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born 1971 South Africa
Elon Reeve Musk (born 28 June, 1971) is an American (South African-born) entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; president of the Musk Foundation; and owner of X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, Inc.
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Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.
You can have a job if you want to have it for personal pleasure. But AI could do everything.
SpaceX's got 5,000 people. I get a lot of attention, but they are really doing the work.
History is written by the victors. Well, yes, but not if your enemies are still alive and have a lot of time on their hands to edit Wikipedia.
The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit. There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.
Possibly, the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist.
Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store.
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day.
Since our primary competitors [in space launch] are national governments, the enforceability of patents is questionable.
I see a path for Tesla to be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco combined.
Most humans have very limited firewalls, so are easily programmed.
Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.
I would urge parents to limit the amount of social media that children can see because they're being programmed by a dopamine-maximizing AI.
All designs are wrong, it's just a matter of how wrong.
Offer me money, offer me strength, I don't care.
If you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny.
This bill raises the debt ceiling by $5 TRILLION, the biggest increase in history.
The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened.
If the design takes a long time to build, it's the wrong design.
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