.",
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"content": "Wow. And these things are happening all the time or this was an unusual circumstance?",
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"content": "Yeah. That’s like one example, but there’s many things like that.",
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"content": "...inaudible...",
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"content": "And now we’ll move to Q&A.",
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"content": "You do a lot of it at night, late at night. When you’re doing this are you sober when you do it?",
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"content": "Almost always, yes.",
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"content": "Are you under the influence of anything?",
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"content": "No, I don’t drink. I don’t really… No.",
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"content": "But there are some that just haven’t?",
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"content": "Jump in, the water’s warm. It’s great.",
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"content": "That’s your message to the advertisers that haven’t come back?",
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"content": "Yeah. Look, if Disney feels comfortable advertising their children’s movies and Apple feels comfortable advertising iPhones, those are good indicators that Twitter is a good place to advertise.",
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"content": "The world is ending. Yeah. It is what it is for all.",
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"content": "Enjoy the journey.",
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"content": "Right. If you really want to get morose, I mean, it is what it is for all of us anyway. We’re all going to go unless something changes.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, ultimately, you know, even if we just sort of existed as humans forever, we’d still eventually be like the heat death of the universe a zillion years from now.",
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"content": "I’m too stupid for this conversation.",
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"content": "It makes sense, though.",
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"content": "No, I’m sure it does.\nNow, when you think about this new idea of design, when you have this idea about improving planes, are you going to bring this to somebody and check this one out?",
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"content": "Well, I have a lot on my plate.",
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"content": "Do you think if you moderated yourself more, if there was better content moderation on the platform, that you wouldn’t have to answer these questions from reporters about the great replacement theory as it relates to Democrats, the-",
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"content": "I don’t have to answer these questions.",
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"content": "…great replacement theory as it relates to Jewish people. Do you think that-",
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"content": "I don’t have to answer questions from the reporters, Don, the only reason I’m doing this interview is because you’re on the X platform and you asked for it. Otherwise, I would not do this interview.",
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"content": "Changes your state. Great music changes your state.",
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"content": "Absolutely. Yet, here’s another sort of interesting idea, which is, because you say like where did consciousness arise? Well, assuming you believe the belief in physics, which proves to be true, then the universe started off as basically quarks and leptons, and it quickly became hydrogen and helium, lithium, like, basically elements of the periodic table. But it was mostly hydrogen, basically. Then over a long period of time, 13.8 billion years later that hydrogen became sentient. Where along the way did consciousness…- What’s the line of consciousness and not consciousness between hydrogen and here?",
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"content": "When do we call it, when do we call it consciousness? I was watching a video today that we played on a podcast earlier of a monkey riding a motorcycle down the street, jumps off the motorcycle, and tries to steal a baby.",
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"content": "Yeah. I saw that one. It went viral.",
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"content": "Yeah, I would say radiant heating and all that, good ideas. Now, when you think about the efficiency of these homes, and you think about implementing solar power and battery power, is there anything else that people are missing? Is there any other — Like, I just saw a smartwatch that is powered by the heat of the human body. It’s some new technology.",
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"content": "It’s able to fully power that way?",
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"content": "I don’t know if it’s fully or if it’s — Like this watch right here, this is a Casio.It’s called Pro Trek. And it’s like an outdoors watch, and it’s solar-powered. And so, it has the ability to operate for a certain amount of time on solar.So, if you have it exposed, it could function for a certain amount of time on solar.",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, you know, like there are self-winding watches where, you know, it’s just got a weight in the watch. And as you move your wrist, the way it moves from one side to the other, and it winds the watch up. That’s a pretty cool thing.",
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"content": "We’re going to run out of these fossil fuels. Let’s just move to the future and not run this experiment any longer.",
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"content": "Yeah. So anyway, there is a lot of good news, though. A lot of people may not be aware that wind and solar comprise 75% of new electricity capacity in the US this year. So, this is really major. The grid is going sustainable very quickly. Now, it’s also worth noting that the length of time that power plants last is on the order of 25 years. So even if 100% of energy generation was sustainable, it will still take 25 years to convert the grid. And it’s also worth noting that in the past ten years, power production from coal has dropped in half. It went from 46% of electricity in 2010 to 23% in 2020. This is a massive improvement. So, good things are happening on a lot of levels. We just need to go faster.\nSo, Tesla’s contribution: we’ve delivered over a million electric vehicles, 26 billion electric miles driven, and many gigawatt-hours\n(GWh)\nof stationary batteries, 17 terawatt-hours\n(TWh)\nof solar-generated. I think solar is sometimes underweighted at Tesla, but it is a massive part of our future. The three parts of a sustainable energy future are sustainable energy generation, storage, and electric vehicles. We intend to play a significant role in all three.\nTo accelerate the transition to sustainable energy, we must produce more EVs that need to be affordable and a lot more energy storage while building factories faster and with far less investment.\nSo, goal number one is a terawatt-hour scale battery production. So, Tera is the new Giga. And a terawatt is a thousand times more than a gigawatt. We used to talk in terms of gigawatts, in the future, we’ll be talking in terms of terawatt-hours. This is what’s needed in order to transition the world to sustainability.",
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"content": "Yeah, and you can see it’s… We’re talking about a 100X growth in batteries for electric vehicles to achieve this mission. And we are going to get there. It’s just a matter of how fast. And our intention is to accelerate it.",
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"content": "Yeah, you basically need on the order of roughly 10 TWh a year of battery production to transition the global fleet of vehicles to electric.",
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"content": "Yeah. What can it do that I need to know about?",
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"content": "I mean, the Model X can do this\nballet thing to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra\n. It’s pretty cool.",
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"content": "Wait, it dances?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "That’d be the craziest place ever if we colonized Mars, and we terraformed it and turned it into a big Jamaica. Just oceans and-",
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"content": "I think we should. I think that would be great. That would be great. Amazing.",
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"content": "It’s possible, right?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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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": "And at some point, I don’t know where you were, but you write in responding to another tweet, “This is the actual truth,” and it’s set off a firestorm of criticism all the way to the White House, and then you make this trip to Israel. You have advertisers who’ve left the platform, people calling you-",
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"content": "Well, the trip to Israel is independent of… It wasn’t some apology tour. I want to be clear. That was-",
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"content": "I hope it’s more fun and interesting too.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I just hope we don’t lose anything along the way.",
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"content": "We might lose a little, but hopefully, we gain more than lose.",
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"content": "So it needs a reform?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "So I want to move on to … I want to stick with China for a second. You’re operating there, selling there. What do you make of what they’re doing to the tech entrepreneurs there, the tech moguls?",
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"content": "Well, where’s Jack Ma?",
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"content": "Draw the air out of the tunnel?",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s sort of vacuum tunnel because the — And then, depending on how fast you want to go, you (… 1:13:15) these wheels, or you could use air bearings depending upon the ambient pressure in the tunnel, or you could maglev it if you want to go super fast.",
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"content": "So, magnet road?",
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"content": "Yes, underground magnet roads.",
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"content": "As sad as it is. Man, every single day.",
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"content": "It’s intense. You’re like, whoa.",
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"content": "It can be overplayed too. I spend my time often being outside Twitter with a camera doing lives.",
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"content": "Really?",
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"content": "So how do you think it’s gone?",
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"content": "Well, it’s not been boring. It’s been quite a rollercoaster. Things are going, I think reasonably well. We’re seeing some all-time highs in terms of total user time. So we passed 8 billion user minutes per day, which is a lot of user minutes.\nSo usage is up, growth is good. The site works mostly. You know, apart from a few glitches here and there, but the site is working fairly well. And we’re doing it with a small fraction of the original head count.",
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"content": "You mentioned outages, there have been several.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I’m sure you do.",
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"content": "There is no shortage of that.",
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"content": "I just don’t know how you manage your time. I don’t understand it. It doesn’t even seem humanly possible.",
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"content": "You know, I think people don’t understand totally what I do with my time. They think I’m a business guy or something like that. Like my Wikipedia page says ‘business magnate’.",
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"content": "Do you think that’s the case? As a human being, as yourself, you’re clearly trying to make conscious decisions to be a better version of yourself. This is the idea of getting rid of your possessions and realizing that you’re trying to like, “I don’t like this. I will try to improve this. I would try to do a better version of the way I interface with reality.”\nThat this is always the way things are, if you’re moving in some sort of a direction where you’re trying to improve things, you’re always going to move into this new place where you look back on the old place and go, “I was doing it wrong back then.” So this is an accelerated version of that. A super accelerated version of that.",
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"content": "I mean, you don’t always improve, but you can aspire to improve, or you can aspire to be less wrong.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "This is like, I think the tools of physics are very powerful. Just assume you’re wrong and aspire your goal is to be less wrong. I don’t think you’re going to succeed every day in being less wrong, but if you’re going to succeed in being less wrong most of the time, you’re doing great.",
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"content": "Elon, if we move to other subjects: At the summit here we have speakers who speak about the state of the world, geopolitical state of the world for the next ten decades, state of the economy of the world, you know, now and in the next ten years. If I ask you about the state of technology, if you can elaborate a bit and brief us: How do you see technology in the next ten years from now?",
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"content": "Let’s see, ten years… It’s always difficult to predict technology with precision, especially over a ten-year time frame when it is changing so much. There’s obviously the transition to sustainable energy with solar, wind, batteries, and electric vehicles. If you look at the percentage growth from that, that is a very high percentage growth, although… Because of the massive industrial base of the current fossil fuel economy – even if all cars were 100% electric production immediately, it would take 20 years to replace the fleet. This is still something that is quite gradual. It’s measured in at least 30-40 years type of time frame.\nOn a more sort of near-term time frame, I think artificial intelligence is something we need to be quite concerned about and really be attentive to the safety of AI. You mentioned ChatGPT earlier. I played a significant role in the creation of OpenAI. Essentially at the time I was concerned that Google was not paying enough attention to AI safety, and so I, with a number of other people, created OpenAI. Although initially, it was created as an open-source nonprofit, and now it is closed source and for profit. I don’t have any stake in OpenAI anymore, nor am I on the Board, nor do I control it in any way. But ChatGPT, I think, has illustrated to people just how advanced AI has become. Because AI has advanced for a while, it just didn’t have a user interface that was accessible to most people. So what really ChatGPT has done is just put an accessible user interface on AI technology that has been present for a few years. And there are much more advanced versions of that that are coming out.\nSo I think we need to regulate AI safety, frankly. Because think of any technology which is potentially a risk to people, like if it’s an aircraft or cars or medicines, and we have regulatory bodies that oversee the public safety of cars and planes and medicine. I think we should have a similar sort of regulatory oversight for artificial intelligence because it is, I think, actually a bigger risk to society than cars or planes, or medicine. This may slow down AI a little bit, but I think that that might also be a good thing. The challenge here is that government regulatory authorities tend to be set up in reaction to something bad that happened.\nSo if you look at, say, aircraft or cars… you know, the cars were unregulated in the beginning, aircraft were unregulated, but they had lots of airplane crashes, and in some cases, manufacturers that were cutting corners, and a lot of people were dying. The public was not happy about that, and so they established a regulatory authority to improve safety. And now commercial airliners are extremely safe. In fact, they’re safer than if you were to drive somewhere. The safety per mile of a commercial airliner is better than a car. And cars are also extremely safe compared to where they used to be.\nBut if you look at, say, the introduction of seat belts: The auto industry fought the introduction of seat belts as a safety measure for 10 or 15 years before finally the regulators made them put seat belts in cars. That greatly improved the safety of cars. And then airbags were another big improvement in safety.\nMy concern is that with AI, if something goes wrong, the reaction might be too slow from a regulatory standpoint. If I’d say: “What are the biggest risks to the future of civilization?”, it’s AI. But AI is both positive and negative and has great promise, great capability, but also with that comes great danger. Just like with nuclear physics, you had nuclear power generation but also nuclear bombs. I think we should be quite concerned about it, and we should have some regulation of what is fundamentally a risk to the public.",
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"content": "Let me move to another subject, Elon: Education. I mean, you have your own philosophy about education. With AI, education might change dramatically. Can you tell us briefly about your philosophy of education? And number two: Do we need 12 years of schooling and four years of university?",
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"content": "With respect to education, I think, in general, some things that we could do to make it more compelling would be to explain to children why we are teaching a particular subject. The human mind is evolved to really forget anything that it deems unimportant. In fact, human memory is really quite bad relative to, say, the memory of your phone. Your phone can remember the entire contents of an encyclopedia down to the last letter and pixel. But human memory is terrible by comparison. The mind is constantly trying to forget things, actually. But if you explain why a subject is being taught, that will then establish relevance and is much more likely to result in motivation for kids. And also, if you teach knowledge especially in the sciences as solutions to a problem, it’s much more effective.\nLet’s say you’re trying to understand an internal combustion engine, it’s actually better to take that apart and then say: “Okay, what tools do we need to take it apart? We need a wrench, and screwdriver, and various other things to take it apart.” Then you understand the reason for the tools. And so for mathematics and physics is like tools in engineering. If you teach to the problem, then you establish the relevance of the tools. Then it’s actually much easier to remember mathematics and physics because they help explain how the world works as opposed to teaching them without explaining why. Instead of teaching to the problem, currently, we teach to the tool. It would be like having a course on screwdrivers or a course on wrenches but not understanding why you’re learning about screwdrivers and wrenches.\nI think this is really quite a fundamental principle that should be applied in education. I think sometimes we do teach classes that children do not find useful, and where the answer to the ‘why’ is actually not going to be a very good answer. Most people do not find advanced mathematics useful and are unlikely to find it useful in their life. Or the elements that they do find useful could be taught very quickly as general principles.\nI also think that critical thinking is something that should be taught to children at a relatively young age. It’s effectively like a mental firewall to really think about when somebody tells you something is it cogent, is it true? Or what is the probability that it is true? So that you can be taught to reject things that are untrue or are more likely to be untrue and favor things that are more likely to be true. Critical thinking is very helpful for people to learn.",
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"content": "I love him so much.",
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"content": "He’s great.",
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"content": "Was he the director of happy people life and the Taiga? I think also-",
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"content": "He did that bear documentary. I did this thing about penguins.",
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"content": "We could be here now on our way to the road or on our way to the destination where this can never happen again; where we are completely ingrained in some sort of an artificial technology or some sort of a symbiotic relationship with the internet or the next level of sharing information. But, right now, we’re not there yet. That’s possible too, right? It’s possible that a simulation is, one day, going to be inevitable, that we’re going to have something that’s indistinguishable from regular reality, but maybe we’re not there yet. That’s also possible.",
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"content": "Yes, it is.",
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"content": "So, we’re not quite there yet. This is real? When I touch that wood?",
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"content": "It feels very real.",
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"content": "So learn both on the valid data and the invalid data, so basically learn on the adversarial examples to be able to exclude them.",
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"content": "Yeah, you like basically want to both know what is a car and what is definitely not a car. And you train for, this is a car, and this is definitely not a car. Those are two different things. People have no idea of neural nets, really. They probably think neural nets involves a fishing net or something.",
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"content": "So, as you know, taking a step beyond just Tesla and Autopilot, current deep learning approaches still seem, in some ways, to be far from general intelligence systems. Do you think the current approaches will take us to general intelligence, or do totally new ideas need to be invented?",
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"content": "I think we’re missing a few key ideas for artificial general intelligence. But it’s going to be upon us very quickly, and then we’ll need to figure out what shall we do if we even have that choice. It’s amazing how people can’t differentiate between, say, the narrow AI that allows a car to figure out what a lane line is and navigate streets versus general intelligence. Like these are just very different things. Like your toaster and your computer are both machines, but one’s much more sophisticated than another.",
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"content": "No talking anymore in five years.",
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"content": "Best case scenario, but ten years is more likely.",
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"content": "I’ve always speculated that aliens could potentially be us in the future because if you look at the size of their heads and the fact that they have very little muscle, they don’t use their mouth anymore. They have this tiny little…- I mean the archetype of an alien that you see in like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” – they’re like if you went from Australopithecus or ancient hominid to us, what’s the difference? Less hair, less muscle, bigger head.\nAnd then just keep going. A thousand, a million, whatever years; or five years, whatever. Whatever happens when Neuralink goes on online, and then we slowly start to adapt to this new way of being where we don’t use our muscles anymore. We have this gigantic head; we can talk without words.",
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"content": "You could also save state.",
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"content": "The question, if there are laws and rules, whether the idea is that you’re making the decision that the law and the rule shouldn’t be the law and the rule and then … right?",
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"content": "No, I’m saying you’re fundamentally mistaken, and it should be obvious that you’re mistaken. My company’s automotive is heavily regulated. We would not be allowed to put cars on the road if we did not comply with this vast body of regulation. Now, you could fill up the stage with, literally six foot high, the regulations that you have to comply with to make a car. You could have a room full of phone books. That’s how big the regulations are. And if you don’t comply with all of those, you can’t sell the car. And if we don’t comply with all the regulations for rockets or for Starlink, they shut us down.\nSo in fact, I am incredibly compliant with regulations. Now, once in awhile, there’ll be something that I disagree with. The reason I would disagree with it is because I think the regulation, in that particular case, in that rare case, does not serve the public good. And therefore, I think it is my obligation to object to a regulation that is meant to serve the public good, but doesn’t. That’s the only time I object, not because I seek to object. In fact, I’m incredibly rule-following.",
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"content": "Let me ask you a separate question, a social-media-related question. We’ve been talking about TikTok today ahead of the election.",
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"content": "TikTok is-",
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"content": "Talk us through this. What are we looking at here? (Showing video)",
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"content": "So, this is one of our rocket boosters coming back from very high and fast in space. So just delivered the upper stage at high velocity. I think this might have been at sort of Mach 7 or so, delivery of the upper stage. (Booster landing)",
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"content": "So that was a sped-up –",
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"content": "That was the slowed-down version.",
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"content": "How does it feel?",
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"content": "I don’t actually notice any effect.",
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"content": "Well, there you go. There was a time where – I think it was Ramdas or someone -gave some Buddhist monk a bunch of acid.And he ate it, and it had no effect on him.",
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"content": "I doubt that.",
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"content": "You think it was far Left?",
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"content": "Yes, I do.",
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"content": "I actually got off the platform because I would get so much hate tweets, what it was called then, so much hate tweets and just guff from Right wing conspiracy theorists being called everything from fag to -",
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"content": "Sure. It’s the internet, people will do… I mean, I’ve been called every name times a thousand.",
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"content": "Do you think it’s too easy from a… if we’re talking about from the engineering perspective, super intelligence, like with Marvin, the robot? It seems like it might be very easy to engineer just a depressed robot. It’s not obvious to engineer a robot that’s going to find a fulfilling existence. Same as humans, I suppose. But I wonder if that’s like the default. If you don’t do a good job on building a robot, it’s going to be sad a lot.",
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"content": "Well, we can reprogram robots easier than we can reprogram humans. So I guess if you let it evolve without tinkering, then it might get sad. But you can change the optimization function and have it be a cheery robot.",
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"content": "Like I mentioned with SpaceX, you give a lot of people hope, and a lot of people look up to you. Millions of people look up to you. If we think about young people in high school, maybe in college, what advice would you give to them about – if they want to try to do something big in this world, they want to really have a big, positive impact – what advice would you give them about their career, maybe about life in general?",
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"content": "Try to be useful. Do things that are useful to your fellow human beings, to the world. It’s very hard to be useful. Very hard. Are you contributing more than you consume? Try to have a positive net contribution to society. I think that’s the thing to aim for. Not to try to be sort of a leader for the sake of being a leader or whatever. The people you want as leaders are the people who don’t want to be leaders. If you live a useful life, that is a good life, a life worth having lived. And like I said, I would encourage people to use the mental tools of physics and apply them broadly in life. They’re the best tools.",
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"content": "Right. But roughly, if you had a…- just gut instinct.",
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"content": "Well, I don’t have a Neuralink in my brain, so I’d say right now 0%, but at the point at which you do have a Neuralink, then it rises above 0%.",
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"content": "The idea that we’re experiencing some sort of a preserved memory is, even though it’s still the same, it’s not comforting. Right? For some reason, when people talk about simulation theory, they talk about the potential for this currently being a simulation. Even though your life might be wonderful, you might be in love, you might love your career, you might have great friends, but it’s not comforting to know that this experience somehow or another doesn’t exist in a material form that you can knock on.\n(knocks on the table)",
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"content": "(knocks on the table, too)\nIt feels real, doesn’t it?",
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"content": "Do you understand the connection between the two? One, there’s a connection between, you said, Democrats and great replacement theory, but when it comes to the actual great replacement theory, originally it was started about Jewish people, as you said, flooding in the country and now people are using it for Democrats, saying the same thing about Democrats. Flooding illegal-",
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"content": "My view is a simple matter of incentives. I actually don’t see an incentive for Jewish people to want to have… To get illegal immigration. I don’t think there is such an incentive.",
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"content": "The great replacement theory is a neo-Nazi trope. It’s in the neo-Nazi manifesto. It’s in the Turner Diaries. It’s referenced by the Buffalo mass shooter and his manifesto where 10 people, black people, were murdered in Buffalo. It’s the actual title of the Christchurch shooters manifesto. 51 people in the Muslim mosque were murdered. 23 people murdered in El Paso by a shooter who used the same language that you use in that manifesto, when you say Hispanic invasion. Is that not-",
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"content": "I didn’t say an Hispanic invasion.",
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"content": "It is?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "You have like a little hole?",
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"content": "Yeah, they have a pump.",
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"content": "How do you think about the leverage that the Chinese have over you, and do they have leverage over you? And how do you feel about, some people would say, is it hypocritical for you to be doing business in China, or frankly in other countries as it relates to X and other things that don’t follow this free speech path that you have espoused?",
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"content": "The best that the X platform can do is adhere to the laws of any given country. Do you think there’s something more we could do than that?",
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"content": "I think it would be very hard, but I just wonder, given the sort of strong, philosophical approach that you’ve been vocal about, whether you say to yourself, maybe I shouldn’t be doing business in that country?",
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"content": "Well, first of all, Starlink and SpaceX do no business in China whatsoever. Tesla has one of four factories, four vehicle factories in China. And China is, I don’t know, a quarter of our market or something like that. So it’s a quarter of the market of one company. The same is true, by the way, of all the other car companies. They also have something on that order of a quarter of their sales in China. So if that’s a problem for Tesla, it’s a problem for every car company. I think one has to be careful about not conflating the various companies. Because I can only do things that are within the bounds of the law, I cannot do beyond that. My aspiration is to do as much good as possible and to be as productive as possible within the bounds of what is legal. More than that, I cannot do.",
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"content": "Do you see Tesla’s full self-driving as still, for a time to come, requiring supervision of the human being. So its capabilities are powerful enough to drive but nevertheless requires a human to be still supervising, just like a safety driver is in other fully autonomous vehicles?",
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"content": "I think it will require detecting hands on wheel for at least six months or something like that from here. Really it’s a question of, from a regulatory standpoint, how much safer than a person does Autopilot need to be for it to be okay to not monitor the car. And this is a debate that one can have, and then, but you need a large amount of data, so you can prove, with high confidence, statistically speaking, that the car is dramatically safer than a person. And that adding in the person monitoring does not materially affect the safety. So it might need to be 200 or 300% safer than a person.",
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"content": "And how do you prove that?",
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"content": "Incidents per mile.",
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"content": "Like people are taking some deep breaths and relaxing, and because of the statistics, essentially across the board, it’s being recognized that it’s not as fatal as we thought it was. Still dangerous, still worse than a flu, but not as bad as we thought or we feared it could be.",
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"content": "Objectively, the mortality is much lower. At least a factor of 10, maybe a factor of 50 lower than initially thought.",
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"content": "Do you think that the current way we’re handling this, the social distancing, the mask, the locking down, does this make sense? Is it adequate? Or do you think that we should move back to at least closer to where we used to be?",
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"content": "Well, I think proper hygiene is a good thing no matter what.",
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"content": "It’s a theme to this discussion. In what way?",
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"content": "It’s so unusual. It’s incredibly creative, and the art is stunning. I recommend playing it on a big resolution, high dynamic raised TV even. It doesn’t need to be a monitor. Just the art is incredible. It’s so beautiful and it’s so unusual, and each of those top bus battles is unique. It’s a unique puzzle to solve. Each one’s different and the strategy you use to solve one battle is different from another battle.",
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"content": "That said, you said Druid, an internal against Uber Lilith is the hardest boss battle you’ve ever…",
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"content": "Correct. That is currently the, and I’ve played a lot of video games because that’s my primary recreational activity. And yes, beating Hatred in the internal realm is the hardest bus battle in life. And in the video game. I’m not sure it’s possible, but I do make progress. So then I’m like, ” Okay. I’m making progress. Maybe if I just tweak that paragon board a little more, I can do it could.” Just dodge a few more waves, I could do it.",
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"content": "Which is what I do. So it’s good, it’s fun. Having that reaction, it’s like it’s playing a video game, but better.",
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"content": "Yeah, yeah. Totally. Exactly. Honestly, Twitter is troll heaven.",
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"content": "Oh, hell yeah. A lot of the media’s going to hate it because they want to control space and -",
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"content": "It’s totally troll heaving on Twitter. And the thing is, I even get trolled and I’m like, God, why did I get trolled again? That was really dope.",
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"content": "Okay, but you don’t think it’s okay for them not to advertise with or pad their content or their advertisement next to something that is anti-Semitic or-",
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"content": "That is a different question. You can absolutely choose next to which content do you want your advertising to appear. Absolutely, of course. And we have, I think, very good ad placement controls in this regard.",
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"content": "Yeah. So you said if they kill the company, it’s them, but doesn’t the buck stop with you? I mean, you-",
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"content": "I have to say, choose your question carefully. There’s five minutes left.",
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"content": "Did you not see those?",
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"content": "You said promote. If content is on the platform, that doesn’t mean we promote it.",
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"content": "But that wouldn’t be on a platform for mainstream media at all.",
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"content": "No, but you can think of that’s because the mainstream media has, whatever, 20 articles a day. We have 500 million posts today.",
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"content": "…thanks. Yeah, it is good. This is just inevitable. Again, going back to your when you decided to have this fatalistic viewpoint. So, you tried to warn people, you talked about this pretty extensively. I’ve read several interviews where you talked about this. And then you just sort of just said, ‘okay, it just is’. And, in a way, by communicating the potential for… – I mean, for sure you’re getting the warning out to some people.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, I was really going on the warning quite a lot. I was warning everyone I could. Even met with Obama, just for one reason.",
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"content": "Just to talk about A.I.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Right, but you would still only have one public company. It would be bigger and have more things going on. But instead of being on four boards, you’d be on one.",
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"content": "I’m actually not even on the Neuralink or Boring Company boards. And I don’t really attend the SpaceX board meetings. We only have two a year, and I just stop by and chat for an hour. So, the board overhead for a public company is much higher.",
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"content": "Right. I think some investors probably worry about how your time is being split, and they might be excited by that. Anyway, I just woke up the other day thinking, just, there are so many ways in which these things connect. And you know, just the simplicity of that mission, of building a future that is worth getting excited about, might appeal to an awful lot of people. Elon, you’re reported by Forbes and everyone else as now, you know, the world’s richest person.",
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"content": "That’s not a sovereign. You know, I think it’s fair to say that if somebody is like the king or de facto king of a country, they’re wealthier than I am.",
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"content": "And so even with a machine designed to escape Earth’s gravity, I think you told me last time, this thing could actually take a fully loaded 747, people, cargo, everything, into orbit.",
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"content": "Exactly. This can take a fully loaded 747 with maximum fuel, maximum passengers, maximum cargo on the 747 – this can take it as cargo.",
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"content": "Based on this, you presented recently this Interplanetary Transport System, which is visualized this way. (Showing film) This is a scene you picture in, what, 30 years’ time? 20 years time? People walking into this rocket.",
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"content": "I’m hopeful it’s sort of an eight- to 10-year time frame. Aspirationally, that’s our target. Our internal targets are more aggressive, but I think… – (Laughter) While vehicle seems quite large and is large by comparison with other rockets, I think the future spacecraft will make this look like a rowboat. The future spaceships will be truly enormous.",
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"content": "I mean, Linda right here, and she’s got to sell advertising.",
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"content": "Absolutely. So no, totally. So actually what this advertising boycott is going to do, it is going to kill the company.",
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"content": "And do you think that the-",
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"content": "And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we’ll document it in great detail.",
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"content": "How do you have the time to do that, though? I mean, I understand that it’s not a big deal in terms of all the other things you do. But how do you have time to do anything? I just don’t understand your time management skills.",
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"content": "I mean, I didn’t spend much time on this flamethrower. To be totally frank, it’s actually just a roofing torch with an air rifle cover. It’s not a real flamethrower.",
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"content": "Which is why it says, “Not a flamethrower”.",
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"content": "That’s why we were very clear. This is not actually a flamethrower. And also, we’re told that various countries would ban the shipping of it. But they would ban flamethrowers, so we vary to solve this problem; for all the customs agencies, we labeled it ‘not a flamethrower’.",
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"content": "So it’s not even that the risk of these events is low, but the impact of them is…",
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"content": "The impact is greatly exaggerated.",
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"content": "It’s human nature.",
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"content": "People don’t know what radiation is. I’ve had people ask me, “What about radiation from cellphones causing brain cancer?” I’m like, “When you say radiation, do you mean photons or particles?” They’re like, “I don’t know. What do you mean – photons, particles?” “Do you mean, let’s say photons – what frequency or wavelength?” And they’re like, “No, I have no idea.” “Do you know that everything’s radiating all the time?” They’re like, “What do you mean?” “Everything’s radiating all the time.” Photons are being emitted by all objects all the time, basically. And if you want to know what it means to stand in front of nuclear fire, go outside. The sun is a gigantic thermonuclear reactor that you’re staring right at. Are you still alive? Yes? Okay, amazing.",
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"content": "Oh, those dirty people. That’s just assholes. That’s like people make pet rocks.",
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"content": "Rough.",
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"content": "Right. Some people are just assholes. They take advantage of our generous nature.",
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"content": "It was made with a wine stem. Made with a handle.",
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"content": "But you’re doing it at one, two orders of magnitude cheaper.",
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"content": "Yeah. Absolutely, because our Falcon 9 rocket cost about $60 million. But the propellant cost, which is mostly oxygen – it’s two-thirds oxygen, one-third fuel – is only about $200,000.",
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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": "But the reason, Elon, the electoral college is in place is to balance that, so that doesn’t happen. What you’re saying about it is the exact opposite of the reason why the electoral college is there. The electoral college, at this point in our history, gives people who are in smaller states and red states much more of an influence over our elections than people who are in blue states and the majority of the people in this country. That’s what the electoral college does. It actually does the exact opposite of what you’re saying. It protects people who are in smaller states and protects people who are in red states. Red states because they tend to be smaller and less populous.",
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"content": "I think that statement is… What you said is true, but what I said is also true, which is that, as is the case, a disproportionate number of illegal immigrants go to blue states, they amplify the effect of a blue state vote. And the math, as I understand it, you can research this obviously very easily on there, it’s pretty straightforward to research this, but my understanding is that the Democrats would lose approximately 20 seats in the House if illegals were not counted in census and that’s also 20 less electoral votes for President. Illegals absolutely do affect who controls the House and who controls the presidency does not affect the Senate.",
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"content": "In blue states, you’re talking about. I don’t believe that your information on that is right. Listen, let’s talk more about the great replacement because the first time that you posted on X about this Jewish conspiracy, you ended up apologizing.",
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"content": "I didn’t call it a… I just said that there’s a simple matter of incentives. You don’t need a conspiracy when you have basic incentives. In my view, there’s a basic incentive. There’s fundamental… For the Democrat party to foster an usher in a large number of legals and you don’t need a conspiracy in that case because you have a very basic incentive. You could say I’m wrong about that incentive, but that’s my view. I’m not buying into some great replacement theory. I’m simply saying there appears to be a very clear incentive for Democrats to have to maximize the number of illegals because it helps them win elections.",
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"content": "Wow.",
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"content": "And he steered around the other cars. I mean, like-",
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"content": "That’s amazing.",
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"content": "It’s on the internet.",
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"content": "Cool. So Twitter asks, “How does the implant system fare against various disturbances from the outside like electrical, magnetic, WiFi, radio?”\nYeah, so the current version of implant that we have is using Bluetooth low energy radio. So, similar to any Bluetooth devices that are out there, you know, they are able to coexist with other devices that are using and sharing our same spectrum at 2.4 gigahertz. Obviously, as you imagine, you know, when you go to concerts, or there’s a lot of people, the signal quality does degrade because it is a pretty congested spectrum.\nSo, we are actually working on some new versions of the radio that are operating at different frequencies to be able to also send out a lot more data and have it be scalable to, you know, millions of electrodes. And then, also in terms of sort of electromagnetic compatibility and interferences, obviously, it’s very important for us to coexist with other systems and just disturbances out there. So there are also well-documented guidelines from FDA that we’ll be following and doing a lot of testing for.\nFantastic. We’re going to take an audience question, Fred, take it away.\nSo we all want to play Starcraft using Neuralink. But what are some likely first applications?",
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"content": "I don’t know if we all want to play Starcraft.",
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"content": "There are other games.",
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"content": "There are other games to play, exactly.",
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"content": "I’m going to take notes.",
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"content": "Does Gong know about it? No. He probably will go to Brave New World.\nWe got to ask it.",
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"content": "What would be the question?",
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"content": "Tell us about the drug called Soma.",
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"content": "Wasn’t there a Thoreau quote, that „Comparison is the thief of joy.“",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, “Happiness is reality minus expectations.”",
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"content": "That’s great too, but the ‘comparison is the thief of joy’ really holds true to people. Is it?\nTheodore Roosevelt.\nRoosevelt, fascinating. And when you’re thinking about Instagram, because what essentially Instagram is for a lot of people is you’re giving them the opportunity to be their own PR agent, and they always go towards the glamorous, you know. And when anybody does show, you know, #nofilter, I don’t know if they really do that. Like, „Oh, you’re so brave. Look at you, no makeup,“ you know. They look good anyway.\n“You look great. What are you doing? Oh my God. You don’t have makeup on. You still look hot as fuck. You know what you’re doing. I know what you’re doing too.” They’re letting you know. And then, they’re feeding off that comment section, sort of sitting there like it’s a fresh stream of love. Like you’re getting right up to the sources as it comes out of the earth, and you’re sucking that sweet, sweet love water.",
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"content": "A lot of emojis.",
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"content": "And still you’re defeated by Hatred?",
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"content": "Yeah. I guess maybe the second hardest boss is Duriel. Duriel can even scratch the paint. So I killed Duriel so many times and every other boss in the game, all of them kill him so many times, it’s easy. But Uber Lilith, otherwise known as Hatred Incarnate, especially if you’re Duriel and you have no ability to go to be vulnerable, there are these random death waves that come at you.\nReally I am 52, so my reflex is not what they used to be, but I have a lifetime of playing video games. At one point, I was maybe one of the best quake players in the world. I actually won money in what I think was the first paid eSports tournament in the US. We were doing four person quake tournaments and I was the second best person on the team and the actual best person that… We were actually winning, we would’ve come first, except the best person on the team. His computer crashed halfway through the game. So we came second, but I got money for it and everything. So basically I got skills, albeit no spring chicken these days. And to be totally frank, it’s driving me crazy to beat Lilith as a Druid, basically trying to beat Hatred Incarnate in the eternal realm.",
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"content": "As a Druid.",
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"content": "As a Druid. This is really vexing, let me tell you.",
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"content": "You want the highway. And together with our internal design team that makes this equipment and designs this equipment, we coupled thinking about how to make the best cell with thinking about how to make the best equipment so that we could accomplish the fastest parts per-minute rates on all of these tools.\nAnd through all of that development, we were able to get to the point where we can implement assembly lines, one line, 20 GWh, seven times increase in output per line. And when you’re thinking about scalability and pure effort, having one line be seven X the capability is just effort multiplying.",
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"content": "Yeah. You can sort of think about the sort of the fundamental physics of a factory or something. I think it’s actually quite a lot like the rocket equation where you’ve got basically the rocket equation – you’ve got your exhaust velocity and then the log of the start and end masses. It’s basically saying how fast are things going and what percentage of the factory volume is doing useful work? And conveyance does not count as useful work.",
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"content": "Only the value-added steps.",
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"content": "Yeah. If you break the factory down into cubic meter sections and say – or smaller, could be like one-liter sections – and say, “Is a majority of this volume doing useful work?” You’d be astounded at how bad most factories are. They’d be like maybe 2 or 3%, including our factory in Fremont. I think it’s possible to get to at least ten times that of volumetric efficiency. More like 30%ish, maybe more, and be 10x better, which means the factory can be ten times smaller.\nAnd then the other thing is how fast are things going through the factory? It’s like speed and density. A factory that’s moving at, say, twice the speed of another factory is equivalent to two factories, basically. And the company that will be successful is the company that with one factory can accomplish what other companies take two or three or four factories to do. This is what we’re trying to do here is say, okay, how do we with one factory achieve what maybe five or even ten factories would normally be required to achieve?",
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"content": "So, we’re fucked?",
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"content": "No, we’re not fucked. I mean, this is quite a complex question. The more carbon we take out of the ground and add to the atmosphere, and a lot of it gets permeated into the oceans, the more dangerous it is. Like I don’t think right — I think we’re okay right now. We can probably even add some more, but the momentum towards sustainable energy is too slow.\nLike there’s a vast base of industry, vast transportation system. Like there’s two and a half billion cars and trucks in the world. And the new car and truck production, if it was a 100% electric, that’s only about 100 million per year. So, it would take — If you could snap your fingers and instantly turn all cars and trucks electric, it would still take 25 years to change the transport base to electric. It makes sense because how long does a car and truck last before it goes into the junkyard and gets crushed? About 20 to 25 years.",
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"content": "Is there a way to accelerate that process, like some sort of subsidies or some encouragement from the government financially?",
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"content": "Well, the thing that is going on right now is that there is an inherent subsidy in any oil-burning device. Any power plant or car is fundamentally consuming the carbon capacity of the oceans and atmosphere, or just say atmosphere for short. So, like, you can say, okay, there’s a certain probability of something bad happening past a certain carbon concentration in the atmosphere.\nAnd so, there’s some uncertain number where if we put too much carbon into the atmosphere, things overheat, oceans warm up, ice caps melt, ocean real estate becomes a lot less valuable, you know, if something’s underwater, but it’s not clear what that number is. But, definitely, scientists, it’s really quite — The scientific consensus is overwhelming. Overwhelming.\nI mean, I don’t know any serious scientist, actually zero, literally zero who don’t think, you know, that we have quite a serious climate risk that we’re facing. And so, there’s fundamentally a subsidy occurring with every fossil fuel burning thing, power plants, aircraft, car, frankly even rockets. I mean, rockets use up — you know, they burn fuel. But there’s just — you know, with rockets, there’s just no other way to get to orbit, unfortunately. So, it’s the only way.\nBut with cars, there’s definitely a better way with electric cars. And to generate the energy, do so with photovoltaics because we’ve got a giant thermonuclear reactor in the sky called the sun. It’s great. It sort of shows up every day, very reliable. So, if you can generate energy from solar panels stored up with batteries, you can have energy 24 hours a day.\nAnd then, you know, you can send to the poles or near to the north with, you know, high voltage lines. Most of the northern parts of the world tend to have a lot of hydropower as well. But, anyway, all fossil fuel-powered things have an inherent subsidy, which is their consumption of the carbon capacity of the atmosphere and oceans.\nSo, people tend to think like why should electric vehicles have a subsidy, but they’re not taking into account that all fossil fuel-burning vehicles fundamentally are subsidized by the cost, the environmental cost to Earth, but nobody’s paying for it. We are going to pay for it, obviously. In the future, we’ll pay for it. It’s just not paid for now.",
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"content": "That’s one of the great ones, yes.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "You’ve earlier quoted Shakespeare, but that’s really up there.",
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"content": "“\nLove is a many splendored thing\n.”",
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"content": "Well, at the end of the day, we had a common adversary, and I’m really hoping that now – because he’s bad on oil and Biden is basically clobbered oil in a lot of different directions – I’m sure that he’ll be skeptical about doing any more trades on a shortage. Anyway, I can’t thank you enough. I’d really like to shake your hand. Thank you so much. Thank you for giving us the time. I can’t say enough about a lot of stuff, but I really can’t say them. The most exciting thing that’s happened to me in a long time was driving the self-driving car. I’m telling you it just blows your mind. Are you going to let anybody else have that?",
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"content": "Yeah, of course. I mean, we’re going to roll out the full self-driving to the whole fleet and make it available to the whole fleet. We’re just being very careful about the testing. I think there’s actually sort of a dangerous middle ground that would be careful of where the system is good 99.9% of the time, and that could lead people to be complacent, but then that one time where it’s got issues – you know. We don’t want people to basically – it can be so good that you get comfortable but not initially good enough to handle all of the corner cases. We want to just make sure that, in that transition to full self-driving, we’re taking as much care as possible.",
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"content": "I was happy with what we had on the autopilot. It’s the first time I’ve ever gotten a chance to see what the scenery looks like. I always just do lines. Now I can have a look around and feel comfortable or confident that my hands are on the wheel, and if something goes wrong, I can correct. But I can also enjoy what’s going on.",
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"content": "Basically, a car that does not have self-driving in the future will be about as popular as a horse. Horses are still horses; people have horses. But a horse is not what you use for day-to-day transport.",
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"content": "That is a gorgeous car.",
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"content": "…soft top.",
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"content": "God, that’s a good looking car.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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