agrafixon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]”
Came here to say the same thing, I was really hoping for some better questions like the ones in the "How to build the future" 1 interview... 1 link to this video
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Elon Musk : How to Build the Future
Y Combinator
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- Recommended by 3 people: 3 on Hacker News.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2016 to 2022.
- Presented by Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla
- May be out of date. Uploaded 10 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.
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Elon Musk discusses the most important problems for humanity to solve, including AI and genetics, and shares advice for founders.
Elon is the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors. Originally a cofounder of Paypal, Elon Musk founded SpaceX to enable the colonization of Mars. Access podcast and transcript versions of this interview here: ycombinator.com/future/elon/ Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - Introduction If you were 22 today, what would the five problems that you would think about working on? 💡 - AI 🤖 - Genetics 🧬 - High bandwidth interface to the brain 🧠 Common questions - I want to be the next Elon Musk, how do I do that? What did you do when you were younger that set you up to have a big impact? Do you think people that want to be useful today should get PhDs? 🎓 How should someone figure out how they can be most useful? SpaceX decision 🚀 - Estimating the probability of success of this very crazy idea at the time Making a decision when everyone tells you this is a crazy idea? Where do you get the internal strength? 💪 - Just feel it and let the importance of it drive you to do it anyway What are the odds of the Mars colony are at this point? When can we go to Mars? ♂⚓ What does the positive future for AI looks like and how can we get there? 🤖🔮 - Humans are so slow 😂 How do you think OpenAI is going as a six-month-old company? ⚛️ How do you spend your days now? What do you allocate most of your time to? 🕒 What do you do when you are at SpaceX or Tesla? 🤔 Elon spends most of his time with engineering team 😲 About Tesla Gigafactory and speed of the production line 🏭Why it's here
3 people recommend this, 1 disputes itWhat people say. Recommended for its insightful questions and heuristic advice on maximizing personal impact and understanding AI risks.
m463on Hacker News • Recommends
On “The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors”
A more down-to-earth video to watch might be this one: "Elon Musk: How to Build the Future" link to this video (of course "down-to-earth" is very relative)
divbzeroon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco”
The anonymous “Interviewer” in the last part of that Reddit post was Sam Altman, excerpted from a 20-minute conversation with Elon Musk in 2016 1 that I found to be interesting even as a non-fanboy. 1: link to this video
bookawayon Hacker News • Disputes
On “Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman”
PG liked him, because Altman decided to go to great lengths to get PG to like him. While Drew, Chesky and the Collison brothers were busy building billion dollar companies, Altman took the “shortcut” and made a concerted effort to cozy up to the most powerful man in the room — and it payed dividends. Altman did the same thing in the early OpenAI days by doing flaterring video series interviews with Elon Musk, Vinod Khosla and others 0. Incidentally, The YC interview with Elon Musk was done the year Musk made a donation to OpenAI (2016), I still remember PG’s essay where he gave Altman the ultimate character reference (2008) 1: >When we predict good outcomes for startups, the qualities th…
vinchucoon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Ask HN: What should I be doing to Maximize the Benefit Mankind can get from me?”
To answer your question, instead of maximizing your output, I believe that maximizing everyone else's output is more valuable. It is also harder, otherwise someone else would have already done it. I am very biased to answer that mathematics drives science. Advance the tools and applications follow. 1 Here is a more heuristic take on it by Elon Musk: link to this video 1 link
kailuowangon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Elon Musk invested early in DeepMind just to keep tabs on the progress of AI”
I think Elon Musk's concern over A.I. has been widely misunderstood. His concern is NOT A.I. replacing the human species. As he clearly stated in this interview1, his concern is that the immense power of A.I. owned by a small group of organizations or even individuals, which IMO, is well justified. 1. link to this video
somepersonon Hacker News • Mentions
On “SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing”
It's not too crazy of a question since Elon Musk has given public interviews in association with YCombinator 1 2 (and was a founder in partly YC-associated OpenAI 3), and the fact he seems to spend his limited time these days posting on X, streaming video games, memeing and presumably lurking on Reddit. 1 link to this video 2 link 3 link