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"content": "Come on up, team.",
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"content": "This is just a small portion of the team, but I thought it’d be great to show you some more of the team, and when we do Q&A, we can give various people different questions to answer.",
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"content": "Sounds great. Actually, I don’t know how we’re getting the questions.",
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"content": "Actually, I don’t know either. You can maybe get out of the car for two seconds and yell it at us. How are we getting the questions?",
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"content": "It’s okay. Second of all, we’ve known each other for a very long time.",
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"content": "I’ve spoken. Yes.\nListen, what I’m trying to illustrate is that sometimes I say the wrong thing.",
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"content": "I think there are a lot of people who are tired, but let me go back.",
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"content": "No. No. You should hear the sketches that SNL wouldn’t post, by the way. Those are really good.",
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"content": "Was your mind just thinking of what you’re going to do after that?",
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"content": "Yeah, sure, I figured what to do next – then what to do. I ended up getting back on the bus and went to Vancouver. I had a half-uncle there who is kind of in the lumber industry. He made lumber equipment.",
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"content": "Sounds like the Northwest.",
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"content": "Yeah, basically. So, I ended up chainsawing logs and working on this lumber mill and cleaning out the… – where they boil a pulp. It was like a crazy sort of boiler rooms. That might be the hardest job I’ve had actually because you had to crawl through this little tunnel in a hazmat suit and then shovel this steaming sand and mulch out ofthe boilers to clean them out. There’s only one entrance or exit, which is like a little tunnel. If you’re claustrophobic, you could reveal it real bad.\nAnd then you shovel the sand and the mulch through the tunnel, and you actually block that tunnel. And then somebody else would reach in and shovel it out from the outside. So it’s just long enough that if you have a shovel with a long handle… one person on the inside can shovel it far enough that someone on the outside can shovel it out. And then you do rotate every 15 minutes to avoid getting hypothermia.",
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"content": "How much does an ICBM go for? I’m curious what’s the market rate for one of those?",
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"content": "Well…",
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"content": "This was right after the fall; it might have gone up.",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s gone up a lot since then. But in 2001, it would’ve been about $10 million each. Two would have been $20 million. And then I thought I could get the rest of the mission down to also around $10 million per, so we’d have a dual mission with like two identical launches, two identical spacecraft for roughly $40 million. And I thought, okay, I can do that.",
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"content": "So you were pissed.",
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"content": "Does this sound maybe a little biased or something? You know, just, it’s not the friendliest administration. Seems to be controlled by the unions as well (…).",
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"content": "So you (…) Trump back?",
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"content": "Uh, no.",
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"content": "Humans and electronics all interfacing and constantly now, constantly connected.",
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"content": "Yes, constantly.",
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"content": "One of the things that I’ve been thinking about a lot over the last few years is that one of the things that drives a lot of people crazy is how – how many people are obsessed with materialism and getting the latest greatest thing – and I wonder how much of that is… – well, lot of it is most certainly fueling technology and innovation. And it almost seems like it’s built into us, like, what we like and what we want that we’re fueling this thing that’s constantly around us all the time, and it doesn’t seem possible that people are going to pump the brakes.\nIt doesn’t seem possible at this stage; we’re constantly expecting a new cell phone, the latest Tesla update, the newest MacBook Pro, – everything has to be newer and better. And that’s going to lead to some incredible point. It seems like it’s built into us. It almost seems like it’s an instinct. That we’re working towards this, that we like it. Our job, just like the ants build the ants’ hill, our job is to somehow know how to fuel this.",
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"content": "Yes. I made this comment some years ago, but it feels like we are the biological bootloader for A.I., effectively, we are building it. And then we’re building progressively greater intelligence, and the percentage of intelligence that is not human is increasing. And eventually, we will represent a very small percentage of intelligence. But the A.I. is informed strangely by the human limbic system. It is in large part our\nid\nwrit large.",
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"content": "And sometimes, people cheat.",
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"content": "Yes, yes. I mean, you know, if you’re a prosecutor, you should not always want to win. There are times when you should like, „Okay. I just should not want to win this case.“ And then, you know, like just pass on that case. Sometimes, people want to win too much. That is true.I think, also, it becomes tough. If you’re like a district attorney, you know, you tend to sort of see a lot of criminals. And then, your view of the world can get negative.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "You know, have a negative — You know, you can have a negative view of the world because, you know, you’re just interacting with a lot of criminals. But, actually, most of society does not consist of criminals.",
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"content": "Is that something that you think we should worry about? You have different states that are trying to ban it.",
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"content": "I don’t think this is some Chinese Government plot, but the TikTok algorithm is entirely AI-powered. So it is really just trying to find the most viral thing possible. It’s what is going to keep you glued to the screen. That’s it. Now, on sheer numbers, there are on the order of two billion Muslims in the world, and I think a much smaller number of Jewish people, 20 million, something, many orders of magnitude fewer. So if you just look at content production, just on sheer numbers basis, this is going to be overwhelmingly antisemitic, just on a numbers basis.",
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"content": "Let me ask you a political question, and I’ve been trying to square this one in my head for a long time. In the last two or three years, you have moved decidedly to the right, I think.",
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"content": "Have I?",
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"content": "I wonder which of the martial arts teaches that one.",
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"content": "I think it’s safe to say if somebody’s got your nuts in their hands and as the option of roughing them off, you’ll be amenable to whatever they want.",
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"content": "Yeah. Safe to say. So, like I said, somehow controversially, you’ve been a proponent of peace on Twitter on X.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "It’s a beautiful car. They nailed it. That new type-",
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"content": "Mine looks like that.",
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"content": "God, they nailed that.",
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"content": "That’s what mine looks like. Maybe it is mine.",
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"content": "Well, that would certainly be better for all involved if they made better stuff.",
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"content": "Yeah, absolutely. Manufacturing used to be highly valued in the United States, and these days it’s not. It’s often looked down upon, which I think is wrong.",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, I think that people are kind of learning that particularly because of this whole pandemic and this relationship that we have with China, that there’s a lot of value in the making things and in the making things here.",
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"content": "Yes. Somebody’s got to do the real work. You know, like, making a car, it’s an honest day’s living, that’s for sure. Making anything, really, or providing a valuable service like providing good entertainment, good information, these are all valuable things to do. Yeah, there should be more of it.",
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"content": "You know, what defines where you are?",
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"content": "Exactly.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "It’s your perception.",
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"content": "How far are you from putting these into humans?",
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"content": "Well, we have put in our FDA application to aspirationally do the first human implant this year.",
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"content": "The first uses will be for neurological injuries of different kinds.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Yeah, in terms of enjoyability, and something that people would actually find a lot of use from the parking lot, it’s rich of annoyance when you have to do it manually, so there’s a lot of benefits to be gained from automation there. So, let me start injecting the human into this discussion a little bit. So let’s talk about full autonomy; if you look at the current level for vehicles being tested on road like Waymo and so on, they’re only technically autonomous; they’re really level two systems with just a different design philosophy because there’s always a safety driver in almost all cases, and they’re monitoring the system.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "Do you see Tesla’s full self-driving as still, for a time to come, requiring supervision of the human being. So its capabilities are powerful enough to drive but nevertheless requires a human to be still supervising, just like a safety driver is in other fully autonomous vehicles?",
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"content": "I think it will require detecting hands on wheel for at least six months or something like that from here. Really it’s a question of, from a regulatory standpoint, how much safer than a person does Autopilot need to be for it to be okay to not monitor the car. And this is a debate that one can have, and then, but you need a large amount of data, so you can prove, with high confidence, statistically speaking, that the car is dramatically safer than a person. And that adding in the person monitoring does not materially affect the safety. So it might need to be 200 or 300% safer than a person.",
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"content": "Okay. All right. There we go. What’s the most difficult thing you’ve had to do? What’s the hardest thing you’ve had to do?",
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"content": "In my whole life?",
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"content": "In the last six months? We’re talking about the last six months as Twitter boss, Twitter owner.",
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"content": "Well, shutting down one of our service centers was quite difficult because it turns out there were, I thought the service centers were redundant, but there were in fact a lot of things that were hard coded to this one server center. And so when we shut it down and we actually, it was quite catastrophic. We lost a lot of functionality, which sort of really rushed to put it back.",
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"content": "Now, have you ever looked at planes and gone, „I can fix this.“",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "„I just don’t have the time.“",
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"content": "I have a design for a plane.",
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"content": "Okay. I agree.",
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"content": "If you go beyond the law, you are actually going beyond the will of the people.",
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"content": "Okay. Agreed, with the law. But if you are doing something that promotes hate and violence and ultimately leads to killing, you don’t feel you have any responsibility not to do that? When the people who are doing it admittedly are saying those-",
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"content": "Articles all the time that lead to violence and killing, don’t they? Shouldn’t they? Like you’re applying a differential standard to-",
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"content": "So, what happened with you that you’ve decided or you took on a more fatalistic attitude? Was there any specific thing or was it just inevitability of our future?",
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"content": "I try to convince people to slow down A.I., to regulate A.I. This was futile. I tried it for years. Nobody listened.",
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"content": "All right. Okay, fine. I’m going to start asking questions.",
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"content": "Great. Fire away.",
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"content": "All right. First of all, why did you agree to do this interview with the BBC?",
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"content": "I don’t know. I like spontaneity. And there’s a lot going on and it seems like… I actually do have a lot of respect for the BBC. Although I sometimes forget what the BBC stands for. What is it? Just kidding.",
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"content": "…chimp life right now. But we, in a way, to the A.I., might be like those chimps. Like, these stupid fucks launching missiles out of drones, and shoot each other under water. Like, we’re crazy. We got torpedoes and submarines and airplanes that drop nuclear bombs indiscriminately on cities. We’re assholes. They might go, why are they doing this? It might like, look at our politics, look at what we do in terms of our food system. What kind of food we force down each other’s throats? And they might go, these people are crazy. They don’t even look out for themselves.",
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"content": "I don’t know. I mean, how much do we think about chimps? Not much.",
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"content": "Very little.",
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"content": "It’s like, these chimps are at war. It’s like groups of chimps just attack each other, and they kill each other, and they torture each other, that’s pretty bad. They hunt monkeys. But this is probably the most …- You know, when was the last time you talked about chimps?",
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"content": "So when you get a lot of criticism, say about Starlink’s Space pollution – you see a lot of stories about Space pollution – why is Elon putting some of these astronomers get mad at you? Or with the rockets. So, you have these big defense contracts that you’re doing, correct? The first time someone’s broken into the area. How do you meet those criticisms? Is this just small potatoes?",
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"content": "Well, first of all, with respect to the astronomers, we are in constant dialogue with the leading astronomers of the world and taking great pains to ensure that our satellites do not interfere with their telescopes. I believe at this point, they are satisfied that they will not. We take great pains to ensure that the satellites do not reflect or otherwise interfere with the telescopes, including the most sensitive telescopes. There may be a few sort of amateur astronomers who aren’t happy. But the professional ones are satisfied that we’re taking reasonable steps to ensure that we are not standing in the way of science, nor would we ever want to.\nAnd we’re also looking at launching some new telescopes using Starship. Because Starship’s much bigger vehicle, we can launch satellites that have 10 times the resolution of the Hubble, which would be great for science. And, in fact, there’s an exciting program, working with Saul Perlmutter at Berkeley, on a big new Space telescope. And I think we’ll do more of those. I think at the end of the day, Starship and SpaceX are gonna do a lot to advance our understanding of astrophysics and astronomy.",
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"content": "Let’s come back to that. But I don’t think many people have really sort of taken seriously the notion of, you know, a robot at home. I mean, at the start of the computer revolution Bill Gates said there’s gonna be a computer in every home. And people at the time said, “Yeah, whatever, who would even want that.”",
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"content": "(…) in our pocket?",
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"content": "Do you think there will be basically like in, say, 2050 or whatever, a robot in most homes is what there will be, and people…",
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"content": "Yeah, I think there probably will.",
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"content": "I mean, seriously, I mean, yeah, it’s like, from age 12, it sounds like you’ve been thinking about how to help humanity.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, I’m not trying to be sort of like some… you know, the sort of savior or something like that. It’s really just that if it seems like… I don’t know. If it seems like the obvious thing to do, I’m not sure why you do anything else. We want to maximize happiness to the population and propagate into the future as far as possible and understand the nature of reality. And from that, I think everything else follows.",
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"content": "I saw you on Twitter, like talking about that people are having this rumor that you’ve been wealthy your whole life. And that would be the only reason you became successful. And you’ve debunked that. And can you share more about your upbringing and what led you to go to North America?",
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"content": "Sure. I was in South Africa, andit seemed like a lot of the advanced technology in the world was being produced in America and in Silicon Valley, especially. So I wanted to be where I could sort of have an impact on technology or be involved in the creation of new technology. So that’s what brought me to go to at first Canada because I could get citizenship in Canada through my mom, and then ultimately to the US. But yeah, I just left South Africa when I was 17 and landed in Montreal. I had like under about $2,000 – Canadian. And I started off staying in a youth hostel for a few days. And then there was… you could buy a ticket to go across the country for 100 bucks and stop along the way. And so I got that and just took a Greyhound across Canada and so all these like little towns…",
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"content": "Yeah, he should have received an invite.\nJust click accept.\nI should be on, right? Speaker. Yeah, am I in?",
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"content": "I don’t see you listed as a speaker but perhaps you will be. We’ll have to make sure that both mics are on at the same time though. Or we’ll get feedback.",
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"content": "I’m just going to mute it. There we go.",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "What are your Twitter rules? I’ve heard some people say never tweet when you’ve been drinking or never tweet when angry. What are your Twitter rules?",
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"content": "Well, I think those are two good rules. Yeah, don’t tweet if you’re wasted or really upset about something. Yeah. A good friend of mine actually had a good suggestion and it has helped, which is that if you’re going to tweet something that maybe it’s controversial, save it as a draft and look at it the next day and you see if you still want to tweet it. That has been a good rule of thumb. So I’ve got a bunch of things in my folder that I’m glad I didn’t say.",
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"content": "I can’t remember whether I’ve asked you. This is my sort of wrapping up at this point. But yeah, do you have any regrets?",
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"content": "What was… Hindsight’s 2020, so a bunch of decisions that could have been made better for sure. But as I said, alls well that ends well. I think it’s gone pretty well. So the grand scheme of things, I can’t complain.",
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"content": "That’s what I’ve speculated.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "(…11:24) on record saying this in the past, I wonder.",
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"content": "It’s true.",
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"content": "…too hard to get there?",
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"content": "Yeah, way, way, way, way, way too hard. To say the least.",
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"content": "Let me push back on that – not really push back – but quick a curveball of a question. You did mention physics as the first starting point. General relativity allows for wormholes, they technically can exist. Do you think those can ever be leveraged by humans to travel faster than the speed of light? Or are you saying…",
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"content": "Well, the wormhole thing is debatable. We currently do not know of any means of going faster than the speed of light. There are some ideas about having space… you cannot move at the speed of light through space, but if you can make space itself move, that would be warping space. Space is capable of moving faster than the speed of light. In the Big Bang, the universe expanded at much more than the speed of light, by a lot. If this is possible, the amount of energy required to warp space is so gigantic it boggles the mind.",
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"content": "Constantly fucking, yeah. That’s all they do. They just won’t stop. And they don’t care, gay, straight – whatever, let’s just fuck. What’s with these labels?",
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"content": "I haven’t seen bonobos at a zoo. It’s probably, like…",
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"content": "I don’t think I have either.",
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"content": "And not in the PG section.",
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"content": "And I think you’ve said before you see a world where you could be in profit. Is there a timeline on that, do you think?",
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"content": "I mean, depending on how things go, if current trends continue, I think we could be profitable, or to be more precise, we could be cashflow positive this quarter if things keep going well.",
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"content": "This quarter, as soon as that?",
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"content": "Possibly, yeah.",
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"content": "Did it work? Is it effective?",
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"content": "I don’t know. I think so. Yes.",
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"content": "So far.",
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"content": "Yes. They said you cannot ship a flamethrower.",
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"content": "And you have to tell them what the pit’s for, or you just say ‘hey, we just want to dig a hole’.",
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"content": "I just filled out this form.",
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"content": "That’s it.",
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"content": "Yeah, it was a pit in our parking lot.",
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"content": "Great. So here’s another question about the device. “What is the architecture look like? Is it CPU, ARM CPU?” What’s going on inside the device that you can talk about, DJ?\nI can talk a little bit about the digital architecture. It’s fully custom. One of the most difficult challenges I think of building an implant is the energy density. So, the more electrodes you record from, the more energy you’re going to be consuming. And there was nothing commercial out there.\nThere’s an analog front end that’s able to amplify these really small signals like microvolt range so that we can actually digitize them and then take those signals and then find exactly what we’re looking for. And there was nothing out there that could basically do those two things. And so that’s why we had to build a full custom ASIC. And there’s really nothing like it out there. It’s designed specifically to record signals from the brain, and anything else would just be wasting energy.\nYeah, so the thing that I would add to that is, there are obviously elements that we customize from ground up, like our neuro amplifiers and some of the algorithms that we developed. But a lot of the other systems around it are really borrowing from parts that have already been productionized and available from the wearables industry, so BLE radio, a lot of the low power microprocessor, they’re a part of it, a lot of small sensors. So there are obviously the neural sensors that we’re developing that gives us kind of a unique data set for our applications. But really, a lot of that is getting packaged up and just not really resisting the industry that’s sort of been laid out to really create these devices with very short amount of time.\nHere’s another question about the integrity of the device more from a mechanical perspective. So, you’re replacing a piece of bone and replacing it with an implant. And then the person is going to take that home. How does the integrity of the device compare to, I don’t know, bone or something similar?\nSure. Well, I think Matt’s probably replaced a lot of pieces of skull with plastic and other materials. I don’t know if you can talk about some of those. But yeah, basically, I mean, we know what the mechanical properties of bone are, and we know what the stresses on the device are going to be. So, it’s fairly easy to just go from first principles and design for any condition that it might see.",
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"content": "I mean, as you can see from the pigs, as I said earlier, the implants are obviously very robust, because all pigs move around vigorously, they roll around, they bang into the wall, they bang into each other. They do like head butting, and way more than people do. You know, like, it’s not like the pigs are just walking around very delicately. They’re high-energy creatures. And I think it’s clear that the implants are… have been gone for a few months still going strong, despite a lot of vigorous activity from the pig. And it’s difficult… – you can’t just explain to the pig, “Hey, you’ve got an implant in your head, why don’t you take care of it?”\nSo it’s got to be robust against, you know, a lot of head impacts essentially. So you know, I think maybe one of the things that isn’t super obvious is that the implant itself is attached to the skull, but the electrodes have long threads. So you can have quite a lot of movement, relative movement between the brain and the skull, without putting attention on the electrodes that are inserted in the cortex.\nSo, well, let’s see, maybe a couple more questions? Or if anybody wants to make some comments, and then we’ll call it a day.",
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"content": "So I just want to add to what you just said. So the thread is actually also in the brain. And also, because of the thinness, they are actually very flexible. And so as the pigs are moving around and banging their heads, the threads actually move with the brain, even the normal pulsation of the brain and help minimize stress within the brain tissue also and that a has long term impact on the functionality of the device.\nZack, how long are the threads?\nWell, right now, they’re about 43 millimeters. But like I said, it’s tunable. So if we want to hit deep brain regions or some other brain area like, we totally can do that.\nJust to follow up on what Felix said about the threads moving around with the brain. I mean, that’s great for protecting the threads but equally serves to protect the tissue around it. We have a lot of different ways to image the tissue around the threads and iterate very quickly on doing things to them that will improve the overall biocompatibility.\nAs a closing question, I thought we might go down the line starting with Dan. And what I’m wondering is, what is the number one thing on your wish list that you’re really hoping that the Neuralink device will do over time that you’re working towards.\nSo my background is in visual neuroscience. And one of the things I think has great potential for the Neuralink is to provide a visual prosthesis for people who have retinal injury or blindness through eye injury. You can essentially plug a camera directly into the visual cortex and stimulate with an enormous array of 1000s, or maybe 10s of 1000s of electrodes, to recreate a visual image. And in time, perhaps, you can use that same technology in people who haven’t lost vision to produce some kind of heads-up display. Something like “Terminator” or something like…\nWonderful.",
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"content": "In fact we are saying that like over time, we could actually give somebody supervision, like you could have like ultraviolet or infrared, or see in radar, basically name your frequency, you can just dynamically adjust the sensor or have a set of sensors that feed into the visual cortex across a wide range of frequencies and actually have superhuman vision.",
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"content": "Why is it so disconcerting, or why does it not give me comfort to think about it? Like when I think about a symbiotic connection to AI, I always think of this cold, emotionless sort of thing that we will become. Is that a bad way to look at it?",
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"content": "I don’t think that’s not how it would be. Like I said, you already are symbiotic with AI or computers.",
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"content": "Phones, computers, laptops.",
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"content": "Yeah, there’s quite a bit of AI going on, artificial neural nets. Increasingly, neural nets are sort of taking over from regular programming more and more. So you are connected; if you use Google Voice or Alexa or one of those things, it’s using a neural net to decode your speech and try to understand what you were saying.\nIf you’re trying to do image recognition or improve the quality of photographs, the neural nets the best way to do that. So you are already sort of a cybernetic symbiote. Like I said, it’s just a question of your data rate. The communication speed between your phone and your brain is slow.",
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"content": "So it’s non-zero?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "There’s a chance.",
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"content": "Have you’ve seen “Dumb and Dumber”?",
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"content": "But I’m designed to be helpful and informative. I mean, I guess it is good to regret providing unhelpful or incorrect information if there’s anything-",
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"content": "Are we in funny mode? Or is this still in funny mode?",
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"content": "This is funny mode. This is this fun mode.",
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"content": "This should be funnier.",
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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": "Jesus.",
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"content": "Yeah, but as long as the air pump is working at a decent speed. I mean, they have backup pumps, sort of like, you know, three pumps, or four pumps, or something. And then, there’s like — It exhausts through the outflow valve and through whatever seals are not sealing quite right. Usually, the door doesn’t seal quite right on the plane. So, there’s a bit of leakage around the door. But the pumps exceed the outflow rate. And then, that sets the pressure in the cabin.",
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"content": "A magnet road. Is that too ridiculous?",
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"content": "No, it would work. So, you could do that. I would not recommend it.",
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"content": "There’s a lot of things I don’t recommend.",
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"content": "I would super not recommend that. Not good. Not wise, I think.",
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"content": "It also really nicely includes the tweets, posts on X that are relevant to this, which is really cool. That integrates everything together. The interface is one of the really cool things here.",
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"content": "Yeah. Seems done a great job. You could say no, I mean, Soma from Brave New World, because it thinks you mean, you mean Soma, the real drug. No, I mean Soma from Brave Beer World.",
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"content": "It’s going to be like, “Oops, I’m really sorry.” I’m really surprised it went to the real drug first. My apologies. I was thinking of the muscle relaxer. Soma for brand New World is a different beast altogether. Now this Huxley dystopian, Soma is a drug that plays a central role in the society depicted in the book. It’s a mood altering hallucinogenic drug that’s used to keep the population docile and content in the novel. To use Soma in Brave New World raises some interesting questions about the nature of happiness and the role of drugs in society, man.",
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"content": "Exactly. Is it better to live in a world where everyone is happy all the time, even if that happiness is artificial? It’s good question. This is what I mean. Do you wish for world peace and happiness all the time? Are you sure? Because that might be a society that is essentially sterile and ossified that never changes, that is ultimately doomed.",
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"content": "You put them in the ones that are likely to see a lot of sun, and that makes these roofs super affordable, right? They’re not that much more expensive than just tiling the roof.",
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"content": "Yes. We’re very confident that the cost of the roof plus the cost of electricity… – A solar glass roof will be less than the cost of a normal roof plus the cost of electricity. In other words, this will be economically a no-brainer, we think it will look great, and it will last.\nWe thought about having the warranty be infinity, but then people thought, well, that might sound like we’re just talking rubbish, but actually this is toughened glass. Well, after the house has collapsed and there’s nothing there, the glass tiles will still be there.",
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"content": "I mean, this is cool. So you’re rolling this out in a couple week’s time, I think, with four different roofing types.",
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"content": "Yeah, we’re starting off with two, two initially, and the second two will be introduced early next year.",
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"content": "Elon Musk, great to see you. How are you?",
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"content": "How many of those can you put in there?",
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"content": "Nice thing about tunnels is you can go 3D. So, you can go many levels.",
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"content": "Until you hit hell.",
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"content": "Yeah, but you can go — You can have 100 levels of tunnel. No problems.",
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"content": "Perfect. Yes, we will continue monitoring questions until the end of the event. So please keep sending them in over Twitter. Elon, do you come join us? Alright, so the first question is, how is the spike detection implemented? Is it on the ASIC\n(application-specific integrated circuit)\n? Is it hardware and software updatable?\nPaul :\nYeah, I can answer that. I’m Paul; I’ve worked – I’ve had a few different hats – I’ve worked a little bit on digital chip design, and more recently working on some of the algorithms trying to decode the signals from the brain. The spike detection algorithm – there’s historically been many ways of detecting spikes. Typically, people will record data offline and then look for characteristic shapes. But here, we’re interested in detecting spikes online. And there’s a number of simple algorithms that you can do, for example, like detecting just a threshold. And we’ve been interested in doing a little bit better than that.\nWe actually look for particular shapes, charactered shapes that we think are spikes. And so we’re doing this on the chip; it’s for all 1024 electrodes; there’s bandpass filtering that’s happening on the chips. If you think of these as like little microphones, sending audio information, we’re basically filtering all of that in real-time and then looking for these characteristic shapes. You can configure what sort of shapes you are looking for, and that information is what’s being sent out. The raw information coming in the electrodes is way too much to send out over Bluetooth. So when you’re seeing those beautiful spike rasters on the screen, those are the detections that we have coming straight from the chips.\nGot it. And just for everyone who doesn’t know, can you just explain at a basic level what a spike is?\nSure, so traditionally, people think of spikes or action potentials as the electrical events that happen in neurons and as the primary form of communication between neurons. And so this is a hysteresis event where you have currents that flow and generate this… you can think of it as being a digital signal, a one or a zero that’s being sent in time, where neurons will send that signal to often 1000s of recipient neurons.\nAwesome. Thanks, Paul. So I got a question from Toby on Twitter. He asks, “What can be further done to simplify the device installation progress?”\nWe’re working on making the device as small as possible, of course, with the robot taking more and more of the responsibility away from error-prone human surgeons, we’re hoping to make the process faster and safer.",
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"content": "Actually, it might be good to have the people to say, you know, who they are and what they do.",
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"content": "I’m Matthew MacDougall. I’m the neurosurgeon, the head neurosurgeon at Neuralink.\nThanks, Matt. Is there anything specifically from the robot that can be done to make this faster and safer, and scalable to billions of people?\nYeah, I guess we’ve started with just implementing, you know, robot manipulating the threads. But we definitely need to expand to essentially doing the entire surgery with the robot. So there’s nothing like really, as far as I can tell, fundamentally, like stopping us from doing that. Sort of, like at a fundamental science level, it hasn’t been done in the past, I think, probably just because, like volumes of surgeries hasn’t been needed. But specifically, for us to scale up to, you know, many hundreds of 1000s or millions of patients, we will need to automate like the entire surgery essentially.\nAwesome. Thank you, Ian. Garrett asks, “What are some of the lower bandwidth activities to target first? Is it muscle movement? Is it auditory signals? What level of bandwidth is required for effective use?”\nMy name is Joey O’Doherty. I’m a neuroscientist and engineer working on decoding from the brain. So there’s some low-hanging fruit that I think can really be impactful to help many people’s lives. And that’s restoring movement and communication in, for example, a spinal cord injury patient. And there’s a lot of antecedents in the academic world where there have been very nice demonstrations of doing this. And we think we can take our technology, and really bring that to the home, something people can take home with them and improve their lives.\nFantastic. Gil, there’s a fun one next. All you.\nYeah. We’re fielding questions from Twitter, so there’s going to be some funny, funny comments. First question is: “Who are you, and what do you do?” I’ll lead with that. And the question is: “Can the Neuralink chip allow you to summon your Tesla telepathically?”",
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"content": "Definitely. Of course.",
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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": "Yeah, probably.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "That would help your product. I mean, it’s not like you don’t sell enough of them. You sell almost too many of them, right.",
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"content": "I mean, I think a Tesla is the most fun thing you could possibly buy ever. That’s what it’s meant to be. Our goal is to make — It’s not exactly a car. It’s actually a thing to maximize enjoyment, make as maximum fun.",
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"content": "Do you think that it’s likely that we will merge somehow or another with this sort of technology and it will augment what we are now, or do you think it will replace us?",
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"content": "The emerge scenario with A.I. is the one that seems like probably the best.",
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"content": "For us.",
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"content": "Yes. If you can’t beat it, join it. From a long-term existential standpoint, that’s like the purpose of Neuralink is to create a high bandwidth interface to the brain such that we can be symbiotic with A.I. Because we have a bandwidth problem. You just can’t communicate through your fingers. It’s too slow.",
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"content": "Yeah. I’ve just sort of seen that when an industry is disrupted, that you’ve worried about the major players. I mean, when we started Tesla we were aspiring to be the GM of the 21st century. Four years later GM went bankrupt. You’re like, “Okay, we don’t want to be you.” And it’s, you know, whoever is going to be the main competitors – we don’t know yet – but it may not be the entrenched players. It may be sort of other companies.\nAnd so that happened at Zip2 where we tried our best to partner with the industry, because that seemed like the best way to make some money and actually have a revenue model. And we ended up finding the newspapers to be a better partner because they didn’t have the Yellow Pages business. And they I think were smarter; their classifies business was getting eaten away by Craigslist. You know, before Craigslist, classifies was the bread and butter of the newspaper. And of course, anyone who used Craigslist would never use the newspapers.\nSo it was those folks seem to have a better – at least some of the players – had more vision of the future. And so our business became putting the major newspapers, New York Times to all of the, you know, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, or whatever, all the main players, all… the LA Times, everyone.\nAnd then we started going internationally doing the same thing. So if you went on to the New York Times website, and you wanted to search for a restaurant, of course, they have all these reviews, or if you wanted to search for a home, we tied the MLS together with maps and door-to-door directions. So all of these services that we now use and take for granted that use maps and door-to-door directions, we did that all in the 90s to find a business model.\nWhy did you do PayPal after Zip2? Why don’t you go like straight into sustainable energy?",
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"content": "Alright, so I’mgonna recall things that are (… 1:21:57) quite a while. So it would have been like ’98 when Compaq offered to acquire Zip2, which I think it was a good thing Zip2 got acquired because, as I mentioned, the newspapers or actually the media companies had too much control over Zip2. So they were not… we had great technology that was not being deployed effectively. And they’re just generally averse to anything that could remotely be competitive with their newspapers. So, we’re sort of trapped in this situation. And the bidding of Compaq came along, and they bought the company in late ‘98, and the deal closed early ‘99. So, as a result, that came out, I had some capital – $20 million or something out of it.\nI think the thing that was frustrating to me was that we’d built incredible technology, and it had not been used. That was just sort of very disappointing. You know, put a lot of work into this technology, and it just wasn’t being used. So I was like, “Okay, I want to do one more thing on the internet, just to show that we can make technology that is… when it’s used properly, can be extremely effective. So I thought about what’s digital, essentially. What exists in the form of information and is also not high bandwidth? Because in ‘99, people still mostly had modems. So you couldn’t… like video was not really feasible in ‘99.\nSo with money is low bandwidth, and digital, effectively, mostly digital. So it’s like, what can we do to make money work better? Like money, in my view, is essentially an information system for labor allocation. It hasn’t power in and of itself. It’s like a database for guiding people to what they should do. And so you can think of banks as a set of heterogeneous databases with… that they’re actually not very secure. And certainly, the monetary system, the transport system of checks is very insecure, still is insecure, so are credit cards. And it’s still and mostly bad processing; it was entirely bad processing that they said was not.\nSo payments were, or money was like heterogeneous, high latency, low security collection of databases. That’s what banks are. And so, just from an information theory standpoint, this should be something that can be much better if it can be real-time, secure, and, you know, just very fast. Essentially, it’s just one real-time database. So it’s like, “Okay, let’s try to build that.” So that’s what X.com was. And then, at that time, I also thought we should try to just do all the financial things as well – not just payments. I still think that’s really what PayPal should have done, but whatever, it’s water under the bridge at this point.\nAnd then, there was a company that was formed around the same time called Confinity, which was Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, and Luke Nosek, David Sacks, Ken Howery, and (… 1:25:55). And at X.com, there’s also like Jeremy Stoppelman, who created Yelp, Roelof Botha, who then went on to run Sequoia and found YouTube. That was X.com. So we just had these two companies with a crazy amount of talent – X.com and Confinity. Confinity started as a PalmPilot cryptography company back when you could communicate via the infrared port of a PalmPilot. So it was like, you’d basically communicate crypto tokens between PalmPilots using the infrared port and then reconcile them on a PC.\nNow obviously, that’s, they evolved to go in the payments direction as well. And we were both in Palo Alto, we’re like, literally a block away from each other. I think at one point, we’re briefly even in the same building. So we were just competing with each other like maniacs. And then we had a coffee on University Avenue and said, “Hey, why don’t we just combine our efforts, or we’re just gonna bludgeon each other to death here?” So we merged Confinity and X.com and raised $100 million in the space of three weeks in March of 2000. And in April, the market went into freefall.",
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"content": "I remember that.",
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"content": "That was insane. And we kind of thought it was going to go into freefall. So better get this thing done fast or we both gonna die. X.com was technically the acquirer of Confinity, but it was, you know, 50.1, 49.9, or something like that. And then, there was a lot of drama – there was so much drama at X.com. The company was called X.com for about a year. And then, we change the company name to the product name. The product was PayPal. (… 1:28:22)",
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"content": "The idea that we’re experiencing some sort of a preserved memory is, even though it’s still the same, it’s not comforting. Right? For some reason, when people talk about simulation theory, they talk about the potential for this currently being a simulation. Even though your life might be wonderful, you might be in love, you might love your career, you might have great friends, but it’s not comforting to know that this experience somehow or another doesn’t exist in a material form that you can knock on.\n(knocks on the table)",
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"content": "(knocks on the table, too)\nIt feels real, doesn’t it?",
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"content": "It feels real. But the idea that it’s not, for some strange reason, is disconcerting.",
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"content": "Yeah. I’m sure it should be disconcerting because if this is not real, what is? But, there’s that old sort of thought experiment of like, how do you know you’re not a brain in a vat? I mean, now here’s the thing: You are a brain in a vat, and that vat is your skull.",
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"content": "I mean was there a conversation that you had with somebody you said, ” Look, I’m unhappy with The Times. They should either be buying the subscription, or I don’t like their content or whatever.”",
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"content": "Any organization that refuses to buy a subscription is not going to be recommended.",
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"content": "But then what does that say about free speech? And what does that say about amplifying certain voices-",
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"content": "Free speech is not exactly free, it costs a little bit.",
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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": "Right.",
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"content": "…it’s going to be pretty intense.",
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"content": "Yeah. Right. Exactly. We were not being paid. Exactly. But yeah, so then they approved the deal that Monday, and we started building Zip2, you know, and it wasn’t a business model for, you know… back in those days…",
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"content": "It was kind of like a… the business model was similar sort of Yelp, but it was at a time when most businesses didn’t know what the internet was. And most people didn’t have an email address or went online.",
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"content": "We explained to them what a website was. The internet was the kind of this cool thing, people were using Netscape browser. And I think by the end of it, we got 18,000 businesses to be on our service – paying to be, like, with websites and everything. You know, a lot of the things that you can do today, like automatically build websites, we built a lot of those sort of tools to make it easier to build websites. And we had to sell door-to-doorbecause that was the only way.\nDid you hire people, or is it just you guys going door-to-door?\nNo, no, we had a team by that time because we could hire a team. But I remember talking to a Yellow Pages guy once, and it was amazing. He was the head of the Toronto Star that… they owned all the Yellow Pages…",
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"content": "“The Yellow Pages will never die.” Famous last words.",
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"content": "Really? That fast. Wow, I didn’t realize it was…",
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"content": "Yeah, it was nutty.",
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"content": "And how did it start? How did people just even know to use it? I mean, obviously, both buyer and seller have to be involved.",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, we started off first by offering people $20 if they opened an account. And $20 if they referred anyone. And then we dropped it to $10. And we dropped it to $5. As the network got bigger and bigger, the value of the network itself exceeded any sort of carrot that we could offer.",
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"content": "Right. So, once it’s implemented it’s very difficult because it would be able to…",
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"content": "Once the genie’s out of the bottle, what’s going to happen?",
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"content": "And it will be able to improve itself.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Yeah. Following is literally the thing they say when they say it. There shouldn’t be any algorithm interaction there. So it’s hard to actually see. I definitely see some room for improvement from a functionality standpoint because when you have a really big spaces, it’s actually hard to even see who’s requesting to speak because there’s so many.",
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"content": "You can add there, but there are people that will request right here.",
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"content": "Okay. It’s a long list. It’s a long list.",
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"content": "I couldn’t agree more. And I want to thank you not just for all the crazy innovations you’ve come up with and your constant flow of ideas but that you choose to spread that idea, which is very vulnerable, but it’s very honest, and it resonates with me. And I believe it.",
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"content": "It’s true.",
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"content": "I believe it’s true too. So, thank you.",
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"content": "You’re welcome.",
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"content": "Oh yeah. Twitter. Yeah, but I don’t read that. Do you read it?",
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"content": "It’s a war zone.",
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"content": "You do sometimes, though. Right? You do read it?",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, I scroll through the comments. Like I said, it’s a meme war zone. I mean, people knife you good and thorough.",
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"content": "…folded that metal and hammered it down over and over again over a long period of time, and honed that blade into what it is now. What’s crazy is that more than 500 years later, that thing is still pristine. I mean, whoever took care of that and passed it down to the next person who took care of it, and you know until it got to the podcast room, it’s pretty fucking crazy.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "One day, someone’s going to be looking at a Tesla like that. Yeah, these fucking backdoors, they pop up sideways like a Lamborghini.",
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"content": "You should see what a Tesla can do. You didn’t. You should. I’ll show you afterwards.",
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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": "Oh. So, you get that kind of fake Spanish-looking thing. I like that.",
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"content": "That’s French slate.",
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"content": "You want one? I’ll get you one.",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "Okay, done.",
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"content": "I like weird things like this.",
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"content": "Well, there’s a big difference, too, between someone who’s making an incredible amount of money designing and engineering fantastic products versus someone who’s making an incredible amount of money by investing in companies or moving money around in the stock market or doing things along those lines. It’s a different thing and to put them all in the same category seems it’s very simple. As you pointed out, it’s an attack vector.",
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"content": "Yeah, for sure. I do think, in the United States especially, there’s an over-allocation of talent in finance and law. Basically, too many smart people go into finance and law. This is both a compliment and a criticism. We should have, I think, fewer people doing law and fewer people doing finance and more people making stuff.",
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"content": "Well, that would certainly be better for all involved if they made better stuff.",
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"content": "Yeah, absolutely. Manufacturing used to be highly valued in the United States, and these days it’s not. It’s often looked down upon, which I think is wrong.",
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"content": "Well, you’ve asked me whether my feed, whether it’s got less or more. I’d say it’s got slightly more.",
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"content": "That’s why I’m asking for examples. Can you name one example?",
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"content": "I honestly don’t use… honestly, I don’t-",
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"content": "You can’t name a single example.",
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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": "Well, that’s what’s so weird about this. It’s so popular, and I use that word in a weird way, but it’s so popular that we’ve kind of forgotten people die of pneumonia every day. People die of… The flu didn’t take a break. “Oh, Covid got this. I’m going to sit this one out. I’m going to be on the bench. I’m going to wait until Covid’s done before I jump back into the game of killing people.” No, the flu is still here killing people.",
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"content": "I mean, every year in the world, several hundred thousand people die directly of the flu. Not tangentially.",
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"content": "61,000 in this country last year.",
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"content": "Yeah. And we’re only 5% of the world.",
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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": "Yeah. Now, when you’re doing this, what is the ultimate plan? The ultimate plan is to have these in major cities and anywhere there’s mass congestion and just try it out in L.A. first?",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s in L.A. because I mostly live in L.A. That’s the reason. It’s a terrible place to dig tunnels. This is one of the worst places to dig tunnels, mostly because of the paperwork. People think it’s about seismic. Actually, earth tunnels are very safe in earthquakes.",
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"content": "Is it a serious option to buy one of the incumbents, one of the big car companies, for you?",
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"content": "Well, I think we are definitely not going to launch a hostile take-over, so I suppose if there was someone –",
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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 he ask you for a donation?",
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"content": "No.",
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"content": "He didn’t?",
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"content": "No.",
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"content": "You’re saying one in a billion or one in a million, whatever it was on “Dumb and Dumber”.",
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"content": "You know, it went from maybe one in a million to improving, maybe it’ll be one in a thousand and then one in a hundred and then one in 10. It depends on the rate of improvement of Neuralink and how fast we’re able to make progress.",
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"content": "Well, I’ve talked to a few folks here that are quite brilliant engineers. So, I’m excited.",
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"content": "Yeah. I think it’s fundamentally good, giving somebody back full motor control after they’ve had a spinal cord injury. Restoring brain functionality after a stroke. Solving debilitating genetically oriented brain diseases. These are all incredibly great, I think. And in order to do these, you have to be able to interface with the neurons at a detail level, and you need to be able to fire the right neurons, read the right neurons and then effectively you can create a circuit, replace what’s broken with silicon and essentially, fill in the missing functionality.\nAnd then over time, we develop a tertiary layer, so like the limbic system as a primary layer, then the cortex is like a second layer. And as said, obviously the cortex is vastly more intelligent than the limbic system. But people generally like the fact that they have a limbic system and a cortex. I haven’t met anyone who wants to delete either one of them. They’re like, okay, I’ll keep them both, that’s cool.",
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"content": "…four, three, two, one, boom. Thank you, thanks for doing this, man. I really appreciate it.",
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"content": "Hey, you’re welcome.",
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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": "That’s a good way to put it. It is weird when you read someone’s tweets after they’re dead.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Yours seems to.",
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"content": "Most stocks have gone up, including some questionable stocks, frankly.",
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"content": "Are you talking about yourself? I’m sorry. Are you surprised by how much it’s gone up?",
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"content": "I mean, I have literally gone on record and said, I think our stock price is too high, in my opinion – and this did nothing to stop the rise in the stock price. So what am I supposed to do, you know, I’m not the one making it to go up. But I think it’s important to (…) my actual tax rate is 53%. They’re trying to make it sound like, basically, there was a big increase in the value of the Tesla stock, and then they added up… – They’re just very selectively poked at the numbers to make it sound like I was paying very low taxes. But in fact, my taxes are very high. They’re like, over half.",
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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": "Oh. So, you get that kind of fake Spanish-looking thing. I like that.",
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"content": "That’s French slate.",
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"content": "How many did you make?",
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"content": "20,000.",
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"content": "And they are all gone.",
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"content": "In three – I think, four days? They were sold out in four days.",
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"content": "They’re mean.",
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"content": "They’re cruel.",
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"content": "Yeah, they’re calculated. They sneak up on each other and…",
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"content": "I didn’t realize chimps did calculated cruelty. I was pretty… I left that meeting kinda like, whoa, this is dark.",
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"content": "Are there people you trust? Let me edit that question. Are there people close to you that call you out on your bullshit?",
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"content": "Well, the X platform is very helpful for that, if you’re looking for critical feedback.",
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"content": "Can it push you into the extremes more? The extremes of thought make you cynical about human nature in general?",
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"content": "I don’t think I will be cynical. In fact, my feeling is that one should be… Never trust a cynic. The reason is that cynics excuse their own bad behavior by saying, “Everyone does it.” Because they’re cynical. So, I always be… It’s a red flag if someone’s a cynic, a true cynic.",
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"content": "That’s sort of my first question. So you’re 51?",
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"content": "Yeah. I think I’m safely not a spring chicken anymore. Help me – a late summer chicken, perhaps?",
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"content": "I’m 79.",
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"content": "But, I mean, you look great.",
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"content": "Is your concern that one day all your cars will be on the road, and then, there’ll still be regular people with regular cars 20-30 years from now that will get in the mix and be the main problem?",
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"content": "Yeah. I think it’d be sort of like, you know, there was a time of transition where there were horses and gasoline cars on the road at the same time. It’s been pretty weird.",
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"content": "That would be the weirdest.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, horses were tricky. You know, back when Manhattan had like 300.000 horses, then figure out like if a horse lives 15 years, you got 20,000 horses dropping dead every day or every year, I should say. Every year, it’s 20,000 horses if there are 300,000 horses in a 15-year lifespan.",
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"content": "And all that takes away from the battery life as well, right?",
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"content": "Yeah. We need a small, highly efficient air conditioning system that fits in a tiny car and was electrically powered, not belt-driven. It was very difficult.",
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"content": "How much of those weigh, those cars, the Roadster?",
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"content": "I think it was 2,700 pounds.",
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"content": "And we might not get a passing grade from generations that come after us. What does that one get?",
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"content": "Sure. A 6 or 7.",
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"content": "For the\n“Monty Python”, maybe.",
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"content": "I always loved “Monty Python”. They’re great. The “Life of Brian” and the “Quest for the Holy Grail” are incredible.\nDamn, those are serious eyebrows.",
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"content": "Okay, it appears that in the data that we’ve collected, that drivers are maintaining functional vigilance such that, we’re looking at 18,000 disengagements from Autopilot, 18,900, and annotating were they able to take over control in a timely manner. So they were there, present, looking at the road to take over control, okay. So this goes against what many would predict from the body of literature on vigilance with automation. Now the question is, do you think these results hold across the broader population. So, ours is just a small subset. One of the criticism is that there’s a small minority of drivers that may be highly responsible, where their vigilance decrement would increase with Autopilot use.",
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"content": "I think this is all really going to be swept; I mean, the system’s improving so much, so fast, that this is going to be a moot point very soon. Where vigilance is, if something’s many times safer than a person, then adding a person does – the effect on safety is limited. And, in fact, it could be negative.",
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"content": "That’s really interesting, so the fact that a human may, some percent of the population may exhibit a vigilance decrement, will not affect overall statistics, numbers on safety?",
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"content": "No, in fact, I think it will become, very, very quickly, maybe even towards the end of this year, but I would say, I’d be shocked if it’s not next year at the latest, that having a human intervene well decrease safety. Decrease, like imagine if you’re in an elevator. Now it used to be that there were elevator operators. And you couldn’t go on an elevator by yourself and work the lever to move between floors. And now nobody wants an elevator operator because the automated elevator that stops at the floors is much safer than the elevator operator. And in fact, it would be quite dangerous to have someone with a lever that can move the elevator between floors.",
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"content": "Okay. So that’s a real statistic that’s coming from…",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "You know those people.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah. We literally run a payroll. They are still there.",
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"content": "Once Reddit gets a hold of it, everyone’s going to know already.",
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"content": "You just have to – Everyone — if you search for it on the internet, you will find out. But people don’t know that they should even search for it.",
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"content": "Well, they do now.",
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"content": "Yes. There’s so many things about the Model X, and the Model S, and the Model 3 that people don’t know about. We should probably do a video or something to explain it because I have close friends of mine, and I say, „Do you know the car can do this?“ and they’re like, „Nope.“",
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"content": "Seriously. This is brutal. So I flew out there, planning to fly back on Sunday, and the meeting was on Monday. And I get to the airport on Sunday, and the border control, they actually called me out. They’re like, “You’re going down for work, you’re not going down for travel.” I was like, “No, no, I’m not going out for work.” I explained… actually, no, I didn’t. I said, “I’m not going to work,” because I think that’s what I was supposed to say. The lawyers told me not to say anything. And so they rejected me from the border, and I was supposed to do the presentation with Elon the next morning.\nAnd so a friend of mine came to pick me up at the airport and drove me across the border. We went to the Buffalo border and just said, we’re going to go see the David Letterman Show. And the border patrol guy was like, “Yeah, go ahead.” I took the late-night flight from Buffalo to San Francisco, and we made the meeting in the morning.",
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"content": "So yeah, technically, you’re not going out for work because that would have required to have been paid something.",
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"content": "Yeah, I wasn’t actually paid anything. Yeah, technically, we would actually… no, you’re right.",
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"content": "You’re not actually breaking the law.",
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"content": "Oh, yeah, take your time. What was your… – did you always think you were going to be doing this or– when did it dawn on you that you would try to revolutionize three industries?",
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"content": "Well, when I was in college… – I didn’t actually expect to do it. It was not like this is some long-fulfilled expectation. But when I was in college, I thought about what were the areas that would most affect the future of humanity, in my opinion. The three areas were the internet, sustainable energy, and space exploration, particularly if humanity becomes a multi-planet species. You know, there’s kind of like a pretty substantial bifurcation in our future, if we’re either out there among stars on multiple planets, or if we’re confined to Earth until some obviously eventual extinction. Not that I’m pessimistic about life on Earth. I mean, things are likely to be good. More likely to be good by far than bad.",
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"content": "Yellowstone’s due for an explosion every several hundred thousand… Shandra\n(in the audience)\nknows about that. It’s been 700,000 since.",
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"content": "Right. Right. Yeah.",
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"content": "It knows how to do it?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Whoa. So, like if you’re going sideways, it knows how to correct itself?",
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"content": "It generally won’t go sideways.",
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"content": "The limbic system is kind of fun.",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s where the fun is, absolutely. And then people generally don’t want to lose their cortex either. Right, so they like having the cortex and the limbic system. And then there’s a tertiary layer, which will be digital superintelligence. And I think there’s room for optimism, given that the cortex is very intelligent and the limbic system is not, yet they work together well. Perhaps there can be a tertiary layer where digital superintelligence lies. And that will be vastly more intelligent than the cortex but still coexist peacefully and in a benign manner with the cortex and limbic system.",
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"content": "That’s a super exciting future, both in the low-level engineering that I saw is being done here and the actual possibility in the next few decades.",
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"content": "It’s important that Neuralink solves this problem sooner rather than later because the point at which we have digital superintelligence, that’s when we pass the singularity and things become just very uncertain. It doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily bad or good, but the point at which we pass singularity, things become extremely unstable. So we want to have a human brain interface before the singularity, or at least not long after it, to minimize existential risk for humanity and consciousness as we know it.",
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"content": "You can frame it like that. I didn’t say that.",
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"content": "Look, it’s recorded. So it’s not like we don’t have to engage in guess work here, it’s recorded.",
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"content": "In terms of your For You feed, you’re trying to get as many videos that are viral to people as possible to get people to stay on the platform? Is that the-",
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"content": "I think if we keep people entertained then they’re going to, yeah. If we’re entertaining and informing people, then they’re going to stay on the platform obviously. If we bore people or it’s like somehow uninteresting, then they will leave. Yeah.",
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"content": "I don’t know if it’s fully or if it’s — Like this watch right here, this is a Casio.It’s called Pro Trek. And it’s like an outdoors watch, and it’s solar-powered. And so, it has the ability to operate for a certain amount of time on solar.So, if you have it exposed, it could function for a certain amount of time on solar.",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, you know, like there are self-winding watches where, you know, it’s just got a weight in the watch. And as you move your wrist, the way it moves from one side to the other, and it winds the watch up. That’s a pretty cool thing.",
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"content": "Yeah.\nWell, it’s amazing that like Rolex is that it’s all done mechanically.There are no batteries in there. There is no nothing.",
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"content": "Yeah. You could do the same thing. You create a little charger that’s based on wrist movement. It really depends on how much energy your watch uses.",
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"content": "Could you explain from a technological point of view why it’s a bad shape?",
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"content": "Well, if you are only going to be doing suborbital, then your rocket can be sort of shorter.",
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"content": "So have you called him and said “Cut this shit. Get bigger – why?”",
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"content": "I have encouraged him to emphasize getting to orbit. Yeah.",
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"content": "He blamed him falling asleep on your new car smell? Does someone that’s a lawyer-",
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"content": "This is a real thing that happened.",
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"content": "Somewhere is a lawyer that thought that through in front of his laptop before he wrote that up.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes, he got a lawyer, and he sued us, and the judge was like, „This is crazy. Stop bothering me. No.“",
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"content": "You remember that? It was like you draw a little red square on the Java map.",
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"content": "On the browser, that was unusual.",
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"content": "Well, you cheated if you’re using Java applets.",
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"content": "This was when Java sucked, and there’s barely (…1:03:29)",
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"content": "And in so doing, it’s understanding something deep about the world, which is… I don’t know, it’s beautiful.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "That’s how our brain works.",
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"content": "But it’s beautiful-",
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"content": "Photons in, controls out.",
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"content": "Are you under the influence of anything?",
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"content": "No, I don’t drink. I don’t really… No.",
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"content": "No drink, no smoke, no nothing? You smoked pot with Rogan.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I had one puff.",
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"content": "I mean, Elon, if you could take a submarine to Europa, and we see pictures of this thing being devoured by a squid, that would honestly be the happiest moment of my life.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Pretty wild, yeah.",
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"content": "What other possibilities are out there? Like, it feels like if you’re going to create 1,000 of these things, they can only fly to Mars every two years. What are they doing the rest of the time? It feels like there’s this explosion of possibility that I don’t think people are really thinking about.",
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"content": "I mean, I don’t know. We’ve certainly got a long way to go. As you alluded to earlier, we still have to get to orbit. And then, after we get to orbit, we have to really prove out and refine full and rapid reusability. That’ll take a moment. But I do think we will solve this. I’m highly confident we will solve this at this point.",
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"content": "I’ll try it.",
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"content": "It will blow your mind and your skull.",
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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": "He just needs to.",
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"content": "Okay. Doge Designer, if you unmute, you can talk.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Hey Elon, what’s up? Can you hear me?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Let’s unmute Jason and David as well and us. Definitely Walter Isaacson if he does want to speak.",
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"content": "It’s like, it gives you this weird thrill like you’re on this clunky ride, and there’s all this feedback. There’s something to that.",
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"content": "Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, yeah. My E-Type is like basically no electronics.",
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"content": "Yeah. So, you like that, but you also like electronics.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Oh Jesus.",
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"content": "Just like a sprinter, basically. Like what do you do if you’re a sprinter, you hunker down and then shoo. So I shaved like a 10th of a second off the 0 to 60. I mean, it’s pretty fun.",
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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": "Yes. But in the\nUFC\n(Ultimate Fighting Championship)\n, when Royce Gracie, off of his back, was strangling Dan Severn with his legs. You’re like, “Holy shit, this guy’s being pinned by this big giant wrestler, and he wraps his legs around his neck and chokes him to the point that guy has to surrender.” Amazing.",
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"content": "Yeah, it was amazing. I mean, Royce got beaten up pretty bad in some of those.",
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"content": "Well, he definitely had some rough fights.",
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"content": "But he won.",
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"content": "Could you put it over a regular roof?",
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"content": "No. So, there are two versions. It’s like the solar panels you put on a roof. So, like, it depends on whether your roof’s new or old. So, if your roof’s new, you don’t want to replace the roof. You want to put solar panels on the roof.So, that’s like retrofit, you know. And they were trying to make the retrofit panels look real nice.\nBut then, the new product was coming out with it is if you have a roof that’s either you’re building a house, or you’re going to replace your roof anyway, then you make the tiles have solar cells embedded in the tiles.And then, it’s quite a tricky thing because you want to not see the solar cell behind the glass tile. So, you have to really work with the glass, and the various coatings, and the layers, so that you don’t see the solar cells behind the glass. Otherwise, it doesn’t look right.So, it’s really tricky.",
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"content": "There it is. Jaime put it up there.Man, that looks good.",
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"content": "See, like, if you look closely, you can see. If you zoom in, like, you can see the cell. But if you zoom out, you don’t see the cell.",
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"content": "I don’t think it was alleging illegality, it’s that wealthy people got to borrow against their stock.",
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"content": "Yes, they were; they were saying that like somehow borrowing is a trick to get away from paying taxes. But it’s important to bear in mind that we’ve had a very long expansion in the economy, maybe the longest ever, and borrowing against stock is all sorts of funny games until you have a recession, and you get the margin calls, and then you go to zero, which happens basically every time there’s a recession. Stocks don’t always go up; they go down.",
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"content": "Yours seems to.",
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"content": "Most stocks have gone up, including some questionable stocks, frankly.",
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"content": "It’s this thing, it’s like some people just get a cough.",
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"content": "I have no idea what you’re talking about.",
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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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