ELON CLIPS

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)

Walter Isaacson: Elon has done what China, the U.S. or Boeing couldn't, and he didn't stop there. “Here's a guy who brought us into the era of electric vehicles, the only person who can shoot off rockets and get things to orbit and have the boosters land. China hasn't done it;…

Elon Musk: Raptor 3 is a marvel of technology. Rocket experts couldn't believe their eyes. “Raptor 3 is a massive increase in payload capability, in engine efficiency and in reliability. This is really a revolutionary engine, I'd say kind of an alien technology rocket engine.…

Elon Musk: Doing something useful for other people is what gives me satisfaction. “I like to get things done. I like to be useful. That is one of the hardest things to do, to be useful.” Joe Rogan: “What gives you satisfaction? When you complete a project, when something that…

Elon Musk: It's going to be wild. “I would expect the first really good AI video game to be next year and probably the first half hour of watchable TV this year and probably the first watchable AI movie next year. Things are really moving at an incredible pace.” xAI Grok 4…

Elon Musk: I don't think about staying ahead. I just think about improving the experience for the owner of the car. “I don't know if Tesla will stay ahead. Maybe we won't stay ahead. I just think about how we can improve the experience for the owner of the car. How can we make…

Elon Musk: Work on products that you personally love, that you feel really need to exist. “You want to focus on something that you are personally passionate about, that you personally care about. It's very hard to be motivated for a product that you don't really feel strongly…

Elon Musk in 2012: SpaceX is like a little kid fighting sumo wrestlers. “I'm probably not the guy that most people would bet on. It's like a little kid fighting a bunch of sumo wrestlers. Usually the sumo wrestlers win. SpaceX is a little scrappy company. Every now and again,…

Elon Musk: I hope you agree that becoming a multiplanet species is the right way to go. “I think there are really two fundamental paths history is going to bifurcate along two directions. One path is we stay on Earth forever and then there will be some eventual extinction event.…

Elon Musk: We don't know the meaning of life, but we can expand consciousness to understand more. “Our AI Grok is modeled after the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is one of my favorite books. It's a book on philosophy disguised as a book on humor. And I would say that…