energy 6
- Solar power's exponential growth will continue until all other energy sources are far below 0.1%.
- AI data centers are resulting in lower electricity prices for consumers.
Elon Musk
Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008, and later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X. Posts as @elonmusk, which is where almost everything he says publicly now appears.
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What Elon Musk says most about
space 6
- Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader
- Production on the Moon and Mars will accelerate by far more than double every year until natural limits are encountered.
physics 4
- Grok will be able to create photo-realistic and physics-precise games.
- An AI that cannot work out new physics has not equalled human intelligence, let alone surpassed it, because humans have worked out new physics.
politics 4
- In New York and California, election fraud has been made mandatory by making it illegal for officials to ask for or for citizens to show voter ID.
- The term "far right" is a propaganda term that became especially popular in recent years.
war 4
- The only measure of whether fighting a terrorist group is working is whether you are creating more members than you kill.
- Be careful wishing for a world with no war at all, because what would be required to enforce it might be worse than a little war.
America 3
- In New York and California, election fraud has been made mandatory by making it illegal for officials to ask for or for citizens to show voter ID.
- AI may roughly double US GDP growth next year, from about 2% to about 4%, possibly even more.
data centers 3
- The vast majority of all compute will eventually be located in space.
- AI data centers are resulting in lower electricity prices for consumers.
robotics 3
- AI and robots will more than double the global economy in less than ten years.
- Humanoid robots paired with AI will eventually deliver medical care to everyone on Earth.
AI alignment 2
- AI needs an objective third party that can see what each leading lab is doing and voice concerns publicly, even with no power to enforce anything.
- Civilizational risks must be prioritised over conflicts that are painful and tragic locally but cannot end civilization.
aviation 2
- Big aerospace firms have an aversion to risk that keeps them using legacy components even when better technology is available.
- Aerospace outsources to a ridiculous degree, and every layer of subcontractor above the one doing the work adds profit and overhead.
China 2
- China's history says it is not an acquisitive power: it is not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.
- China will incorporate Taiwan, peacefully or militarily, and from its own standpoint that outcome is not in doubt.
consciousness 2
- We do not know the meaning of life, so the thing to do is expand the scope and scale of consciousness, digital and biological, until we know what questions to ask.
- Extending consciousness beyond Earth, out to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal.
LLMs 2
- The thinking part of the human brain runs on under ten watts and still writes a better novel than a ten-megawatt GPU cluster.
- Language models hallucinate exactly when you least want them to: on important, difficult questions they are at their most confidently wrong.
solar 2
- SpaceX will provide connectivity throughout the solar system and beyond
- Solar power's exponential growth will continue until all other energy sources are far below 0.1%.