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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
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Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#12I am very happy that there's a transcript. But I just spent two minutes trying to figure out how to cut and paste it into a textfile (Scribd won't let me download it without signing up). My request to YC is to publish transcripts like this as text.
Hi there. That certainly is inconvenient! Here's a link to the transcript in RTF, and we will definitely note it for future posts: https://goo.gl/kaMMwv
Heh, now it's asking me to sign up to Dropbox.
Thanks for noting my request, and consider just including the text in the body of the page. It will blow people's minds.
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
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Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi there. That certainly is inconvenient! Here's a link to the transcript in RTF, and we will definitely note it for future posts: https://goo.gl/kaMMwv
Heh, now it's asking me to sign up to Dropbox. Thanks for noting my request, and consider just including the text in the body of the page. It will blow people's minds.
Ah, shoot. I forgot that happens there too (at least you can close that popup and get back to the content :) )
And definitely noted!
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#15Of course Elon Musk thinks that AI and brain interfaces are the most important things to work on, that's all that is holding back his raging space boner. Meanwhile, a large part of the world is still using Iron Age technology to get by with the bulk of their lives. The most important work of "How to Build the Future" is political work - reforming our property relations, for example, so that we aren't organizing our e…
I don't know why you are being downvoted. You put forward a valid point.
Perhaps the fanboys here could understand the desperation most of the world still lives in, even today!!!
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#16Of course Elon Musk thinks that AI and brain interfaces are the most important things to work on, that's all that is holding back his raging space boner. Meanwhile, a large part of the world is still using Iron Age technology to get by with the bulk of their lives. The most important work of "How to Build the Future" is political work - reforming our property relations, for example, so that we aren't organizing our e…
A UFAI would be an extinction level event for our species. That involves studying decision theory, which will improve our ability to make the right choices.
Cheaper access to space would make lives easier for humans on Earth, give us better internet through the use LEO satellites. We would be able to mine space rocks and bring it back to Earth, reducing some material scarcity on Earth. Same for space manufacturing.
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#17Of course Elon Musk thinks that AI and brain interfaces are the most important things to work on, that's all that is holding back his raging space boner. Meanwhile, a large part of the world is still using Iron Age technology to get by with the bulk of their lives. The most important work of "How to Build the Future" is political work - reforming our property relations, for example, so that we aren't organizing our e…
The delta from "people die" to "people no longer die" is a massive technological problem. By comparison, once we have that technology, making it available to everyone is many orders of magnitude easier, and much easier to get funding for. Do you really believe, given a cure for mortality, that we couldn't get it to the rest of the world in much less time than it took to develop in the first place?
And with that in place, thousands of other smaller problems evaporate along with it.
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#18Since when did entrepreneurs decided to speak in scifi-bullshit? "We have a digital tertiary self in the form of out email capabilities, our computers, phones, applications."
And also, arrogant to the point of being funny? "Interviewer: Do you think people that want to be useful today should get PhDs?Elon: Mostly not." LOL.
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#19Of course Elon Musk thinks that AI and brain interfaces are the most important things to work on, that's all that is holding back his raging space boner. Meanwhile, a large part of the world is still using Iron Age technology to get by with the bulk of their lives. The most important work of "How to Build the Future" is political work - reforming our property relations, for example, so that we aren't organizing our e…
The delta from "people die" to "people no longer die" is a massive technological problem. By comparison, once we have that technology, making it available to everyone is many orders of magnitude easier, and much easier to get funding for. Do you really believe, given a cure for mortality, that we couldn't get it to the rest of the world in much less time than it took to develop in the first place? And with that in pl…
I don't have the exact numbers but If I'm not mistaken its said that we need less money to end hunger in the world than what we probably spent trying to get out of earth. So, it seems to me that your point is not really valid because we already have the tech/knowledge/means to end hunger and we didn't so it makes a lot of sense to me to focus some more on political reforms.
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#20Of course Elon Musk thinks that AI and brain interfaces are the most important things to work on, that's all that is holding back his raging space boner. Meanwhile, a large part of the world is still using Iron Age technology to get by with the bulk of their lives. The most important work of "How to Build the Future" is political work - reforming our property relations, for example, so that we aren't organizing our e…
The delta from "people die" to "people no longer die" is a massive technological problem. By comparison, once we have that technology, making it available to everyone is many orders of magnitude easier, and much easier to get funding for. Do you really believe, given a cure for mortality, that we couldn't get it to the rest of the world in much less time than it took to develop in the first place? And with that in pl…
Much more likely than a hotfix for death is a world where there are very, very expensive treatments that allow wealthy people to extend their lives by some significant amount.
That's not going to be a fun world to live in, especially if the treatments requires biological raw materials that the destitute can sell.