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Elon Musk reveals why, measured against the sun's energy, human civilization barely registers as existing at all: "Right now we're very low on the Kardashev one scale. If you say what proportion of our planet's power are we harnessing, it's a very, very tiny number. And we're harnessing almost nothing of our star's power. The sun is truly an immense thing. It's difficult with words to characterize just how immense the sun is" "The sun is about 99.86% of all mass in the solar system. Most of the remaining 0.14% is Jupiter. The entire mass of Earth is in the tiny miscellaneous category. Earth is a tiny dust mote compared to the sun" "We currently use much less than a trillionth of the power output of the sun, and a trillion is a million times a million. So basically we're practically nowhere on the Kardashev two scale. On the Kardashev scale, we're still non-existent. We're not registering"
Jaynit7,444,149 görüntüleme • 6 gün önce
Jeff Bezos on why he wants a trillion humans in the solar system "I would love to see a trillion humans living in the solar system. If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a 1,000 Mozarts and a 1,000 Einsteins" "Our solar system would be full of life and intelligence and energy. And we can easily support a civilization that large with all of the resources in the solar system"
Jaynit7,248,894 görüntüleme • 19 gün önce
Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?" "Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress." Most people use stress and anxiety interchangeably. Naval says they're different things: "Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things." His fix for it is thinking about death: "One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?" Which raises a question. If nothing matters, isn't all time wasted? "What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for." And the part most people miss: "People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."
Jaynit96,032 görüntüleme • 1 gün önce
Elon Musk on why the absence of aliens would be far more terrifying than finding them "I have yet to see any actual evidence of aliens, and I'm really deep in space. If there's some actual evidence of aliens or an actual UFO, I'll be there in a second. Is it a UFO, is it advanced technology? That would be very interesting, and hopefully they're friendly" "If they managed to get all the way here from another star system, their technology is going to be far in advance. We'll be primitive compared to them" "But I also think, if there aren't aliens, that's actually perhaps even a bigger concern. Because if there actually aren't aliens in our galaxy or anywhere near us, then this consciousness on planet Earth is like a tiny candle in a vast darkness. A fragile candle. And we should just do everything we can to make sure it does not go out"
Jaynit193,786 görüntüleme • 2 gün önce
Former SpaceX astronaut Garrett Reisman reveals the single prism Elon Musk runs every major decision through "He measures pretty much every major decision by whether or not it brings the day when we have a self-sustainable colony on Mars sooner or later" "That's the prism by which he makes every single decision he makes" "He's got an idea and he'll keep pushing, and he gives us aggressive timelines that we have to work to" "We work really hard to try to meet them. It's hard when you're doing stuff that's this complicated to predict exactly how long it's going to take" "We end up falling a little bit behind, but we do our best"
Jaynit14,446,152 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Elon Musk reveals why he believes the cheapest place to put AI will be space within 36 months "The availability of energy is the issue. Everywhere outside of China, electrical output is more or less flat. The output of chips is growing exponentially, but the output of electricity is flat" "How are you going to turn the chips on? Magical power sources? Magical electricity fairies?" "Space is really a regulatory play. It's harder to build on land than it is in space. It's harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space" "It's always sunny in space. You don't have a day-night cycle, seasonality, clouds, or an atmosphere. The atmosphere alone results in about a 30% loss of energy" "Any given solar panel can do about five times more power in space than on the ground. You also avoid the cost of having batteries to carry you through the night" "My prediction is that it will be by far the cheapest place to put AI. It will be space in 36 months or less. Maybe 30 months" "The only place you can really scale is space. Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the Sun's power you are harnessing, you realize you have to go to space" "Solar cells are already farcically cheap. In China they're around 25-30 cents a watt. Now put them in space, and it's not five times cheaper, it's 10 times cheaper because you don't need any batteries" "The moment your cost of access to space becomes low, by far the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space. It's not even close" "Those who have lived in software land don't realize they're about to have a hard lesson in hardware. It's actually very difficult to build power plants"
Jaynit8,361,022 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Elon Musk reveals he flew to Moscow to buy actual nuclear missiles before he started SpaceX "I went to Russia in like 2001 and 2002 to buy ICBMs, which is an adventure. You go and meet with Russian high command and say, I'd like to buy some ICBMs" "Not to nuke anyone, but as a result of arms reduction talks, they had to destroy a bunch of their big nuclear missiles. So I was like, well, how about we take two of those, minus the nuke, add an additional upper stage for Mars" "It was kind of trippy, being in Moscow in 2001, negotiating with the Russian military to buy ICBMs. And they kept raising the price on me, which is the opposite of what a negotiation should do"
Jaynit1,782,181 görüntüleme • 29 gün önce
Carl Icahn on the 12 floors of employees he fired after nobody could explain what they actually did "I get control of this company, ACF. They had 12 floors on Third Avenue. I'm a good numbers guy, a good poker player, I'm going to go understand what they do. They send me to the 12th floor with my yellow pad, and they're explaining, this guy does this, these guys do that. I go to the seventh floor, spend the whole day, go home, look at my yellow pad, and I can't figure out what the hell they do. I go back the next day, the ninth floor, the eighth floor. I'm not an idiot, and I can't figure out what they do. I ask, what do you need him for? Oh, this is very arcane stuff, you're not going to understand it" "So I call the guy who actually runs the plant in St. Louis, Joe. A John Wayne character, a former Marine captain, a tough guy. He shows me what he does, and I understand it, boom boom. We go have a martini, and I say, Joe, how many of those guys in New York do you need to support your operation? He says, I need minus 30. I say, what does that mean, minus 30? He says, because you don't have the balls to do what I'll tell you to do. Get rid of all of them tomorrow, and I'll need 30 people less to support them with numbers they make me send that I don't need" "I still couldn't believe it. So I bring in consultants, the great leasing experts in the world, a professor from Columbia. Quarter of a million dollars, three weeks. They come back with a book this big, yellow graphs, red graphs, green graphs. I say, I'm colorblind anyway, just tell me what they do. And he smiles and says, you've been square with us, so I'm going to tell you something. We don't know what they do either. I am not joking" "So I called Joe up, gave everybody severance, nobody was mad, got rid of the whole 12 floors, and sold the lease for 10 million dollars. And here's the thing. If you shut down a grocery store, you'd hear from somebody, the apples weren't right. If you had a flower shop, somebody's roses wilted. This was like a science fiction movie. It was like they never existed. I never got a letter. I never got anybody calling me"
Jaynit324,514 görüntüleme • 8 gün önce
Mark Zuckerberg on how much screen time he actually allows his own kids "It's different for the different ones. We don't just let them do whatever, but I actually want them to be fluent with this stuff. I want them to learn how to code, how to use technology, because a lot of socialization happens online at this point. People need to get used to the norms around that" "They're still too young to be using social media, but they have Messenger Kids, so they can video chat and chat with their friends, and we monitor to make sure they're connecting with the people we think they should" "I think it's good if you have an engaged parent and, as a child, you grow up learning how to use this stuff"
Jaynit56,487 görüntüleme • 2 gün önce
Elon Musk explains his 5-step algorithm for solving any problem: "The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist." "I have this very basic first principles algorithm that I run as a mantra." Elon breaks it down: Step 1: Question the requirements. "Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are always dumb to some degree, no matter how smart the person who gave you those requirements. You have to start there, because otherwise you could get the perfect answer to the wrong question." Step 2: Try to delete it. "Try to delete the part or the process step entirely. If you're not forced to put back at least 10% of what you delete, you're not deleting enough. Most people feel like they've succeeded if they haven't been forced to put things back in. But actually they haven't, they've been overly conservative and left things in that shouldn't be there." Step 3: Optimize or simplify. "The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist. So you don't optimize until after you've tried to delete." Step 4: Speed it up. "Any given thing can be done faster than you think. But you shouldn't speed things up until you've tried to delete it and optimize it otherwise, you're speeding up something that shouldn't exist." Step 5: Automate. "And then the fifth thing is to automate it." Elon explains why the order matters: "I've gone backwards so many times where I've automated something, sped it up, simplified it, and then deleted it. I got tired of doing that. So that's why I have this mantra."
Jaynit383,881 görüntüleme • 14 gün önce
In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule for job talks • Why jokes fail at the start 15 lessons on communication:
Jaynit5,538,316 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Elon Musk reveals the brutal math behind why a single hour of his time is worth $100 million "Tesla this year will do over $100 billion in revenue, so that's $2 billion a week. If I make slightly better decisions I can affect the outcome by a billion dollars. The marginal value of a better decision can easily be in the course of an hour $100 million" "You have to look at it on a percentage basis. If you look at it in absolute terms, I would never get any sleep. I'd just keep working and work my brain hotter, trying to get as much as possible out of this meat computer"
Jaynit3,325,904 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Charlie Munger reveals the mental trick he used as a WWII meteorologist to keep pilots from dying "One of my favorite tricks is the inversion process. When I was a meteorologist in World War Two, they told me how to draw weather maps and predict the weather, but what I was actually doing is clearing pilots to take flights. So I just reversed the problem. I inverted" "I said, suppose I wanted to kill a lot of pilots, what would be the easy way to do it? And I soon concluded the only easy way would be to get the planes into icing they couldn't handle, or to get the pilot into a place where he'd run out of fuel before he could safely land. So I made up my mind I was going to stay miles away from killing pilots by either of those" "If somebody asked me to fix India, I would immediately say, what could I do if I really wanted to hurt India? I'd figure out all the things that could most easily hurt India, and then I'd figure out how to avoid them. You'd say it's the same thing, just in reverse, but it works better to frequently invert the problem" "Every great algebraist inverts all the time, because the problems are solved easier. Human beings should do the same thing in the ordinary walks of life"
Jaynit469,317 görüntüleme • 21 gün önce
Jeff Bezos reveals why compromise is one of the worst ways to resolve a disagreement "An example of a really bad way of coming to agreement is compromise. If I say the ceiling is 11 feet and you say 12 feet, we say let's call it 11 and a half. That's compromise" "The advantage of compromise is it's low energy. But it doesn't lead to truth" "Another really bad resolution mechanism is who's more stubborn. Two executives disagree, they have a war of attrition, and whichever one gets exhausted first capitulates. You haven't arrived at truth, and this is very demoralizing" "Escalation is better than a war of attrition. Escalate to your boss and say, we can't agree, we like each other, we're respectful, but we strongly disagree, we need you to make a decision" "Exhausting the other person is not truth seeking. Compromise is not truth seeking"
Jaynit2,419,149 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Elon Musk on being beaten nearly to death as a child, and why he refused to become bitter about it "I was almost beaten to death within an inch of my life at one point. It wasn't just a few blows here and there" "One can take, and often people do take, the path of vengeance. To feel that the world has treated them unfairly, and that they will visit upon the world that which the world has visited upon them" "While I'm not a particularly religious person, I do believe the teachings of Jesus are good and wise. There's tremendous wisdom in turn the other cheek. This notion of forgiveness is essential, because if you don't forgive... an eye for an eye makes everyone blind"
Jaynit439,353 görüntüleme • 22 gün önce
Michael Jordan reveals the decision framework his father taught him before his murder that he still uses every day: "The thing that I remember the most about my father, and I had him for 32 years, and I never look at it from a negative sense. Obviously he was murdered, and rarely do I get the chance to talk about him." "The thing that I do remember all the time, I think about him practically every day, is for a person like myself who lives in the spotlight and so critical from people all the time in terms of what I do, what I say, where I go." "The thing he always said is, take a pause before you make a decision and say what if. The purpose for saying what if is that whatever decision you make is always either going to have consequences, pros and cons."
Jaynit919,313 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Mark Zuckerberg reveals why Elon Musk was right to fire 80% of Twitter's employees: "Elon led a push early on to make Twitter a lot leaner. You can agree or disagree with exactly all the tactics, but a lot of the specific principles that he pushed on around basically trying to make the organization more technical, around decreasing the distance between engineers of the company and him, fewer layers of management, I think those were generally good changes" "I also think that it was probably good for the industry that he made those changes because my sense is that there were a lot of other people who thought those were good changes but who may have been a little shy about doing them" "Just in my conversations with other founders and how people have reacted to the things that we've done, what I've heard from a lot of folks is when someone like you, when I wrote the letter outlining the organizational changes I wanted to make back in March and when people see what Elon is doing, that gives people the ability to think through how to shape their organizations in a way that can be good for the industry and make all these companies more productive over time" "That was one where I think he was quite ahead of a bunch of the other companies on. Certainly his actions led me and I think a lot of other folks in the industry to think about, hey, are we kind of doing this as much as we should? Could we make our companies better by pushing on some of these same principles?"
Jaynit863,502 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Elon Musk reveals the environmentalist viewpoint he says has become total madness "There are 8 billion people on Earth and it would be better if there were none. I'm like, 'hey buddy, you can start with yourself. See if you really want to make a difference'" "That's like a crazy viewpoint. That's like literally saying, let's genocide humanity. How can you say that with a straight face? That sounds like total madness" "In the limit of environmentalism, it becomes like an ingrown toenail. A toenail's fine, but not if it's warped and ingrown. It's just gone too far" "Humanity is not a blight on the face of the Earth" "Even with climate change, life on Earth will still continue. The calamities Earth has suffered where life continued, gigantic meteorite impacts, super volcanoes, continents drifting all over the place" "There've been times in Earth's past where it's been like a total snowball or absolutely sweltering hot. We had many extinction events, but life continued" "We don't see the dinosaurs now, but they had a good run for 100 plus million years" "Even if there's catastrophic climate change, life continues. It just may not be life as we know it. It may not be humans, it'll be something else" "What we're talking about with climate change is not a threat to all life on Earth, but really maybe a threat to humans, a dislocation if low-lying countries end up underwater" "Over time we need to move to a sustainable energy economy. We can't just keep taking billions of tons of carbon from deep underground and putting it in the atmosphere and expect nothing will happen forever" "But we also don't need to be alarmist about it and super negative and massively disrupt people's lifestyles" "People can continue to live a normal life. They shouldn't feel guilty about being human or having a stake. It's fine"
Jaynit1,018,222 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Mark Cuban reveals how he protected himself from losing the 1.4 billion dollars he made selling Broadcast .com to Yahoo "We sold the company to Yahoo for stock. I had seen stocks go up and stocks go down. I told everybody, there's a good chance the whole thing could crash. Don't be greedy" "Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. Don't get slaughtered" "I put together what they call a collar. I sold some of the upside to the Yahoo stock and protected myself by buying puts on the downside" "Three months later the internet stock market cratered. It was called one of the top 10 Wall Street trades of all time" "All I had to do was protect it and not get greedy and I'd be set for the rest of my life"
Jaynit1,588,391 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Warren Buffett jokes about Charlie Munger's Costco obsession "Charlie and I were on a plane recently that was hijacked. The hijackers picked us out as the two dirty capitalists that they really had to execute" "They were a little abashed about it, they didn't really have anything against us, so they said each of us would be given one request before they shot us. They turned to Charlie and said, what would you like as your request?" "Charlie said, I would like to give once more my speech on the virtues of Costco, with illustrations. And the hijacker said, well, that sounds pretty reasonable to me" "He turned to me and said, and what would you like, Mr. Buffett? And I said, shoot me first"
Jaynit309,975 görüntüleme • 23 gün önce