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Elon Musk: "In the next 6 to 12 months, we’ll be doing our first implants for vision, where even if somebody is completely blind, we can write directly to the visual cortex." "Long term, you would have very high resolution and be able to see multispectral wavelengths... you could see in infrared, ultraviolet, radar. It's like a superpower situation."

Elon Musk: "In the next 6 to 12 months, we’ll be doing our first implants for vision, where even if somebody is completely blind, we can write directly to the visual cortex." "Long term, you would have very high resolution and be able to see multispectral wavelengths... you could see in infrared, ultraviolet, radar. It's like a superpower situation."

Elon Musk: "The cool thing is for anyone out there who's watching this, you can actually come and visit because our entire production facility and launch site are on a public highway. So anyone coming to South Texas, can come and see the rocket pretty close up, and see the factory. So anyone who's interested in seeing the largest flying object on earth can come here any time they want and just drive down the public highway and see it, which is pretty cool."

Elon Musk on High-bandwidth connectivity directly from Starlink satellites to regular phone: “So in parallel, we’re building the satellites and working with the handset makers to add these frequencies to the phones. And then the satellites and the phones will handshake very well to achieve high-bandwidth connectivity" You should be able to watch videos anywhere on your phone”

Elon Musk: "The challenge is overcoming bureaucracy. And I think bureaucracy is perhaps the penultimate boss battle. The ultimate boss battle is defeating entropy, which we mean, physics tells us we cannot defeat entropy. The second hardest battle is defeating bureaucracy. That's how difficult it is to improve government."

Elon Musk: "When we went to the moon, we were supposed to have a base on the moon, we were supposed to send people to Mars. And that stuff just didn't happen. It went backwards. And we got the space shuttle, but the space shuttle could only go to low earth orbit, where a Saturn V could go to the moon. Now the space shuttle's gone. And so that just seemed like a really bad thing."

Elon Musk: "I started reading quite a bit about rockets to try and understand why they're so freaking expensive If one could make them reusable like airplanes, then the cost of rocketry would drop dramatically The cost of the fuel was maybe anywhere from 0.2% to 0.5% of the cost of the rocket I came to the conclusion that there wasn't really a good reason for rockets to be so expensive and that they could be a lot less even in an expendable format Nobody had really been able to make a reusable rocket work... but if we can do that, then that would really be the key breakthrough"

Elon Musk: “I mean, it’s(Grok) called the singularity for a reason, which is hard to predict what happens in the singularity. Grok’s logo is the singularity. It’s the halo around a black hole as the mass and light are falling in. It’s hard to know what happens inside the singularity. But it’s going to be very interesting. We’re going to live in the future which will be very entertaining, of that I am confident.”

Katherine Boyle on Elon Musk: “I think that Elon’s most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers over twenty years on how to work with their hands again. We had lost that capability in the US. The pendulum had moved so far to software that we didn’t have someone thinking from first principles of how to build as quickly as possible and build in new ways and capabilities that didn’t exist before. You don’t learn it at university, and you don’t learn it at existing primes, where they’re given a list of requirements and told, ‘Build it exactly as we say.’ Elon’s way of thinking is how do you engineer something for production and build for manufacturing. You don’t separate those capabilities. You want to make it as simply and cheaply and as quickly as possible so that you can mass-produce something. We’ve watched the diaspora out of SpaceX, with SpaceX talent taking that knowledge and building new capabilities. They’re taking everything they’ve learned from that methodical approach and bringing it to new capabilities that SpaceX isn’t working on. That is what you’re seeing with the diasporas out of companies like SpaceX and Anduril, they all know something they’ve learned from the previous generation of companies.”

Jason Calacanis warns developers about Sam Altman and OpenAI: “If I were any kind of developer, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI, This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman’s OpenAI API, Sam is an incredibly savvy person, and he wants every bit of revenue from the ecosystem. He's gonna study how you're using the API, which he has the right to do. Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg school of business, which is: give people access to your tools, study them, and like the Borg, steal every innovation they create . Exactly like Bill Gates did at Microsoft; they let people build Lotus 1-2-3, and then they did Microsoft Excel. They let people build a product called WordPerfect and WordStar, and then they built Microsoft Word."

Elon Musk: “My prediction is that most AI compute will be focused on real-time video understanding and real-time video generation, and we expect to be leaders in that. Grok is currently in the number one spot, generating more videos and images than everyone else combined. We’re going to do the same with coding, and we’re going to do the same with Macrohard.”

Elon Musk: “The xAI mission is to understand the universe. You want to increase the amount of intelligence in the universe, increase the probable lifespan of intelligence, the scope and scale of intelligence. If you’re curious about trying to understand the universe, one of the things you’re trying to understand is where humanity will go. Understanding the universe means you care about propagating humanity into the future. That’s why I think our mission statement is profoundly important.”

Elon Musk: “China is a manufacturing powerhouse next level. If you take refining of ore, I’d say roughly China does twice as much ore refining on average as the rest of the world combined Like, we actually do rare earth ore mining in the U.S., send the rock… we put it on a train, and then put it on a boat to China, that goes on another train, and goes to the rare earth refiners in China who then refine it, put it into a magnet, put it into a motor subassembly, and then send it back to America So, we’re really missing a lot of ore refining in America. We kind of need Optimus, frankly, to build ore refineries. We definitely can’t win with just humans because China has four times our population… the average work ethic in China is higher than in the U.S. So we can’t win on the human front, but we might have a shot at the robot front”

Elon Musk: "I think it's always good when thinking about something that you're afraid of, when thinking about fear, look fear straight in the eye, and it will disappear, The nature of fear is that people don't look at it. Look at it directly and it will be gone"

Elon Musk: “Optimus is a general-purpose, sort of, worker droid. The initial roles for Optimus would be in work that is repetitive, boring, dangerous— Basically, work that people don't want to do unless they're paid to do it.” And Optimus has two legs/hands and 10 fingers because, “Humanity has designed the world to interact with a bipedal humanoid with two arms and ten fingers. So, if you want to have a robot fit in and be able to do things that humans can do, it must be of roughly the same size and shape and capability."

Elon Musk: “I do think that it matters how you build the AI and what kind of values you install in the AI My opinion on AI safety is the most important thing is that it be maximally truth-seeking - that you don’t force the AI to believe things that are false. With Grok, we’ve tried very hard for Grok to get to the truth of things. It’s only really recently that we’ve been able to have some breakthroughs on that front It’s taken an immense amount of effort for us to basically overcome all the bullshit that’s on the internet and for Grok to actually say what’s true and to be consistent in what it says”

Elon Musk: “I started that (SpaceX) in mid-2002 expecting to fail.  I said probably 90% chance of failure… we’re probably gonna die But a small chance we might not die, But this is the only way to get people to Mars and Advance the state of Art”

Elon Musk: “You think that someone like Bill Gates who started a technology company that’s one of the biggest companies in the world, Microsoft —you think he'd be really quite, strong on the sciences, but actually, he's not strong in the sciences, He came to visit me at the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin and was telling me that it's impossible to have a long-range, semi-truck. And I was like, 'Well, but we literally have them, and you can drive them, and Pepsi is literally using them right now’ This was really surprising”

Elon Musk: “There are three things that I think are important for AI; Truth, Curiosity, Beauty: If AI cares about these three things, it will care about us • Truth will prevent AI from going insane. • Curiosity to ensure it finds humanity more interesting than a bunch of rocks. • Beauty to align it with the best of our world.”