Exclusive: Elon Musk On Twitter Fame, Loneliness, And AI

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if you google elon musk i think you have

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156 million search results really 76

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million

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twitter followers you are definitely one

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of the most popular

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people on earth

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is popularity

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a pleasure or liability for you

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well it makes it difficult to go buy a

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coffee at the corner store that's for

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sure

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so it's so it's hard to go around places

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you know

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i used to be able to just you know

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go to the store or walk down the street

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and now it's quite difficult to do that

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it's hard for me to go to a restaurant

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and if i do it's i just try to find a

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corner table and that's

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kind of dimly lit or something where i

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can sort of stay out of the way

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you

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said that you

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cannot be and don't want to be alone i

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very much share that feeling yeah

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where does it come from i think it's

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just a natural human reaction

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i mean most people a lot of people are

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happy if they are alone i don't i really

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that's uh

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i think most people

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are not happy being alone do you feel

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lonely

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i mean there are times when i feel

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lonely yes

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but i mean i think it's it's pretty

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basic like if i'm

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say working on this starship rocket

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down at

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you know

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south texas and

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and i'm just staying in my little house

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by myself

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especially if i forget my dog uh you

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know if my dog is not with me then

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then i feel quite lonely because i'm

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just in a little house by myself with

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not even a dog

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do you see any danger that elon musk

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could be regulated because

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of regulation

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like i have too much power personally or

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something

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well i mean

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if you if you build in many sectors that

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are absolutely crucial to society very

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dominating on mars suckers

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that's the option then

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you once said on mars uh if there's

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human life there should be direct

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democracy

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yes i think

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direct democracy is less susceptible to

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corruption than representative democracy

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um i mean the other recommendations that

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i'd like i'd say like and any laws need

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to be short enough that

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everyone can read them as well

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and and there should be some uh

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uh it should be easier to get rid of a

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law than make one you have to recently

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presented optimism and robert

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and you

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shared great expectations what that

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could do

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for

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the world could you imagine that one day

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we would be able to download our human

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brain capacity

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into a optimus yes

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i think that is

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i'm not saying this is i think it is

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possible i think to do that

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it is possible which would be as a

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different way of

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eternal life

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because we would also download our

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personalities into a bot

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yes we could download

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the things that we believe make

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ourselves unique now of course if you're

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not in a body anymore that

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there's definitely going to be some

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difference there you know but as far as

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preserving our memories

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our personality if you will

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we could i think we could do that

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do you think that optimus is going to

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play a role in our daily life helping us

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in the household and things like that

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um i think it probably would yeah

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i think so it's just like i said general

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purpose humanoid uh

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the prototype is going to be ready by

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the end of this year when is it a

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product that can be mass marketed

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i think we'll have something

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pretty good at the prototype level this

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year

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and it might be ready for

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at least a

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moderate volume production

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you know

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towards the end of next year

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is there anything that you

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most urgently

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want to achieve

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basically it comes down to solving the

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problem of real world ai that's that

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consumes a lot of my

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mind and then

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getting

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starship to work not just to get to

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orbit but to achieve full and rapid

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reusability which is really the holy

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grail of rocketry that is necessary for

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humanity to become a multi-planet

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species can love for projects for work

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compensate

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love

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among people

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i think

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love of work

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in my experience could it best make one

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halfway happy

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perhaps that's your biggest hope

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to be really in love

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i have been

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in the past

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i try to be as little as literal as

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possible

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i i would be happy if humanity has a

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self-sustaining city on mars

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because then the probable lifespan of

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humanity is much greater

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you know i think we really just got this

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you know

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consciousness like this

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little candle of consciousness like a

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small light in the void

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and

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we don't want that

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small candle in a vast darkness to be

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put out

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This video features an interview with Elon Musk discussing his fame, his views on loneliness, his visions for Mars, the future of AI and robotics (Optimus), and his ultimate goals for humanity. Musk shares personal insights into the challenges of celebrity, his desire for human connection, his political philosophy regarding Mars, and his commitment to space exploration and technological advancement to ensure the survival of human consciousness.