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“Like, I think we're quite close to digital superintelligence. It may happen this year, and if it doesn't happen this year, next year for sure. Digital superintelligence is defined as smarter than any human at anything.”

“I mean, AI really within the next few years will be able to do any cognitive task. Like, it obviously begs the question, what are we all gonna do? You know, I'd say max three or four years. Maximum.”

“Almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true. So far, they've all turned out to be true, and if not, more true than people thought.”

“The lowest cost place to put AI will be space. And that'll be true within two years. Maybe three. Three at the latest.”

“So what I've tried to do is just restore it to be balanced and centrist. So there haven't been any left-wing voices that have been suspended or, you know, banned or de-amplified or anything like that.”

“I think it will turn out to be true that in less than 20 years, that maybe even as little as, I don't know, 10 or 15 years the advancements in AI and robotics will Bring us to the point where working is optional.”

“I think long term, I think money disappears as a concept, honestly. It's kind of strange, but in, in a future where anyone can have anything I think you no longer need money as a database for labor allocation. If there's, if AI and robotics are big enough to s…”

“There's an argument that companies that do AI and robotics, and maybe space flight, are gonna be overwhelming, overwhelmingly all the value, almost all the value. So the output of goods and services from AI and robotics is so high that it will dwarf everything…”

“But AI and humanoid robots will actually eliminate poverty.”

“I can't see any other way to get to the volume of chips that, that we're looking for. So, I think we're probably gonna have to build a gigantic chip app.”

“They have, in a lot of cases, released people who have committed violent crimes in order to imprison people who have simply made posts on social media.”

“He called me a speciest like racist or something for being pro human intelligence instead of machine intelligence.”

“I think that we might have AI smarter than any single human at anything as soon as next year.”

“And then probably within five, like say, 2030, probably AI is smarter than the sum of all humans.”

“Let's just say that the actions of the West are indistinguishable from suicide.”

“And if you take away religion, then I think you actually, you get something in its place which is actually worse than what was there before. I mean, it's like destructive, basically. You get like the white work mind virus filling, filling the hole that religio…”

“I think it can be done in, in 30 years. Provided there's an exponential increase in the tonnage to Mars, with each successive Mars transfer windows, which is every two years. So every two years, the planets align, and you can transfer to Mars. So I think in, R…”

“I think we'll have enough mass transferred to Mars within like roughly 30 years to make Mars self-sustaining, such that Mars can continue to grow and prosper, even if the resupply shifts from Earth stop coming.”

“I think it most likely will be a good outcome. I guess I'd sort of agree with Jeff Hinton that maybe it's a 10 to 20% chance of annihilation. But look on the bright side, that's 80 to 90% probability of a great outcome.”

“Anything that is a manufactured good or provided service will, I think, with the advent of AI plus robotics, that the cost of goods and services will be, will Trend to zero. Like, I'm not saying it'd be actually zero, but it'll be, everyone will be able to hav…”

“It would be fair to say that, therefore, as a leader of the company, I've done more for the environment than everyone else, any single human on Earth.”

“At the time this happened, the region around, you Crimea was actually turned off. Now, the reason it was turned off was, actually, originally, was because the United States had sanctions and we're not allowed to actually, and that includes Crimea in the sancti…”

“If I had received a presidential directive to turn it on, I would have done so, because I do regard the president as the chief executive officer of the country, whether I want that position If I'm not, I still respect the office, and so, if, you know, if we've…”

“We saw, ah, a 60% drop in advertising.”

“If one is to take China's policy literally, and probably one should then there will be some forceful force will be used for, you know to incorporate Taiwan into China.”

“I think it's some number that is probably at least four or five times that number. I'd say at if you did sort of the lowest estimate would be probably 20%. And this is a bunch of quite smart outside firms have done analysis of Twitter and looked at the sort of…”

“The reality is that, that Twitter at this point, you know, has a very far left bias.”

“The Democrat party is overly, overly controlled by the unions and by the trial lawyers, particularly the class action lawyers.”

“So, in, in making the Twitter offer, I was obviously reliant upon the truth and accuracy of their public filings, and if those filings are not accurate. It's simply not, that's, that it's not, you can't pay the same price for something that is much worse than …”

“There's still this guy, Mark Eberhard, who's the worst guy I've ever worked with, who tries to claim like sold credit essentially for creating a Tesla.”

“This, by the way, is I think the biggest single threat to civilization right now is the.”

“It's a meaningful number of people going to Mars I. I think this is potentially something that can be accomplished in about 10 years maybe sooner , maybe nine years.”

“The reason that obviously you mean the rest of the team you know, created open AI was to help [783] Elon Musk: with the democracy, help, help spread out AI technology [787] Elon Musk: so it doesn't get concentrated in the hands of a few.”

“I'm just trying to be realistic here. If we have, if AI intelligence is vastly more, if AI is like, You know, let's say that there's a million times more silicon intelligence than there is biological. It's, I think it's, it would be foolish to assume that, tha…”

“I'm confident that if AI and robotics continue to advance, which they are advancing very rapidly, Like I said, working will be optional and people will have any goods and services that they want. if you can think of it, you can have a type of thing.”

“So I think that probably We probably won't have money, and probably we'll just have energy, you know, power generation as the de facto currency.”

“It's certainly, it would be accurate to say that there's, you know, like some of the outsourcing companies have kind of gamed the system on, on the H-one B front, and we need to stop the gaming of the system, you know”

“I'm certainly not in the school of thought that we should shut down the HMB program. That's where some on the right are. I think they don't realize that that would actually be very bad.”

“We used that latest version of Grok to create Grokopedia which I think is much more, it's not just, I think, more neutral and more accurate than Wikipedia, but it actually has a lot more information than a Wikipedia page.”

“We want X to be the best source of truth on the planet by far. And I think it is”

“Once Twitter broke ranks, the others had to it became very obvious what the others were doing. And so they had to mitigate their censorship substantially as because of what Twitter did.”

“My understanding is that in the UK, there's something like two or 3000 people in prison for social media posts.”

“Effectively, Glass Lewis and ISS control the vote of half the stock market.”

“Let's just say I'm not going to build a robot army if I can be easily kicked out by activist investors.”

“They basically, they open sourced a broken, non-working version of their models as a fig leaf.”

“Larry Page was not you know, he was not taking AI's safety seriously.”

“He came to visit me at the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, and was telling me that it's impossible to have a long-range, ah, semi-truck. And I was like, well, but we literally have them and you can drive them, and Pepsi is literally using them right now”

“The reality is that, in my opinion, is that we've got at least 50 years before it's a serious issue.”