ELON CLIPS

@ArthurRoy1388 Spoken like someone who has never read a biography of Elon Musk 😂

@ElonClipsX Spoken like someone who has never done manual labor.

Elon Musk: “There will come a point where no job is needed. You can have a job if you want to have a job for personal satisfaction, but the AI will be able to do everything.”

Elon Musk: Live by censorship, die by censorship. “Free speech is only meaningful if you allow people you don't like to say things you don't like, so that's how you know it's working. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Live by censorship, die by censorship.” Source: Atreju Festival, December 16, 2023.

Elon Musk in 2018: Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes. “A danger of AI is much greater than the danger of nuclear warheads. And nobody would suggest that we allow anyone to just build nuclear warheads. That would be insane. Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes. Far. So why do we have no regulatory oversight? This is insane.” Source: SXSW, March 11, 2018.

Elon Musk: I’d go to Mars only if I'm certain SpaceX will be fine without me. “I do personally want to step foot on Mars, but honestly, I’d be doing this even if I knew there was no chance of me going to Mars. I think it’s just important that we are on a path to getting there. I’d like to go at some point. I’ll go if I’m certain that SpaceX will be fine without me and that path will continue. You may have heard the joke I’ve made before, which is: I’d like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” Source: SXSW 2013, Austin, Texas, March 9, 2013.

Elon Musk back in 2017: Artificial general intelligence is “one of the most troubling questions.”

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Elon Musk: Once you lose freedom of speech you don’t get it back. “Free speech and a level playing field, that’s the bedrock of a functioning democracy. That’s why the First Amendment was the first thing they did. Where they came from there wasn’t freedom of speech, and once you lose freedom of speech you don’t get it back. So that’s why we must protect it at all costs.” Source: Morgan Stanley TMT Conference, March 7, 2023

Elon Musk: We were promised space hotels, but it just wasn't happening. So I started SpaceX. “I just kept wondering why we were not making progress towards sending people to Mars, why we didn't have a base on the moon. You know, where are the sort of space hotels that were promised in 2001, the movie? It's like, you know, this just wasn't happening. Year after year, it was getting me down. I looked at the NASA website, I was like, where does it say when we're going to Mars? It doesn't.” SXSW Conference, Austin, March 11, 2018.

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Elon Musk on AI safety: We will probably need an AI regulatory agency. “I think it’s clear that there’s a strong consensus, an overwhelming consensus that there should be some AI regulation, that it would be in the best interests of the people to do so. And I think we’ll probably see something happen. I don’t know on what timeframe or exactly how it will manifest itself. We’ve created regulatory agencies before. And actually just recently, just before leaving, I made the point that, you know, while our regulatory agencies are not perfect, and I deal with regulators on a very frequent basis with automotive, communications, Starlink, and then FAA with rockets. So I’ve had a tremendous amount of interaction with regulators for a couple decades at least. I think some sort of AI regulatory agency that stands on its own, similar to the FAA or FCC, is likely at some point. The reason that I’ve been such an advocate for AI safety in advance of anything terrible happening is that I think the consequences of AI going wrong are severe. So we have to be proactive rather than reactive.” Elon Musk speaking to reporters at the U.S. Senate AI Insight Forum, September 13, 2023.

Elon Musk: If I find an irrational fear, I squelch it. Katie Miller: “What is your biggest irrational fear?” Elon: “I try not to have irrational fears. If I find an irrational fear, I squelch it. Fear is the mind killer.” Source: The Katie Miller Podcast, December 10, 2025.

Elon Musk: Reason from first principles, not by analogy. “So you may have heard me say that it's good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles, which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there. And this is a good way to figure out if something really makes sense, or if it's just what everybody else is doing. It's hard to think that way. You can't think that way about everything, it takes a lot of effort. But if you're trying to do something new, it's the best way to think. And that framework was developed by physicists to figure out counterintuitive things like quantum mechanics, so it's really a powerful method.” Source: Elon Musk, USC Marshall School of Business Commencement Address, May 16, 2014.

@ICannot_Enough Oh thanks 🙏

@ElonClipsX July 9, 2020, actually. citynewsservice.cn/shine/9a5d25e4…

Elon Musk in 2019 at the Shanghai AI Conference: “I'm extremely confident that level 5, essentially complete autonomy, will happen, and I think it will happen very quickly.”

Elon Musk: Manufacturing a product is ten thousand percent more work than designing it. “Manufacturing is underrated and design is overrated. People generally think of this Eureka moment, where you come up with an idea and that is it, now it is good. But there is literally a thousand percent, maybe ten thousand percent more work that goes into the production system than the thing itself. The amount of effort that goes into the design rounds down to zero, relative to the effort that goes into the manufacturing system. If people have not been in manufacturing of something relatively new, they do not understand. They think production is like a copier. This is completely false.” Starbase Tour with Everyday Astronaut, July 30, 2021.

Elon Musk: People thought I was out of my mind when I suggested catching the booster with the tower. “If you can move mass to the ground side, it's better to move mass to the ground side. That's why we took the legs off the booster and just have the tower catch it. I know it sounds insane. But when I suggested that, people thought I was out of my mind, which, I'm like, maybe I have. But I think it might take a few kicks at the can, but we'll get it right. And then just the work that you have to do to pick up the booster and put it on the launch stand, this gigantic skyscraper thing, in high wind, you know, like windy situations. It's very windy around here. You pick up this booster. You got to put it onto its stand with precision. Then you got to pick a ship up and put it up on top of that. So that means you've got to have a secondary arm to steady the booster so it's not moving around all over the place. And then, while the Mechazilla arms pick up the ship and put it on the booster.” Starbase tour interview with Tim Dodd, The Everyday Astronaut, August 2021.

Elon Musk: You do not have to go to college. These skills probably will not be necessary in a post-work society. Nikhil Kamath: “Do you think kids should go to college any more?” Elon: “Well, I think if you wanna go to college for social reasons, that is, I think, a reason to go. To be around people your own age in a learning environment. Will these skills be necessary in the future? Probably not, because we are gonna be in like a post-work society. But I think, if something is of interest, it is fine to go and study that. I don’t think you have to go to college, but I think if you do, you just try to learn as much as possible across a wide range of subjects. But like I said, AI and robotics is a supersonic tsunami. So this is really gonna be the most radical change that we have ever seen.” Source: People by WTF with Nikhil Kamath, November 30, 2025.

Elon Musk: We're probably not living in base reality. “The strongest argument for us being in a simulation, probably being in a simulation, I think is the following. That 40 years ago, we had Pong, like two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously, and it’s getting better every year. And soon we’ll have virtual reality, augmented reality. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. Just indistinguishable. Even if that rate of advancement drops by 1,000 from what it is right now. Then you just say, okay, well, let’s imagine it’s 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing in the evolutionary scale. So, given that we’re clearly on a trajectory to have games that are indistinguishable from reality, and those games could be played on any set-top box or on a PC or whatever, and they would probably be, you know, billions of such, you know, computers or set-top boxes, it would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in base reality is one in billions.” Recode Code Conference (Code Conference 2016), June 2, 2016.

@neuralamp4ever The interview was in 2022..

@ElonClipsX Why is he praising Elon while working for Dario?🙃

Andrej Karpathy on why Elon Musk runs organizations efficiently: He's not only the leader, but he's also the biggest cheerleader for the company's idea. “Elon is a very efficient warrior in the fight against entropy in organizations. He hates meetings. He keeps telling people to skip meetings if they are not useful. He basically runs the world’s biggest startups. I would say Tesla, SpaceX are the world’s biggest startups. Tesla actually is multiple startups. He has a very good intuition for streamlining processes, making everything efficient. Best part is no part, simplifying, focusing and just removing barriers, moving very quickly, making big moves. All this is very startup seeming things, but at scale.” Lex Fridman: “What do you think is the secret to maintaining the startup culture in a company that grows?” Karpathy: “I do think you need someone in a powerful position with a big hammer, like Elon, who is like the cheerleader for that idea and ruthlessly pursues it. If no one has a big enough hammer, everything turns into committees. Democracy within the company, process, talking to stakeholders, decision making, everything just crumbles. If you have a big person who is also really smart and has a big hammer, things move quickly.” Source: The Lex Fridman Podcast #333 with Andrej Karpathy, October 29, 2022.