Elon Musk says

“If you buy a ticket to hell, it isn't fair to blame hell.”

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“When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength--400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well, it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.”

“In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.”

“I wonder how many dead one-planet civilizations are out there in the cosmos that never made it to the other planet and ultimately extinguished themselves or were destroyed by external factors. Probably a few.”

“Wasn’t Twitter supposed to die by now or something … ?”

“I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”

“The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.”

“Life needs to be more than just solving problems every day. You need to wake up and be excited about the future.”

“Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes… Why do we have no regulatory oversight?”

“It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”

“If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.”