Thread by @knowledgenets

Highly recommend watching the latest TED Interview between @TEDchris and @elonmusk!



To save you some time in case you can't watch the full video, here's a series of 16 highlights from the interview below: 👇 🧵

1// The Importance of Optimism & Positive Thinking:

"We want to wake up in the morning and look forward to the future. We want to be excited about what's going to happen. Life cannot simply be about solving one miserable problem after another". - @elonmusk

2// There's a pendulum between "tech pessimism" and "tech euphoria".

> Extreme Pessimism: Nobody works on anything if the future is sad or in a state of disarray.

> Extreme Tech Euphoria: Nobody needs to work on anything because tech is rapidly innovating and solving problems.

3// There are 3 elements in a sustainable energy future:

>> Sustainable energy generation
>> Batteries & battery storage
>> Electric transport

4// Musk estimates that the amount of battery production that the world needs for energy sustainability is an estimated 300 terawatt hours of batteries.

5// "The only way to solve full self driving is to solve real world AI and sophisticated vision" - Musk

Studying a unified vector space and development of labeling (instead of just image recognition on individual images) is aiding in the advancement of self-driving technology.

6// Self-driving technology continues to improve and gain adoption.

>> "Over 100,000 people are in [Tesla's] self-driving beta program" - Musk

>> "The [#Tesla] car currently drives me around Austin most of the time with no interventions" - Musk

7// Optimus (Tesla's robot) is among the most important product developments going on at Tesla this year.

"This [Optimus & Tesla's robots] is going to be bigger than the car" - Musk

Wow...👀 🤩

8// The intersection of biological intelligence and digital superintelligence presents both fascinating positive possibilities and some risk factors.

9// The purpose of establishing a multi-planetary species is to maximize and extend the probable longevity of human civilization, humanity, and consciousness.

#SpaceX #Space

10// Estimated employee count, according to Musk:

>> Tesla has about 110,000 people
>> SpaceX has about 12,000 people
>> Boring Company & Neuralink each have about 200 people.

11// Musk's reasoning for SpaceX currently remaining a private company:

"The making of a multi-planetary species is outside of the normal time horizon of Wall Street analysts". 😂

12// High Multiplier Effect via Quality Output & Time

"Tesla will get to a point where every high-quality minute of thinking is a million dollar impact on Tesla" - @elonmusk

Incredible 👏👏👏

13// Musk's Thoughts on Philanthropy, Part 1:

>> "If you think of philanthropy as advancing the state of human goodness instead of the perception of it, philanthropy is extremely difficult".

14// Musk's Thoughts on Philanthropy, Part 2:

"SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and the Boring Company are philanthropy, if you say philanthropy is love of humanity".

15// Using companies to advance humanity forward:

> Tesla: Sustainable energy & transport
> SpaceX: Long-term survival of humanity via multi-planetary species
> Boring Company: Solve traffic
> Neuralink's: Solve brain injuries & intersection of biological & digital intelligence

16// Be motivated by curiosity and think positively about the future.

"If you want the future to be good, you must make it so. Take action to make it good, and it will be" - Musk