Thursday, 30 December 2021

A conversation of geniuses. Lex Fridman talks to Elon Musk. Elon's life lesson: "Try to be useful"

What a privilege it is to be able to watch two people with genius level IQ, talk about things: humanity, the future, science, love, the meaning of life. This is the first time in human history that we have this privilege. And these two are bona fide geniuses. Elon we all know. Perhaps the world's best entrepreneur. Lex is a front-thinker on AI.
Towards the end, Elon answers the question of what should one aim at in life and he answers ("Advice for young people"):
"Try to be useful".
Also:
Learn a little about a lot of things. Read the encyclopedia, or at least its digest. 
Learn as much as possible.
Read broadly
Don't have a zero-sum mindset. Most things are not zero-sum.

And a lot more:
Here are the timestamps. To support this podcast, check out our sponsors below. 0:00 - Introduction 0:07 - Elon singing 0:55 - SpaceX human spaceflight 7:40 - Starship 16:16 - Quitting is not in my nature 17:51 - Thinking process 27:25 - Humans on Mars 32:55 - Colonizing Mars 36:41 - Wormholes 41:19 - Forms of government on Mars 48:22 - Smart contracts 49:52 - Dogecoin 51:24 - Cryptocurrency and Money 57:33 - Bitcoin vs Dogecoin 1:00:16 - Satoshi Nakamoto 1:02:38 - Tesla Autopilot 1:05:44 - Tesla Self-Driving 1:17:48 - Neural networks 1:26:44 - When will Tesla solve self-driving? 1:28:48 - Tesla FSD v11 1:36:21 - Tesla Bot 1:47:01 - History 1:54:52 - Putin 2:00:32 - Meme Review 2:14:58 - Stand-up comedy 2:16:31 - Rick and Morty 2:18:10 - Advice for young people 2:26:08 - Love 2:29:01 - Meaning of life