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"content": "Everything? Including tires, and wheels, bolts, brakes?",
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"content": "Yeah, even every-",
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"content": "Steering wheel? Seat?",
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"content": "I think the steering wheel was almost the same. Yes, the windscreen.",
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"content": "Oh no shit. I was going to suggest that. That’s a great thing for people. That’s a thing about Jujitsu; if you look at it from the outside, you think, “Oh, a bunch of meatheads strangling each other.”",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "But they’re some of the smartest people I know, are Jujitsu fiends because, first of all, they get introduced to it because usually either they want to exercise or learn some self-defense, but then they realize that it’s essentially like a language with your body. Like you’re having an argument with someone with some sort of a physical language. And it’s really complex, and the more access to vocabulary and the sharper your words are, the more you’ll succeed in these ventures. That’s really an accurate analogy of what Jujitsu is.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, I kind of got, probably like a lot of people, for the way-early day, the first\nMMA\nfights and Royce Gracie, and he was just like incredible. And it was like…",
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"content": "But do you have to give them some sort of blueprint from your ultimate idea, and do they have to approve it? Like, how does that work?",
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"content": "We just started off with the pit.",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "They don’t really care about the existential nature of a pit. You just say, like, I want a pit. It’s a hole in the ground. Then we got the permit for the pit, and we dug the pit in like, I don’t know, three days, two, three days. Actually, I think two, 48 hours, something like that. Because Eric Garcetti was coming by for the Hyperloop; he was going to attend the Hyperloop competition, which is a student competition we have for who can make the fastest pod in the Hyperloop. And he was coming.\nThe finals were going to be on Sunday afternoon, and so Eric was coming by on Sunday afternoon. I was like, you know, we should take this pit and then show Eric. So, we – this was like Friday morning, and then – yeah, it was about a little over 40 hours later, we dug the pit. It was like when 24/7 – 48 straight hours, something like that. And dug this big pit, and we showed Eric the pit. Like, obviously it’s just a pit. But hey, a hole in the ground is better than no hole in the ground.",
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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": "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": "It’s something I enjoy about it. Something about the freedom of expression that comes from all these people that do attack you. It’s like, if there was no vulnerability whatsoever, they wouldn’t attack you. And it’s like there’s something about these millions and millions of perspectives that you have to appreciate, even if it comes your way, even if the shit storm hits you in the face.\nYou got to appreciate, “Wow. How amazing is it that all these people do have the ability to express themselves?” I mean, you don’t necessarily want to be there when the shit hits you. You might want to get out of the way in anticipation of the shit storm, but the fact that so many people have the ability to reach out… – And I think it’s in a lot of ways a – I don’t want to say a misused resource – but it’s like giving monkeys guns.\nThey just start, “Da, da, da.” They start gunning down things that are in front of them without any realization of what they’re doing. They have a rock, they see a window, they throw it. “Whoo, look at that. I got Elon mad. Look at that. This guy got mad at me. I fucking took this person down on Twitter. I got this lady fired. Oh, the fucking business is going under because of Twitter Wars.” It seems like there’s something about it that’s this newfound thing that, I don’t want to say abuse, but just, I want to say that it’s almost like you hit the button and things blow up. You’re like, “Wow, what else can we blow up?”",
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"content": "Sure. I mean, I’ve been in the Twitter war zone for a while here, so…",
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"content": "No, I know. But the way I know that is because you have a sense of humor. You really do. You like laughing, you like to be funny. As opposed to somebody like Zuckerberg, who I’m not even sure is a real boy.",
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"content": "Yeah. I actually love comedy. You know, like, many years ago, I actually was in the audience here and watched your show. Been a longtime admirer of your show.",
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"content": "Oh, wow, thank you. Let me get back to you being a genius. Okay. It has always been my view that… – as I was a history major, and when you study history, what you realize is that there’s the great man theory, and they talk about kings and princes and queens and presidents – it’s really the people in tech, who changed the world. They’re the people who deal the cards. Whether it’s fire, or electricity, for good or bad, or the cotton gin, or the iPhone, or the atom bomb, those are the cards and the rest of us just play it. Would you agree with that assessment?",
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"content": "I think technology is the thing that causes these big step changes in civilization. So obviously, you’ve got things like, say, the Gutenberg Press, before which it was very difficult to get books. They were very rare. Even if you had a thirst for knowledge, you really couldn’t do anything about it because there were very few books to read. And the internet is something beyond the Gutenberg Press, I think. When I first saw the internet coming into being in a way that the general public could use it, it felt like humanity as a whole was developing a nervous system. So previously, the way that information would travel would be via osmosis. One person to another or one person calling another. The access to information was very limited. Now with the Internet, it’s like having a nervous system. It’s like any part of humanity has access to almost all the information of humanity. You could be in the middle of the Amazon jungle with, say, a Starlink terminal and have access to more information than the President did in 1980.",
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"content": "It would be so sad in terms of just the finite lifespan of the Earth itself and the solar system itself. But even though it’s possibly — You know, I mean, how long do they feel like the sun and the solar system is going to exist? How many hundreds of millions of years?",
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"content": "Well, it’s probably, if you’re saying when does the sun boil the oceans-",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "About 500 million years.",
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"content": "Elon, you’ve been working very hard. I mean, since six years ago we met… you look much younger, by the way, than six years ago.",
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"content": "Oh, thanks. You look great, too.",
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"content": "But I know that you’ve been working for almost 20 hours a day, you sleep on the sofa in the office, maybe Twitter office, Tesla office. You told me once when I was with you at Tesla’s office. How do you balance your life? I mean, with this stress, with so many different… you know, you’re on so many different companies parallel. How do you balance it?",
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"content": "I should point out that a 20-hour workday is relatively unusual and rather painful. I do sleep six hours a night, and if I sleep less than six hours a night, I find that I might be awake longer, but I get less done. But I do work a ridiculous amount relative to most people, and that is pretty much seven days a week and mostly from when I wake up to when I go to sleep. I’m not suggesting this is good for everyone, and I think, frankly, I would like to work a bit less than that.\nLike I say, Tesla went through some very difficult times, where it was on the ragged edge of survival, and really, if I didn’t give it everything I got, the company could have easily gone bankrupt. It was really on the verge of bankruptcy for quite a while. I don’t mean to suggest complacency at this point, but it does require much less work to operate Tesla now versus the 2017-2019 time frame. Now it’s not at mortal risk of survival, it’s achieved economies of scale that make it not on the ragged edge of survival.\nSpaceX also has a strong team and is able to make a lot of progress even if I spend less time there. It does help when I spend time there, but it keeps making progress even if I don’t.\nTwitter is still somewhat of a startup in reverse, and so there’s a lot of work required here to get Twitter to a sort of a stable position and, like I said, to really build the engine of software engineering at Twitter and really have a great product roadmap and the people in place to implement that product roadmap. And so, it is not my intention to work like crazy. I mean, I think I’d be comfortable with a mere 80-hour workweek. That would be fine. That is what I would aspire to.",
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"content": "So, from a machine learning perspective, I think the flaws being a feature is really nice. You could be quite terrible at being a robot for quite a while, in the general home environment or all in the general world. And that’s kind of adorable and that’s like those are your flaws, and you fall in love those flaws. It’s very different than autonomous driving, where it’s a very high-stakes environment; you cannot mess up. It’s more fun to be a robot in the home.",
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"content": "Yeah, in fact, if you think of C-3PO and R2-D2, they actually had a lot of flaws and imperfections and silly things, and they would argue with each other.",
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"content": "Were they actually good at doing anything? I’m not exactly sure.",
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"content": "They definitely added a lot to the story. But there’s sort of quirky elements, and, you know, that they would make mistakes and do things… it was like, it made them relatable, I don’t know, endearing. So yeah, I think that could be something that probably would happen. But our initial focus is just to make it useful. I’m confident we’ll get it done. I’m not sure what the exact timeframe is, but we’ll probably have a decent prototype towards the end of next year or something like that.",
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"content": "What is that?",
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"content": "It’s like a cup of coffee in reverse.",
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"content": "Weed is?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "The following is a conversation with Elon Musk, his fourth time on this, the Lex Fridman Podcast. I thought you were going to finish it. It’s one of the greatest themes in all of film history.",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s great.",
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"content": "We were talking about that last time, and you were trying to figure out when it was actually going to go live when it’s actually going to be available. Are you testing on people right now?",
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"content": "No, we’re not testing on people yet, but I think it won’t be too long. I think we may be able to implant a neural link in less than a year in a person, I think.",
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"content": "When you do this, is there any tests that you have to do before you do something like this to see what percentage of people’s bodies are going to reject these things? Is there a potential for rejection?",
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"content": "It’s a very low potential for rejection. I mean, you can think of it like people put in heart monitors and things for epileptic seizures and\ndeep brain stimulation\n, obviously like artificial hips and knees and that kind of thing. The probability of… I mean, it’s well known what will cause rejection and what will not. It’s definitely harder when you’ve got something that is sort of reading and writing neurons that’s generating a current pulse and reading current pulses. That’s a little harder than, say, a passive device, but it’s still very doable. There are people who have primitive devices in their brains right now.",
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"content": "Awesome. We’ll pull out back from the Twitter questions that are kind of funny. This is a question for the efficacy of the device. “Right now, is the device limited to surface layers of the brain only? Or can we go deeper? And if not now, what’s holding us back from going deeper into the brain?”\nWe are planning on modifying the device and the robot to be able to sew into arbitrary depths of the brain. Right now, we’re limiting ourselves only to the cortical surface because that simplifies many of the problems involved with going a lot deeper.\nAnd what kinds of things can you solve on the cortical surface versus when you go deeper?\nSure. A lot of the low-level processing happens in the cortex, in terms of motor intentions, sensory information that comes directly, and so your hearing, your auditory percepts, your visual processing. A lot of that happens in the cortex.",
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"content": "I mean, you could solve blindness, you could solve paralysis, you can solve hearing, you can solve a lot just by interfacing with the cortex. And to be clear, we actually do insert, I guess, about three or four millimeters into the cortex. These electrodes are sensing from multiple layers within the cortex. It’s that there are deeper brain systems like that are underneath your cortex, like the hypothalamus. And I think that is something we’d want to interface with, for sure. Because that’s going to be important for curing things like depression, addiction, that kind of thing… anxiety.\nSo, but yeah, like as I said in the presentation, overall, we’re aiming for a general-purpose device. And really, the thing that would change between from interfacing with the cortex versus deep brain systems is kind of the length of the electrode. So we just need kind of longer wires and to adjust the robot in order to access deeper regions of the brain.",
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"content": "Awesome.\nThe robot is designed, like, the full length is like seven centimeters or eight centimeters.\nYeah, so right now we’re designed for like six millimeters. The actuator itself isn’t actually limited to six millimeters – you can go much deeper. In addition to scaling out sort of to the rest of the surgery, also scaling to deeper, which is mostly a sensing problem. So the ability to avoid deep vasculature is sort of an interesting problem that we’re working on in the robotics world here. So yeah. Lots of cool problems on robot.",
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"content": "You’re leading robot engineering.",
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"content": "Even in black ice?",
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"content": "Yeah. There are videos where you can see that. The traction control system is very good. It makes you feel like Superman. It’s great. You feel like you can — Like it’s — It will make you feel like this incredible driver.",
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"content": "I believe it. Now, how do you program that?",
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"content": "We do have testing on like an ice lake in Sweden.",
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"content": "Really?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "You’re being stopped by who?",
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"content": "By the building owner.",
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"content": "Do you feel there’s a kind of destiny for you?",
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"content": "Sometimes I feel like, but I mean, I don’t know if there’s any merit to that feeling?",
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"content": "What are the rules that you want to live by? Because it seems that you have broken many rules. But what are some of the rules that you will abide by?",
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"content": "I want to be useful. And I want to be able to look back and say that my actions had a good effect on the world.",
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"content": "Trust level between tech and the government?",
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"content": "Yeah, both internally within China and with respect to people from the US and other countries going and visiting and meeting with officials in the Chinese government, China is very much set up to work with the in-person meetings. And so, COVID, I think, it’s impeded that. So things will improve most likely, as the in-person meetings should resume.",
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"content": "So they did these antitrust actions because they couldn’t say hello.",
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"content": "Not all of it can be ascribed to that, but some of it can be. Yeah, we’ll see. I suspect things will improve next year because of just better, more interaction.",
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"content": "And they have to speed up if we’re going to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.",
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"content": "Yeah. Long-term, we want to try to replace at least 1% of the total vehicle fleet on Earth, which is about 2 billion vehicles. So long-term, we want to try and make about 20 million vehicles a year.",
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"content": "But I think it’s important to point out that when we talked about 3 TWh by 2030, the problem is a 20 TWh problem. So everybody needs to be accelerating their efforts to accomplish these objectives. It doesn’t matter where you are in the value chain. There is a ton to do; you need to rethink from first principles how you do it so that you can scale to meet all of our objectives.",
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"content": "Yep.",
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"content": "And your Roadster, you’re anticipating 600 miles. Is that correct?",
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"content": "Yeah, 600 miles.",
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"content": "Is that right now? Like, have you driven one 600 miles now?",
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"content": "No. We could totally make one right now that would do 600 miles, but the thing is, it’s too expensive.",
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"content": "Truth Social, to clarify.",
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"content": "Yeah, Truth Social, sorry.",
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"content": "Not truth the concept.",
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"content": "He owns Truth. Have you bought it? So I think Donald Trump, I think he owns a big part of Truth Social. So if he does want to post on the X platform, we would allow that. We obviously must allow a presidential candidate to post on our platform.",
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"content": "Neuralink.",
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"content": "Imagine if you didn’t have a nervous system, you wouldn’t know what’s going on. Your fingers wouldn’t know what’s going on, or your toes wouldn’t know what’s going on; it had to do it by diffusion. And the way information used to work was really by diffusion. One human would have to call another human or write them a letter. You’d have to write a letter, you’d have to have that letter to another human, they would be carried through a bunch of things; finally, the person would give it to you – extremely slow diffusion.\nAnd if you want access to books – if you did not have a library, you don’t have it. That’s it. Now you have access to all the books instantly. And you can be in a remote, like, you know, mountaintop, jungle location or something, and have access to all of humanity’s information if you’ve got a link to the internet. This was a fundamental and profound change. That’s one thing. I was on the internet early because of, you know, the physics community, that was pretty normal, although its interface was, you know, almost entirely text and hard to use.\nAnother one is obviously making life multi-planetary, making consciousness multi-planetary, changing human genetics , which I’m not doing, by the way. This is a thorny subject, but it is being done with CRISPR and others, you know. It will become normal, I think, to change the human genome. That will become normal.",
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"content": "Like, what’s the opportunity? Like, why is that something that’s inevitable?",
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"content": "Well, yeah, I think for sure, as far as, say, getting rid of diseases or propensity to various diseases, then that can be like the first thing that you’d want to edit out. You know, it’s like, if you’ve got, like, you know, the situation where you’re definitely going to die of some kind of cancer at age 55, you prefer to have that edited out.",
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"content": "Okay, Elon, last question. You celebrated your 30th birthday with a masked ball in Venice. For your 40th birthday, I was told you had a fight with a Samurai sword fighter. What is your plan for your 50th birthday next year?",
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"content": "Well, my 40th birthday was in Venice. It was technically a post-apocalyptic masked ball. Because you know after the apocalypse how much clothing do you really have. It’s probably going to be a little ragged, a little burnt, you know.",
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"content": "No plans for the 50th?",
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"content": "Yeah, 50th, hm? The half-century party. I have to think of something. Usually go with some kind of crazy theme. The party where I ended up wrestling with the world champion, which, by the way, also caused me to burst a disc in my neck. So five minutes of glory for five years of pain. That really hurt. That party was Victorian Japanese Steampunk. That was cool. I have to think of something for the half-century party.",
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"content": "Fuck yeah.",
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"content": "Definitely. But then I was like, man, does it really make sense for me to spend time designing and building a house and I’d be real, you know, get a like OCD on the little details and the design, or should I be allocating that time to getting us to Mars? I should probably do the latter. Like what’s more important? Mars or a house? I’m like Mars. Okay.",
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"content": "Is that really how you think? Like, I’d be better off planning on a trip to Mars or getting people to Mars?",
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"content": "Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, you can only do so many things.",
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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": "How so?",
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"content": "We mention all those things, the sort of primal drives. There’re all the things that we like and hate and fear; they’re all there on the internet. They’re the projection of our limbic system.",
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"content": "Can I join it?",
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"content": "I believe you can.",
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"content": "Right? One sec.",
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"content": "Oh, hey Walter. Let’s invite Walter to speak. He may not wish to speak, but we can at least invite him.",
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"content": "Have you seen that company’s stuff? What they do?",
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"content": "I don’t know specifically, but there’s…",
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"content": "It’s pretty dope. They make it pretty dope-looking… They take Model S, and they widen it and give it a bunch of carbon fiber. That’s it, right there.",
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"content": "Cool.",
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"content": "What if it’s in bumper-to-bumper traffic?",
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"content": "Nope.",
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"content": "No, it won’t do it?",
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"content": "No. Actually, you have to…- it’s an Easter egg.",
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"content": "If we figure out a way past the sun running out of juice.",
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"content": "Eventually, it’s going to end. It’s just a question of when.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "So, it really is all about the journey.",
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"content": "But they’re some of the smartest people I know, are Jujitsu fiends because, first of all, they get introduced to it because usually either they want to exercise or learn some self-defense, but then they realize that it’s essentially like a language with your body. Like you’re having an argument with someone with some sort of a physical language. And it’s really complex, and the more access to vocabulary and the sharper your words are, the more you’ll succeed in these ventures. That’s really an accurate analogy of what Jujitsu is.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, I kind of got, probably like a lot of people, for the way-early day, the first\nMMA\nfights and Royce Gracie, and he was just like incredible. And it was like…",
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"content": "Technique.",
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"content": "Yeah. He was winning against people way bigger and that kind of thing. And it was just like, “Whoa, this is cool.”",
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"content": "2.2. Which one’s 1.9? The Roadster?",
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"content": "The next-generation Roadster. Standard edition.",
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"content": "Yeah, I’m on top of this shit. Standard edition.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah. So, it’s without the performance package.",
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"content": "Was he the director of happy people life and the Taiga? I think also-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "He did that bear documentary. I did this thing about penguins.",
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"content": "The psycho analysis of a penguin.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah. The penguins headed for mountains that are 70 miles away and penguin is just headed for dom, basically.",
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"content": "Jesus.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "To go from one interchange to the next. If you get on, say, the 405, get off 300 miles later, and go through several highway interchanges, and just overtake other cars, and hook into the nav system, and then-.",
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"content": "And you’re just meditating, om.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Judge was selling young boys to prisons. He was like literally-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "What?",
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"content": "Yeah, literally, under bribes for — He was-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Was this an elected judge?Because sometimes you have a judge that’s like actually a politician.",
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"content": "Is this because they’ve decided to forgo elective procedures and normal things that people would have to go to the hospital for?",
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"content": "Yes. I mean, we’re not talking about just…- some of these elective procedures are quite important. Like you have a bad heart.",
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"content": "Gall bladder disease, yeah, sure.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "You need a triple bypass. It’s sort of elective, but if you don’t get it done in time, you’re going to die.",
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"content": "Right.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "And you can’t give a single one.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "And I’m saying-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Then I say, sir, that you don’t know what you’re talking about.",
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"content": "Yeah, on the timeline.",
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"content": "You anything, it looks pretty real, including the voice. That can get the voice matched and the video matched. It’s really getting to the point where it’ll be quite easy to generate extremely realistic fake videos, images and so forth and voice. I saw a fake Joe Rogan interview and it really sounded like Joe Rogan’s voice. I sent it to Joe and he was like, “Whoa, this is crazy.” So yeah, I think verification is going to be extremely fundamental in the future. That’s why we’re so focused on it.",
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"content": "So the reason I brought that up is as a content creator, I’d like to keep making those, and I don’t want to necessarily fool people. So would it be possible to, I don’t know, add a flag to it so that content creators can say, “Hey, this is AI generated content. Don’t take it seriously, it’s a parody,”?",
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"content": "Well, I think in the tweet, in the post, I think it would be advisable to say that this is not real if it is something that can be potentially misinterpreted.",
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"content": "When? You said ‘pretty soon’ last time we talked.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, I think we should really try hard to make it happen in this century; before the end of the century.",
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"content": "You’ll be pretty old.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Um, probably dead.",
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"content": "Yeah. It must come from the eyebrows.\nAlright. Invention, great engineering. “Look what I invented. That’s the best thing since ripped up bread.” Because they invented sliced bread. Am I just explaining memes at this point?\n(all laughing)\nThis is what my life has become.\nHe’s a meme lord, you’re a meme explainer.\nI’m like a scribe that runs around with the kings and just writes down memes.",
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"content": "I mean, when was the cheeseburger invented? That’s an epic invention. Like, wow.",
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"content": "Versus just like a burger?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Or a burger. I guess a burger in general is like, you know…",
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"content": "All right, we’ll Elon, thank you very much for talking to me.",
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"content": "Oh, you’re welcome.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "So that was fun, Elon. I enjoyed it thoroughly.",
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"content": "Sounds good. Well, this has really given me a long list of future improvements that we need for spaces. That’s for sure.",
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"content": "No.",
"role": "user"
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{
"content": "Okay.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "It’s marijuana inside of tobacco.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Okay. So, it’s like posh, part tobacco and pot.",
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"content": "So you are one of these dealers, these people who deal the cards.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "I deal some memes, too.",
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"content": "Yes, you do.\n(laughter, applause)\nSo I think a lot of people thought when you bought Twitter that this is kind of an outlier. Like, that doesn’t fit with these other things you’re doing. I never thought that because I think you’re dealing with big civilizational issues and problems. And I was right on your page. I think Twitter is one of them. I mean, you have talked about this woke mind virus in really apocalyptic terms. You should explain why you don’t think it’s hyperbole to say things like it’s pushing civilization towards suicide. First of all, what is the woke mind virus, and if we don’t deal with this, nothing else can get done? Tell me why you think that?",
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"content": "Yeah, so I think we need to be very cautious about anything that is anti-meritocratic and anything that results in the suppression of free speech. Those are two of the aspects of the woke mind virus that I think are very dangerous – that it’s often anti-meritocratic, and you can’t question things. Even the questioning is bad. So, you know, almost synonymous would be cancel culture. And obviously, people have tried to cancel you many times.",
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"content": "Amazing. But part of that is possible because you’ve already got a fleet of Teslas driving all these roads. You’re accumulating a huge amount of data of that national road system.",
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"content": "Yes, but the thing that will be interesting is that I’m actually fairly confident it will be able to do that route even if you change the route dynamically. So, it’s fairly easy… – If you say I’m going to be really good at one specific route, that’s one thing.\nBut it should be able to go, really be very good, certainly once you enter a highway, to go anywhere on the highway system in a given country. So, it’s not sort of limited to LA to New York. We could change it and make it Seattle-Florida, that day, in real-time. You were going from LA to New York. Now go from LA to Toronto.",
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"content": "Leaving aside regulation for a second, in terms of the technology alone, the time when someone will be able to buy one of your cars and literally just take the hands off the wheel and go to sleep and wake up and find that they’ve arrived, how far away is that, to do that safely?",
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"content": "I think that’s about two years. The real trick of it is not how do you make it work say 99.9 percent of the time, because, like, if a car crashes one in a thousand times, then you’re probably still not going to be comfortable falling asleep. You shouldn’t be, certainly. It’s never going to be perfect. No system is going to be perfect, but if you say it’s perhaps – the car is unlikely to crash in a hundred lifetimes, or a thousand lifetimes, then people are like, OK, wow, if I were to live a thousand lives, I would still most likely never experience a crash, then that’s probably OK.",
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"content": "Why do you want to look great all the time?",
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"content": "Yeah, exactly. So, I think, things like that can make people quite sad just by comparison, because you’re sort of…- People generally think of themselves relative to others. It’s like we are constantly re-baselining our expectations. And you can see this, say, if you watch some show like ‘Naked and Afraid’, or, you know, if you just go and try living in the woods by yourself for a while, and you’re like… – they learn that civilization is quite great, it has a lot…- People want to come back to civilization pretty fast on ‘Naked and Afraid’.",
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"content": "Wasn’t there a Thoreau quote, that „Comparison is the thief of joy.“",
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"content": "Yeah. Well, “Happiness is reality minus expectations.”",
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"content": "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": "This seems like a scene in a movie…",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Nobody listened.",
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"content": "Cheers. Thank you. Is there any message you would like to put out other than love is the answer because I think you really nailed it with that?",
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"content": "No. I think, you know, I think people should be nicer to each other, and give more credit to others, and don’t assume that they’re mean until you know they’re actually mean. You know, just, it’s easy to demonize people. You’re usually wrong about it. People are nicer than you think. Give people more credit.",
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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.",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It’s true.",
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"content": "Thank you. I hear you, I agree and disagree with you at a certain point. I think, you know, it’s today people they don’t fight with swords anymore. I mean, they have nuclear weapons. so if there is this conflict, the whole human civilization will be gone. And what we are trying to do here at the Emirates actually is to do exactly what you are saying. We have 180 nationalities, we have every single race, every single religion, and we are trying to create a model that shows the world that it doesn’t matter who you are, what’s your color, what’s your religion, where you’re from: Humanity can live in peace and harmony.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, that would be good.",
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"content": "My last question… I’ll go to Twitter again, then we’ll move out of Twitter if you allowed us. I mean, you’ve been running Twitter as the chairman, as the owner, as the CEO, and that takes a lot of time. Did you identify a CEO, and when you are going to hire him?",
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"content": "Well, I think I need to stabilize the organization and just make sure it’s in a financially healthy place and that the product roadmap is clearly laid out. So I’m guessing probably towards the end of this year would be a good timing to find someone else to run the company because I think it should be in a stable position at the end of this year.",
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"content": "That’s a great way to put it.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "When you’re programming artificial intelligence where you’re working with artificial intelligence art, are they specifically trying to mimic the developmental process of a human brain?",
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"content": "In a lot of ways. There’s some ways that are different. An analogy that’s often used is like we don’t make a submarine swim like a fish, but we take the principles of hydrodynamics and apply them to the submarine.",
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"content": "Right. But this is unprecedented, right? If someone had the flu but also had a heart attack, they would assume that that person died of a heart attack.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Yeah. So this is unprecedented. Is this because this is such a popular – I don’t want to use that word the wrong way, but that’s what I mean – popular subject? And financial incentives.",
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"content": "Yes. And like I said, this is not some sort of a moral indictment of hospital administrators. It’s just, they’re in a tough spot here. They actually don’t have enough patients to pay everyone without furloughing doctors and firing staff. They’re running potentially going bankrupt. So then they’re like, “Okay, well, the stimulus bill says we get all this money if it’s a Covid death.” I’m like, “Okay. They coughed before they died.” In fact, they’re not even diagnosed with Covid. They simply… If you had weakness, a cough, shortness of breath. Frankly, I’m not sure how you die without those things.",
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"content": "So did you always know like, you know, business was the way you wanted to kind of attack these problems versus say, you know, maybe a nonprofit or, you know, working as a college professor or something, I don’t know?",
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"content": "Well, when I was in high school, I thought I would most likely be doing physics at a particle accelerator. So that’s what asin physics and computer… I mean, I got distinctions in two areas, in physics and computer science. And those were… so, my two best subjects and then I thought, okay, well, I want to figure out what’s the nature of the universe. And so, you know, go try to working with people banging particles together, see what happens. And that sort of things went along in that the supercollider got canceled in the US. And that actually I was like, whoa, you know, what if I am working at a collider, I spent all these years, and then the government just canceled it. And then that was like, I cannot do that.\nSo, roll back a little, like, I tried to figure what was – when I was a kid, I had like this existential crisis when I was about 12 years old or something. And I was like, well, what does the world mean? What’s it all about? We’re living some meaningless existence. And then I made the mistake of reading Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and I was like, hoo… – Don’t do that. Not at… need be a little older. No, actually, lately, these days, I sort of reread it. You know, it’s actually not that bad. It’s got issues – no questions about that.\nAnyway – but then I read the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, Douglas Adams – which is really quite a good book on philosophy, I think – and was like, okay, we don’t really know what the answer is, obviously, but the universe is the answer. And that really, what are the questions we should be asking to better understand the nature of the universe? And so then, to the degree that we expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then we’ll better be able to ask the questions and understand why we’re here, what it’s all about.\nAnd so, we should sort of take the set of actions that are most likely to result in us understanding what questions to ask about the nature of the universe. Therefore, we must propagate human civilization on Earth as far into the future as possible and become a multi-planet species to again extend the scope and scale of consciousness and increase the probable lifespan of consciousness, which is going to be, I think, probably a lot of machine consciousness as well in the future. And that’s the best we can do, basically, you know –\nyeah, that’s the best we can do.\nAnd think about the various problems that we’re facing or what would most likely change the future. When I was in college, there were five things that I thought would be – I mean, I thought these were actually… I would not regard this as a profound insight but rather an obvious one. The internet would fundamentally change humanity because it’s like, humanity would become more of a superorganism because the internet is like a nervous system. Now, suddenly, any part of the human organisms, anywhere, would have access to all the information instantly.",
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"content": "Neuralink.",
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"content": "Imagine if you didn’t have a nervous system, you wouldn’t know what’s going on. Your fingers wouldn’t know what’s going on, or your toes wouldn’t know what’s going on; it had to do it by diffusion. And the way information used to work was really by diffusion. One human would have to call another human or write them a letter. You’d have to write a letter, you’d have to have that letter to another human, they would be carried through a bunch of things; finally, the person would give it to you – extremely slow diffusion.\nAnd if you want access to books – if you did not have a library, you don’t have it. That’s it. Now you have access to all the books instantly. And you can be in a remote, like, you know, mountaintop, jungle location or something, and have access to all of humanity’s information if you’ve got a link to the internet. This was a fundamental and profound change. That’s one thing. I was on the internet early because of, you know, the physics community, that was pretty normal, although its interface was, you know, almost entirely text and hard to use.\nAnother one is obviously making life multi-planetary, making consciousness multi-planetary, changing human genetics , which I’m not doing, by the way. This is a thorny subject, but it is being done with CRISPR and others, you know. It will become normal, I think, to change the human genome. That will become normal.",
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"content": "Maybe I’m trying to prove it to my mother. I don’t know.",
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"content": "No. If I were to describe my philosophy, it is a philosophy of curiosity. I did have this existential crisis when I was around 12, about what’s the meaning of life? Isn’t it all pointless? Why not just commit suicide? Why exist? I read the religious texts. I read the philosophy books. That, especially the German philosophy books, made me quite depressed frankly. Want you not read Schopenhauer Nietzsche as a teenager. But then I read Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which is a book on philosophy in the form of humor. And the point that Adamus was making there was that we don’t actually know what questions to ask. That’s why I said that, the answer is 42. Basically earth’s a giant computer and it came up with the answer 42. But then to actually figure out what the question is, that’s the actual hard part. And I think this is generally true also in physics. At the point at which you can properly frame the question, the answer is actually the easy part.\nSo my motivation then was that, well, my life is finite, really a flash in the pan on a galactic timescale. But if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then we are better able to figure out what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. And maybe we can find out the meaning of life or even what the right question to ask is. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Where are the aliens? Are there aliens? These questions, is there new physics to discover? Because there seems to be some real questions around dark matter and dark energy. So the purpose of SpaceX is to extend life beyond earth on a sustained basis, so that we can at least pass one of the Fermi Great Filters, which is that of being a single-planet civilization.\nIf we are single-planet civilization, then we are simply waiting around for some extinction event, whether that is manmade or natural. But if you’re a single-planet civilization, eventually something will happen to that planet and you will die. If you’re a multi-planet civilization, you’ll live much longer. Also, multi-planet civilization, that’s the natural stepping stone to being a multi-stellar civilization and being out there among the stars. So now, this I think has two… This is not simply a defensive motivation, but it is also one where that gives meaning, man’s search for meaning.",
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"content": "Can I ask you a different-",
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"content": "All right. Let me finish this philosophy point, even though it may seem rather esoteric, it may resonate with a few people. We must get past this Fermi Great Filter of being a single-planet civilization. And if we do that, we are more likely to understand the nature of the universe and what questions to ask. If you believe in the philosophy of curiosity, then I think you should support this ambition. Being a multi-planet species is more than simply life insurance for life collectively. That’s a defensive reason. But I think also that life has to be more than simply solving one sad problem after another. There have to be reasons for you wake up in the morning and you’re happy to be alive. There have to be reasons that you have to say, why are you excited about the future? What gives you hope? And if you aren’t sure, ask your kids. And I think the idea of us being a space-faring civilization and being out there among the stars is incredibly inspiring and exciting and something to look forward to. And there need to be such things in the world.",
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"content": "Can you elaborate on the confidence behind that answer?",
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"content": "A neural net is just basically a bunch of matrix math. But you have to be a very sophisticated, somebody who really understands neural nets and basically reverse-engineers how the matrix is being built, and then create a little thing that just exactly causes the matrix math to be slightly off. But it’s very easy to block that by having what would basically negative recognition; it’s like if the system sees something that looks like a matrix hack, exclude it. It’s such an easy thing to do.",
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"content": "So learn both on the valid data and the invalid data, so basically learn on the adversarial examples to be able to exclude them.",
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"content": "Yeah, you like basically want to both know what is a car and what is definitely not a car. And you train for, this is a car, and this is definitely not a car. Those are two different things. People have no idea of neural nets, really. They probably think neural nets involves a fishing net or something.",
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"content": "Really?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "So, it gets it from the outside?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "But let me ask you this then. Go at it. Just tell me what happened. You write this tweet that says that this is the actual truth. People read that tweet and they say Elon Musk is an antisemite, that he is riling up this base. You’re hearing it from, as I said, the White House. You’re hearing it from Jewish groups all over. I think Jonathan Greenblatt from the ADL is here. There’s lots of people who say this. And by the way, it’s not just that-",
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"content": "Did you read the whole thing?",
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"content": "I did. And that’s why I want to ask you that-",
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"content": "The responses.",
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"content": "Is the Tesla Bot in the running for any of these titles?",
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"content": "Not yet; it’s maybe in the future.",
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"content": "But speaking of the Tesla Bot, I know you’ve talked about the importance of creating this bot for the future of AI. Tell me a little bit about where you’re at with this project and what we can expect in the next coming months.",
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"content": "Um well, with the Tesla autopilot and full self-driving, we’re effectively, I think, creating the most advanced practical AI for navigating the real world. And you can also think of Tesla as like the world’s biggest robot company or semi-sentient robot company. The car is kind of a robot on four wheels. And so then we could probably take that same technology and put it in a humanoid robot and have that robot be useful.\nAnd yeah, so essentially, to have the humanoid part, we need to develop some custom actuators and sensors, and then essentially use the Tesla full self-driving autopilot, or just, generally speaking, real-world navigation AI in the humanoid robot. I think this could be quite profound. I don’t know exactly when we will get this right, but we will get it right.",
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"content": "Yeah. Do you agree that it’s Right now, and that even it’s moved into sort of MAGA-land conspiracy theory?",
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"content": "I certainly don’t think it’s Right. The old school Twitter suspended and suppressed accounts that you’d call on the Right, 10 times more than they did on accounts on the Left. And even when they did suspend an account on the Left, it was because of arguments between two people on the Left. The political donations of old Twitter were 99% Democrat. Does that sound Left wing or Right wing to you?",
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"content": "The Twitter donations?",
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"content": "Yes. You know when they look at donations from a company, if a company donates… Literally 99% of all donations are to Democrats, does that strike you as a Left-leaning or a Right-leaning company?",
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"content": "It won’t?",
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"content": "No.",
"role": "assistant"
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"content": "Why not?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "It will correct itself before it goes sideways.",
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"content": "Yeah. So you said if they kill the company, it’s them, but doesn’t the buck stop with you? I mean, you-",
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"content": "I have to say, choose your question carefully. There’s five minutes left.",
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"content": "Okay. But-",
"role": "user"
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"content": "Is this the question you want to ask?",
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"content": "Great car, man.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, particularly, the Porsche wouldn’t have the variable vanes on the turbo, and it didn’t have the turbo lag. That was great.That was really great. The turbo lag is, like, you know, you floor it, like phone home, call your mom.",
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"content": "The older one, right?",
"role": "user"
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"content": "About an hour later, the car accelerates.",
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"content": "I guess, I mean, that’s actually a really good example, because that leads into what I’ve always been fascinated by a lot of what you’re doing. Well, I’ll start with, how did you get into this?",
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"content": "Into cars. Into taking over NASA. Well, not taking over NASA – being a contractor for NASA.",
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"content": "Just for the record, we are not taking over NASA.",
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"content": "You think that society blames everything on racism now?",
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"content": "It blames a lot of things on it and… Yeah.",
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"content": "Do you think that’s unfair?",
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"content": "But do you have to give them some sort of blueprint from your ultimate idea, and do they have to approve it? Like, how does that work?",
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"content": "We just started off with the pit.",
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"content": "They don’t really care about the existential nature of a pit. You just say, like, I want a pit. It’s a hole in the ground. Then we got the permit for the pit, and we dug the pit in like, I don’t know, three days, two, three days. Actually, I think two, 48 hours, something like that. Because Eric Garcetti was coming by for the Hyperloop; he was going to attend the Hyperloop competition, which is a student competition we have for who can make the fastest pod in the Hyperloop. And he was coming.\nThe finals were going to be on Sunday afternoon, and so Eric was coming by on Sunday afternoon. I was like, you know, we should take this pit and then show Eric. So, we – this was like Friday morning, and then – yeah, it was about a little over 40 hours later, we dug the pit. It was like when 24/7 – 48 straight hours, something like that. And dug this big pit, and we showed Eric the pit. Like, obviously it’s just a pit. But hey, a hole in the ground is better than no hole in the ground.",
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"content": "And these tunnels that you’re building right now, these are basically just like test versions of this ultimate idea that you have?",
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"content": "You know, it’s just a hole in the ground.",
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"content": "Right. We played videos of it where your ideas…",
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"content": "It’s just a hole in the ground.",
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"content": "And that’s different than us humans?",
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"content": "You know, we start getting into a metaphysical question of, do emotions and thoughts exist in a different realm than the physical? And maybe they do, maybe they don’t, I don’t know. But from a physics standpoint, I tend to think of things, you know, like physics was my main sort of training, and from a physics standpoint, essentially, if it loves you in a way that you can’t tell whether it’s real or not, it is real.",
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"content": "That’s a physics view of love.",
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"content": "Yeah (laughs), if you cannot prove that it does not, if there’s no test that you can apply that would make it – allow you to tell the difference, then there is no difference.",
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"content": "Do you want to do a video of that? Do you like the fact that some people don’t know?",
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"content": "No, I think it’s probably not. We should tell people.",
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"content": "Yeah, probably.",
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"content": "And we can recruit them as engineers to program for us. Crime guys.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, the joke is like, what’s the best place to hide a dead body would be the second page of Google search results. Nobody ever goes there.",
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"content": "Today, we fired half of Twitter. And that should save us what, four billion a year?",
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"content": "No, it’s not going to save four billion a year. I wished. To be frank, Twitter was having pretty serious revenue challenges and cost challenges before the acquisition talks started. And any company that is dependent on advertising has had a hard time. So if you look at, say Snapchat, or, you know, Google, Facebook, whatnot, they’ve all had a difficult time with advertising revenue dropping. And Twitter is currently more vulnerable than they are to advertising because most of Twitter’s advertising is large brand advertising, as opposed to direct response. So it’s kind of like a much more of a discretionary ad spend than it is if you can do direct response for a specific product.\nI think this is, frankly, an attack on the First Amendment. If activist groups can pressure advertisers (…) to suppress free speech, then that doesn’t seem right.\nElon Musk\nThen we also recently had a lot of difficulty with activist groups pressuring major advertisers to stop spending money on Twitter. This is despite us doing everything possible to appease them and to make it clear that moderation rules and hateful conduct rules have not changed, and we’re continuing to enforce them, a number of major advertisers have stopped spending on Twitter. This doesn’t seem right because we’ve made no change in our operations at all, but nonetheless, the activist groups have been successful in causing a massive drop in Twitter advertising revenue. We’ve done our absolute best to appease them, and nothing is working. So this is a major concern. And I think this is, frankly, an attack on the First Amendment. If activist groups can pressure advertisers, upon which Twitter is fundamentally dependent, to suppress free speech, then that doesn’t seem right.",
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"content": "And a lot of people, you know, a lot of experts, maybe journalists, the public in general, have a lot of doubts about whether it’s possible. And you yourself know that even if it’s a non-null set, non-empty set of success, it’s still unlikely or very difficult. Where do you go to, both personally, intellectually as an engineer, as a team, for source of strength needed to sort of persevere through this and to keep going with the project, take it to completion?",
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"content": "A source of strength, hmm… it’s just really not how I think about things. I mean, for me, it’s simply this is something that is important to get done. And we should just keep doing it. Or die trying. I don’t need a source of strength.",
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"content": "So, quitting is not even like…",
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"content": "That’s not in my nature. And I don’t care about optimism or pessimism. Fuck that, we’re going to get it done.",
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"content": "Did you feel a lot of complacencies these days that the incumbents then let you feel that you are, I mean, a kind of hopeless disrupter, but they know how to do it, or were they very polite and nice to you?",
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"content": "Do you mean back then or –",
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"content": "Back then. Today everybody is super nice.",
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"content": "Oh, no, super-nice, I would not say, no. It’s difficult to characterize their responses as super nice. They used a lot of adjectives. I don’t think that any of them were positive. We really tried hard to convince a lot of companies. Honestly, I was in so many panels, but generally, the sentiment that was expressed that you mentioned earlier was pretty much universal. Especially back in 2008 or 2007, like when we first unveiled the Roadster in 2007. I mean basically they just said, well, you are basically a bunch of fools. Generally, they were saying like who’s starting a car company is crazy, you’re going to lose all your money. I was like, I think I probably will lose all my money, I agree, it isn’t like that I thought it would be successful. I thought we had maybe a 10% chance of success. So, then people would say it’s going to fail, you’re going to lose everything. And I was like, yeah, probably true, what else is new?",
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"content": "So the magic of deep learning is that it gets better with data. You said there’s a huge inflow of data, but the thing about driving, the really valuable data to learn from, is the edge cases. I’ve heard you talk somewhere about Autopilot disengagements being an important moment of time to use. Are there other edge cases, or perhaps can you speak to those edge cases, what aspects of them might be valuable, or if you have other ideas, how to discover more and more edge cases in driving?",
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"content": "Well, there’s a lot of things that are learned. There are certainly edge cases where say, somebody’s on Autopilot, and they take over, and then that’s a trigger that goes out to our system and says, okay, did they take over for convenience, or did they take over because the Autopilot wasn’t working properly? There’s also, let’s say we’re trying to figure out, what is the optimal spline for traversing an intersection. Then the ones where there are no interventions are the right ones. Then you say, okay when it looks like this, do the following. And then you get the optimal spline for navigating a complex intersection.",
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"content": "So there’s kind of the common case. So you’re trying to capture a huge amount of samples of a particular intersection when things went right, and then there’s the edge case where, as you said, not for convenience, but something didn’t go exactly right.",
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"content": "So if somebody started manual control from Autopilot. And really, the way to look at this is to view all input as error. If the user had to do input, there’s something; all input is error.",
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"content": "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": "Did you have a moment where – is this something that this idea of getting rid of your material possessions – is it something that built up over time, or did you have a moment of realization where you realized that.",
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"content": "Yeah, I’ve been thinking about it for a while. You know, part of it is I have a bunch of houses, but I don’t spend a lot of time in most of them. That doesn’t seem like a good use of assets. Somebody could probably be enjoying those houses and get better use of them than me.",
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"content": "Yes. And when we put it all together and go to our new 80-millimeter length, 4680 – we call this a new cell design – we get five times the energy with six times the power and enable 16% range increase, just form factor alone.",
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"content": "Yeah. So, these…\n(honking)\nYeah. It’s pretty great. And just to clarify, when we see these plus 16% or whatever the percentage rate increase is, these are the amounts due just to that particular innovation. We’ll list a whole bunch of innovations, and then when you add them up, you get a total improvement in energy density and cost. But these numbers are what refer to just this thing.",
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"content": "Yeah. And I want to stress, this is not just a concept or a rendering. We’re starting to ramp up manufacturing of these cells at our pilot 10 GWh production facility, just around the corner.",
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"content": "Yeah. So. Yeah. It’s a video of some of what’s going on in the plant. Now. I mean, to be clear, it will take about a year to reach the 10 GWh capacity. This is important to appreciate. When you build a factory, there’s a certain capacity that you design to, and then it takes some period of time to actually achieve that capacity. I would say it’s probably about a year before we get to the 10 GWh annualized rate with the pilot plant. And this is just a pilot plant. The actual production plants will be more on the order of maybe 200 GWh, maybe more over time.",
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"content": "A couple of years ago, we saw each other in America. A guy asked you on a panel when autonomous driving will be approved, and you said I do not care so much when it is going to be approved. I care more when human beings in cars will be forbidden. And then the guy said, this is unrealistic; this is never going to happen. In cars, people want to do something actively. And then you said, well, a hundred years ago nobody could imagine an elevator without a lift boy. Today nobody could imagine a lift with a lift boy. So, when is autonomous driving really, really going to happen and when are you able to do it, and when is it going to be approved?",
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"content": "Okay, just between us?",
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"content": "Yeah, it’s a very discrete circle here.",
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"content": "First of all, I’m not against people driving, to be clear. I think people will drive cars basically as far into the future as I can imagine. It’s just that it’s going to be increasingly unusual to drive your own car. And, well, it’s fun to drive a well-handling car on a winding road in a beautiful train – of course, that’s fun. But it’s not fun to drive a car in terrible gridlocked traffic. Going through extreme traffic, that’s no fun driving a car. I think people are unlikely to most of the time want to commute and drive themselves. People are typically spending an hour and half a day, maybe two hours on average driving, especially let’s say like California or something (… 21:11) is very common. And some people will actually commute like three hours a day, sometimes it’s pretty crazy.\nIf say fast forward to like ten years from now, almost all cars will have full autonomy capability. All new cars produced. It’s about two billion cars and trucks in the existing fleet, and new vehicle production is about five percent of the fleet size, so about a hundred million. So even the point which all cars are autonomous, it will still take 20 years to replace all the cars assuming that the number of cars and trucks in the fleet stays constant. (… 22:00) ten years from now, I say the vast majority of cars are electric, like maybe 70, 80% or more, and almost all cars autonomous. Electric autonomy is the absolute in the future, no question. It’s just a question of when.\nThen like I said, as soon as people think that that means the global fleet gets replaced instantly, I say, no, we have to go 20 years beyond that point before – 20 years from the point which all new cars are electric, then the fleet will be replaced. So many people are used to like mobile phones and that kind of thing is like a two-year or three-year replacement rate, but cars are a much more expensive asset to longer life.\nAnyway, to actually answer your question, I’m extremely confident of achieving full autonomy and releasing it to the Tesla customer base next year. There is an uncertain period of time for how long regulatory approval will take. But I think if you are able to accumulate billions of kilometers of autonomous driving, then it’s difficult to argue. And look at the accident rate when the car is autonomous versus non-autonomous. And in fact, our statistics already show a massive difference when the car is on Autopilot or not on Autopilot. The safety is much greater, even with the current Autopilot software.",
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"content": "In terms of, like, ludicrous mode? In terms of, like, driving super fast and irresponsibly on public roads, is that what you’re saying?",
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"content": "Well, any car can do that.",
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"content": "Yeah. What can it do that I need to know about?",
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"content": "I mean, the Model X can do this\nballet thing to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra\n. It’s pretty cool.",
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"content": "There was a video that you tweeted about one of those Boston Dynamic robots, and you’re like, in the future it’ll be moving so fast you can’t see it without a strobe light.",
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"content": "It could probably be that right now.",
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"content": "And no one’s really paying attention too much, other than people like you or people that are really obsessed with technology. All these things are happening, these robots. Did you see the one where PETA put out a statement that you shouldn’t kick robots?",
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"content": "It’s probably not wise.",
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"content": "Terrible. Terrible, but good. I would look at it some time.",
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"content": "I wouldn’t recommend drilling super far down, but the Earth is a big…",
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"content": "Yeah, but you can’t drill deep. It gets hot, right?",
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"content": "Earth is a giant ball of lava with a thin crust on the top, which we think of as like the surface, this thin crust. And it’s mostly just a big bowl of lava. That’s Earth, but 10,000 feet is not a big deal.",
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"content": "Let’s talk now about SpaceX, Tesla. You’ve got a lot of lawsuits. You’ve got x.com, you’ve got a lot going on. How do you relax?",
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"content": "Well, I relax… I spend time with my kids, my friends, and\nI am somewhat of a neurotechnologist, so I like to play video games. I’ll play video games with friends online.",
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"content": "Which one?",
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"content": "Lately I’ve been playing Diablo, but I’ve played almost all the games over the years. A long time ago I was semi-pro good at Quake. This is really dating me, because we’re talking about 25 years ago.",
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"content": "Welcome to the Axel Springer Pioneers Talk. It’s a great pleasure to have you for everybody to be joining into our discussion. Theme of the day is ‘Mission to Mars’, and we have a very special guest today which is Elon Musk. Elon, welcome.",
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"content": "Thank you for having me.",
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"content": "Yeah, about around that. Around that.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Is that in shot? . Okay. It doesn’t actually matter if the phone’s in shot. I think we all know that you’re doing it on Twitter.",
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"content": "It’s not top secret.",
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"content": "Unlike media.\nCould you tell us about X Corp? Is this just something that’s a legal thing that you had to do, or is there maybe something more to it?",
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"content": "There is something more to it.",
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"content": "Yeah.\nYou want to tell us what it is?",
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"content": "Like I said, my goal is to create X the everything app. That’s the goal. It’s what we’re working towards.",
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"content": "Right. So on that kind of launch rate, you’re talking about over two decades, you could get your million people to Mars, essentially. Whose city is it? Is it NASA’s city, is it SpaceX’s city?",
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"content": "It’s the people of Mars’ city. The reason for this… I mean, I have to say, like, I feel like well, why do this thing? I think this is important for maximizing the probable lifespan of humanity or consciousness. Human civilization could come to an end for external reasons, like a giant meteor, or super volcanoes, or extreme climate change, or World War III, or, you know, any one of a number of reasons. But the probable life span of civilizational consciousness as we know it, which we should really view as this very delicate thing, like a small candle in a vast darkness. That’s what appears to be the case. We’re in this vast darkness of space, and there’s this little candle of consciousness that’s only really come about after four and a half billion years. And it could just go out.",
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"content": "I think that’s powerful, and I think a lot of people will be inspired by that vision. So the reason you need the million people is because there has to be enough people there to do everything that you need to survive.",
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"content": "Really, like, the critical threshold is, if those ships from Earth stop coming for any reason, does the Mars city die out or not? And so we have to pass… you know, people talk about like, the sort of, the great filters, the things that perhaps… you know, we talk about the Fermi Paradox, and where are the aliens? Well, maybe there are these various great filters that the aliens didn’t pass and so they eventually just ceased to exist. And one of the great filters is becoming a multi-planet species. So we want to pass that filter. And I’ll be long dead before this is, you know, a real thing, before it happens. But I’d like to at least see us make great progress in this direction.",
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"content": "Is that right now? Like, have you driven one 600 miles now?",
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"content": "No. We could totally make one right now that would do 600 miles, but the thing is, it’s too expensive.",
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"content": "How much more so?",
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"content": "Well, you know, just have a 200-kilowatt-hour battery pack, and you can go 600 miles as long.",
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"content": "Like trash chic. Oh, this is disgusting. Look at this. It is right there. (\nshows pictures\n)",
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"content": "Yes, it’s pretty harsh. Yup.",
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"content": "This is terrible. Yeah. That’s like fake breasts that are designed to be hard. Like fake breasts from the ’60s. It’s like if you really long for the ones with ripples, here we go. Yeah. That’s almost what that is.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Do you do all these things every day? Do you work on all of them in a single day?",
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"content": "No. But I do have a long work day. Yeah, so I work a lot.",
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"content": "Well, I’m so thrilled you’re here because, you know, we do a show where we talk about what changes happen in the world. But we just talk. There’s a very few people who actually make change happen. You are one of those people.\n(applause)",
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"content": "I just want to say I love this audience.",
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"content": "Yeah. It’s just you think of them differently when you see them come out and then grow and then eventually start talking to you, like your whole idea what a baby is, is very different.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Now, as you get older and get to appreciate it as a mature, fully formed adult, it must be really pretty wonderful.",
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"content": "Yeah. Great. Wonderful. It’s great. But babies are awesome. Yeah, it’s great. Also, I’ve spent a lot of time on AI and neural nets and so you can sort of see the brain develop, which is … An AI neural net is trying to simulate what a brain does, basically. You can sort of see it learning very quickly. You know, it’s just wow.",
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"content": "That’s pretty cool. And short term, these aren’t driverless. These are going to be trucks that truck drivers want to drive.",
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"content": "Yes. So, what will be really fun about this is you have a flat torque RPM curve with an electric motor, whereas, with a diesel motor or any kind of internal combustion engine car, you’ve got a torque RPM curve that looks like a hill. So this will be a very spry truck. You can drive this around like a sports car. There’s no gears. It’s, like, single speed.",
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"content": "There’s a great movie to be made here somewhere. I don’t know what it is and I don’t know that it ends well, but it’s a great movie.",
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"content": "It’s quite bizarre test-driving, when I was driving the test prototype for the first truck. It’s really weird because you’re driving around, and you’re just so nimble, and you’re in this giant truck.",
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"content": "Are humanity’s tendencies right now concerning, like, above, before we go to Mars?",
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"content": "I mean, humanity’s tendencies… I mean, we are at a very peaceful moment in history. So you gotta separate the sort of news headlines from the reality. I think like Steven Pinker at Harvard has really pointed this out, like, we’re actually at the lowest violence per capita in human history. It may not seem like that, but objectively those are the statistics.\nIt’s not to say there’s no violence or there aren’t things to be improved, but it’s actually quite good. Big picture-wise, I think we want to take the set of actions that maximize the probability that the future is good and that civilization continues, and that the sort of small candle of consciousness in the void that is humanity continues and that the candle does not go out.",
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"content": "Okay, next, over here.\nHello, my name is Lena, I’m a student at the University of Chicago, and I also have a podcast called “Kinda Sorta Brown”. So my question centers a little bit what you talked about, concerning that, you know, you’re building this world for not enough people yet, but the people that now are here. But concerning young people, how do you actually build infrastructure to make sure that you’re not just building resources for people to be on Mars but actually putting them in positions of power politically?\nOr educating people who don’t have access to learn about Space technology, etc.? How do you actually teach young people and bring them in, and do you feel like that’s your role? Or it’s your role to just build the spaceship to Mars?",
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"content": "Well, our primary goal is to create the technology necessary to get people to Mars, in the absence of which,… you know, it’s somewhat academic. So we wouldn’t want to get too distracted from our primary mission of we got to make it at least possible to go to Mars. And we want to do so as soon as possible and make access to Mars as widely available as possible, as affordable as possible so that if somebody wants to go, they can. So, that’s our primary mission.\nI mean, there are many good causes in the world, but we got to be careful that we do not try to take on too many. I mean, there are many noble missions, but we have to pick our battles and say, “Okay, let’s just make sure we get this done,” because nobody else is doing it. I mean, if SpaceX doesn’t do it, I’m not sure how it will happen. I think, at the least right now, SpaceX is the only hope. So we are going to get this done. And it’s far from done. I mean, we’ve got a long way to go.\nStarlink, in terms of providing internet connectivity to people that really don’t have it or it’s very expensive, I think will be helpful in empowering a lot of people who are disempowered today. I think that’s a good thing, too.",
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"content": "Oh, his Rolling Stone articles are amazing. His stuff on the savings and loan crisis, it’s just like, “What in the fuck?” And he’s not an economist by any stretch of the imagination. So he had to really deeply embed himself in that world to try to understand it and to be able to report on it. And also with a humorous flair.\nThere’s not that many of them. It’s hard. And not a location where like, we are no bullshit, Wearenobullshit.com, like the one place where you can say, “This is what we know, this is what we don’t know. This is what we think.” Not, “This person’s wrong, and here’s why.” Like, ah, God damn it. I can’t. You don’t know. There’s a lot of stuff that is open to interpretation.\nThis particular coronavirus issue that we’re dealing with right now seems to be a great illuminator of that very fact. Is that there’s so much data. And there’s so much that’s open to interpret. There’s so many things… because it’s all happening in real-time. Right? And particularly right now in California, we’re in stage two tomorrow, or Friday, two days from now. Stage two. Retail stores opening up. Things are changing. Like, no one knows the correct process that needs to take place to save the most amount of lives, but yet ensure that our culture and that our economy survives. It’s a lot of speculation and guessing. But if you go to certain places, they’ll tell you, “We know why, and we know this, and we know…” Oh, it’s hard.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, in general, I think we should be concerned about anything that’s a massive infringement on our civil liberties. So, you got to put a lot of weight on that. A lot of people died to win independence for the country and fight for the democracy that we have. And we should treasure that and not give up our liberties too easily. And I think we probably did that, actually.",
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"content": "Well, I like what you said when you said that it should be a choice and that to require people to stay home, require people to not go to work, and to arrest people for trying to make a living. This all seems wrong. And I think it’s a wrong approach. It’s an infantilization of the society. That daddy’s going to tell you what to do.",
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"content": "Fundamentally a violation of the constitution. Freedom of assembly, and it’s just, I don’t think these things stand up in court, really.",
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"content": "But it’s also annoying as a person who reads CNN and wants to think of them as a responsible conveyor of the facts. I would like to think that.",
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"content": "Well, yeah. I don’t think CNN is that.",
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"content": "I think it used to be.",
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"content": "It used to be, yeah. What do you think’s the best source of just information out there?",
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"content": "You don’t use it.",
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"content": "Yeah. Like I said, I think what I find ketamine… If you… Literally, a chemical state in your brain that you can’t just think yourself out of, then ketamine is helpful for getting you out of a depressive mind state.",
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"content": "You suffer from depression or you have a depressive mind state? And I ask you as someone who has suffered from depression.",
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"content": "I wouldn’t say that I have a case of extended depression. It’s just, once in a while, I get into a negative chemical mind state. Once in a while. It’s not a common thing, but once in a while, this happens.",
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"content": "So good. Okay, serious mode activate. Alright.",
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"content": "(laughing)\nSerious mode. Come on, you’re Russian, you can be serious.",
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"content": "Yeah, I know.",
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"content": "Everyone’s serious all the time in Russia.\n(laughing)",
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"content": "(talking about FSD 11)\nYeah, that’s fascinating. So you’re doing fusion of all the sensors, so reducing the complexity of having to deal with these…",
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"content": "Fusion of the cameras. It’s all cameras, really.",
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"content": "Right, yes. Same with humans. I guess we got ears, too. Okay.",
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"content": "Yeah, well, we’ll actually need to incorporate sound as well. Because you need listen for ambulance sirens or fire trucks, or if somebody’s yelling at you or something. It’s just there’s a little bit of audio that needs to be incorporated as well.",
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"content": "What’s harder, perception or control for these problems? So being able to perfectly perceive everything or figuring out a plan once you perceive everything, how to interact with all the agents and the environment? In your sense, from a learning perspective, is perception or action harder, in that giant, beautiful, multitask learning neural network?",
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"content": "The hardest thing is having accurate representation of the physical objects in vector space. So, taking the visual input, primarily visual input, some sonar and radar, and then creating an accurate vector space representation of the objects around you. Once you have an accurate vector space representation, planning and control is relatively easier. That is relatively easy.\nBasically, once you have accurate vector space representation, then you’re kind of like a video game, like cars in Grand Theft Auto or something. They work pretty well. They drive down the road, they don’t crash, pretty much unless you crash into them. That’s because they’ve got an accurate vector space representation of where the cars are, and then they’re rendering that as the output.",
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"content": "Do you have a sense, high level, that Tesla’s on track on being able to achieve full autonomy? So on the highway …",
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"content": "Yeah, yeah, absolutely.",
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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": "Yeah, I don’t think they have them at many zoos. We’ve looked that up before too, didn’t we?",
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"content": "It’s probably pretty awkward.",
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"content": "That’s a beautiful way of looking at it. I mean, it’s unfortunate. It sucks, but it sucks if grandpa dies of Alzheimer’s or emphysema or leukemia. It sucks. It sucks when someone you love dies.",
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"content": "Yes. I mean actually, I think a lesson to be taken here that I think is quite important is that if you have your grandparents and that they’re age of grandparents, really be careful with any kind of flu or cold or something that is not dangerous to kids or young adults but is dangerous to the elderly. Basically, if your kid’s got a runny nose, they should stay away from their grandparents, no matter what it is. There’re things where a young immune system has no problem; an older one has a problem. In fact, a lot of the deaths are literally, it’s tragic, but they’re intra-family. It’s, the little kid had a cold or flu and they…",
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"content": "Give it to grandpa.",
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"content": "Yeah. They had the family gathering. And they don’t know that this is a big deal. But it’s just important to remember when you get old; your immune system’s just not that strong. And so, just be careful with your loved ones who are elderly.",
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"content": "So you have to interpolate somehow to deal with the effects of jitter so that you can make robust control decisions. The jitter is in the sensor information, or the jitter can occur at any stage in the pipeline?",
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"content": "If you have fixed latency, you can anticipate and say, “Okay, we know that our information is, for argument’s sake, 150 milliseconds stale.” For argument’s sake, a 150 milliseconds from photons taking camera to where you can measure a change in the acceleration of the vehicle. Then you can say, “Okay, well, we know it’s 150 milliseconds, so we’re gonna take that into account and compensate for that latency.\nHowever, if you’ve got then 150 milliseconds of latency plus 100 milliseconds of jitter, which could be anywhere from zero to 100 milliseconds on top, then your latency could be from 150 to 250 milliseconds. Now you got 100 milliseconds that you don’t know what to do with. That’s basically random. So getting rid of jitter is extremely important.",
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"content": "And that affects your control decisions and all those kinds of things. Okay.",
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"content": "The car is just going to fundamentally maneuver better with lower jitter.",
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"content": "Spanish flu, something that attacks the immune systems of healthy people.",
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"content": "Yeah. Like killing large numbers of young, healthy people, define that as a high mortality. This is at least practice for something like that. And I think there’s – this given – it’s just a matter of time, that there will be eventually some such pandemic.",
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"content": "Do you think that in a sense, the one good thing that we might get out of this is the realization that this is a potential reality? That we got lucky in the sense? I mean people that didn’t get lucky and died, of course; I’m not disrespecting their death and their loss. But I’m saying overall, as a culture, as a human race, as a community, this is not as bad as it could have been. This is a good dry run for us to appreciate that we need far more resources dedicated towards understanding these diseases, what to do in the case of a pandemic, and much more money that goes to funding, treatments, and some preventative measures.",
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"content": "Yeah, absolutely. And I think there’s a good chance; it’s highly likely, I think, coming out of this that we will develop vaccines that we didn’t have before for coronaviruses, other viruses, and possibly cures for these. And our understanding of viruses of this nature has improved dramatically because of the attention that it’s received. So there’s definitely a lot of silver linings here.",
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"content": "Wait, it dances?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "Legitimate, like it goes around?",
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"content": "Yes.",
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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": "There’s a lot of fascinating actual engineering of low-level problems here at Neuralink that are quite exciting.",
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"content": "The problems that we face at Neuralink are material science, electrical engineering, software, mechanical engineering, microfabrication. It’s a bunch of engineering disciplines, essentially. That’s what it comes down to; you have to have a tiny electrode, so small it doesn’t hurt neurons. But it’s got to last for as long as a person, so it’s got to last for decades. And then you’ve got to take that signal, and you’ve got to process that signal locally at low power.\nSo we need a lot of chip design engineers, because we’ve got to do signal processing and do so in a very power-efficient way so that we don’t heat your brain up because the brain’s very heat sensitive. And then, we’ve got to take those signals and we’ve got to do something with them. And then we’ve got to stimulate back, so you could do bi-directional communication.\nSo if somebody’s good at material science, software, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chip design, microfabrication, those are the things we need to work on. We need to be good at material science so that we can have tiny electrodes that last a long time. And it’s the tough thing, the material science, it’s a tough one because you’re trying to read and simulate electrically in an electrically active area, your brain is very electrically active and electrochemically active, so how do you have, say a coating on the electrode that doesn’t dissolve over time and is safe in the brain? This is a very hard problem.\nAnd then how do you collect those signals in a way that is most efficient? Because you really just have very tiny amounts of power to process those signals. And then we need to automate the whole thing, so it’s like LASIK. If this is done by neurosurgeons, there’s no way it can scale to large numbers of people. And it needs to scale to large numbers of people because I think ultimately we want the future to be determined by a large number of humans.",
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"content": "I’m not the BBC, but publicly funded is how the BBC describes itself.",
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"content": "Okay. So that would be accurate. If we use the same words that the BBC uses to describe itself, that presumably would be okay. I’m not asking you for a yes or no, since you’re not running BBC per se. It probably seems to pass a reasonable test.",
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"content": "So you’re going to change those labels on the BBC Twitter feed and also NPR’s as well?",
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"content": "Yeah. Publicly funded. Basically we’re trying to be as accurate as possible.",
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"content": "Oh yeah, you’re gonna be like the end of this thing; I’ve already set it all up.",
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"content": "Okay, because otherwise, you know, „What the hell are you talking about?“ So, you got to get your combustion efficiency….- There’s really two parts to…- Like, when you have a rocket engine, what’re you trying to do? You’re trying to shoot things out, as fast as possible, in a straight line.",
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"content": "Yes, converting as much thermal and pressure into kinetic energy.",
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"content": "Yes, exactly. So you have your combustion efficiency, and so what percentage of max theoretical combustion efficiency are you? And then, what’s your nozzle efficiency, which is really…- you know, are you straightening the flow, and shooting the molecules out in a straight line, so that you go in the other direction; Newton’s Third Law.\nWith a traditional combustion chamber, you can get to a very high combustion efficiency because the molecules are all sort of bouncing around in there; they’ve got a time to combine and do their thing. And then, when you sort of choking it through the throat, that gives them sort of more opportunity to combine. So, we think we can probably get to ninety…- certainly 98.5, hopefully, 99 percent of theoretical combustion efficiency. This is so… if God himself came and knitted together the molecules, you’re one percent better. Okay, maybe one and a half percent better. That’s very high efficiency.",
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"content": "Curtains is a funny word.",
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"content": "Yeah. But nobody’s raging against Tylenol.",
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"content": "Yeah. It’s weird. Acceptable deaths are weird. And that’s the slippery slope about these people shaming people for wanting to go back to work. “Other people are going to die.” Well, if you drive: Do you drive? Agree you should stop driving because people die from driving. So you definitely should fill up all the swimming pools because like 50 people die every day in this country from swimming. So let’s not swim anymore.",
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"content": "Yeah, water is really dangerous.",
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