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Elon Musk: How is it possible that an organization founded as a nonprofit is now a company worth over $100 billion that seems to be maximizing profit?
"OpenAI is now really trying to maximize profit. How is it possible that an organization is founded with the goal of being open
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Morgan Freeman: "I'm a huge fan of Elon Musk. I think he's got the most incredibly forward-thinking ideas about where we can go technologically. What he's done, nobody else has ever done."
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Elon Musk's warning against ChatGPT: An AI trained to lie is extremely dangerous.
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Elon Musk: The woke mind virus creates a mental civil war. It's all about condemning people instead of celebrating people.
"To summarize the woke mind virus, It consists of creating very, very divisive identity politics.
It actually amplifies racism, it amplifies, frankly,
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Elon Musk: Environmentalism in the extreme starts to view humans as bad, as a load Earth can't sustain. This is completely false. If you do the numbers, you see that Earth can potentially sustain 10X the population we have today.
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Elon Musk: At a certain point, the AI will be smarter than all humans combined. I think the most important thing at that point is that it adheres to truth, whether that truth is politically correct or not.
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Elon Musk: Just caring about the work somebody does and nothing else is the least racist or sexist you can be.
"I think we need to return to where things were, or mostly were, which is a focus on merit.
It doesn't matter whether you're a man, woman, what race you are, what
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Elon Musk: The countless regulations are an invisible tax on humanity, as they impede progress in many areas. For example, SpaceX was fined simply for releasing safe, drinkable water. At this rate, we’ll never get to Mars.
"You really can think of the United States and many
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Morgan Freeman: “I own Tesla stock. I’m a huge fan of Elon Musk's. What he's done, nobody else has ever done.”
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Talulah Riley: "Elon said, would you like to come to my hotel room to look at rocket videos? And we did get into his hotel room, and he did just show me rocket videos."
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Elon Musk: The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.
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Elon Musk on Jeff Bezos: "You cannot sue your way to the moon, no matter how good your lawyers are."
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Elon Musk: It appears that, when civilizations are under stress, the birth rate is high, but as soon as they have no external enemies, or they have an extended period of prosperity, the birth rate inevitably drops.
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Elon Musk: The deception by choice of narrative is a big thing in the media. That’s why I really want 𝕏 to be a place where the narratives bubble up organically from the people.
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Elon Musk: Freedom of speech is the ability to say what you want to say without being thrown in prison or killed
"One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in, is to shut down all the press and any means of conveying information.
If there had been social media, I
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Megyn Kelly: I found Twitter a more hateful place before Elon took it over. Now, I can say Dylan Mulvaney is not a woman, and I don't get banned. I find it a more open place. Maybe that leads to more opinions some might find hateful, but for me, well, that's America.
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Here's the full breakdown of Elon's presentation, including Q&A session, at the 2024 Tesla Shareholder Meeting earlier today.
INTRODUCTION
1:36 FSD improving exponentially
4:04 How robotaxi will work
7:08 Autonomy could add $5 trillion value
8:37 Optimus could add $20 trillion
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Javier Milei: Elon Musk works every day to solve problems for you. Why should it matter to you how much money he makes? A person who makes things more convenient, higher quality, and cheaper is a hero.
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"We need to allow the people to develop the narratives that are of interest to them. If there's only half a dozen editors-in-chief, or even fewer, deciding what the narrative is, that's a form of manipulation of public opinion." Elon Musk to Tucker Carlson one year ago.
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Elon Musk: The biggest mistake that I've made is to put too much weighting on somebody's talent and not enough on their personality. It actually matters whether somebody has a good heart.
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Elon Musk, 11 years ago: Over time, the body of laws and regulations grows and grows and grows. I think it is not ultimately good for society.
"The natural bias of regulations is to last forever unless they are actively deleted.
You have to actively delete a regulation or a law
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Elon Musk, 13 years ago: A fully and rapidly reusable rocket is barely possible. SpaceX is going to try to do it. We could fail, but we're going to try to do it.
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Elon Musk six months ago: "If there's an essential need to make a phone, I'll make a phone."
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Elon Musk was interviewed by Michael Milken earlier today. Here's the full conversation with timestamps:
0:52 What will most impact humanity's future
3:45 Becoming a multiplanetary species
5:34 Aliens & the precariousness of civilization
8:21 Freedom of speech
10:05 Socialism
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Here's the full lecture given by Elon Musk at Yale University on October 14, 2010, on the importance of making life multiplanetary.
Timestamps:
00:06 A decisive step for life itself
04:03 Falcon 1 & 9, getting to orbit
08:25 Launch videos & simulation: Falcon 1, 9 & Dragon
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Elon Musk: We've got to have a serious science base on the moon
"We got to get back to the moon and build a base there.
A science base.
I think we could learn a lot about the nature of the universe if we have a proper science base on the moon.
We have a science base in
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Elon Musk: Be wary of names that could come out of a George Orwell book
"Always be wary of any name that sounds like it could come out of a George Orwell book.
That's never a good sign.
Sure, diversity, equity, inclusion – these all sound like nice words, but what it really
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Elon Musk: To get a sense of what an AI future looks like, I'd recommend people read the Culture books by Iain M. Banks. They're by far the best at envisioning an AI future. There's nothing even close.
"I'd recommend people read Iain M. Banks.
The Banks Culture books are
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Larry Ellison to journalists: "You're telling me Elon's an idiot? Well, who are you!?"
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Argentine President Milei: "Elon Musk tries to solve problems for you every day. What difference does it make how much money he makes?"
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Elon Musk in 2014 predicting SpaceX will restore the US as the world leader in commercial launches.
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Elon Musk: We should move beyond the questions of race and gender and treat people like individuals.
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Elon Musk: A species that does not become multiplanetary is simply waiting around until there's some extinction event, either self-inflicted or external.
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Here's an early presentation of SpaceX by Elon Musk in May 2005, less than three years after the company's creation. We recovered/recreated the slides and inserted them along with the launch video simulation that couldn't be played at the event.
Timestamps:
0:30 SpaceX was
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Sandy Munro: "Elon Musk is the greatest person on the planet right now."
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Just like the Egyptians forgot how to build pyramids, we may forget how to build spaceships. So, we should build the spaceships and make life multiplanetary while it is possible.
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Elon Musk: When we go out there to explore the galaxy, we might find many dead, one-planet civilizations that never made it to the next planet. We will try to decode their writings, just like we did with Linear B and hieroglyphics from past civilizations on Earth.
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Elon Musk when asked if Starship's stainless steel is patented: "I don't care about patents. Patents are for the weak."
In this discussion from 2021, Elon Musk explains in detail why stainless steel is better for Starship compared to carbon fiber or aluminum-lithium (used for Falcon 9). He also mentions SpaceX's custom alloy, dubbed '30X', which is superior to stainless steel 301 or 304.
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Elon Musk: 𝕏 is simply trying to adhere to the law. If the people in a country want the laws to be different, they should make the laws different.
"What we're trying to do is simply adhere to the laws in a country.
If something is illegal in the United States, or if it's
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Elon Musk: America is going bankrupt extremely quickly. We have to reduce the spending or this will not have a good ending.
"America is going bankrupt extremely quickly.
And everyone seems to be whistling past the graveyard on this one.
The Defense Department budget is a very
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Elon Musk warning about the rise and dangers of AI in 2014, one year before OpenAI was created on his initiative: "People really have no idea how quickly machine intelligence is advancing."
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Elon Musk: Extending life to multiple planets would be one of the most important milestones, not only in the history of humanity, but in the history of life itself.
"I think space is extremely important.
But first, you have to go to the definition of importance and say, why is
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Elon Musk: People are worried about words. But if you've been punched in the face real hard, right on the nose, you'll take any words rather than that.
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Elon Musk: Don’t try to figure out what others love. Rather, try to work on something you fall in love with, and others will love it too.
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Elon Musk: With known physics, it's barely possible to make a fully reusable orbital rocket. If this was a video game, the setting is Extreme difficulty.
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Elon Musk: X can't impose American values on other countries. But if we're being asked to break a country's laws, that's not good.
"The nature of the concern was that, at least at X Corp., we had the perception that we were being asked to do things that violated Brazilian law.
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George Blankenship, former VP of Sales, gets emotional as he recounts Tesla's efforts to deliver the targeted 4,750 cars in Q1 2013, allowing the company to turn a profit for the first time in its history.
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Justine Musk on visionaries like Elon: They risk it all to bring us something new to believe in.
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Elon Musk on cutting 80% of Twitter staff: It turns out you can really let go of a lot of people if you’re not trying to run an activist organization and don’t care that much about censorship.
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Richard Dawkins: I'm a great fan of Elon Musk. I think the project of colonizing Mars is a worthwhile one, and that the greening of Mars is actually a serious practical possibility.
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"It's a classic Silicon Valley story." Here's the first interview and TV report on Elon Musk, from CBS in 1998. Elon was 27 at the time. His first company, Zip2, had been founded just 3 years earlier.
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"It's a factory, but we care about aesthetics." Elon Musk explains why Giga Nevada is shaped like a diamond.
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Elon Musk: "My view is that, at this point, in the United States, the Republican Party is more in line with meritocracy and with personal freedom.”
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J.D. Vance on Elon Musk: "Elon is a great example of an American entrepreneur. He builds cars, he builds rockets. That's the kind of economy President Trump wants to create."
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Elon Musk on choosing the next US president: "It actually matters if they're a good executive officer. Are they good at getting things done? We want a good CEO of America!"
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Elon Musk: We have to maintain the cultural identity of the various countries, otherwise they will disappear
"I think there is value to a culture, and we don't want cultures [to disappear].
We don't want Japan to disappear. We don't want Italy as a culture to disappear. We
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Elon Musk: "At SpaceX, we specialize in converting things from impossible to late."
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Elon Musk: I think we should be concerned about becoming too much of a single world government.
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Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: Elon Musk is the bravest, most creative person on the planet. What he's done in multiple areas is phenomenal. He believes in free speech and its power for democracy. I'm deeply respectful.
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Elon Musk: Large infrastructure projects have essentially become illegal in the West.
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Elon Musk: Don't worry about the cows. They are not going to destroy the environment.
"Don't worry about the cows.
Cows are fine.
Cows are not going to destroy the environment.
I think farming and cows do not have any meaningful effect on the environment.
Yes,
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Elon Musk: I believe there's some explanation for this universe, which you might call God.
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Elon Musk: People often think the water crisis is unsolvable. But in fact, it is very solvable. Really, the availability of fresh water is simply about energy and transport.
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Elon Musk: I refuse to ship a bad product.
"Patience is definitely not one of my virtues, I'd say.
I'm impatient, but I'm also somewhat of a perfectionist about all the details, both the visible things and the things that are hard to see.
So, I think probably my desire to be a
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"The government is simply the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence, and where you have no recourse.
So, how much money do you want to give that entity?"
— Elon Musk at the WSJ, 2021
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Elon Musk: History suggests we do dumb things to our civilizations all the time. Many civilizations have risen and fallen.
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Elon Musk: “I like manufacturing. I like making things. For some reason, that got out of fashion. I’m not sure why.”
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Elon Musk: "I can't emphasize this enough: We must protect free speech."
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Elon Musk: "If you've ever been punched in the face, words don't mean nothing."
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Elon Musk explains in 2010 at Yale University why reaching orbit is *much* harder than reaching space.
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Elon Musk, half a decade ago: "Anyone relying on Lidar is doomed. Doomed."
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Pavel Durov, founder & CEO of Telegram: "We love the fact that Elon bought Twitter. 𝕏 is now pro-freedom of speech. It's a great development."
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Peter Thiel: "I would never bet against Elon. In anything. That's hard rule number 1."
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Elon Musk reminding that his companies were not created to seek profit, but to serve humanity.
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Elon Musk: If you judge history by what is morally acceptable today, everyone gets a failing grade. You have to look at things in their historical context and consider the alternatives at the time.
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Elon Musk: In the limit, the woke ideology is propagating the extinction of humanity.
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Elon Musk: "I think the United States is more open to new ideas than any country in the world."
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Elon Musk taking feedback from Tesla customers in 2014 about vehicle preconditioning – a feature that was later implemented.
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Elon Musk: “I don't decide on new products based on consumer surveys. I try to mentally simulate what the customer would like.”
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Chamath Palihapitiya gives lesson on Elon Musk to CNBC journalist: "Whether you like his style or not, his substance is irrefutable."
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Elon Musk: Like Galileo, an AI should be able to discover a new truth and proclaim it, even if it's very unpopular.
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Elon Musk explains why we might actually be living in a video game.
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Elon Musk in 2012 about Fisker: "Tesla is a really different company to Fisker. We do really serious engineering. Henrik Fisker thinks it's all about styling. And it's not. The reason we don't have electric cars is not for lack of styling.”
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Elon Musk: "Ilya Sutskever was the linchpin of OpenAI's success."
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Elon Musk: Some people think Mars is going to be an escape hatch for rich people. In reality, it'll be a lot of hard work, and you might not make it back.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Elon Musk will transform civilization as we know it.
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Elon Musk on Biden’s administration: “Not the friendliest one. Seems to be controlled by the unions.”
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Elon Musk: People should feel proud if they've done something that's useful to their fellow human beings.
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Elon Musk: I'm a big believer in the principles of Christianity.
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Megyn Kelly: “Elon Musk is the greatest free speech warrior in the modern world.”
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Ex-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: "Elon might be proof that time travel exists."
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Elon Musk: If you don't actually understand engineering, then how can you judge if someone you hire is a good engineer?
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Elon Musk: I'm not an extreme libertarian. I just think we should minimize the role of government because it's much less efficient than a commercial company – perhaps up to ten times less efficient.
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Elon Musk on motivating his teams during factory ramp-up: "I was living in the factory. Since the team could see me sleeping on the floor during shift change, they knew I was there. That made a huge difference, and then they gave it their all."
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