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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "That’s definitely a case where we want to be cautious about the autonomy features.",
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"content": "We can’t see that much of it, but it doesn’t look like just a little friendly neighborhood truck. It looks kind of badass. What sort of semi is this?",
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"content": "This is a heavy-duty, long-range semi-truck. It’s the highest weight capability and with long-range. Essentially it’s meant to alleviate the heavy-duty trucking loads. And this is something which people do not today think is possible. They think the truck doesn’t have enough power or it doesn’t have enough range, and then with the Tesla Semi, we want to show that no, an electric truck actually can out-torque any diesel semi. And if you had a tug-of-war competition, the Tesla Semi will tug the diesel semi uphill.",
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"content": "Right. It communicates a certain message with everything, from safety to the possibility of what A.I. could bring, to its current limitations, its current challenges, what’s possible. Do you feel the burden of that? Almost like a communicator, educator to the world about A.I.?",
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"content": "We’re just really trying to make people’s lives easier with autonomy, but now that you mention it, I think it will be an eyeopener to people about robotics. Because most people have really never seen a robot and there are hundreds of thousands of Teslas. It won’t be long before there’s a million of them that have autonomous capability, and they drive without a person in it. And you can see the evolution of the car’s personality and thinking with each iteration of autopilot. You can see it’s uncertain about this, or now it’s more certain, now it’s moving in a slightly different way.\nI can tell immediately if a car is on Tesla autopilot because it’s got little nuances of movement. It just moves in a slightly different way. Cars on Tesla autopilot, for example on the highway, are far more precise about being in the center lane than a person. If you drive down the highway and look at where cars are, the human-driven cars aren’t within their lane. They’re like bumper cars. They’re moving all over the place. The car on autopilot, dead center.",
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"content": "Yeah. So the incredible work that’s going into that neural network, it’s learning fast, autonomy is still very, very hard. We don’t actually know how hard it is fully, of course. You look at most problems you tackle, this one included, with an exponential lens. But even with an exponential improvement, things can take longer than expected, sometimes. So where does Tesla currently stand on its quest for full autonomy? What’s your sense? When can we see successful deployment of full autonomy?",
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"content": "Well, on the highway already, the probability of intervention is extremely low. So, for highway autonomy, with the latest release especially, the probability of needing to intervene is really quite low. In fact, I’d say for stop-and-go traffic, it’s far safer than a person right now. The probability of an injury or an impact is much, much lower for autopilot than a person.\nAnd with navigate on autopilot, it can change lanes, take highway interchanges, and then we’re coming at it from the other direction, which is low speed, full autonomy. In a way this is like, how does a person learn to drive? You learn to drive in the parking lot. The first time you learned to drive probably wasn’t jumping on Market Street in San Francisco. That would be crazy. You learn to drive in the parking lot, get things right at low speed.\nAnd then the missing piece that we’re working on is traffic lights and stop streets. Stop streets, I would say, actually are also relatively easy because you kind of know where the stop street is. In the worst case, you can geocode it and then use visualization to see where the line is and stop at the line to eliminate the GPS error. So actually, I’d say it’s probably complex traffic lights and very windy roads are the two things that need to get solved.",
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"content": "Even if there’s a darker aspect to the history of empire in general, whatever the empire is, however things were done. It is the history that happened. You can’t sort of erase that history, unfortunately. You could just become better in the future. That’s the point.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, it’s like, well, how are we gonna pass moral judgment on these things? If one is gonna judge, say, the British Empire, you got to judge what everyone was doing at the time. And how were the British relative to everyone? And I think that the British would actually get like a relatively good grade – relatively good grade, not an absolute terms – but compared to what everyone else was doing, they were not the worst. Like I said, you got to look at these things in the context of the history at the time and say, “What were the alternatives, and what are you comparing it against?”\nAnd I do not think it will be the case that Britain would get a bad grade when looking at history at the time. Now, if you judge history from what is morally acceptable today, you basically are going to give everyone a failing grade. I don’t think anyone would get a passing grade in their morality. Like, you go back 300 years ago – who’s getting a passing grade? Basically, no one.",
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"content": "And we might not get a passing grade from generations that come after us. What does that one get?",
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"content": "Sure. A 6 or 7.",
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"content": "I believe in moderation, but I don’t believe in-",
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"content": "Moderation is a propaganda word for censorship.",
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"content": "But don’t you think free speech is one thing, right, or not-",
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"content": "Look, if something’s illegal, we’re going to take it down. If it’s not illegal, then we’re putting our thumb on the scale and we’re bringing censors.",
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"content": "No, I understand that.",
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"content": "It’s a reverse psychology, next level.",
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"content": "Well, no, but here’s then the question, which is how do you square the support that you have given … I believe you were at a fundraiser for Vivek Ramaswamy, for example, who says that the climate issue is a hoax, right?",
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"content": "Yeah, I disagree with him on that.",
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"content": "I mean, even like, vector maps… – even Google Maps were using like raster maps a few years ago. It seems very ahead of its time.\nBut we were the first… I believe the two of us were the first humans to see maps and door-to-door directions on the internet, which I think is pretty cool.\nWhen did\nGarmin first launch?\nWell, they weren’t internet-based, right? Actually, I don’t think Garmin was even a player at this point. Navteq was the only place – that’s where we got the data from. And they were building it for Hertz NeverLost, which came out a few years later. You know, those things that no one uses in the GPS systems. Really bad technology, but the actual mapping data was amazing. And so we took that and applied it to the internet. We were 22 and 23 at the time. It had cost them $300 million to build this data, and they gave it to us for free, with a simple contract saying, if you ever make any money on the go, you got to come to share it with them. And that’s how we got it.\nThat’s amazing.\nYeah, you can see, it’s amazing what happens if you ask nicely. And what’s also part of it was these guys have been working so hard on the tech, and no one had ever seen what they were doing because it was not on the internet. And it was not being used for Hertz. And so it was just – they were excited that someone would use the data and people could see what they’ve been working on.\nSo how did you guys get the engineering chops to pull this off? Because it sounds like you were so young, you didn’t really have any help, and then you built this like cutting-edge piece of technology. I mean, did you teach yourselves? (… 1:05:57)\nI don’t know what age you published your first…\n…like Blastar game, right?\nWhen he was 12.\nDid you write any other cool stuff back then?",
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"content": "I wrote a bunch of games. And then like occasionally software for people that asked for software, you know.",
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"content": "You’ve also worked for a video game company.",
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"content": "Yeah. Our (… 1:06:21) is called…",
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"content": "Do you think in your lifetime, that happens?",
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"content": "It depends on how long I live.",
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"content": "Maybe forever.",
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"content": "If I keep increasing that enemies list, it might not be much longer. It’d be deeply ironic if it’s someone angry on Twitter that takes me out.\nSo anyway, I think there’s two reasons for life as we know it to become multi-planetary. One is the defensive reason, where we just want the light of consciousness to not be extinguished if something would happen to Earth. In the case of the dinosaurs, they only had to worry about, like, you know, meteors and super volcanoes and other things. But for us humans, we actually have the power to destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons or some sort of crazy bio-terrorism thing. So, there’s some danger that is not zero that could cause the end of life on Earth as we know it. So that’s kind of the defensive reason to ensure that life and consciousness is not only on Earth. That’s the defensive reason to protect the future of consciousness.\nThen the other big reason, I think, is that it’s exciting, and it’s adventurous, and it’s inspiring, and it makes you think positively about the future. You know, life can’t just be about solving one problem or another. There need to be reasons to be inspired or reasons that move your heart and say, “Yes, the future is going to be great!” when you get up. When you wake up in the morning, “I can’t wait to see what happens next!” And I think that’s humanity going to Mars. Even if you don’t yourself want to go to Mars – and most people don’t – just watch it. It’s a tough gig, frankly. This will not be a luxury expedition. But you’d be able to watch it happen. And I think it’ll just be incredibly inspiring to the world in the same way that the Apollo program was inspiring to the world. And like I said, life can’t just be about solving one problem or another. We need things that make us excited and inspired about the future. And that would be one of them.",
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"content": "I’m happy to, if you want to carry on doing questions.",
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"content": "Yeah, maybe I will.",
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"content": "You’re welcome to. This will be the first time the interviewer has ever walked out of an interview.\nHow the turn tables.\nHow long are you going to sit here for? We’re just going to pack up around you. Is that how it’s going to work?",
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"content": "Yeah, that sounds good.",
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"content": "I see now why you’ve done Twitter Spaces. I am not a representative of the BBC’s editorial policy. I want to make that clear. Let’s talk about something else-",
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"content": "I’m interviewing you too.",
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"content": "All right, let’s talk about something else.",
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"content": "You weren’t expecting that.\nAll right, here we go.",
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"content": "There are other games.",
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"content": "There are other games to play, exactly.",
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"content": "But also Starcraft.\nSo our first clinical trial is aimed at people with paraplegia or tetraplegia. So cervical spinal cord injury, we’re going to enroll, we’re planning to enroll a small number of patients to make sure the device is safe and that it works in that case.",
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"content": "Yeah, so actually, just to elaborate on that, if somebody has, like a severe spinal cord injury, you know, to the degree that they have very limited control even over their facial muscles, then with this implant, actually just by thinking you can output words, and you can type, and you can control a computer, control a phone, which is pretty, pretty wild.\nAnd I think something that’s very exciting as a long-term application is if you can sense what somebody is trying to do with their limbs, what they want to do with their limbs, then you can actually do a second implant that’s at the base of the spine, or wherever, just after wherever the spinal injury occurred, and you can create a neural shunt. I’m confident that long term, it will be possible to restore somebody’s full-body motion. So, if somebody even has a severed spine, they will be able to walk again, they will be able to use their hands. And like when you have a severed spinal cord, you essentially have broken wires. And so, if you can just jump over those wires and transmit the signals over those wires, you can give somebody the ability to walk again, naturally.",
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"content": "Call them back.",
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"content": "Why calling back? They have no interest in the truth.",
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"content": "Oh, okay. All right. Let me ask you a question. Twitter, let’s finish Twitter, and then let’s get to questions from the audience. What’s going on with you on Twitter? I am a Twitter addict. I say the wrong things all the time. Someone explained it to me who’s very close to you, saying it’s your release valve. Is this where you feel better?",
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"content": "Yeah, I think I said some people use their hair to express themselves. I use Twitter.",
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"content": "How many did you make?",
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"content": "It’s dangerous. It’s wrong. Don’t buy it. And, still, people bought it. I just couldn’t stop them.",
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"content": "How many did you make?",
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"content": "20,000.",
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"content": "So you know about this drug. It’s fascinating",
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"content": "I’ve taken it because I had a squashed disc in my C5-C6.",
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"content": "So it takes the physical pain away. But Soma here-",
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"content": "It doesn’t completely, it reduces the amount of pain you feel, but at the expense of mental acuity, it dells your mind. Just like the drug in the book.",
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"content": "That seems so crazy to me. Now, what was it like when the dude threw the steel balls at the window, and they were supposed to not break, and it broke? I know, extenuating circumstances.",
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"content": "Well, yeah. I mean, at least you know that our demos are authentic because I was not expecting that, and then I think I muttered, under my breath, like, “Holy shit.”",
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"content": "Yeah. You didn’t get mad, though. You didn’t Steve jobs it.",
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"content": "No, I definitely swore; I didn’t think the micro pick it up, but it did. But, so like we practiced this, behind the scenes… – At Tesla, we don’t do like tons of practice for our demos because we’re working on the cars. We’re building new technologies and improving the fundamental product. So we’re not spending like doing hundreds of practice things or anything like that. We don’t have time for that. But, just hours before the demo, both Franz, Head of Design, and I were in the studio throwing steel balls at the window, and it’s bouncing right off. And like, “Okay, this seems pretty good. It seems like we got it.” Okay?\nAnd then, we think what happened was, when Franz hit the door with the sledgehammer to show, this is an exoskeleton, high strength, hardened steel… – You can literally wind up with a sledgehammer, full-on double-handed sledgehammer and hit the door and there’s not even a dent. It’s cool. But we think that cracked the corner of the glass at the bottom, and then, once you crack the corner of the glass, it’s game over. So then, when you threw the ball, that’s what cracked the glass. It didn’t go through, though.",
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"content": "Dog’s always cool.",
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"content": "Yeah, he’s got great instincts.",
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"content": "Yeah. Oh, man.",
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"content": "Anyway, I hope people have a good time on Twitter and learn things. And like I said, the acid test is under regretted user time, and if under regretted user time is growing, then we’re doing the right thing.",
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"content": "Yeah. You ever had that?",
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"content": "Yeah. I think I tried one once.",
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"content": "Come on, man. You probably can’t because of stockholders, right?",
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"content": "I mean, it’s legal, right?",
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"content": "There’s obviously autopilot in Model S right now. (showing the video) What are we seeing here?",
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"content": "So, this is using only cameras and GPS. There’s no LIDAR or radar being used here. This is just using passive optical, which is essentially what a person uses. The whole road system is meant to be navigated with passive optical or cameras, and so once you solve cameras or vision, then autonomy is solved. If you don’t solve vision, it’s not solved. So that’s why our focus is so heavily on having a vision neural net that’s very effective for road conditions.",
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"content": "Right. Many other people are going the LIDAR route. You want cameras plus radar is most of it.",
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"content": "You can absolutely be superhuman with just cameras. Like, you can probably do it ten times better than humans would, just cameras.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "People are dying.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "We should take action.",
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"content": "That’s close to where Ted Nugent lives.",
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"content": "It is?",
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"content": "Shout out to Ted Nugent.",
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"content": "Okay, cool.",
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"content": "Really?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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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": "And if we don’t do something – lay out a scenario for me in the next two, five, ten years if nothing is done. Because we’re very good at doing nothing, especially when it comes in the way of profit. And this is a big profit engine now for companies. They’re going to want to just compete with each other. I mean, there are people like Ray Kurzweil who doesn’t think it’s a problem at all.",
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"content": "Actually, Ray Kurzweil’s prediction for artificial superintelligence is 2029. He’s not far wrong.",
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"content": "Right. But he doesn’t think it’s a problem, whereas people like you and Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking thought/think it’s a problem.",
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"content": "Yeah, it depends if some people want to live forever or for much longer period of time, and they see digital super intelligence as the only thing that can figure out how to get them to live forever. I think Kurzweil is in that category. So he would prefer to have artificial general intelligence than not because it could figure out longevity.",
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"content": "Why would you program that into a car?",
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"content": "It seemed like fun.",
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"content": "That’s what I get about you. That’s what’s weird. Like when you showed up here, you were all smiles, and you pull out a fucking blowtorch or ‘not a blowtorch’, but I’m like, „Look at this dude“…",
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"content": "Not a flamethrower.",
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"content": "Whoa.",
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"content": "Pump it up like 10,000 psi.",
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"content": "And how fast are we talking? Zero to 60.",
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"content": "How fast you want to go?",
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"content": "So, you have two different systems? Vertical takeoff is one system?",
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"content": "I’ve thought about this quite a lot. I’ve thought about this quite a lot.I guess, thinking about an electric plane is that you want to go as high as possible, but you need a certain energy density in the battery pack because you have to overcome gravitational potential energy. Once you’ve overcome gravitational potential energy, and you’re out at a high altitude, the energy use in cruise is very low.\nAnd then, you can recapture a large part of the gravitational potential energy on the way down. So, you really don’t need any kind of reserve fuel, if you will, because you have the energy of height, gravitational potential energy. This is a lot of energy.\nSo, once you can get high, like the way to think about a plane is it’s a force balance. So, the force balance — So, a plane that is not accelerating is a neutral force balance. You have the force of gravity, you have the lift force, you have the wings. Then, you’ve got the force of the whatever thrusting device, so the propeller, or turbine, or whatever it is. And you’ve got the resistance force of the air.\nNow, the higher you go, the lower the air resistance is. Air density drops exponentially, but drag increases with the square, and exponential beats the square. The higher you go, the faster you will go for the same amount of energy. And at a certain altitude, you can go supersonic with less energy per mile, quite a lot less energy per mile than an aircraft at 35,000 feet because it’s just a force balance.",
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"content": "I’m too stupid for this conversation.",
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"content": "It makes sense, though.",
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"content": "I’m going to look this up.",
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"content": "For our next trick.",
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"content": "I’m going to look this up later. So Twitter has been instrumental in American politics and elections. What role do you think X will play in the 2024 US elections?",
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"content": "Well, our goal is to be as even-handed and fair as possible. Whether someone is right, left, independent, whatever the case may be, that the platform is as fair and as much of a level playing field as possible. And in the past, Twitter has not been, Twitter was controlled by far left activists objectively. They would describe themselves as that. So if sometimes people are like, well, has it moved to the right? Well, it’s moved to the center. So from the perspective of the far left, yes it has moved to the right because everything’s to the right from the far left, but no one on the far left that I’m aware of has been suspended or banned or deamplified. But we’re trying to be inclusive for the whole country and for farther countries too. So there’s a diversity of viewpoints and free speech only matters if people you don’t like are allowed to say things you don’t like. Because if that’s not the case, you don’t have free speech and it’s only a matter of time before the censorship has turned upon you.",
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"content": "But, also, what we will be. This will be so much different. Our concerns about money, about status, about all these things, will seemingly go by the wayside if we really become enlightened, if we really become artificially enlightened by some sort of an AI interface where we have this symbiotic relationship with some new internet type connection to information. But, you know, what happens then? What is important? What is not important? Is privacy important when we’re all gods?",
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"content": "I think the things that we think are important to keep private right now we probably will not think are important to keep…",
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"content": "Shame, right? Information, right? What do you hide? Emotions? What are we hiding?",
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"content": "I don’t know. Maybe it’s like embarrassing stuff.",
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"content": "What is the number for Tylenol every year?",
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"content": "I’m not sure the exact number. But until the opioid crisis, I believe, Tylenol was the number one killer of all drugs. Because basically, if you get drunk and take a lot of Tylenol, acetaminophen, essentially, it causes liver failure. So people would like to get wasted and then have a headache and then pop a ton of Tylenol, it’s curtains.",
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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": "Exquisite piece of technology. But people spent two years trying to figure out how to fold up this thing. It’s a three-ton telescope.",
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"content": "We can make it a lot easier if you’ve got more volume and mass.",
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"content": "Well, but let’s ask a different question which is, how much more powerful a telescope could someone design based on using Starship, for example?",
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"content": "Roughly, I would say, it’s probably an order of magnitude more resolution if you’ve got 100 tons and 1,000 cubic meters volume, which is roughly what we have.",
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"content": "Yeah, I have four, but you know, I have to be careful, the cars are too small. But again, I want to say you have revolutionized and, I think, have a dedication for electric cars. What is your next big thing in your mind? You know, you called many companies you’re owning. What is your real you say this is a disruption you have in mind? Maybe you don’t want to talk today, but it might be interesting.",
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"content": "First of all, my goal is not disruption for the sake of disruption. I really think there’s ‘Okay, there’s some important things we have to solve in order for the future to be good’. I’d say like my, you know, my sort of algorithm or optimization is like, ‘Okay, what set of things do we need to do to ensure, that increases the probability that the future is going to be good?’\nWe have to solve sustainable energy. This is totally logical. If we cannot solve sustainable energy, then we have unsustainable energy, then it’s just a matter of time before things go… – before civilization collapses. Even if there was not an environmental issue, since the availability of oil is limited, this is not something we can sustain long term. My original interest in electric vehicles was actually not environmental. It was out of concern. Just, you know, studying physics, and I’m like, ‘Wait a second. We immediately transition to solar electric, or we’re going to have a problem, and we run out of oil, civilization collapses.’ That’s the problem.\nNow, of course, the environmental concerns have added to the urgency. Because the more CO2 we put in the oceans and atmosphere, the more we increase the probability that something will go wrong. Like I said, things are much more probability as opposed to certainty. But I think it’s an unwise experiment to dramatically increase the CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans, just given that we know we need to transition anyway because we run out of oil.\nSo why run that experiment? It doesn’t make any sense. We know we have to transition to a sustainable energy economy. Then let’s just get on with it, you know, let’s just get on with it. And not run the crazy experiment and see what happens if the atmosphere has 2000 ppm CO2. This is crazy.",
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"content": "Okay. And thank you.\nLast question. Mr. de Bok.\nOscar de Bok, CEO DHL Supply Chain\nYeah, it’s nice you related to the point you were just mentioning. I run the DHL supply chain there. And we have quite some ambitious plans towards zero-emission and optimizing the supply chain for customers to get to this. But one of the things we obviously always face is that we also run an airline. And that’s actually the…",
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"content": "How many planes do you have?",
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"content": "So I guess my question to you is, you said that said that the reason was because of bots because Twitter was filled with bots. Looking back at it now, was there a little bit of you that thought, “Actually maybe I’ve overpaid. Actually maybe I don’t want to do this, I want to get out of this”? Be honest.",
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"content": "Yeah. No, no. The problem was that the publicly stated user numbers were in excess of the real user numbers.",
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"content": "But I’ve heard you talk about that and you can talk about that lots and lots. But basically looking back at it now, was that the only reason that you wanted to pull out?",
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"content": "Yes, that was literally the issue. It’s like, let’s say you buy a warehouse full of goods and you were told that less than 5% of the goods in the warehouse are broken. But then you actually get the warehouse, you look into the warehouse and turns out actually 25% of the things are broken. You’d be like, “Huh, that’s not what you said.”",
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"content": "Decoupled from humans. So this is the ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "So you feel like it’s inevitable, like an AI, a sentient AI, is essentially inevitable?",
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"content": "Super sentient AI. Like beyond a level that’s difficult to understand and impossible to understand probably.",
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"content": "How much money did you all spend with that kind of $5, $10, $20 incentive to get that critical mass going?",
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"content": "It was a fair amount. I think it was probably $60 or $70 million.",
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"content": "Oh, wow, okay. So it was substantial. Okay, we’re not talking peanuts here.",
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"content": "It depends on your relative scale. It’s a peanut to Google.",
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"content": "This is going after empires. “World: Where did you get those artifacts? The British Museum:…” It’s a shout-out to Monty Python… “We found them.”",
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"content": "Yeah, the British Museum is pretty great. I mean, admittedly Britain did take these historical artifacts from all around the world and put them in London. But you know, it’s not like people can’t go see them. So a convenient place to see these ancient artifacts is London for a large segment of the world. So I think on balance the British Museum is a net good. Well, I’m sure a lot of countries argue about that. It’s like you want to make these historical artifacts accessible to as many people as possible. And the British Museum, I think, does a good job of that.",
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"content": "Even if there’s a darker aspect to the history of empire in general, whatever the empire is, however things were done. It is the history that happened. You can’t sort of erase that history, unfortunately. You could just become better in the future. That’s the point.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, it’s like, well, how are we gonna pass moral judgment on these things? If one is gonna judge, say, the British Empire, you got to judge what everyone was doing at the time. And how were the British relative to everyone? And I think that the British would actually get like a relatively good grade – relatively good grade, not an absolute terms – but compared to what everyone else was doing, they were not the worst. Like I said, you got to look at these things in the context of the history at the time and say, “What were the alternatives, and what are you comparing it against?”\nAnd I do not think it will be the case that Britain would get a bad grade when looking at history at the time. Now, if you judge history from what is morally acceptable today, you basically are going to give everyone a failing grade. I don’t think anyone would get a passing grade in their morality. Like, you go back 300 years ago – who’s getting a passing grade? Basically, no one.",
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"content": "Yeah. There’s like 10 Vincent’s out.",
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"content": "Alright. And\nthey totally… they copy everything and just like change one…?",
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"content": "Yeah. They use my avatar, and then the picture, and then they just post like, right below your tweet. I was like, wow. And they blocked me, too.\nWe fight them all the time. We’re always like, reporting them. Like every day, we report like ten people.",
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"content": "Yeah, I have so many conversations with Twitter, like, “Come on. Can you just like…” I think it would take like three or four customer service people to just look at this as crypto scam and block it.",
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"content": "Then, do you do to have the air tanks or they’re sucking air out of…?",
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"content": "Yeah. It has an electric pump.",
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"content": "Whoa.",
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"content": "Pump it up like 10,000 psi.",
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"content": "I don’t read my own comments, but I do read other people’s comments. And I was reading this one little Twitter beef that was going on where someone was saying that Covid takes an average of ten years off people’s lives, and we should appreciate those ten years. And then someone else said-",
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"content": "It’s not true.",
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"content": "I’m sure it’s not true.",
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"content": "Yeah, definitely not.",
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"content": "Great company.",
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"content": "When you’re in that virtual reality, which is only going to get better, where are you? Where are you really?",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "You aren’t anywhere.",
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"content": "Do you?",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Alright, we have a lot to talk about. Where do you want to start?",
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"content": "Anywhere you’d like to start.",
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"content": "That’s awesome. Yeah.\nWe’re looking forward to that investor day. ø",
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"content": "It’s kind of a big deal.",
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"content": "It is worth it.\nOn that note, did you see the guy who got charged for a meme on Twitter? What were your thoughts on that? I know you commented on it. I didn’t know if you got to look more into it. His name’s Douglas Mackey.",
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"content": "Oh, that’s the guy who I guess was accused of election interference or something, -",
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"content": "Isn’t that the counselor from South Park?",
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"content": "vote or something.",
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"content": "And one day in the not-too-far future… – Or there’s some plans or consultants involved or something?\nSpeaker from the audience:\nYou called Russia.\nYou made some phone calls to Russia.",
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"content": "No, every now and then, it’s sort of percolating away. I’m not actively thinking about it. But then there will be some new element of that I think I will, you know, this would make it better.",
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"content": "Fascinating. Well, I think I’m speaking for everyone. This is like the most epic possible conversation one could have over about the course of an hour. And I think all of us would love to chat with you for hours on end but thank you so much. I know you have a lot of free time, so it probably wasn’t that big of a deal for you to come here. But it was a huge honor. And I think it’s inspired all of us to go out and change the world and the universe.",
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"content": "Cool. All right.",
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"content": "What happened?",
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"content": "My phone tells the time.",
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"content": "That’s a good point. Well, if you lose your phone? Do you — Wait, hold on.Let me guess; you are a no-case guy.",
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"content": "That’s correct. Living on the edge. Living on the edge without a case.",
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"content": "Definitely?",
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"content": "Yeah. No question.",
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"content": "No doubt in your mind?",
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"content": "Zero.",
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"content": "Do you get lonely?",
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"content": "Sometimes, but my kids and friends keep me company.",
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"content": "So, not existential.",
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"content": "There are many nights I sleep alone. I don’t have to, but I do.",
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"content": "Did you request that the buyer not fuck it up?",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s a requirement.",
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"content": "Oh, a requirement? That’s a good requirement.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "Do you see a rise in hate speech? Just your personal anecdote, do you? I don’t.",
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"content": "Personally, my For You, I would see I get more of that kind of content. Yeah. Personally. But I’m not going to talk for the rest of Twitter.",
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"content": "You see more hate speech personally?",
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"content": "You’ve called it a hobby. This is what an Elon Musk hobby looks like.",
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"content": "I mean, it really is, like – This is basically interns and people doing it part-time. We bought some second-hand machinery. It’s kind of puttering along, but it’s making good progress, so –",
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"content": "So, an even bigger part of your time is being spent on electrifying cars and transport through Tesla. Is one of the motivations for the tunneling project the realization that actually, in a world where cars are electric and where they’re self-driving, there may end up being more cars on the roads on any given hour that there are now?",
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"content": "Yeah, exactly. A lot of people think that when you make cars autonomous, they’ll be able to go faster, and that will alleviate congestion. And to some degree, that will be true, but once you have shared autonomy where it’s much cheaper to go by car, and you can go point to point, the affordability of going in a car will be better than that of a bus. Like, it will cost less than a bus ticket. So, the amount of driving that will occur will be much greater with shared autonomy and actually, traffic will get far worse.",
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"content": "You’ve also talked about how potentially, I think you might have been joking, but you could turn this into a homeless shelter. So then I guess the reason I’m asking is you-",
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"content": "We tried to turn into a homeless shelter but building management group, well, the owner rejected it.",
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"content": "You tried to-",
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"content": "Yeah, they won’t let us.",
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"content": "In the full menu of POWs in the US.",
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"content": "Very much so. And in fact, Wernher von Braun, a smart guy, was like, “We’ve got to be captured by the Americans.” And in fact, the SS was under orders to execute von Braun and all of the German rocket conditioners, and they narrowly escaped. They said they were going out for a walk in the woods. They left in the middle of winter with no coats and then ran, but no food, no coats, no water, and just ran like hell and ran West and Vice Sherlock, I think his brother found a bicycle or something and then just cycled West as fast as he couldn’t have found a US patrol. So anyway, that’s one way you can tell morality is where do you want to be a PW? It’s not fun anywhere, but some places are much worse than others. Anyway, so America has been, while far from perfect, generally a benevolent force, and we should always be self-critical and we try to be better, but anyone with half a brain knows that.\nSo I think there are… In this way, China and the United States are similar. Neither country has been acquisitive in a significant way. So that’s a shared principle, I guess. Now, China does feel very strongly about Taiwan. They’ve been very clear about that for a long time. From this standpoint, it would be like one of the states is not there like Hawaii or something like that but more significant than Hawaii. And Hawaii is pretty significant for us. So they view it as really there’s a fundamental part of China, the island of Formosa, not Taiwan, that is not part of China, but should be. And the only reason it hasn’t been is because the US Pacific fleet.",
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"content": "And is their economic power grows and is their military power grows, the thing that they’re clearly saying is their interest will clearly be materialized.",
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"content": "Yes, China has been very clear that they’ll incorporate Taiwan peacefully or militarily, but that they will incorporate it from their standpoint is 100% likely.",
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"content": "Elon, can you hear me?",
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"content": "I can, yes.",
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"content": "How’s it doing?",
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"content": "Good. How’s it going?",
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"content": "Given how tortured the Earth is right now, how much we’re beating each other up, shouldn’t there be discussions going on with everyone who is dreaming about Mars to try to say, we’ve got a once in a civilizations chance to make some new rules here? Should someone be trying to lead those discussions to figure out what it means for this to be the people of Mars’ city?",
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"content": "Well, I think ultimately, this will be up to the people of Mars to decide how they want to rethink society. Yet there’s certainly risk there, and hopefully, the people of Mars will be more enlightened and will not fight amongst each other too much. I mean, I have some recommendations, which people of Mars may choose to listen to or not. I would advocate for more of a direct democracy, not a representative democracy, and laws that are short enough for people to understand. And where it is harder to create laws than to get rid of them.",
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"content": "Coming back a bit nearer term. I’d love you to just talk a bit about some of the other possibility space that Starship seems to have created. So given, suddenly, we’ve got this ability to move 100 tons plus into orbit. So we’ve just launched the James Webb Telescope, which is an incredible thing. It’s unbelievable.",
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"content": "Exquisite piece of technology.",
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"content": "You don’t care?",
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"content": "No, I don’t care.",
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"content": "Why not?",
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"content": "I don’t think people should care what the media thinks about them. They’re terrible judges of character.",
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"content": "Wow. And these things are happening all the time or this was an unusual circumstance?",
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"content": "Yeah. That’s like one example, but there’s many things like that.",
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"content": "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?",
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"content": "I mean, how much of a buddy? How many applications do you thought is that? You know, can you have a romantic partner, a sex partner, lover?",
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"content": "It’s probably inevitable. I mean, I did promise the internet that I’d make catgirls. We could make a robot catgirl.",
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"content": "Be careful what you promise the internet.",
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"content": "So yeah, I guess it’ll be whatever people want really, you know.",
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"content": "I mean, I would only just add that we have spoken to people who have been sacked that used to be in content moderation, and we’ve spoken to people very recently who were involved in moderation, and they just say there’s not enough people to police this stuff, particularly around hate speech in the company. Is that something that you want to address?",
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"content": "What hate speech are you talking about? I mean, you use Twitter.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "Do you see a rise in hate speech? Just your personal anecdote, do you? I don’t.",
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"content": "But that’s to be expected, isn’t it?",
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"content": "It is to be expected.",
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"content": "Do you take that into account with like the same sort of fatalistic, you know, undertones to sort of just go, „You’ve got to just let it go. This is what people do.“",
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"content": "I tell you I’ve got…",
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"content": "I don’t know. I don’t think there’s any pure form. My favorite places are the New York Times and the LA Times, and I don’t trust them a hundred percent. Because also, there’s individuals that are writing these stories. And that seems to be the problems, these individual biases, and these individuals… there’s purposely distorted perceptions, and then there’s ignorantly reported facts, and there’s so many variables. And you got to put everything through this filter of, “Where’s this person coming from? Do they have political biases? Did they have social biases? Are they upset because of their own shortcomings? And are they projecting this into the story?” It’s so hard.",
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"content": "Yeah. I think maybe just trying to find individual reporters that you think are good and kind of following them as opposed to publication.",
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"content": "I go with whatever\nMatt Taibbi\nsays. I trust him more than anybody. Matt Taibbi is onto something. As far as investigative reporters in particular, the way he reported the savings and loan crisis, the way he reports everything. I just listened to him above most. He’s my go-to guy.",
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"content": "All right. I’ll check it out.",
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"content": "For retribution.",
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"content": "Their memory is very good.",
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"content": "I bet it is. And it is getting better every day.",
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"content": "It’s really good.",
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"content": "Yeah. Future generations of power electronics, we will be able to do this more or less everywhere, from an energy market participation perspective. But from a backing up the house, it just so happens that the way the North American connectors are – on all the cars in North America, it doesn’t matter whether it’s the Tesla connector or the connector that the other vehicles have – doesn’t actually support powering your home. It’s unfortunate. So, you’d need an additional hardware to do that.\nBut yeah, in the future, all versions of our vehicles will be able to at least do bi-directional power flow for the purposes of energy market participation. But even for that, it’s important to remember that your car isn’t plugged in 24/7, so it’s kind of an unpredictable resource for the grid. It’ll have a value, but it’s not the same as a stationary battery pack.",
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"content": "Yeah. Honestly, a vehicle to grid sounds good, but I think it actually has a much lower utility than people think. I think very few people would actually use vehicle to grid. With the original roadster, we had vehicle-to-grid capabilities – nobody used it.\nA speaker in the audience:\n[inaudible]",
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"content": "(repeating the speaker in the audience)\nHow do we find the engineers to do everything we’re saying?",
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"content": "How do we find the engineers to do all these things? Well, I guess we recruit a lot of engineers from all parts of the world. I think Tesla has a good reputation for doing exciting engineering, and that tends to attract a lot of the top engineers in the world because they know that their efforts at Tesla will really serve the greater good, and we’re super hardcore about engineering.\nTesla is first and foremost an engineering company; it’s like hardcore engineering is what we do. The sheer amount of hardcore engineering done at Tesla is insane. And if you look at say, there’s various surveys done of engineering schools, where do you want to go, what’s your top choices? And actually, the top two choices last few years have been Tesla and SpaceX. So sometimes it’s Tesla first and sometimes SpaceX first, but those are the two top ones.",
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"content": "Are you a very prudent driver nowadays?",
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"content": "I think I’m a fairly prudent driver. Yes.\n(15:40 – 16:17)\nA documentary sequence about Elon Musk in Chinese, translation not available\n(refers to the sequence shown before)\nBut I had a tough choice there. Because I could either provide all of the money for SpaceX or all of the money for Tesla, and then increase the chance that one of them would survive, or I have to split the money. But if I split the money, then maybe both will die. You can imagine like, it’s almost like if you had two children, and you have only so much food -What do you do?",
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"content": "So, what was the choice?",
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"content": "I split it.",
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"content": "Yeah.\nYou’re brave.",
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"content": "What are you doing, pointing camera at the sign or something?",
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"content": "Pointing a camera at me with Twitter behind doing a news story.",
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"content": "Really? Are you serious?",
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"content": "Which will be our next conversation.",
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"content": "Okay.",
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"content": "Tesla, Boring, solar.",
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"content": "Sounds good.",
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"content": "But you can’t drink that.",
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"content": "Desalination is absurdly cheap.",
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"content": "Why don’t we do it then? You have a lot of free time.",
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"content": "It is done. There is a lot of desalination done. There’s plenty of water. It’s not an issue. I want to be clear.",
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"content": "Yeah. And beyond the electrode, we continue to innovate on every other process steps. So, let’s talk a little bit about assembly, which is next.\nThe key to a high-performing assembly line is accomplishing processes while in motion, continuous motion. And thinking of the line as a highway, max velocity down the highway, no start and stop, no city driving.",
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"content": "Exactly, no stoplights and traffic lights sort of thing. You want the highway.",
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"content": "You want the highway. And together with our internal design team that makes this equipment and designs this equipment, we coupled thinking about how to make the best cell with thinking about how to make the best equipment so that we could accomplish the fastest parts per-minute rates on all of these tools.\nAnd through all of that development, we were able to get to the point where we can implement assembly lines, one line, 20 GWh, seven times increase in output per line. And when you’re thinking about scalability and pure effort, having one line be seven X the capability is just effort multiplying.",
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"content": "Yeah. You can sort of think about the sort of the fundamental physics of a factory or something. I think it’s actually quite a lot like the rocket equation where you’ve got basically the rocket equation – you’ve got your exhaust velocity and then the log of the start and end masses. It’s basically saying how fast are things going and what percentage of the factory volume is doing useful work? And conveyance does not count as useful work.",
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"content": "Learning the guitar. You could pick up all sorts of things.",
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"content": "Right. I tried learning the violin. That’s, by the way, a hard thing to learn.",
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"content": "Yeah. Launching rockets, electric cars, revolutionizing transportation. Yeah, it’s easy.",
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"content": "I cannot play the violin at all. Very horrible. If you think about the future, you want a future that’s better than the past, and so if we had something like the Hyperloop, I think that would be cool. You’d look forward to the day that that was working. And if something like that, even if it was only in one place – from LA to San Francisco, or New York to DC or something like that – then it would be cool enough that it would be like a tourist attraction. It would be like a ride or something.\nSo even if some of the initial assumptions didn’t work out, the economics didn’t work out quite as one expected, it would be cool enough that like, “I want to journey to that place just to ride on that thing.” That would be pretty cool. And so that’s I think how… if you come up with a new technology, it should feel like that. You should really… if you told it to an objective person, would they look forward to the day that that thing became available? And it would be pretty exciting to do something like that.\nOr an aircraft. Like I thought it was really disappointing when the Concorde was taking out of commission, and there was no supersonic transport available. And, of course, the 787 has had some issues. But the thing is, the 787, even in the best-case scenario, is only a slightly better version of the 777. And it’s like, okay, not that exciting.",
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"content": "This is just at the early stages. I mean, this was like late nine…",
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"content": "’95.",
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"content": "’95. It’s really early stages, so it’s really out the gate.",
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"content": "Yeah. Absolutely. Then we… the reason we worked with the media companies was because we needed to have money. There was no advertising money in ’95. In fact, the idea of advertising on the internet seemed like a ridiculous idea to people. Obviously, not so ridiculous anymore. But, at the time, it seemed like a very unlikely proposition. A lot of the media companies weren’t even sure that they should be online. Like, what’s the point of that?",
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"content": "Besides restoring limb function and eyesight and hearing, which are all amazing, is there any cognitive benefits that you anticipate from something like this?",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean you could for sure…- I mean, basically it’s a generalized sort of thing for fixing any kind of brain injury in principle, or if you’ve got like severe epilepsy or something like that. It could just sort of stop the epilepsy from occurring. It could detect it in real-time and then fire a counter pulse and stop the epilepsy.\nI mean, there’s a whole range of brain injuries. Like if people get a stroke, they could lose the ability to speak, and that could also be fixed. If you’ve got stroke damage or you lose, say, muscle control over part of your face or something like that. And then, when you get older, you tend to… – if you get like Alzheimer’s or something like that, then you lose memory, and this could help you with restoring your memory and that kind of thing.",
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"content": "Restoring memory… – and what is happening that’s allowing it to do that? Like the wires, these small wires are stimulating these areas of the brain. Is it that the areas of the brain are losing some sort of electrical force? What is happening?",
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"content": "The thing is it’s like a bunch of circuits, and there’s some circuits that are broken, and we can fix those circuits. It’s a substitute for those circuits.",
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"content": "It’s true, I admit it, we are all men in this room. We’re all gross.",
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"content": "Yeah. Just go to the restroom; you can see it’s horrible.",
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"content": "Yes, we’re gross. My nine-year-old daughter yells at me; she goes, “Did you wash your hands?” She makes me go back and wash my hands. She’s right. Nine years old. If I had a nine-year-old boy, do you think he would care? He wouldn’t give a fuck if I washed my hands.",
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"content": "True. And I think that there’s definitely some silver linings here in improved hygiene and-",
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"content": "…nobody else can do that for you?",
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"content": "Well, yeah, I think to be successful at almost anything, you have to do the tough stuff as well as the enjoyable stuff; you have to do the boring stuff, as well as the non-boring stuff. And if you don’t do your chores, then bad things will happen. But if they don’t do the things that they don’t like to do, then the company will be in trouble. Basically, it’s more fun to cook the meal than to clean the dishes. Okay, but you need to clean the dishes.",
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"content": "Yes, you need to do both, exactly.",
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"content": "Well, there’s a speculation why men get it more than women because men are disgusting. We don’t wash our hands as much.",
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"content": "Men are disgusting, it’s true. It’s bad.",
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"content": "It’s true, I admit it, we are all men in this room. We’re all gross.",
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"content": "Yeah. Just go to the restroom; you can see it’s horrible.",
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"content": "It’s great. It’s really fun. so you basically take an auger, and you drill through the surface of the ice, and you create a small hole, and you can dunk your line in there. This is like that. You’re ice fishing on the top of your skull, and then you cork it.",
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"content": "Yeah, and you replace that, say, one inch diameter piece of skull with the Neuralink device, and that has a battery and a Bluetooth and an inductive charger. Then you also insert the electrodes. The electrodes are very carefully inserted with a robot that we developed. It’s very carefully putting in the electrodes and avoiding any veins or arteries, so it doesn’t create trauma.",
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"content": "Through this one inch diameter device, electrodes would be inserted, and they will find their way…",
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"content": "Yeah. You didn’t get mad, though. You didn’t Steve jobs it.",
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"content": "No, I definitely swore; I didn’t think the micro pick it up, but it did. But, so like we practiced this, behind the scenes… – At Tesla, we don’t do like tons of practice for our demos because we’re working on the cars. We’re building new technologies and improving the fundamental product. So we’re not spending like doing hundreds of practice things or anything like that. We don’t have time for that. But, just hours before the demo, both Franz, Head of Design, and I were in the studio throwing steel balls at the window, and it’s bouncing right off. And like, “Okay, this seems pretty good. It seems like we got it.” Okay?\nAnd then, we think what happened was, when Franz hit the door with the sledgehammer to show, this is an exoskeleton, high strength, hardened steel… – You can literally wind up with a sledgehammer, full-on double-handed sledgehammer and hit the door and there’s not even a dent. It’s cool. But we think that cracked the corner of the glass at the bottom, and then, once you crack the corner of the glass, it’s game over. So then, when you threw the ball, that’s what cracked the glass. It didn’t go through, though.",
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"content": "It didn’t go through. That’s true. It didn’t shatter the whole thing, like a regular window would either, which would just dissolve. Right? So in hindsight, the ball should have been first, sledgehammer second.",
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"content": "Right, that’s right. Sorry. Okay. Yeah. But getting a lot of money.",
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"content": "Hopefully, we’ll get it.",
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"content": "Right, right, when it’s over.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, most of our launches are commercial, to be clear.",
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"content": "I think you’re right. Do you know who could help with that? Mushrooms.",
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"content": "Mushrooms.",
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"content": "Don’t you think?",
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"content": "They’re delicious.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I think anyone who smokes pot can tell I don’t know how to smoke pot.",
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"content": "But you’ve admitted that you have a ketamine prescription.",
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"content": "Yeah, yeah, yeah.",
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"content": "Are there any good questions that I’ve missed out in the last six months? I’m sure there are many.",
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"content": "People generally seem to this interview far as I can tell. Very few negative comments, so generally positive.",
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"content": "That’s probably bad for me.",
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"content": "I’m scrolling as fast as I can to sort of see, I guess there’s some complaints about Twitter Spaces needing some improvement. Let’s fix Twitter Spaces is one of the comments. People like the fact that my dog Floki is the CEO. I’m really just scrolling as fast as I can here.",
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"content": "There’s certain iconic shapes.",
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"content": "Yes.",
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"content": "And there’s something about those cars, too. They’re not as capable, not nearly as capable as a Tesla, but there’s something really satisfying about the mechanical aspect of like feeling the steering and the grinding of the gears and the shifting. There’s something about those that’s extremely satisfying even though they’re not that competent. Like I have a 1993 Porsche 964. It’s like a lightweight. It’s not an RS America. It’s not very fast. It’s not like in comparison to a Tesla or anything like that. But the thing about it is like it’s mechanical, you feel it.",
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"content": "Sure.",
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"content": "When do we call it, when do we call it consciousness? I was watching a video today that we played on a podcast earlier of a monkey riding a motorcycle down the street, jumps off the motorcycle, and tries to steal a baby.",
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"content": "Yeah. I saw that one. It went viral.",
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"content": "Is that monkey conscious? It seems like it is. It seems like it had a plan. It was riding a fucking motorcycle and then jumped off the motorcycle to try to steal a baby.",
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"content": "The one that just dragged the baby down the street pretty far?",
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"content": "I don’t think they were. That’s not what I’m saying. In fact, you called me and said, “We finally got in after years of sort of this back slappy.” I was, “It’s a great thing. That is great.”",
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"content": "Absolutely. I mean, for the Moon lander – just taking that as one example – our bid was half the price of the Blue Origin Lockheed bid. For a vehicle that does basically 10 times more or eight times more perhaps, our price was half. And NASA has a mandate to get back to the Moon, so we save taxpayers like $3 billion relative to that contract. I think that’s a good thing. With respect to my personal taxes: I don’t actually draw a salary or anything. My cash compensation is basically zero.",
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"content": "Which is a good thing because income is a problem for most people because they pay taxes on income. That was the whole point of the story, I think.",
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"content": "Yeah, so I do have stock options that vest (…) basically with Tesla and SpaceX. I just have not really bothered to sort of take money off the table, which is not common. Most people do. They sell some of their stock, and they take money off the table. And for me, I just like said, you know, my money was the first in and it’ll be the last out. The success of SpaceX and Tesla is far from assured, and there were many times when it looked like the companies would… and they did. They skirted bankruptcy many times, but I never tried to take money off the table. And now this has been trying to be turned around and made into a bad thing. This is messed up.\nBut just before my stock options expire, then I am forced to exercise, and my top marginal tax rate is 53%. So I don’t think that’s particularly low, and it’s gonna go up next year. It’s like 57% or something.",
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"content": "Whoa. Good brakes.",
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"content": "Yeah, I mean, it’s – yeah. It’s either going to smash into tiny pieces or go quite fast.",
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"content": "But you can picture, then, a Hyperloop in a tunnel running quite long distances.",
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"content": "Exactly. And looking at tunneling technology, it turns out that in order to make a tunnel, you have to… – In order to seal against the water table, you’ve got to typically design a tunnel wall to be good to about five or six atmospheres. So to go to vacuum is only one atmosphere, or near-vacuum. Actually, it sort of turns out that automatically, if you build a tunnel that is good enough to resist the water table, it is automatically capable of holding vacuum.",
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"content": "So, always striving for the ground truth, beyond the reporting.",
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"content": "Yeah. What did the judge actually write? What does the jury and the judge actually conclude? And in both cases they found me innocent. And that’s after the jury shot for trying to find the venue where I’m most likely to lose. I mean, obviously, it can be a much better critique than this. I mean, I’ve been far too optimistic about autopilot.",
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"content": "The critique I got, by the way, was more about that, which is it broke down a nice bullet point list for each of your companies, the set of predictions that you made, when you’ll deliver, when you’ll be able to solve, for example, self-driving, and it gives you a list. And it was probably compelling, and the basic takeaway is you’re often too optimistic about how long it takes to get something done.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, I would say that I’m pathologically optimistic on schedule. This is true. But while I am sometimes late, I always in the end.",
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"content": "Deploy acts of kindness.",
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"content": "Yeah, conspicuous acts of kindness that are unequivocal, meaning they can’t be somehow because Hamas will then their response will be, “Oh, it’s a trick.” Therefore, you have to counter how it’s not a trick.",
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"content": "This ultimately fights the broader force of hatred in the region.",
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"content": "Yes. And I’m not sure who said it, it’s an saying, but an eye for an eye makes everyone blind. Now, that neck of the woods, they really believe in the whole eye for an eye thing. But you really have… If you’re not going to just outright commit genocide against an entire people, which obviously would not be acceptable to really, shouldn’t be acceptable to anyone, then you’re going to leave basically a lot of people alive who subsequently hate Israel. So really the question is like for every Hamas member that you kill, how many did you create? And if you create more than you killed, you’ve not succeeded. That’s the real situation there. And it’s safe to say that if you kill somebody’s child in Gaza, you’ve made at least a few homeless members who will die just to kill an Israeli. That’s the situation. But I mean, this is one of the most contentious subjects one could possibly discuss. But I think if the goal ultimately is some sort of long-term piece, one has to look at this from the standpoint of over time, are there more or fewer terrorists being created?",
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"content": "We will be like this ridiculous biological shitting, pissing thing trying to stop the gods. “No stop. We like living with a finite lifespan and watching, you know, Norman Rockwell paintings.”",
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"content": "It could be terrible, and it could be great. It’s not clear.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "But one thing is for sure. We will not control it.",
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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": "Right, and it’s similar to seeing our world as a simulation; there may not be a test to tell the difference between what the real world …",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "In the sense that you can break any law made by humans, but try breaking a law made by physics. That’s much more difficult. So if you are wrong and persist in being wrong, the rockets will blow up and the cars will fail. So we’re not trying to figure out what flavor of ice cream is the best flavor of ice cream. There’s 1,000 things that can happen on a rocket flight, and only one of them gets the rocket to orbit. And so being wrong results in failure when dealing with physical objects.",
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"content": "But that’s the interesting part. So now you’ve built these great companies that physically, the physics of them are enormously successful. So successful arguably, that you have leverage over everybody else. Nobody else can do Starlink. Nobody else can get the rockets in space, yet Amazon and Jeff Bezos are trying, but they haven’t yet.",
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"content": "I hope he does.",
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"content": "Okay, I’m just getting more questions. I know we’re going in different directions here. But some of our retail partners were excited to hear you talk about commerce and everything you just outlined. Can you say how this could come to life? And how it could help merchants of all sizes accelerate their business? Because that’s kind of what they’re hearing.",
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"content": "Yeah. I mean, we’ve got a lot to do on the software side, I can’t emphasize that enough. We got to write a lot of code here. And we’re going to change a bunch of the existing code base. But we want advertising to be highly relevant and timely and really try like approach in the limit, how do we get the ad to be as close to content as possible?\nI mean, if you’re shown an opportunity to buy something that you actually want when you want it, that’s great. That’s content. It’s like, well, you just served somebody’s need. That’s awesome. On the other hand, the other side of the spectrum is if you show somebody a product that they would never want it’s not helping the company’s advertising, it’s not helping the user. So we’re going to be super focused on like, how do we make it as relevant and useful as possible.\nWe will also be quite rigorous, or aspire to be rigorous about any product that is… we will not allow products that don’t work or are actually, you know, in some cases, just… I mean, like, I bought a few products based on YouTube ads, that didn’t work. And I felt, dammit, YouTube should really have not allowed that ad. On Twitter, we are going to be like, okay, we need to serve the user, we need to serve the advertiser, and when both are served, we have a good situation.\nAnd then, from a commerce standpoint, if you’re able to buy things quickly, you know, effortlessly on Twitter with one click, that’s great. We don’t want to make buying things inconvenient or require going through many steps. The easier it is to obtain the product or service that you want, the better it is for the user.",
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"content": "Yeah, no one is going to argue with having a more performant product and solution and more relevant ads from our clients and partners. David, where you’re going to speak?\nYes, I got another one. So clearly, Elon, Twitter and you are moving quickly and decisively. You mentioned a content moderation council, that is going to be put together. I guess the question is, how quickly is that going to materialize? And who is going to be comprised of whom? What kinds of folks do you think?",
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"content": "Man, that’s a hard one to answer. I think it’ll probably take us a few months to put that together. And, I mean, certainly a lot of people want to be on it. But this will be an advisory council, not a command council. It’s basically so that the leaders at Twitter can hear what a lot of people have to say, and just make sure that we’re not sort of being numb to the pain of what people are feeling. You know, basically, are we listening carefully?\nBut just going back to what I mentioned earlier, with respect to the community notes feature, in terms of accuracy and truthfulness, that’s going to be very powerful. It will obviate the need for a lot of the content stuff that currently is in place – I think. And look, I’m open to ideas, if you have thoughts here, that would be good to know. What do you think we should do?",
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"content": "Yeah. That’s the thing, right? Gaining more than we lose. Something that makes us interesting is that we’re so flawed.",
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"content": "That’s for sure. I mean, look at civilization through the ages; most of them they rose and fell.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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"content": "I do think the globalization that we have, sort of like the memesphere, there’s not enough isolation between countries or regions. It’s like if there’s a mind virus that that mind virus cannot infect too much of the world. I actually sort of sympathizing with the anti-globalization people because it’s like, man, we don’t ever want everywhere to be the same for sure. Then we need some kind of mind viral immunity. So that’s a bit concerning.",
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"content": "Aw, man.",
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"content": "Pretty fun.",
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"content": "I don’t… It’s not just pretty fun. The way I’ve described it is, it makes other cars seem stupid. They just seem dumb. And I love dumb things. I love dumb cars. Like I love campfires. I love campfires. I have a 1993 Porsche that’s air-cooled. It’s not that fast. It’s really slow compared to the Tesla, really.",
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"content": "Yeah, actually, it’s really quite slow. But, okay, sure.",
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"content": "Is this why you have so many children?",
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"content": "I’m trying to set a good example. Yeah, gotta practice what I preach.",
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"content": "I won’t ask you to predict how many more children you’re going to have tonight. I want to move on to some future talk. And that’s part of where I’m going with this Tesla Bot. I am not as good at Twitter as you are. But people on Twitter are asking me what’s going to happen on 12/9. Can you tell me what’s going to happen on 12/9?",
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"content": "Nothing as far as I know. I don’t know where this came from. This is just one of those memes that came out of nowhere. But as far as I know, nothing. But maybe something will happen that I’m not aware of.",
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"content": "Don’t you think?",
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"content": "They’re delicious.",
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"content": "Yeah, right. They’re good for you too. All of them. All kinds of them.\nWhat do you see in terms of, like, when you think about the future of your companies, what do you see as bottlenecks? What do you see in terms of bottlenecks of things that are holding back innovation? Is it regulatory commissions and people that don’t understand the technology that is influencing policy? What could potentially be holding you guys back right now? Is there anything that you would change?",
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"content": "Yeah, that’s a good question. You know, I wish politicians were better at science. That would help a lot.",
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"content": "You’re the founder of so many companies, of Tesla, of SpaceX. We’re going to speak to that in a minute. But we have more than you in the round. We have entrepreneurs talk today, and let me shortly introduce the other guests in the round.\nDr. Hannes Ametsreiter, he is the CEO of Vodafone, the telecommunication company. We have Olivier Reppert, he is CEO of Share Now, the car-sharing company; we have Markus Essing, the CEO of Philip Morris, undergoing a very strict renovation of its business model moving away from tobacco; we have Andreas Kroiss, CEO of Einhell, which is a company specialized in trading for do-it-yourself construction and building. I’m sorry…\nI said for batteries. Our main business is our battery platform. So, we have something in common.\nDr. Asoka Wöhrmann, he is CEO of DWS, the big b2c and investment company, and Oscar de Bok, he is CEO of DHL supply chain. And my name is Christoph Keese, I’m your moderator, I’m with Axel Springer. So, Elon, we just came from visiting your construction site in Grünheide. And I think it’s fair to say that everybody was deeply impressed. Twelve months ago, this was a forest, there was no…",
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"content": "A cardboard factory, technically. It says that the trees were just grown for use in cardboard. We cleared not an old-growth forest; it was literally a cardboard farm. Sometimes people wonder, are we knocking down old trees. But it’s just, it’s actually literally a cardboard farm. We knock down a cardboard farm.",
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"content": "Okay, but there wasn’t any sewage, no freshwater, at least not in pipes underneath the ground…",
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"content": "Just rain in a decent amount, yeah.",
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"content": "But the people that first get it should have a massive advantage over people that don’t have it yet.",
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"content": "Well, I mean, it’s the kind of thing where your productivity would improve, I don’t know, dramatically, maybe by a factor of 10 with it. So you could definitely just, I don’t know, take out a loan and do it and earn the money back real fast. Be super smart.",
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"content": "Well, in a capitalist society, it seems like you could really get so far ahead that before everybody else could afford this thing and link up and get connected as well, you’d be so far ahead, they can never catch you. Is that a concern?",
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"content": "Well, it’s not a super huge concern. I mean, there are huge differences in cognitive ability and resources already. You can think of a corporation as like a cybernetic collective that’s far smarter than an individual. I couldn’t personally build a whole rocket and the engines and launch it and everything. That’s impossible.\nBut we have 8,000 people at SpaceX, and you’re piecing it out to different people and using computers and machines and stuff. We can make lots of rockets launch into orbit, dock with the space station, and that kind of thing. So that already exists where those corporations are vastly more capable than an individual. But we should be, I think, less concerned about relative capabilities between people and more like having AI be vastly beyond us and decoupled from human will.",
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"content": "No, I’m sure it does.\nNow, when you think about this new idea of design, when you have this idea about improving planes, are you going to bring this to somebody and check this one out?",
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"content": "Well, I have a lot on my plate.",
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"content": "Right. That’s what I’m saying. I don’t know how you do what you do now, but if you keep coming up with these. But it’s got to be hard to pawn these off on someone else either, like, „Hey, go do a good job with this vertical takeoff and landing system that I want to implement to regular planes.“.",
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"content": "The airplane, electric airplane, isn’t necessary right now. Electric cars are important. Solar energy is important. Stationary storage of energy is important. These things are much more important than creating electric supersonic (… 1:18:54). Also, the plane’s naturally — You really want that gravitational energy density for an aircraft, and this improving over time.\nSo, you know, it’s important that we accelerate the transition to sustainable energy. That’s why it matters whether electric cars happen sooner or later. You know, we’re really playing a crazy game here with the atmosphere and the oceans.\nWe’re taking vast amounts of carbon from deep underground and putting this in the atmosphere. This is crazy. We should not do this. It’s very dangerous. So, we should accelerate the transition to sustainable energy. I mean, the bizarre thing is that, obviously, we’re going to run out of oil in the long term. You know, we’re going to — There’s only so much oil we can mine and burn. It’s totally logical. We must have a sustainable energy transport and energy infrastructure in the long term.\nSo, we know that’s the endpoint. We know that. So, why run this crazy experiment where we take trillions of tons of carbon from underground and put it in the atmosphere and oceans? This is an insane experiment. It’s the dumbest experiment in human history. Why are we doing this? It’s crazy.",
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"content": "The great replacement theory is a neo-Nazi trope. It’s in the neo-Nazi manifesto. It’s in the Turner Diaries. It’s referenced by the Buffalo mass shooter and his manifesto where 10 people, black people, were murdered in Buffalo. It’s the actual title of the Christchurch shooters manifesto. 51 people in the Muslim mosque were murdered. 23 people murdered in El Paso by a shooter who used the same language that you use in that manifesto, when you say Hispanic invasion. Is that not-",
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"content": "I didn’t say an Hispanic invasion.",
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"content": "You quoted a tweet that called it a Hispanic invasion.",
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"content": "If I quote something, it doesn’t mean I agree with everything in it. It’s just something that I think this is something people should consider.",
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"content": "I’m so scared of that, but so excited about it at the same time. Is that weird?",
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"content": "Yeah, I think this is one of the paths to think like what are… Like AI is getting better and better. Now let’s assume it’s sort of like a benign AI scenario. Even in a benign scenario, we’re kind of left behind. We’re not along for the ride. We’re just too dumb.",
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"content": "Right.",
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"content": "How do you go along for the ride? It’s, like, if you can’t beat them, join them. We’re already a cyborg to some degree, right? Because you’ve got your phone, you’ve got your laptop, your electronic devices. Today, if you don’t bring your phone along, it’s like you have missing limb syndrome. It feels like something’s really missing. We’re already partly a cyborg or an AI symbiote, essentially.\nIt’s just that the data rate to the electronics is slow. Especially output, like you’re just going with your thumbs. I mean, like, what’s your data rate? Optimistically, a hundred bits per second. That’s being generous. Now the computer can communicate at a hundred terabytes. Certainly, you know, gigabits are trivial at this point.\nBasically, your computer could do things a million times faster. At a certain point, it’s like talking to a tree. Okay? This is boring. You talk to a tree – it’s not very entertaining. If you can solve the data rate issue, especially output, but input, too, then you can improve the symbiosis that is already occurring between man and machine.",
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"content": "And where is Neuralink at right now?",
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"content": "I think, we have something interesting to announce in a few months that’s at least an order of magnitude better than anything else. I think, better than, probably, anyone thinks is possible.",
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"content": "How much can you talk about that right now?",
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"content": "I don’t want to jump the gun on that.",
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"content": "I was happy with what we had on the autopilot. It’s the first time I’ve ever gotten a chance to see what the scenery looks like. I always just do lines. Now I can have a look around and feel comfortable or confident that my hands are on the wheel, and if something goes wrong, I can correct. But I can also enjoy what’s going on.",
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"content": "Basically, a car that does not have self-driving in the future will be about as popular as a horse. Horses are still horses; people have horses. But a horse is not what you use for day-to-day transport.",
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"content": "But even a horse will get you home sometimes. In the olden days, they’d get drunk, fall asleep in a buckboard, and a horse would take them home. Self-driving, as far as I’m concerned – we just getting back…",
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"content": "Well, actually, that’s one of the things we’re going to program into the car, that if you fall asleep in the car, it’ll just take you home. It’s most likely that’s where you want to go.",
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"content": "Yeah, then just do an aerospike; there’s a reason they haven’t been used. Period.",
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"content": "But maybe, that reason is not valid, you know? Because there’s also, there hasn’t been a methane orbital engine.",
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"content": "Right. Or a flying full-flow staged combustion, yeah.",
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"content": "So, there’s been neither a full-flow staged combustion engine that’s seen flight nor has there been a methane engine that’s seen flight, certainly in a rocket scenario. I think there may have been some, like, little test things or whatever, but no actual rockets. But I’m very confident that CH4 is the right fuel. Maybe aerospike is right, even though it’s not been done before. But you just have to show that your combustion efficiency is not affected and that you’re straightening the flow sufficiently.",
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"content": "I just hope we don’t lose anything along the way.",
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"content": "We might lose a little, but hopefully, we gain more than lose.",
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"content": "Yeah. That’s the thing, right? Gaining more than we lose. Something that makes us interesting is that we’re so flawed.",
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"content": "That’s for sure. I mean, look at civilization through the ages; most of them they rose and fell.",
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"content": "If you’re sad about it, why are you doing it?",
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"content": "I think possessions kind of weigh you down, and they’re kind of an attack vector. They’ll say, “Hey, billionaire, you’ve got all this stuff.” Well, now I don’t have stuff now. What are you going to do?",
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"content": "Attack vector meaning like people targeted.",
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"content": "Yeah.",
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