#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI

Artificial Intelligence Podcast

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The holy grail of orbital rocketry is making a fully reusable rocketThis alone would greatly lower the cost of achieving sustainable life on another planet, including MarsSpaceX is trying to do just that… “I don’t care about altruism or pessimism, fuck that, we’re gonna get it done”– Elon MuskBeing multi-planetary is like buying life insurance on life itselfGiven a long enough period of time, the Earth is likely to experience some sort of calamity. It’s important to think in probabilities, not certainties.If a calamity doesn’t occur, the sun is slowly expanding and the earth will no longer be able to sustain life in roughly 500 million yearsThis sounds like a long time but it’s only 10% longer than Earth has existed (4.5 Billion years)“Cryptocurrency is an interesting approach to reducing the error in the database that is called money” – Elon MuskThe government effectively has editing privileges on the ‘money database’Printing more money creates errors in the database“Diluting the money supply is a pernicious form of taxation”– Elon Musk“Tesla Autopilot features will be far better than James Bond in his best movies… impossible maneuvers that a human can not do”– Elon MuskBy next year, Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) should operate at level 4 of vehicle autonomy“Many years in the future, I think work will become optional”– Elon MuskTesla Bot may be a future substitute for jobs that are boring or dangerous. People typically only do this type of work out of necessity, not out of passion.“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor”– Lex Fridman quoting Elon MuskBe useful – contribute more than you consume, have a net positive contribution to societyLex asked Elon if he would briefly join a long-form interview with Vladimir Putin in the futureElon said he would be happy to

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