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Elon Musk: The Starship program is a rapidly changing situation. It's really just a question of how much we can learn in the shortest period of time. “Think of it like a guided missile: A guided missile is going in the wrong direction at any given point in time, but it…

Elon Musk: When I felt the censorship was closing in, I acquired Twitter to make it a bastion of free speech. “I started having concerns about three years ago, but I just had an uneasy feeling that something doesn't feel right. The censorship was becoming ridiculous. I had the…

Elon Musk: Tesla would never sue another car company for using our patents. “I don't like patents, personally. When I was first starting out developing technology, I got lots of patents, and I thought this was a good thing. And then I discovered that a patent was really like…

Elon Musk: Try to create more than you consume. “When we see people doing things that seem morally questionable, it's often because they have a zero-sum mindset. If you have a zero-sum mindset, then the only way to get ahead is by taking things from others. But this is false.…

Elon Musk: More people should build things. “We need more of our talented people in America going into engineering and into technical trades and building things, essentially. We have too many of our smartest people go into law and finance, which is both a criticism and a…

Elon Musk: Here's why Tesla's camera-only self-driving will be safer than Waymo's approach. David Faber: “Why do you feel that [Tesla's camera-only approach] is going to be the equivalent [to Waymo's with radar and LiDAR] in terms of safety profile?” Elon: “Oh, I think it'll be…

Elon Musk: Cross-fertilizing ideas between industries is a superpower. “In terms of manufacturing complex machines at volume, the automotive industry is the best. The space industry is very good at advanced materials and making things very light. So, taking advanced materials…

Elon Musk: We must have an expansionist philosophy for civilization and for consciousness. “In the extreme form of the environmentalist movement, people start to view humans as a plague on the surface of the Earth, as a fundamentally bad thing. This implies that if all humans…

Elon Musk: SpaceX is successful because our product is much better and costs less, not because of government subsidies. “We do essential work for the government. We do useful essential work that we compete for and win contracts on because our product is much better and costs…

Elon Musk: Tesla cars are the safest on the road, and we are continuously improving their safety. “Tesla has the safest cars on the road in so many ways that people don't even know. For example, the cabin overheat protection, or the fact that we continuously update the automatic…

Elon Musk: The fundamental limitation on AI is going to be electricity generation. “A few years ago I made a very obvious prediction which is that the limitation on AI will be chips, and it's still chips today. Then, it will be electrical equipment because you need to take power…

Elon Musk: What we want to achieve is Starship lands, you refill propellant and you take off again. “You know, it's a terrible metaphor, but the important thing is that the cat gets skinned at the end of the day and then you arrive at some solution that enables full reusability.…

Elon Musk: For a while, I was losing sleep over the threats posed by AI. “For a while, I was really getting demotivated and losing sleep over the threat of AI danger. And then I finally became fatalistic about it and said, well, even if I knew annihilation was certain, would I…

DHH: Elon is going to fucking Mars, WTF am I doing with my to-do lists? “Elon's level of audacity is so rare that when we see it, we don't fully know how to analyze it. We think of Elon as finding great talent, and I'm sure he's also good at that. But I also think that this…

Elon Musk: Neuralink could help mitigate the risks of AI. Mathias Döpfner: “You said that Neuralink is, among all your projects, the most important one for you. Is that still true?” Elon: “I said it could be. I wouldn't say for sure that it is the most important, but it could…

Elon Musk on the initial Model 3 ramp-up: I lived three years in the factory running around like a maniac. “We basically messed up almost every aspect of the Model 3 production line, from cells to packs to drive inverters, motors, body line, the paint shop, final assembly,…

Elon Musk: If you have a radical new technology, you want to try to maximize the probability it will do good things for humanity and not bad things. “The reason OpenAI exists at all is that Larry Page and I used to be close friends and I would stay at his house in Palo Alto and…

Elon Musk: I've spent a lot of time in the factory, walking the floor. I literally lived in the factory for a while. “Tesla is a massive manufacturer in the US. In fact, the biggest factory that's been built in recent years is the Tesla factory in Texas, and there's another big…

Elon Musk: In the future, you'll be able to inhabit an Optimus robot. “As we advance the Neuralink devices, you should be able to actually have full body control and sensors from an Optimus robot. So, you could basically inhabit an Optimus robot. Not just the hand, the whole…

Elon Musk: The pace of AI is faster than any technology in history by far. “It seems to be growing in capability by at least fivefold, perhaps tenfold per year. It'll certainly grow by an order of magnitude next year.” (Conversation with Rishi Sunak, November 2, 2023)