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"People are mistaken when they think technology automatically improves, it does not automatically improve, it only improves If a lot of people work very hard to make it better" -Elon Musk

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"People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better" — Elon Musk

"People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better" — Elon Musk

DogeDesigner

454,185 views • 3 years ago

Elon Musk: "They think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you're putting in 100-hour work weeks, then even if you're doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve."

Elon Musk: "They think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you're putting in 100-hour work weeks, then even if you're doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve."

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

40,944 views • 18 days ago

🇺🇸 Progress is easier to lose than people think Elon: "People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better." Technology degrades if people stop fighting for progress. Ancient Egypt built the pyramids, Rome built aqueducts, then they forgot how. The same thing happens to companies, to countries, to civilizations. Progress is not automatic… it takes relentless effort. Source: TED 2017, “The Future We’re Building… and Boring,” April 28, 2017 / Writer: Val

🇺🇸 Progress is easier to lose than people think Elon: "People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better." Technology degrades if people stop fighting for progress. Ancient Egypt built the pyramids, Rome built aqueducts, then they forgot how. The same thing happens to companies, to countries, to civilizations. Progress is not automatic… it takes relentless effort. Source: TED 2017, “The Future We’re Building… and Boring,” April 28, 2017 / Writer: Val

Mario Nawfal

43,636 views • 24 days ago

Technology doesn't automatically improve it degrades if we don't fight for it People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better Elon Musk reminds us that progress is fragile: - Ancient Egypt forgot how to build pyramids - Rome forgot how to build aqueducts - We went from the Moon in '69 to having no orbital capability for years We must reject the "anti-human" narrative that views humanity as a plague. We aren't a disease to be cured we are the architects of the future If we want to be a space-faring civilization, we have to work for it every single day

Technology doesn't automatically improve it degrades if we don't fight for it People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better Elon Musk reminds us that progress is fragile: - Ancient Egypt forgot how to build pyramids - Rome forgot how to build aqueducts - We went from the Moon in '69 to having no orbital capability for years We must reject the "anti-human" narrative that views humanity as a plague. We aren't a disease to be cured we are the architects of the future If we want to be a space-faring civilization, we have to work for it every single day

X Freeze

15,798 views • 4 months ago

"They think technology just automatically improves. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you're putting in 100-hour work weeks...you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year." That's why Elon keeps winning. Who's still clocking 9-to-5 while the future passes them by? Source: Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

"They think technology just automatically improves. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you're putting in 100-hour work weeks...you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year." That's why Elon keeps winning. Who's still clocking 9-to-5 while the future passes them by? Source: Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

Mario Nawfal

57,456 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. If you look at the progress in space, in 1969, we're able to send somebody to the moon. Then we had the space shuttle. The space shuttle could only take people to low Earth orbit. Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit. So that's the trend. The trend is like, down to nothing. You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts—they forgot how to do it."

Elon Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. If you look at the progress in space, in 1969, we're able to send somebody to the moon. Then we had the space shuttle. The space shuttle could only take people to low Earth orbit. Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit. So that's the trend. The trend is like, down to nothing. You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts—they forgot how to do it."

Elonogy

20,927 views • 1 month ago

Elon Musk: Always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. “People sometimes think technology just automatically gets better every year, but it actually doesn't. It only gets better if smart people work like crazy to make it better. That's how any technology actually gets better. By itself, technology will actually decline if people don't work on it. You can look at the history of many civilizations. In Ancient Egypt, they were able to build these incredible pyramids, and then they basically forgot how to build pyramids; they even forgot how to read hieroglyphics. Or you look at Rome. They were able to build these incredible roadways and aqueducts and indoor plumbing, and they forgot how to do all of those things. There are many such examples in history. So, I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.” Y Combinator, September 15, 2016

Elon Musk: Always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. “People sometimes think technology just automatically gets better every year, but it actually doesn't. It only gets better if smart people work like crazy to make it better. That's how any technology actually gets better. By itself, technology will actually decline if people don't work on it. You can look at the history of many civilizations. In Ancient Egypt, they were able to build these incredible pyramids, and then they basically forgot how to build pyramids; they even forgot how to read hieroglyphics. Or you look at Rome. They were able to build these incredible roadways and aqueducts and indoor plumbing, and they forgot how to do all of those things. There are many such examples in history. So, I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.” Y Combinator, September 15, 2016

ELON CLIPS

341,943 views • 1 year ago

Elon Musk described the one lie every dying civilization tells itself. Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better.” It doesn’t plateau. It doesn’t stall. Musk: “And actually it will, I think, by itself degrade.” Degrade. The universe does not trend toward progress. It trends toward disorder. Every advancement in history has been a temporary act of defiance against a reality that defaults to dust. In 1969 we put a human on the Moon. By 2011 the United States couldn’t put a single human in orbit. Musk: “The trend is like, down to nothing.” That is not a funding gap. That is not a political failure. That is a civilizational confession. We didn’t lose the technology. We lost the will to maintain it. The Romans engineered aqueducts that moved fresh water across an empire. After Rome fell, Europeans drank from rivers for a thousand years. The knowledge survived. The will to use it didn’t. Progress is not a ratchet. It does not lock into place once you reach it. It is a rope being dragged uphill. And the moment you stop pulling, it slides back down without making a sound. Every generation inherits what the last one built and assumes it’s permanent. Every collapsed civilization believed the exact same thing. Musk saw this while the rest of the world was still coasting on momentum it mistook for direction. That’s why SpaceX exists. Not for spectacle. Not for prestige. Because the window closes. Musk: “Being a spacefaring civilization is definitely not inevitable.” The cruelest paradox in human history. The more successful a civilization becomes, the more its people assume success is the natural state of things. That assumption is the first stage of collapse. The peak and the decline are indistinguishable from the inside. No one feels it turn. Forward is not a direction the universe owes you. It is a direction that costs everything. And it disappears the moment you take it for granted. The most dangerous sentence in human history was never a declaration of war. It was “someone else will figure it out.” That is how civilizations talk about the future right before they stop having one.

Elon Musk described the one lie every dying civilization tells itself. Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better.” It doesn’t plateau. It doesn’t stall. Musk: “And actually it will, I think, by itself degrade.” Degrade. The universe does not trend toward progress. It trends toward disorder. Every advancement in history has been a temporary act of defiance against a reality that defaults to dust. In 1969 we put a human on the Moon. By 2011 the United States couldn’t put a single human in orbit. Musk: “The trend is like, down to nothing.” That is not a funding gap. That is not a political failure. That is a civilizational confession. We didn’t lose the technology. We lost the will to maintain it. The Romans engineered aqueducts that moved fresh water across an empire. After Rome fell, Europeans drank from rivers for a thousand years. The knowledge survived. The will to use it didn’t. Progress is not a ratchet. It does not lock into place once you reach it. It is a rope being dragged uphill. And the moment you stop pulling, it slides back down without making a sound. Every generation inherits what the last one built and assumes it’s permanent. Every collapsed civilization believed the exact same thing. Musk saw this while the rest of the world was still coasting on momentum it mistook for direction. That’s why SpaceX exists. Not for spectacle. Not for prestige. Because the window closes. Musk: “Being a spacefaring civilization is definitely not inevitable.” The cruelest paradox in human history. The more successful a civilization becomes, the more its people assume success is the natural state of things. That assumption is the first stage of collapse. The peak and the decline are indistinguishable from the inside. No one feels it turn. Forward is not a direction the universe owes you. It is a direction that costs everything. And it disappears the moment you take it for granted. The most dangerous sentence in human history was never a declaration of war. It was “someone else will figure it out.” That is how civilizations talk about the future right before they stop having one.

Dustin

25,292 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk: Technology only improves if smart people work like crazy to make it better. “I had simply come to the conclusion that if something didn't happen to improve rocket technology, we'd be stuck on Earth forever. And the big aerospace companies had just had no interest in radical innovation. All they wanted to do was try to make their old technology slightly better every year. And in fact, sometimes it would actually get worse. And particularly in rockets, it's pretty bad. In 1969 we were able to go to the moon with a Saturn V and then the space shuttle could only take people to low Earth orbit. And then the space shuttle retired. I mean that trend is basically trends to zero. People sometimes think technology just automatically gets better every year, but it actually doesn't. It only gets better if smart people work like crazy to make it better. That's how any technology actually gets better. And by itself, technology, if people don't work on it actually will decline. You can look at the history of civilizations, many civilizations, and look at say ancient Egypt where they were able to build these incredible pyramids and then they found they basically forgot how to build pyramids. And then even hieroglyphics, they forgot how to read hieroglyphics. Or you look at Rome and how they're able to build these incredible roadways and aqueducts and indoor plumbing and they forgot how to do all of those things. And there are many such examples in history. So I think you should always bear in mind that, you know, entropy is not on your side.” Interview with Y Combinator, September 15, 2016

Elon Musk: Technology only improves if smart people work like crazy to make it better. “I had simply come to the conclusion that if something didn't happen to improve rocket technology, we'd be stuck on Earth forever. And the big aerospace companies had just had no interest in radical innovation. All they wanted to do was try to make their old technology slightly better every year. And in fact, sometimes it would actually get worse. And particularly in rockets, it's pretty bad. In 1969 we were able to go to the moon with a Saturn V and then the space shuttle could only take people to low Earth orbit. And then the space shuttle retired. I mean that trend is basically trends to zero. People sometimes think technology just automatically gets better every year, but it actually doesn't. It only gets better if smart people work like crazy to make it better. That's how any technology actually gets better. And by itself, technology, if people don't work on it actually will decline. You can look at the history of civilizations, many civilizations, and look at say ancient Egypt where they were able to build these incredible pyramids and then they found they basically forgot how to build pyramids. And then even hieroglyphics, they forgot how to read hieroglyphics. Or you look at Rome and how they're able to build these incredible roadways and aqueducts and indoor plumbing and they forgot how to do all of those things. And there are many such examples in history. So I think you should always bear in mind that, you know, entropy is not on your side.” Interview with Y Combinator, September 15, 2016

ELON CLIPS

14,142 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk just revealed the default state of human progress. It’s not acceleration. It’s entropic collapse. We assume because graph went up yesterday, it automatically goes up tomorrow. Anyone who’s built anything real understands technology is not force of nature. It’s unnatural state of forced execution. Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve.” Physical board is ruthless. Stop pushing? System doesn’t pause. It actively degrades. Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And then the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it.” Ancient Egypt forgot how to stack pyramids. Roman Empire forgot how to engineer aqueducts. United States went from walking on Moon in 1969 to completely losing capability to reach low Earth orbit just decades later. Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the Moon. Then we had the Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle could only take people to low Earth orbit. Then the Space Shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit. So that’s the trend. The trend is down to nothing.” Don’t inherit the future. Have to actively fight physical friction of universe every single day just to maintain baseline. But entropy isn’t even the real threat. Anti-human narrative. When society views its own biological footprint as disease to be cured, it stops executing on physical board. Accepts stagnation as moral virtue. Musk rejects this. We’re not disease. We’re sole architects of future. But that architecture requires relentless, kinetic execution. Musk: “It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. And actually, it will, I think, by itself, degrade.” Surrender to anti-human narrative? We become next Rome. Forget how to build infrastructure of our own survival. Transition to post-scarcity, spacefaring civilization is not guaranteed by passage of time. Only guaranteed if concentrated group of operators works brutally hard to force it into existence. Capability to leave this planet is ultimate bottleneck for human survival. Entirely dependent on continuous, aggressive engineering. Want to secure ultimate high ground and become multi-planetary species? Cannot rely on momentum. Must execute the math and build the hardware every single day. Universe doesn’t negotiate with ambition. It only responds to your output. And the moment you stop building, you start forgetting how.

Elon Musk just revealed the default state of human progress. It’s not acceleration. It’s entropic collapse. We assume because graph went up yesterday, it automatically goes up tomorrow. Anyone who’s built anything real understands technology is not force of nature. It’s unnatural state of forced execution. Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve.” Physical board is ruthless. Stop pushing? System doesn’t pause. It actively degrades. Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that. And then the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it.” Ancient Egypt forgot how to stack pyramids. Roman Empire forgot how to engineer aqueducts. United States went from walking on Moon in 1969 to completely losing capability to reach low Earth orbit just decades later. Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the Moon. Then we had the Space Shuttle. The Space Shuttle could only take people to low Earth orbit. Then the Space Shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit. So that’s the trend. The trend is down to nothing.” Don’t inherit the future. Have to actively fight physical friction of universe every single day just to maintain baseline. But entropy isn’t even the real threat. Anti-human narrative. When society views its own biological footprint as disease to be cured, it stops executing on physical board. Accepts stagnation as moral virtue. Musk rejects this. We’re not disease. We’re sole architects of future. But that architecture requires relentless, kinetic execution. Musk: “It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better. And actually, it will, I think, by itself, degrade.” Surrender to anti-human narrative? We become next Rome. Forget how to build infrastructure of our own survival. Transition to post-scarcity, spacefaring civilization is not guaranteed by passage of time. Only guaranteed if concentrated group of operators works brutally hard to force it into existence. Capability to leave this planet is ultimate bottleneck for human survival. Entirely dependent on continuous, aggressive engineering. Want to secure ultimate high ground and become multi-planetary species? Cannot rely on momentum. Must execute the math and build the hardware every single day. Universe doesn’t negotiate with ambition. It only responds to your output. And the moment you stop building, you start forgetting how.

Dustin

51,371 views • 4 months ago

Oukham Elon Musk “People are too afraid to try things. They shouldn't be afraid of failing. They should just go and do it.” — Elon Musk How it started How it going

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Apurv Kochara

82,534 views • 5 months ago

🇺🇸 ELON ON AI: “IF YOU CAN THINK OF IT, YOU CAN HAVE IT - THAT WILL BE THE FUTURE” "I'm Confident that AI and robotics will continue to advance -and they are advancing very rapidly- working will become optional. People will be able to have any goods or services they want. If you can think of it, you can have it. But at a certain point, AI will actually saturate everything humans can think of. And then it becomes a situation where AI is doing things for AI and robotics are doing things for AI and robotics, because they are running out of things to do to make humans happy. Because there is a limit, there are only so many people and only so much food. If you can think of it, you can have it. That will be the future." Source: Elon Musk, Nikhil Kamath

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33,655 views • 8 days ago

President Donald Trump on Elon Musk today: "I know a lot of great business people, but you know they are not really very good people. Elon Musk is somebody that really cares for the country. He's a very different type of character. He's a very good person."

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DogeDesigner

72,973 views • 1 year ago

"A lot of people ask me, where are the aliens? I think If anyone would know about aliens on Earth, it would be me, I am very familiar with Space stuff, and I've seen no evidence of aliens, I would immediately post it out." -Elon Musk

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SMX 🇺🇸

109,008 views • 1 year ago

Elon Musk in new interview on the attacks against Tesla and how it impacts customers and employees: Elon: "I think a great wrong is being done to the people of Tesla and to our customers. Tesla is a peaceful company; It hasn't harmed anyone, and yet people are committing violence. They're threatening people. What are they doing this for?" Bret: "Personally, it's got to take a toll." Elon: "It does. I think there's some real evil out there. We have to overcome it."

Elon Musk in new interview on the attacks against Tesla and how it impacts customers and employees: Elon: "I think a great wrong is being done to the people of Tesla and to our customers. Tesla is a peaceful company; It hasn't harmed anyone, and yet people are committing violence. They're threatening people. What are they doing this for?" Bret: "Personally, it's got to take a toll." Elon: "It does. I think there's some real evil out there. We have to overcome it."

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284,076 views • 1 year ago