Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
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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
#2Question/Answer I found interesting:
Sama> How should someone figure out how they should be useful?
Elon> Whatever this thing is you are trying to create.. What would be the utility delta compared to the current state of the art times how many people it would affect?
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#3I 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.
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#4I 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.
While we're at it, these are great interviews and I'm glad they're being created and published, and I'd appreciate if the series was available as a podcast... I only noticed this new interview because I happened to be on HN right now.
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#5I 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.
Agreed, it's really excessive to take simple text content and trap it within a PDF that's then trapped inside Scribd, which requires a Scribd account and login to download.
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#6I 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
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#7How would one go about meaningfully contributing to solving problems in genetics without having done the work leading to a MD or PhD (or both)?
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#8I 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.
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Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#9I 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.
I was able to copy and paste it just fine. See below.
Re: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
#10Of 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 economic lives around feudal holdovers like land titles. Who gives a shit if Elon Musk can connect his brain to the Internet and live forever as a sentient AI, while the rest of humanity drinks ditch water and lives small, dull lives?