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"content": "Literally. Because we went to talk to him to partner. We said, “We want to partner with you.” And “Let’s just be one of your partners to put the Yellow Pages online.” And he picked up the Yellow Pages, this book, this big, thick book, that’s full of ads, this multi-billion dollar revenue stream.",
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"content": "I mean, these guys were so arrogant and so like, ‘we are kings of the world’, and ‘you will never’ and…",
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"content": "He picked up this book, and he like threw it at me and he said, “Do you ever think you’re going to replace this?” I don’t know,I was just like, in my head is like, “Dude, you’re already dead.”\nReminds me of\nthe anti-Tesla people, you know. “Gas cars will never die.”\nI mean, we saw the growth of the internet, we saw the use of the Yellow Pages. We saw even more competitors and stuff. And no one was using the paper Yellow Pages if you had the choice. No one. And so, at that point, very few people were on the internet, so it was really a question of is the internet going to succeed, which we were huge believers in, and these guys were not. They didn’t even clue in.",
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"content": "There was like one foreign company after another we would say to like, “Listen, let’s put your Yellow Pages online, so it’s gonna cost very little, you know, you still own all the content and everything.” And they’re like… they just throw us out of the office. You know, like, “No, and how dare do you even suggest this?” And we’re like, “Okay, guess we’ll just build it.”",
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"content": "What is that?",
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"content": "It’s like a cup of coffee in reverse.",
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"content": "Weed is?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "That seems so crazy to me. Now, what was it like when the dude threw the steel balls at the window, and they were supposed to not break, and it broke? I know, extenuating circumstances.",
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"content": "Well, yeah. I mean, at least you know that our demos are authentic because I was not expecting that, and then I think I muttered, under my breath, like, “Holy shit.”",
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"content": "Yeah. You didn’t get mad, though. You didn’t Steve jobs it.",
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"content": "No, I definitely swore; I didn’t think the micro pick it up, but it did. But, so like we practiced this, behind the scenes… – At Tesla, we don’t do like tons of practice for our demos because we’re working on the cars. We’re building new technologies and improving the fundamental product. So we’re not spending like doing hundreds of practice things or anything like that. We don’t have time for that. But, just hours before the demo, both Franz, Head of Design, and I were in the studio throwing steel balls at the window, and it’s bouncing right off. And like, “Okay, this seems pretty good. It seems like we got it.” Okay?\nAnd then, we think what happened was, when Franz hit the door with the sledgehammer to show, this is an exoskeleton, high strength, hardened steel… – You can literally wind up with a sledgehammer, full-on double-handed sledgehammer and hit the door and there’s not even a dent. It’s cool. But we think that cracked the corner of the glass at the bottom, and then, once you crack the corner of the glass, it’s game over. So then, when you threw the ball, that’s what cracked the glass. It didn’t go through, though.",
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"content": "Elon, hey, welcome back to TED. It’s great to have you here.",
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"content": "Thanks for having me.",
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"content": "In the next half hour or so, we’re going to spend some time exploring your vision for what an exciting future might look like, which I guess makes the first question a little ironic: Why are you boring?",
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"content": "I ask myself that frequently. We’re trying to dig a hole under LA, and this is to create the beginning of what will hopefully be a 3D network of tunnels to alleviate congestion. So right now, one of the most soul-destroying things is traffic. It affects people in every part of the world. It takes away so much of your life. It’s horrible. It’s particularly horrible in LA.",
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"content": "How are you doing?",
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"content": "I’m overall okay. In the grand scheme of things, I can’t complain.",
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"content": "Do you get lonely?",
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"content": "Sometimes, but my kids and friends keep me company.",
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"content": "That sounds cool.",
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"content": "It’s pretty fun.",
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"content": "I like that.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, we improved the interface for Missile Command because it’s too hard with the old trackball. So, this is a touch screen version of Missile Command. So, you have a chance.",
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"content": "Let’s say 2050 we have this amazing, you know, 100% sustainable electric grid made up of some mixture of the sustainable energy sources you talked about. That same grid probably is offering the world really low-cost energy, isn’t it, compared with now. And I’m curious about, like, are people entitled to get a little bit excited about the possibilities of that world?",
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"content": "People should be optimistic about the future. Humanity will solve sustainable energy. It will happen if we are, you know, continue to push hard. The future is bright and good from an energy standpoint. And then, it will be possible to also use that energy to do carbon sequestration. It takes a lot of energy to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, just because in putting it in the atmosphere, it releases energy. So now, you know, obviously, in order to pull it out, you need to use a lot of energy. But if you’ve got a lot of sustainable energy from wind and solar, you can actually sequester carbon. You can reverse the CO2 parts per million of the atmosphere and oceans.\nAnd also, you can really have as much freshwater as you want. Earth is mostly water. We should call Earth water. It’s 70% water by surface area. Now, most of that is seawater, but it’s like, we just happened to be on the bit that’s land.",
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"content": "Right. And with energy, you can turn seawater into…",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Yeah, the only rules they have is, the mom won’t bang the son. That’s it.",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "That’s it. Mom won’t bang the sons. They’re good women. Good women in the bonobo community. Everybody else is just banging it out.",
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"content": "Yeah. I haven’t seen the bonobo movie.",
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"content": "So why is it so hard? Why don’t other people do the same thing? Everyone says it’s impossible. And how much harder is it to do what we’re trying to do than we’re doing with Falcon?\nIt’s just that in order for a rocket to be reusable, everything has to be perfect. So you have to have exceptionally efficient engines. You have to have an exceptionally efficient structure. You need advanced avionics and software. You need a very lightweight heat shield for orbital reentry.\nElon Musk",
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"content": "Well, so let’s see. Earth’s gravity is actually quite strong, and we have a thick atmosphere. So with known physics, it is only barely possible to make a fully reusable orbital rocket, only barely possible. If this was a video game, the setting is an extreme difficulty. Not impossible, but extreme difficulty. Because it’s not like those who have developed rockets before weren’t aware of reusability. They were fully aware of reusability. Aircraft and cars are reusable.\nIt’s just that in order for a rocket to be reusable, everything has to be perfect. So you have to have exceptionally efficient engines. You have to have an exceptionally efficient structure. You need advanced avionics and software. You need a very lightweight heat shield for orbital reentry. And then another key factor for traveling to Mars is you need orbital refilling, so that you get the ship to orbit and then you send up tankers to refill the ship in orbit just like is done by the Air Force with aerial refueling. Those are the things that are necessary. And it’s never been achieved before. There have been many attempts to achieve it, and basically, they’ve all failed. And they did usually cancel the program partway through once they thought it was no longer possible. So it’s a very difficult engineering challenge.",
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"content": "So SLS is supposed to get to the Moon, they got a contract in 2010. And it was supposed to be for $10 billion, but it cost plus. It’s now up to $40 billion. And they say it’s going to be $100 billion or $90 billion. And we haven’t gotten anything. Our rocket is 10 meters taller than theirs, and we can reuse ours. How can anyone possibly compete if they’re not doing what we’re doing? How can they compete? I don’t understand. How can they get contracts? I just saw something from NASA. They said, “We’re spending 20 billion a year, and, oh, by the way, that’s 360,000 jobs in all these congressional districts.”\nIn the case of Starship, the goal is to lower the cost of access to orbit and ultimately to Mars and the Moon and elsewhere, to the point where humanity can actually afford to become a multi-planet species.\nElon Musk",
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"content": "Well, I think I have to be careful what I say here. You know, I have enough enemies. I would like to have a lot smaller number of companies that want me to die. That would be great.\nSo I think part of this is like, what’s the goal? In the case of Starship, the goal is to lower the cost of access to orbit and ultimately to Mars and the Moon and elsewhere, to the point where humanity can actually afford to become a multi-planet species, to the point where we can afford to have a permanent base on the Moon, and ultimately far exceed the high watermark of Apollo, which was incredible and, I think, inspiring to all of humanity. Everyone. If you would ask people in any country, not Americans, anyone: “What was humanity’s greatest achievement in the 20th century? Maybe ever?” “Go to the Moon.” And that’s why they say ‘moonshot’ as a metaphor. Because that was incredible. You know, so amazing that that was achieved. In fact, a lot of people asked me, was it real? Yeah, it was real.",
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"content": "Other people, it gets much worse.",
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"content": "Sure. Well, yeah. I mean, this certainly has taken over the mind space of the world to a degree that is quite shocking.",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, out of nowhere. That’s what’s crazy. It’s like you go back to November, nothing. Now here we are, December, January, February, March, April, May, six months. Totally different world. So from nothing to, everything’s locked down. There’s so much conflicting information and conflicting opinions about how to proceed. What has happened? You find things where there was a meatpacking plant, I believe in Missouri where 300 plus people were asymptomatic, tested positive asymptomatic.\nThen in other places, it just ravages entire communities and kills people, and it’s so weird. It almost appears, if you didn’t know any better, you’d be like, what? It seems like there’s a bunch of different viruses. It doesn’t seem like it’s the same thing or has a bunch of different reactions to the biological variety of people.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, I kind of saw this whole thing play out in China before it played out in the US. So it’s kind of like watching the same movie again but in English. I think the mortality rate is much less than what the World Health Organization said it was. It’s much, much less. It’s like probably at least an order of magnitude less.",
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"content": "I want to go-",
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"content": "We could make this thing fly.",
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"content": "I want to go back in time.",
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"content": "I can make it fly.",
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"content": "Starship, so you can go to Mars. Or do you want civilization on Mars?",
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"content": "Civilization on Mars.",
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"content": "So what’s first? That Moonbase or…? Moonbase first, correct?",
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"content": "I mean, the Moon is close, so we might as well.",
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"content": "And so the reason I ask you this though is now, when people say, you’re wrong, this isn’t right, do you look at that and say, you know what, that’s a red flag for me because I’ve been told so often that I’m wrong and I know I’m right because I’ve had that experience? Or are there people in your life when they say, you know what, this is not right. Do you know what I’m saying?",
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"content": "I think what you trying to say is that, do I at this point think because I’ve been right so many times for others who said I’m wrong, that now I best believe I’m right when, in fact, I’m wrong?",
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"content": "You did very well. What do you think?",
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"content": "No, I’m right. So yeah, no, look, here’s the thing. Physics is unforgiving. Physics is unforgiving. I have these various little sayings that I’ve come up with, that physics is the law and everything else is a recommendation.",
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"content": "Thank God. Thank God there’s a judge out there with a brain.",
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"content": "I tell you, judges are very good.",
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"content": "Some of them. What about that judge that sent all these boys up the river in Pennsylvania who was selling those kids out? You know about that story?",
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"content": "Nope.",
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"content": "One of the things that I’ve said is that there could be potentially a universal language that’s created through computers that particularly young kids would pick up very quickly. Like, my kids do Tik Tok and all this jazz, and I don’t know what they’re doing. They just know how to do it, and they know how to do it really quickly. Like they learn really quickly, and they show me how to edit things.\nIt’s if you taught a child from first grade on how to use some new universal language, essentially like a\nRosetta Stone\n, and something that’s done with that interprets your thoughts and you can convey your thoughts with no room for interpretation, clear, very clear, where you know what a person’s saying. And you could tell them what you’re saying, and there’s no need for noises, no need for mouth noises. No need for these sort of accepted ways that we’ve evolved to make sounds that we all agree, through our cultural dictionary, and we agree. We could bypass all that.",
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"content": "You can still do it for sentimental reasons.",
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"content": "Like campfires.",
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"content": "Yeah, exactly. You don’t need campfire. Don’t need to roast marshmallows to have fun.",
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"content": "So, it gets it from the outside?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Wow, I didn’t know that.",
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"content": "It’s like the air’s — Airplanes have it easy because, essentially, you can — they’re pretty leaky, but-",
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"content": "You famously have admitted to overstating how quickly things will happen, but how quickly do you think this will happen?",
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"content": "If you say smarter than the smartest human at anything?",
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"content": "It may not be then quite smarter than all humans, well, machine-augmented humans, because people have got computers and stuff. There’s a higher bar, but you say it’s more than any … can write as good a novel as, say, JK Rowling, or discover new physics, or invent new technology, I would say that we’re less than three years from that point.",
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"content": "That’s a super linear relationship.",
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"content": "Well, we might need a million people in the company then. Yeah, more, even more. Ideally, like, super linear.",
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"content": "Our hiring quotas are determined by our channel counts.",
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"content": "I think it’s ten to one ratio or something.",
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"content": "And then you can focus on reducing complexity or something like that.",
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"content": "Got to change the design, change the part, to be something that is not fundamentally expensive. That’s a common thing in rocketry because the unit volume is relatively low. And so a common excuse would be, “Well, it’s expensive because our unit volume is low. And if we were in like automotive or something like that, or consumer electronics, then our costs will be lower.” And I’m like, “Okay, so let’s say, now you’re making a million units a year. Is it still expensive?” If the answer is yes, then economies of scale are not the issue.",
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"content": "Do you throw into manufacturing, do you throw like supply chain… You talked about resources and materials and stuff like that – do you throw that into the calculation of trying to reason from first principles? Like, how we’re going to make the supply chain work here?",
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"content": "Yeah, yeah.",
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"content": "Let me ask you a different question.",
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"content": "You compose it, I’ll post it.",
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"content": "Okay. Let me ask you this. You were on a podcast about a month ago, and you said something that struck me and it struck me as accurate. It came out of your mouth, so hopefully it is. But I’m hoping we go deep on this.",
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"content": "Just because it came out of my mouth does not mean it’s true. .",
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"content": "He’s in jail right now, I think, for the rest of his life. And he put away — He would take like a young boy who would do something like steal something from a store, and he would put them in detention for, you know, five years. Something ridiculous egregious. And they investigated his history. And they found out that he was literally being paid off.\n(\nto Jamie\n) Was it by private prisons? Is that what the deal was? There was some sort of — But, anyway, this judge is-\nActually, two judges.\nTwo judges?\nTwo judges. Kids for cash scandals, let’s call them.2008, yeah. Common pleas judges. So, I think they are elected.\nAnd who was paying them? Someone — It was proven to the point where they’re in jail now that someone was paying them to put more asses in the seats in these private prisons.\nIt’s like a million-dollar payment to put them in a youth centers builder.\nA million-dollar payment?\nYeah.",
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"content": "I do think it’s this private prisons thing that is creating a bad incentive.",
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"content": "It’s dark.",
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"content": "Right, yes. But, I mean, that judge is in prison.",
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"content": "Can I ask you an interesting IP issue, which I think is actually something I can say, as somebody who’s in the creator business and journalistic business and whatnot, where I care about copyright? So one of the things about training on data has been this idea that these things are not being trained on people’s copyrighted information. Historically, that’s been the concept.",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s a huge lie.",
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"content": "Say that again?",
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"content": "These AIs are all trained on copyrighted data, obviously.",
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"content": "Like some sort of a filter, giant building-sized filter sucks carbon out in the atmosphere? Is that possible?",
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"content": "No, no, it doesn’t. It’s not possible.",
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"content": "No?",
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"content": "Nope, definitely not.",
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"content": "Do you think those two are connected?",
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"content": "Well, the people couldn’t parse the difference between I’m selling Tesla stock because I’ve lost faith in Tesla – which I haven’t. Or that it’s desperately needed for Twitter.",
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"content": "And then after you let go of lot of staff, obviously Twitter became slimmed down a lot and then you started making some more policy decisions. One of those policy decisions was to bring Donald Trump back. He hasn’t actually tweeted yet. Do you expect him to come back at any point? Have you spoken to him?",
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"content": "I don’t know. He may or may not come back. But the point is that Twitter should be a town square that gives equal voice to the whole country. And ideally the whole world. It should not be a partisan politics. And the partisan politics that are the very far left of the spectrum – San Francisco, Berkeley politics -normally is quite niche. But Twitter effectively acted as a megaphone for very niche regional politics and megaphoned that to the world.\nSo in order for something to serve as a Digital Town Square, it must serve all people from all political persuasions provided it’s legal. So close to half the country voted for Trump. I wasn’t one of them. I voted for Biden. But nonetheless, free speech is meaningless unless you allow people you don’t like to say things you don’t like. Otherwise it’s irrelevant. And if at the point of which you lose free speech, it doesn’t come back.",
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"content": "Fucking it.\nIn San Diego.\nWhat’s that? They have in San Diego?\nSan Diego’s got some, yeah.\nReally? Interesting.",
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"content": "Probably separate them. Yeah.",
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"content": "I mean, how many are there in a cage, you know? I was like,…",
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"content": "Probably in history of the world.",
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"content": "Probably. Well, I’ve got this first principles algorithm that I find to be very helpful in the design and manufacturing of anything. People here may find it helpful. The first thing that you should do is make the requirements that you’ve been given less dumb. Whatever constraints and requirements you were given, they were, to some degree, dumb, and you want to make them less dumb. If you don’t start with this, then you get the right answer to the wrong question. And the requirements must be given from a person who can explain the requirements, not from a department, because then you don’t know who to talk to. Then step two is to delete the part or delete the process step. This sounds extremely obvious, and yet, over and over again, we have found that parts were not needed, they were put in there, just in case, or by mistake. Or there was a step that someone thought was needed but was not actually needed. This sounds insanely obvious, but we have deleted so many parts from the car that did nothing.",
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"content": "They were just there?\nSo honestly, a bunch of these things just feel like you’re living in a Dilbert cartoon. I mean, at any given company, you should ask, “What’s your Dilbert ratio?”\nElon Musk",
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"content": "Well, yeah, I mean, I can give you so many examples. One example was, there were three fiberglass mats, on top of the battery pack. They partially covered the battery pack. I was on the battery pack production line, and the number one thing choking battery pack production was gluing on these three fiberglass mats to the top of the battery pack. So the reason I repeat this algorithm is because myself first did things backwards. First, I tried to automate it, then I tried to accelerate it, just go faster, then I tried to simplify it, and only then did I delete it. Because it turned out that the team at Tesla that does noise and vibration minimization, so making the car quiet, thought that the fiberglass mats were there because of the battery safety team for battery fire prevention. And then I asked the battery fire prevention team what they were needed for, and they said, “Oh, noise and vibration.” And I’m like, “Okay!” So then we had two cars drive, with a microphone in each car, and you could not tell the difference. So, we went to all that trouble for a part that should not exist.\nAnd then another example was, there was… these were chokepoints in the entire production system. That’s why they, you know… I’m running around the production line, trying to fix the production line, just like a maniac, like a Tasmanian devil, just running around the factory, like a lunatic. And let’s see… the body production line for Model 3 was at one point stuck because we had a laser welding cell to weld a small cross-car beam in the passenger footwell of the front seats. And I’m looking at this beam, and I’m like, “What the heck does that do?“ Because the entire factory is stopped trying to get this laser weld cell to work. And I’m like, “I can’t imagine what a useful thing it could do.” And the production team said, “Oh, that’s for crash safety.” So then I called the crash safety team, and I said, “Is this for crash safety?” And they said, “Oh no, this didn’t do anything, we should delete it.” It turned out to be totally useless. They forgot to tell the production team! So honestly, a bunch of these things just feel like you’re living in a Dilbert cartoon. I mean, at any given company, you should ask, “What’s your Dilbert ratio?” Okay. It’s not zero. The Dilbert quotient – try to keep it low.",
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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": "It will be very helicopter-like.",
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"content": "Or on your roof. It’s just really going to be like, „What the hell. That was annoying.“ Like, if you want a flying car, just put some wheels on a helicopter.",
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"content": "Come on, man. You probably can’t because of stockholders, right?",
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"content": "I mean, it’s legal, right?",
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"content": "Totally legal. (\npasses Elon the joint\n)",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "Okay, here we go. You ready? Screen time in general?",
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"content": "Yeah, screen time. Sometimes this is a scary number though.",
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"content": "I know, that’s why I thought…",
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"content": "I just got a new phone, so I think this is not accurate. It’s one minute. Pretty sure it’s more than that. Wait, it’s over the week. There we go.",
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"content": "I’m just worried. I mean, everyone’s always scared of change, but I’m scared of this monumental change where we won’t talk anymore.",
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"content": "We’ll communicate.",
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"content": "Yes, but there’s something about the beauty of the crudeness of language where when it’s done eloquently, it’s satisfying, and it hits us in some sort of a visceral way. Like, ah, that person nailed it. I love that they nailed it. That it’s so hard to capture a real thought and convey it in a way, in this articulate way. You read a quote, a great quote by a wise person. It makes you excited that their mind figured something out, put the words together in a right way that makes your brain pop like, “Oh yes. Yes.”",
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"content": "It’s clever compression of a concept and a feeling.",
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"content": "A flying car?",
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"content": "Maybe. It’s not out of the question.",
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"content": "No, I got to reserve the cool stuff for when we actually unveil it, but it is going to be really cool. It’s going to have some rocket technology in it. I think the only way to do something that’s cooler than the Cybertruck is to combine SpaceX and Tesla technology to create something that’s not even really a car.",
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"content": "To get your expansion ratio.",
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"content": "Yeah",
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"content": "Yep, awesome.",
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"content": "Also, if you’ve got a two-stage rocket…- I think, this is the other thing like, you’ve got two-stage rockets where your boost stage is primarily in atmosphere, and your upper stage is primarily in vacuum, then you can specialize for a vacuum nozzle and a sea-level nozzle. And then you’re like, „Why need the aerospike?“ It’s only if you want to try to do single-stage, reusable, then that’s when you start like having to reach for the aerospike.",
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"content": "Do you think that you gave yourself favorable treatment there? That’s the criticism on that.",
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"content": "No, it’s just realtime doxing is not allowed.",
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"content": "Right but you literally created that rule after that.",
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"content": "Actually, no. It just was unevenly enforced.",
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"content": "No?",
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"content": "Nope, definitely not.",
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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": "But a friendly one?",
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"content": "If somebody said: Hey, we think it would be a good idea to merge with Tesla, we certainly would have that conversation. But we don’t want to have a hostile take-over sort of situation.",
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"content": "Did you feel a lot of complacencies these days that the incumbents then let you feel that you are, I mean, a kind of hopeless disrupter, but they know how to do it, or were they very polite and nice to you?",
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"content": "Do you mean back then or –",
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"content": "Yeah, elective is a weird word.",
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"content": "Elective. It’s not like…- this isn’t like plastic surgery.",
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"content": "Right, right.",
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"content": "It’s more like my hip is…- I’m in extreme pain because my hip’s blown out or my knee, and I don’t want to go to the hospital. I can’t go to the hospital. People are in extreme pain, people that need a kidney, people that have quite serious issues that are choosing not to go out of fear. So I think it’s a problem; that’s not good.",
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"content": "Now, are those available to the consumer right now?Those on that roof right there?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "That’s amazing. Oh, that looks good.Ooh, I like that.",
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"content": "That one is hard.",
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"content": "But those advertisers I imagine are going to say, they’re going to say, we didn’t kill the company.",
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"content": "Oh, yeah. They’re going to say-\nTell to earth.",
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"content": "But they’re going to say, Elon, that you killed the company because you said these things and that they were inappropriate things and that they didn’t feel comfortable on the platform. Right?",
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"content": "That’s what they’re going to say. And let’s see how earth responds to that.",
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"content": "I don’t know –\nit’s a long time ago. You called me up, and you said you think you can do a better job.\nMaybe you made that up to try and get Kimbal interested?",
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"content": "How would I have been in a meeting with Yellow Pages Com?",
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"content": "I have no idea. That’s what I remember. Or what is your version of that?",
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"content": "I don’t even know any Yellow Pages…",
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"content": "I can tell, and the run rate is amazing.\nAnd I love that they use the Chinese badge as well. It’s like a symbol of pride and, you know, ‘made in China’.",
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"content": "That’s cool, super cool.",
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"content": "How did Tesla manage to get the first wholly-owned foreign car company in China? I mean, a factory?",
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"content": "Well, I went to China many times, and they kept saying that we will have to do this, you know, majority local and venture. And I said, well, you know, we’re a little late to the dance here, you know, so, who would you partner with? You know, there’s nobody left. And also, we’re just a little company. So, you know, because we should get married when we’re young.",
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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": "But also Starcraft.\nSo our first clinical trial is aimed at people with paraplegia or tetraplegia. So cervical spinal cord injury, we’re going to enroll, we’re planning to enroll a small number of patients to make sure the device is safe and that it works in that case.",
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"content": "Yeah, so actually, just to elaborate on that, if somebody has, like a severe spinal cord injury, you know, to the degree that they have very limited control even over their facial muscles, then with this implant, actually just by thinking you can output words, and you can type, and you can control a computer, control a phone, which is pretty, pretty wild.\nAnd I think something that’s very exciting as a long-term application is if you can sense what somebody is trying to do with their limbs, what they want to do with their limbs, then you can actually do a second implant that’s at the base of the spine, or wherever, just after wherever the spinal injury occurred, and you can create a neural shunt. I’m confident that long term, it will be possible to restore somebody’s full-body motion. So, if somebody even has a severed spine, they will be able to walk again, they will be able to use their hands. And like when you have a severed spinal cord, you essentially have broken wires. And so, if you can just jump over those wires and transmit the signals over those wires, you can give somebody the ability to walk again, naturally.",
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"content": "So DJ, you talked about outside interference. Can anyone talk about the inside interference, so how to protect the implant from the body?\nSure, I can talk about that. My name is Robin. I’m a mechanical engineer, and I lead the implant, mechanical packaging, and assembly team. So actually making the devices and designing the seal. So yeah, the body is not a friendly place to be. So what we do is basically create an accelerated test chamber that can mimic the conditions that the devices will see in the body and basically test the devices at as fast as accelerated rate as we can. At this time, we’re limited temperature-wise by some of the electronics components. But basically, we can test subsystems to mimic the environment in the body.\nAnd by that, we’ve brought some devices in the test right now to almost a year. And all the implanted ones, prior to these implants, we had tested the same architecture and the tester to validate it. And yeah, so there’s obviously chemical things attacking the implant. There’s pressure; there’s mechanical shock and vibration. So all these things are part of it. And, yeah, I think one of the things that really helps is having everything insourced in-house. So we have the capability to deposit thin layers of metal, we have the capability to weld glass and machine micron scale with lasers, and yeah – so basically, we have all the tools in-house to be able to design any sort of sealing, enclosure, packaging that we need to do.\nAwesome. Thank you, Robin. Another question from Twitter: “Will you be able to save and replay memories in the future?”",
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"content": "Yes, I think in the future, you will be able to save and replay memories. And this is obviously sounding increasingly like a Black Mirror episode. But well, I guess they’re pretty good at predicting. But yeah, essentially, if you have a whole neural interface, everything that’s encoded in memory, you could upload, you could basically store your memories as a backup and restore the memories. Then ultimately, you could potentially download them into a new body or into a robot body. The future is going to be weird.",
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"content": "And even in the urban area where I would say the challenge is the highest concerning autonomous…",
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"content": "No problem.",
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"content": "No problem in 20 years.",
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"content": "In 20 years? My God. I hope civilization is around in 20 years. You know, I caught that as a win.",
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"content": "AI extension of yourself.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "What does that mean to you when you say AI Extension of yourself?",
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"content": "Well, like I said, you already have a computer extension of yourself with your phone and computers and stuff. So, and now online, it’s like somebody dies, there’s like an online ghost, they’re still… their online stuff is still alive.",
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"content": "But you’re implying that they’re lowering standards because of people of color or women because someone is not a white male. You’re saying that they’re less skilled and less intelligent, that’s what you’re saying?",
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"content": "No, I’m not saying that. I’m simply saying that they are-",
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"content": "Then why would they be lowering the standards?",
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"content": "I don’t know. Why are they lowering the standards?",
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"content": "Do you think that’s definitely where we’re going?",
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"content": "No.",
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"content": "Yeah, I don’t think so either. I used to think so. And, now, I’m thinking more likely less than ever. Like almost every day less likely.",
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"content": "We can definitely go to the moon and Mars.",
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"content": "I agree. That’s my impression as well.",
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"content": "And that’s not to suggest that we be complacent and assume everyone is honest and ethical. And, obviously, if somebody is given a trusted place in society, such as being a police officer or a judge, and they are corrupt, then we must be extra vigilant against such situations and take action. But we should not think that this is somehow broadly descriptive of people in that profession.",
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"content": "I couldn’t agree more. I think there’s also an issue with one of the things that happens with police officers, prosecutors, and anyone that’s trying to convict someone or arrest someone is that it becomes a game. And in games, people want to win.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "In SpaceX, we have no competitors, sort of, I guess. (…) Just Boeing, Northrop, and Lockheed. And with those guys, when they built the launching pad, it took them like 10 years and billions of dollars. And we had to build a launching pad, and it cost a few 100 million dollars and did it in six months. And then I was interested in how that was done, and the woman I’m talking to says, “Ron, didn’t you see the plumbing when you went there?” and I said, “Why should it cost hundreds of millions of dollars? It looks like it’s a landing field.” And she says, “Would you see what’s underneath, would you see the plumbing?” I said, “No, they didn’t show that to me.” And she said, “Well, you should be aware that there’s all these pipes that take away the heat, and then they all deliver fuel to the rocket, and it has to be there at the exact right amount at the exact right time. And if that doesn’t happen, it blows up.” And I say, “Well, how does Elon know this?” Because you hire these great people, and then you ask them all these questions, and then somehow you remember everything I tell you. Is that true?\nThe thing that’s the Holy Grail, like the critical breakthrough needed to make life multi-planetary and for humanity to be a spacefaring civilization, is a fully and rapidly reusable orbital rocket.\nElon Musk",
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"content": "Well, my memory for technical matters is very good. But I think probably a lot of people don’t realize like what I do 80% of the time is engineering. It’s actually quite rare for me to give a talk and my day-to-day work at SpaceX and Tesla is almost entirely engineering and design. And also Production. Production is key. But although I consider that to be part of engineering.\nStarship is something special. The thing that’s the Holy Grail, like the critical breakthrough needed to make life multi-planetary and for humanity to be a spacefaring civilization, is a fully and rapidly reusable orbital rocket. We’ve gone most of the way there with Falcon 9. You may have seen the rocket booster come back and land. And we also recover the nose cone or fairing. But we do not recover the upper stage. So we’ve gotten to the point where we’re about, you know, 70 to 80% reusable with Falcon 9. With Starship, we’re going for 100% reusable. I cannot say how profound a change this will be. But a fully and rapidly reusable orbital rocket has the potential to drop the cost of access to space by a factor of 1,000.\nAnd I should say also, Starship is a very big rocket. It’s more than twice the thrust of a Saturn 5, and about twice the mass. And also the entire ship is designed to land propulsively. It can land on its engines. So it can land on any solid surface in the solar system. If we can make Starship work, then it enables us to, over time, get anywhere in the solar system.",
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"content": "So why is it so hard? Why don’t other people do the same thing? Everyone says it’s impossible. And how much harder is it to do what we’re trying to do than we’re doing with Falcon?\nIt’s just that in order for a rocket to be reusable, everything has to be perfect. So you have to have exceptionally efficient engines. You have to have an exceptionally efficient structure. You need advanced avionics and software. You need a very lightweight heat shield for orbital reentry.\nElon Musk",
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"content": "Well, so let’s see. Earth’s gravity is actually quite strong, and we have a thick atmosphere. So with known physics, it is only barely possible to make a fully reusable orbital rocket, only barely possible. If this was a video game, the setting is an extreme difficulty. Not impossible, but extreme difficulty. Because it’s not like those who have developed rockets before weren’t aware of reusability. They were fully aware of reusability. Aircraft and cars are reusable.\nIt’s just that in order for a rocket to be reusable, everything has to be perfect. So you have to have exceptionally efficient engines. You have to have an exceptionally efficient structure. You need advanced avionics and software. You need a very lightweight heat shield for orbital reentry. And then another key factor for traveling to Mars is you need orbital refilling, so that you get the ship to orbit and then you send up tankers to refill the ship in orbit just like is done by the Air Force with aerial refueling. Those are the things that are necessary. And it’s never been achieved before. There have been many attempts to achieve it, and basically, they’ve all failed. And they did usually cancel the program partway through once they thought it was no longer possible. So it’s a very difficult engineering challenge.",
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"content": "Good analogy. And current approaches to solve this, which exist – I mean, we have silicon in the cars that you’re all in right now – involved highly engineered, expensive materials in the scheme of things. Now they’re still great, and they enable some of the benefits of silicon. They just don’t enable all of it, and they’re not scalable enough.\nAnd you can see – some of the things that maybe you’ve heard of, SiO, silicon with carbon, or silicon nanowires – that’s kind of the space right now. What we’re proposing is a step change in capability and a step change in cost.\nAnd what that really is, is to just go to the raw metallurgical silicon itself. Don’t engineer the base metal. Just start with that and design for it to expand in, how you think of the particle in the electrode design, and how you coat it.",
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"content": "Yeah. And I’m not sure if you saw this. Basically, a dollar per kilowatt-hour. If you use simple silicon, it’s dramatically less than even the silicon that is currently used in the batteries that are made today, and you can use a lot more of it.",
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"content": "The anode would cost… yeah, with this silicon, the anode costs $1.20/kWh.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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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 can kind of keep it-",
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"content": "Yeah, right. This is…",
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"content": "Wow. One of the things that people are so excited about is the fact that it’s got autopilot. And you put out this video a while back showing what that technology would look like.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "There’s obviously autopilot in Model S right now. (showing the video) What are we seeing here?",
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"content": "So, this is using only cameras and GPS. There’s no LIDAR or radar being used here. This is just using passive optical, which is essentially what a person uses. The whole road system is meant to be navigated with passive optical or cameras, and so once you solve cameras or vision, then autonomy is solved. If you don’t solve vision, it’s not solved. So that’s why our focus is so heavily on having a vision neural net that’s very effective for road conditions.",
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"content": "There probably is. There’s probably two million. I mean, I think that’s the case with a lot of folks.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, but, like, you know, my goal is, like, try to do useful things, try to maximize the probability for the future’s good, make the future exciting, something you look forward to, you know. You know, with Tesla, I want to try to make things that people love. How many things can you buy that you really love, that really give you joy? So rare, so rare. I wish there were more things. That’s what we try to do. Just make things that somebody loves.That’s so difficult.\nJoe\nRogan\n:\nWhen you think about things that someone loves, like, do you specifically think about like what things would improve people’s experience, like what would change the way people interface with life that would make them more relaxed or more happy? You really think, like, when you’re thinking about things like that, is that like one of your considerations? Like what could I do that would help people that maybe they wouldn’t be able to figure out?\nYeah. Like what are the set of things that can be done to make the future better? I think, a future where we are a space-faring civilization and out there among the stars, this is very exciting. This makes me look forward to the future. This makes me want that future. You know, the things, there need to be things that make you look forward to waking up in the morning. You wake up in the morning, you look forward to the day, you look forward to the future.\nAnd a future where we are a space-faring civilization and out there among the stars, I think, that’s very exciting. That is a thing we want; whereas, if we knew we would not be a space-faring civilization but forever confined to Earth, this would not be a good future. That would be very sad, I think. I don’t want a sad future.",
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"content": "It would be so sad in terms of just the finite lifespan of the Earth itself and the solar system itself. But even though it’s possibly — You know, I mean, how long do they feel like the sun and the solar system is going to exist? How many hundreds of millions of years?",
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"content": "Well, it’s probably, if you’re saying when does the sun boil the oceans-",
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"content": "I see now why you’ve done Twitter spaces. I am not a representative of the BBC’s editorial policy. I want to make that clear. Let’s talk about something else. You want to talk about the BBC? All right, let’s talk about something else.",
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"content": "You weren’t expecting that.",
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"content": "Let’s talk about something else. Narendra Modi, the BBC did a documentary about Narendra Modi and his leadership during the rise in Gujarat. We then believe that some of those content was taken off Twitter. Was that at the behest of the Indian government?",
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"content": "I’m not aware of that particular situation.",
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"content": "But Roadster comes before Cybertruck?",
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"content": "I mean, I think we should do Cybertruck first, before Roadster.",
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"content": "Interesting. I’m not mad at that.",
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"content": "Some of the things for Roadster, the tri-motor, plaid powertrain, we’re going to have that in Model S. So that’s like part one of the ingredients that’s needed for Roadster, is the plaid powertrain, the more advanced battery pack. That kind of thing.",
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"content": "So you didn’t go there to meet him?",
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"content": "No, I went to a friend of mine’s house and he said, “Donald Trump’s coming by for breakfast, is that… Just so you know.” “Okay, fine.”",
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"content": "What’d you discuss?",
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"content": "Let’s just say, he did most of the talking.",
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"content": "Well, that’s the argument against the narrative. And the argument by a lot of these tech people is that the real concern is that these companies, like Huawei, are innovating at a radical pace, and they’re trying to stop them from integrating into our culture and letting this… Like right now, they’re the number two cell phone manufacturer in the world.Samsung is number one. Huawei is number two. Apple is now number three. They surpassed Apple as number two. And the idea is that this is all taking place without them having any foothold whatsoever in America. There are no carriers that have their phones. You have to buy their phones unlocked through some sort of a third party, and then put-",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "And the worry is, you know, that these are somehow another controlled by the Chinese government. The Communist Chinese government is going to distribute these phones. And I don’t know if the worry’s economic influence or they’ll have too much power. I don’t know what it is. Are you paying attention to any of this?",
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"content": "Not really.I don’t think we should worry too much about Huawei phones, you know. Maybe a national security agency shouldn’t have Huawei phones. Maybe that’s a question mark. But I think for the average citizen, this doesn’t matter. Just like no, they’re not. I’m pretty sure the Chinese government does not care about the goings of the average American citizen.",
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"content": "I understand that, but these are your own rules on your own platform. These go against the rules on your platform. That’s why I’m asking you. If you said, listen, we allow everything, but that’s not what your content rules say and that’s why I’m asking you why are they still there? Your own content policy. That’s why I’m asking you that. Not because-",
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"content": "Which part of our content policy says that we should delete these things?",
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"content": "Your content policy talks about hate speech.",
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"content": "Yes. We don’t promote hate speech.",
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"content": "At that point, might you contribute or donate?",
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"content": "I think it’s unlikely.",
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"content": "So you have been posting up a storm, as you always do, in the past couple weeks about the redesign of the Tesla Roadster coming at the end of this year. Are there any updates that you can talk about to expect from flagship EV? I mean, Tesla stock is down in the last six months. What’s next for the company?",
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"content": "The stocks go up and down, but what really matters is, are we making and delivering great products? The Tesla products are outstanding. Last year the Tesla Model Y was the bestselling car of any kind in the world. So it was about 1.2 million units. It was the bestselling car despite being, I think around 50% more expensive than the next bestselling vehicle, of any kind, not just electric. So I think that’s a testament to the incredible work of the Tesla team. And we launched the Cybertruck. Obviously that’s being very well received. We have I think over a million orders for the Cybertruck. So it’s a really special product. I think the Cybertruck is one of those products that comes along really once in several years, maybe once a decade. The Cybertruck is a once a decade product. It is so special and I think it’s our best product.",
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"content": "Yeah. Okay. So you’re not, because I know you’ve talked about there’s been high levels of crime here. You actually said at one point-",
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"content": "Yeah, we should do something about the crime.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "People are dying.",
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"content": "I’m listening.",
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"content": "Yeah. I’m not trying to convince you it’s going to work. Or anyone.",
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"content": "But you’re starting this though. This is actually a project you’re starting to implement. Right?",
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"content": "Yeah, I know. We’ve dug about a mile. It’s quite long. It takes a long time to walk it.",
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"content": "How much more so?",
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"content": "Well, you know, just have a 200-kilowatt-hour battery pack, and you can go 600 miles as long.",
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"content": "Right, versus what do you have now?",
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"content": "330-mile range. That’s plenty for most people.",
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"content": "But I’ve spoken to lots of people who’ve been fired. So lots of people have been let go. You’ve gone from 8,000 to 1,500 people.",
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"content": "Yeah, the censorship bureau was let go. I don’t think the sort of putting a thumb on the political scales on the far left has been let go because that’s not right. That’s not what you want for a public square. You’ve got to have equal treatment for people from across the political spectrum.\nSo some of them are going to be upset about that. But like I said, my experience is that there’s less misinformation these days, not more. And that the Community Notes feature is extremely powerful for addressing so-called misinformation.",
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"content": "You’ve had Community Notes placed on your own tweets.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "That’s a great way to put it.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "When you’re programming artificial intelligence where you’re working with artificial intelligence art, are they specifically trying to mimic the developmental process of a human brain?",
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"content": "In a lot of ways. There’s some ways that are different. An analogy that’s often used is like we don’t make a submarine swim like a fish, but we take the principles of hydrodynamics and apply them to the submarine.",
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"content": "And where is Neuralink at right now?",
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"content": "I think, we have something interesting to announce in a few months that’s at least an order of magnitude better than anything else. I think, better than, probably, anyone thinks is possible.",
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"content": "How much can you talk about that right now?",
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"content": "I don’t want to jump the gun on that.",
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"content": "Yeah, we absolutely do. And we get feedback all the time. So we can absolutely do that offline.",
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"content": "Okay. Sounds good. I can just say that the aspiration is very much to do the right thing. And I think the best evidence for us doing the right thing will be that more people are signing up. They’re spending more time in the system. That and that it’s working for advertisers, as well.",
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"content": "Just a quick add-on to the content counsel. Will they also weigh in on account suspension? And how you think about banning folks?",
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"content": "I think\nweigh in\nis the correct word. You know, at the end of the day, I am the chief twit here. So the responsibility is mine. I think it’s difficult to really say anything… To say anything else would be what I think be disingenuous. It is both. If things go wrong, it’s my fault. Because the buck stops with me. But I would like to hear what people have to say and then we’ll make our decisions accordingly. And obviously, if we make or if I make decisions that people don’t like, then advertisers will leave the system and users will leave the system and we will fail.",
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"content": "Why, Elon? Why do we need to build a city on Mars with a million people on it in your lifetime, which I think is kind of what you’ve said you’d love to do?",
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"content": "I think it’s important to have a future that is inspiring and appealing. I just think there have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Like, why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? And if we’re not out there, if the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multiplanet species, I find that it’s incredibly depressing if that’s not the future that we’re going to have.",
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"content": "People want to position this as an either-or, that there are so many desperate things happening on the planet now from climate to poverty to, you know, you pick your issue. And this feels like a distraction. You shouldn’t be thinking about this. You should be solving what’s here and now. And to be fair, you’ve done a fair old bit to actually do that with your work on sustainable energy. But why not just do that?",
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"content": "I think there’s… – I look at the future from the standpoint of probabilities. It’s like a branching stream of probabilities, and there are actions that we can take that affect those probabilities or that accelerate one thing or slow down another thing. I may introduce something new to the probability stream. Sustainable energy will happen, no matter what. If there was no Tesla, if Tesla never existed, it would have to happen out of necessity. It’s tautological.\nIf you don’t have sustainable energy, it means you have unsustainable energy. Eventually, you will run out, and the laws of economics will drive civilization towards sustainable energy, inevitably. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy, faster than it would otherwise occur.\nSo, when I think, like, what is the fundamental good of a company like Tesla, I would say, hopefully, if it accelerated that by a decade, potentially more than a decade, that would be quite a good thing to occur. That’s what I consider to be the fundamental aspirational good of Tesla.\nThen there’s becoming a multiplanet species and space-faring civilization. This is not inevitable. It’s very important to appreciate this is not inevitable. The sustainable energy future, I think, is largely inevitable, but being a space-faring civilization is definitely not inevitable.\nIf you look at the progress in space, in 1969, you were able to send somebody to the moon. Then we had the Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle could only take people to low Earth orbit. Then the Space Shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.\nSo that’s the trend. The trend is down to nothing. People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better, and actually, it will, I think, by itself degrade. You look at great civilizations like Ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And then the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it.",
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"content": "Do you take that into account with like the same sort of fatalistic, you know, undertones to sort of just go, „You’ve got to just let it go. This is what people do.“",
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"content": "I tell you I’ve got…",
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"content": "This is what it is.",
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"content": "… quite a lot of respect for the justice system. Judges are very smart. And they see — they’ve — as like I haven’t… So far, I’ve found judges to be very good at justice because, like, what — and juries are good too. Like, they’re actually quite good. You know, people — You know, you read about like occasional errors in the justice system. Let me tell you, most of the time, they’re very good.\nYou know, the guy I mentioned who fell asleep in the car, and he rode over a cyclist. And that was what encouraged me to get autopilot out as soon as possible. That guy sued us.",
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"content": "Right. So at least for the first iterations, first few iterations. I know that Google has…- some of their pixel buds have the ability to interpret languages in real-time.",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "Yeah. You can hear it, and it’ll play things back to you in whatever language you choose. So it’d be something along those lines? For the first few iterations?",
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"content": "Well, the first few iterations are… – what I’m talking about is in the limit over time, with a lot of development. The first few iterations, really, in the first few versions, all we’re going to be trying to do is solve brain injuries. So, don’t worry. It’s not going to sneak up on you. This will take a while.",
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"content": "It’s so… I’ve taken so many people… – I take them for the holy shit moment. I’m like, “You ready?” like “Hang on there.” and then I stomp on the gas…",
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"content": "And they’ve never felt anything like it.",
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"content": "It’s confusing. It really is. The instant torque and just the sheer acceleration is baffling.",
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"content": "They’ve never felt it. It’s faster than falling.",
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"content": "Okay.\nTell me what to order, I’ll order it.",
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"content": "Model S P100D.",
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"content": "Okay. Jamie, write it down.",
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"content": "That’s the car that I drive.",
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"content": "42 is where everybody should be.",
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"content": "I think, 48.",
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"content": "Or 48, yeah. But at the end of the day, we need to do something that’ll reduce the wire diameters and stuff like that, and that’s just nothing but cash in the bank. So, I’m a big fan of that as well.",
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"content": "With the new S/X, we’re also finally transitioning to a lithium-ion 12-volt.",
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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": "Maybe that’s why everybody is like into like Mason jars and shit. Suede shoes. People are going to, like, craft restaurants, and they want raw wood. Everyone wants to see metal. It seems, people are like longing towards some weird log cabin type nostalgia.",
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"content": "Sure, reality.",
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"content": "Walter Isaacson, in his new biography of you, wrote about your difficult childhood. Will you ever find forgiveness in your heart for everything that has happened to you in that period of your life?",
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"content": "What is forgiveness? At least I don’t think I have a resentment, so nothing to forgive.",
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"content": "Forgiveness is difficult for people. It seems like you don’t harbor their resentment.",
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"content": "I mean, I try to think about, what is going to affect the future in a good way? And holding onto grudges does not affect the future in a good way.",
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"content": "Do you do that because you thought that a court would make you do that?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "Yes. That is the reason.",
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"content": "Well, how do you know who you can trust in work and personal life?",
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"content": "I mean, I guess you look at somebody’s track record over time, and I guess you use your neural net to assess someone.",
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"content": "Neural nets don’t feel pain. Your neural net has consciousness, it might feel pain when people betray you. It can make-",
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"content": "To be frank, I’ve almost never been betrayed. It’s very rare, for what it’s worth.",
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"content": "How does one just in the middle of doing all the things you do – create cars, rockets, all this stuff you’re doing, constantly innovating – decide to just make a flamethrower? Where do you have the time for that?",
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"content": "Well, I wouldn’t put a lot of time in the flamethrower. This was an off-the-cuff thing and so we have sort of – it’s sort of a hobby company called ‘The Boring Company’ which started out as a joke, and we decided to make it real and digging a tunnel under L.A. Then other people asked us to dig tunnels, and so we said ‘yes’ in a few cases. And then we have a merchandise section that only has one piece of merchandise at a time. We started off with a cap, and there was only one thing. It was just ‘boringcompany.com/cap’ or ‘hat’, that’s it. Then we sold the hat’s limited edition. It just said ‘The Boring Company’.\nI’m a big fan of ‘Spaceballs’, the movie, and in ‘Spaceballs’ Yogurt goes through the merchandising section, and they have a flamethrower in the merchandising section of ‘Spaceballs’. “The kids love that one”. That’s the line when he pulls out the flamethrower. It’s like, we should do a flamethrower. So, we…",
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"content": "Does anybody tell you, does anybody go, ‘Elon, um, maybe for yourself. But selling a flamethrower. The liabilities, all the people you’re selling this device to. What kind of unhinged people are going to be buying a flamethrower in the first place? Do we really want to connect ourselves to all these potential arsonists?’",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s a terrible idea. Terrible. Shouldn’t buy one. I don’t… I said, “Don’t buy this flamethrower. Don’t buy it.” That’s what I said. But, still, people bought it. There’s nothing I can do to stop them. I could not stop them.",
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"content": "Why do you believe that?",
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"content": "I think I’m just making a simple statement of fact. I think we want to get away from making everything a race or a gender or whatever issue and just treat people like individuals.",
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"content": "Do you have any desire to understand what many people of color and even trans people, how they feel about this country and how they’re treated in this country? If they say and they believe that they are treated a certain way in this country, why don’t you believe them?",
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"content": "You cannot have a situation where someone is a self-described victim and they just get to be that because that’s how they feel.",
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"content": "You want those Australian prison lady genes. Now, when you program something like that, is this in response to a concern, or is it your own… Do look at it and go, „Hey, they shouldn’t just be able to fall asleep. Let’s wake them up.“",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s like — You know, people are falling asleep. We better do something about that.",
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"content": "Right. But when you first released it, you didn’t consider it, right? You’re just like, „Well, no one’s going to just sleep.“",
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"content": "People fall asleep in their cars all the time. They crash.",
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"content": "(repeating the speaker in the audience)\nHow do we find the engineers to do everything we’re saying?",
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"content": "How do we find the engineers to do all these things? Well, I guess we recruit a lot of engineers from all parts of the world. I think Tesla has a good reputation for doing exciting engineering, and that tends to attract a lot of the top engineers in the world because they know that their efforts at Tesla will really serve the greater good, and we’re super hardcore about engineering.\nTesla is first and foremost an engineering company; it’s like hardcore engineering is what we do. The sheer amount of hardcore engineering done at Tesla is insane. And if you look at say, there’s various surveys done of engineering schools, where do you want to go, what’s your top choices? And actually, the top two choices last few years have been Tesla and SpaceX. So sometimes it’s Tesla first and sometimes SpaceX first, but those are the two top ones.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, if you’re motivated to solve some of these problems, which are the hardest problems in the world to solve, that really fundamentally enable the future we all need, please reach out and help us work on these problems.",
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"content": "Absolutely. And like you said, the battle is far from over. Less than 1% of the global automotive fleet has been converted to electric, and even maybe less than 0.1% of stationary storage has been done. So stationary storage has barely begun, converting the global vehicle fleet to electric has barely begun. So, there’s still a massive amount of engineering work to be done at Tesla and other companies to accelerate this transition to sustainability.",
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"content": "So you just brought that up for civilians. Is that Space tourism you’re doing? And by the way, you have to be kind of rich to do it. Like, from what I understand, I cannot afford to go to the Moon.",
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"content": "I think it’s got a bit more gravitas then – you know, metaphorically, figuratively, and literally – more gravitas than simply tourism. It’s not like going to Disneyland. It’s more profound than that. Sometimes people use ‘tourism’ in a sort of a negative way. But I think, you know, especially with the ‘Inspiration’ flight, they really…. I mean, they, you know, they filmed the whole thing in real-time, they shared their experiences with the world, they’re a really cool group of people.\nI recommend watching the Netflix show ‘Countdown’. It’s awesome. I don’t have anything to do with it. And the production value on the Netflix Countdown documentary is amazing. And you learn about the backstory of the people. It’s actually super…",
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"content": "(…26:03) tourism, you know, like, is this for science and for saving humanity, presumably?",
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"content": "I think that there’s an element of tourism to it, but I think there’s also, you know…. the technology is expensive at first. You can’t just… when you try to develop brand new technology, it doesn’t instantly become cheap and affordable. Think of like cell phones. The early cell phones were really expensive at sucked, frankly. Like in Wall Street 1 where, you know, he’s walking down the beach with a shoe box size cell phone … and so just like really expensive, and the tech was not great. But if some number of people didn’t pay for the expensive cell phones, there would not be the inexpensive cell phones that everyone can afford.",
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"content": "What’s up? Right here.",
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"content": "Okay, great. It’s like ventriloquism here; we just get the sound out of the speaker and can’t tell where the heck it’s coming from.",
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"content": "Yeah. Any hints or is the Model 2 such a big deal because it decreases the cost of transportation, that that is really the disruption, or should we get hyped that this new cost curve opens up different vehicle categories, like a high passenger density bus, Boring loop, boat, plane?",
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"content": "Well, I mean, there are batteries in limited production right now that do exceed 400 watt-hours per kilogram, which I think is about the number you need for a decent range, medium-range aircraft. And I think our batteries will, over time, start to approach the 400 watt-hours per kilogram range as well. So yeah, I mean, I think over time, we’ll see all modes of transport, with the ironic exception of rockets, transition to sustainability or to electric basically.\nOn the rocket front, what we’re planning to do is, about 80% of Starship is liquid oxygen, and we’re actually already running a power line to be able to use wind power to create the liquid oxygen. So we’re making some decent progress on sustainability on the rocket front, but there’s just no way to have an electric rocket. And it’s important for the future of life and consciousness that we become a multi-planet species, so got to keep doing that.",
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"content": "Some of them. What about that judge that sent all these boys up the river in Pennsylvania who was selling those kids out? You know about that story?",
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"content": "Nope.",
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"content": "Judge was selling young boys to prisons. He was like literally-",
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"content": "What?",
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"content": "It’s part of SpaceX?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "How do you manage to dive so deeply into so many different engineering challenges?",
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"content": "Well, I studied physics, and I certainly strongly recommend physics as a good grounding to understand the nature of reality. Physics is fundamentally just understanding how does the universe actually work. And then that’s a good foundation for a variety of engineering disciplines. And I think, also, the analytical principles, the sort of analytical constructs used in physics, apply to basically anything.\nIt’s, you know, physics developed all these ways of thinking, like, first principles thinking, thinking about things in the limit of high and low. You’re testing your hypothesis – the scientific principle, essentially. These things are incredibly helpful in all arenas. It’s just, most people tend to think by analogy or by comparison with something that already exists. And this is a sort of mental shortcut that requires less brain strain, but it does not… – It’s hard to get fundamental insights unless you think about things from a first principle standpoint.",
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"content": "Awesome. So here’s a question about the device. We have been talking a lot about read speeds and write, but we haven’t talked about read and write speeds. DJ, what are the read and write speeds of the device? If you think of it like a computer?\nSorry, when you say speed, what do you mean?\nLike how quickly can you read information from the brain? And how quickly can you write information in the brain?\nOkay, so let’s see. So one of the things to highlight is that we…",
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"content": "DJ, what do you work on?",
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"content": "Yes, my name is Dongjin Seo; I’m leading implant electronics development…",
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"content": "Like the chip design.",
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"content": "But do you think it’s another five or 10 years? I mean, people say-",
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"content": "No, no, no, definitely not. Definitely not.",
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"content": "Do you feel like investors have invested in something that hasn’t happened yet? Is that fair to them? And that’s the other question that people have about that.",
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"content": "Well, I mean I think they’ve all, with rare exception, thought it wasn’t happening. So they were investing, despite thinking, they’re very clear that they don’t think it’s real. So they’re not saying, “Oh, we just believe everything Elon says, hook, line, and sinker.” But the thing is that, I mean, it would be a fair criticism of me to say that I’m late, but I always deliver in the end.",
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"content": "Other than the dog-",
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"content": "It’s very alert, and it’s hard to get anything by him.",
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"content": "Okay. That’s good to know. Other than the dog, have you got any successors in mind?",
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"content": "He’s got a black turtleneck, what more do you need?",
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"content": "You mentioned that Doge is the people’s coin. And you said that you’re literally going… SpaceX may consider literally putting a Dogecoin on the Moon. Is this something you’re still considering? Mars perhaps? Do you think there’s some chance – we’ve talked about political systems on Mars – that Dogecoin is the official currency of Mars, it’s the coin of the future?",
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"content": "Well, I think Mars itself will need to have a different currency because you can’t synchronize due to speed of light. Not easily.",
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"content": "So it must be completely standalone from Earth.",
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"content": "Well, yeah, because Mars’s closest approach is four light minutes away, roughly. And then its furthest approach, it’s roughly 20 light minutes away, maybe a little more. So you can’t really have something synchronizing if you’ve got a 20-minute speed of light issue. If it’s got a one-minute blockchain, it’s not going to synchronize properly. I don’t know if Mars will have a cryptocurrency as a thing, but probably, seems likely. But it would be some kind of localized thing on Mars.",
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"content": "But let’s talk about… I think the first applications you’ve mentioned are probably going to be manufacturing. But eventually, the vision is to have these available for people at home.",
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"content": "Correct.",
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"content": "If you had a robot that really understood the 3D architecture of your house and knew where every object in that house was, or was supposed to be, and could recognize all those objects – I mean, that’s kind of amazing, isn’t it? Like the kind of thing that you could ask a robot to do would be what? Like, tidy up?",
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"content": "Yeah, absolutely. Make dinner, I guess, mow the lawn.",
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"content": "OK, so by the end of the year, you’re saying, someone’s going to sit in a Tesla without touching the steering wheel, tap in “New York,” off it goes.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Won’t ever have to touch the wheel – by the end of 2017.",
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"content": "Yes. Essentially, in November or December of this year, we should be able to go all the way from a parking lot in California to a parking lot in New York, no controls touched at any point during the entire journey.",
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"content": "This is not an in scoop about the BBC.",
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"content": "Oh, you thought it wasn’t?",
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"content": "I see now why you’ve done Twitter spaces. I am not a representative of the BBC’s editorial policy. I want to make that clear. Let’s talk about something else. You want to talk about the BBC? All right, let’s talk about something else.",
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"content": "You weren’t expecting that.",
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"content": "But there are some of these people that are just taking it right in the ass. They’re buying these watches for like $750,000. „Yeah, that’s a Timex, son.“ Nobody knows. It’s not any better than some Casio that you could just buy online.Well, here’s the thing. If you’re a person that doesn’t just want to know the time, you want craftsmanship, you want some artisan’s touch, you want innovation in terms of like a person figuring out how gears and cogs all line up perfectly, to every time it turns over, it’s basically a second.\nI mean, that’s just — There’s this art to that. It’s not just telling time. I like my watch a lot, but if it got hit by a rock, I wouldn’t be sad.It’s just to watch. It’s a mass-produced thing that runs on some quartz battery. But those things, there’s art to that.",
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"content": "Yeah. No, I agree. It’s beautiful. Love it.",
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"content": "Yeah. There’s something amazing about it. It’s because it represents the human creativity. It’s not just electronic innovation. There’s something. It’s a person’s work in that.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "That’s awesome. Yeah.\nWe’re looking forward to that investor day. ø",
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"content": "It’s kind of a big deal.",
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"content": "That’s great. Great to know.",
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"content": "Maxwell has a bunch of technologies that are… well, if they’re applied in the right way, I think can have a very big impact.",
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"content": "It’s very fun.",
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"content": "Yeah. It’s like having your own roller coaster on tap.",
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"content": "It really is like a roller coaster on tap. Without the loop-de-loops. But, the pinning to your seat, it seems like you’re not supposed to be able to experience that from some sort of a consumer vehicle that a regular person could buy if you have the money. It seems too crazy. And then the idea that this Roadster is a half of a second faster than that? That’s madness.",
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"content": "Well, with a Roadster, we’re going to do some things that are kind of unfair. So we’re going to take some things from Cadillac rocket world and put them on a car, so.",
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"content": "Into cars. Into taking over NASA. Well, not taking over NASA – being a contractor for NASA.",
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"content": "Just for the record, we are not taking over NASA.",
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"content": "You’re not taking over NASA. They are an independent organization. But you are becoming a major provider of services for NASA. Obviously, kind of internet payments and payments generally. I mean, these are three completely different spaces. I think a lot of people would not take someone seriously if they had a business plan in one of these.",
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"content": "Right. Sorry to eat.\n(eating some fruit he got offered)",
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"content": "I think you’re right. Do you know who could help with that? Mushrooms.",
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"content": "Mushrooms.",
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"content": "Don’t you think?",
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"content": "They’re delicious.",
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"content": "Right, yes. Same with humans. I guess we got ears, too. Okay.",
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"content": "Yeah, well, we’ll actually need to incorporate sound as well. Because you need listen for ambulance sirens or fire trucks, or if somebody’s yelling at you or something. It’s just there’s a little bit of audio that needs to be incorporated as well.",
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"content": "Do you need to take a break?",
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"content": "Yeah, sure, let’s take a break.",
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"content": "We need to give people a sense of how big a task that is. I mean, here we are at the Gigafactory. You know, this is one of the biggest buildings in the world. What I’ve read – and tell me if this is still right – is that the goal here is to eventually produce 100 gigawatt-hours of batteries here a year.",
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"content": "We will probably do more than that. But yes, hopefully we get there within a couple of years.",
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"content": "Right. But I mean, that is one…",
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"content": "0.1 terawatt-hours.",
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"content": "I understand this. So, some of it…",
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"content": "It’s like object permanence. The same thing happens with the humans with neural nets. Like, when a toddler grows up, there’s a point in time where they have a sense of object permanence. Before a certain age, if you have a ball, or toy or whatever, and you put it behind your back, and you pop it out – before they have object permanence, it’s like a new thing every time. It’s like, “Whoa, this toy went poof, disappeared, and now it’s back again.” And they can’t believe it. They can play peek-a-boo all day long because peek-a-boo is fresh every time. But then we figure out object permanence, then they realize, “Oh, no, the object is not gone. It’s just behind your back.”",
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"content": "Sometimes, I wish we never did figure out object permanence.",
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"content": "Yeah, so that’s a…",
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"content": "So there’s kind of the common case. So you’re trying to capture a huge amount of samples of a particular intersection when things went right, and then there’s the edge case where, as you said, not for convenience, but something didn’t go exactly right.",
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"content": "So if somebody started manual control from Autopilot. And really, the way to look at this is to view all input as error. If the user had to do input, there’s something; all input is error.",
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"content": "That’s a powerful line to think of it that way because it may very well be error, but if you want to exit the highway, or if it’s a navigation decision that Autopilot’s not currently designed to do, then the driver takes over, how do you know the difference?",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s gonna change with Navigate on Autopilot, which we’ve just released, and without stalk-confirm. Assuming control in order to do a lane change, or exit a freeway, or doing a highway interchange, the vast majority of that will go away with the release that just went out.",
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"content": "…tweet at him.",
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"content": "Sub tweeted.",
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"content": "So what are you going to do with the lunar lander? And how do you get the Moonbase there?",
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"content": "Starship is designed essentially as general-purpose transport system to anywhere in the solar system because it is a propulsive lander. And with a propulsive lander, you can land anywhere that’s got a solid surface. And it’s also designed for orbital refilling. So, you can get the Starship to orbit and then send tanker flights to refill it so that it has tremendous delta velocity, basically. It can go very far from Earth’s orbit because you can refill propellant.",
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