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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future

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1106 points sama | 1 comments | 15 Sep 16 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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astazangasta[dead post] ◴[15 Sep 16 18:40 UTC] No.12508638[source]▶
Of course Elon Musk thinks that AI and brain interfaces are the most important things to work on, that's all that is holding back his raging space boner. Meanwhile, a large part of the world is still using Iron Age technology to get by with the bulk of their lives.

The most important work of "How to Build the Future" is political work - reforming our property relations, for example, so that we aren't organizing our economic lives around feudal holdovers like land titles. Who gives a shit if Elon Musk can connect his brain to the Internet and live forever as a sentient AI, while the rest of humanity drinks ditch water and lives small, dull lives?

yyyuuu ◴[15 Sep 16 18:49 UTC] No.12508721[source]▶
I don't know why you are being downvoted. You put forward a valid point. Perhaps the fanboys here could understand the desperation most of the world still lives in, even today!!!
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paradite ◴[15 Sep 16 19:00 UTC] No.12508817[source]▶
He might have a valid point but the point is off-topic.

Here the context is technology, not politics or economic policies.

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petra ◴[15 Sep 16 19:17 UTC] No.12508964[source]▶
Not really. Many discussions here are about politics and economic policies, which btw are important forces for some enterpreneurs to be aware of.
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1. paradite ◴[16 Sep 16 00:57 UTC] No.12511180{3}[source]▶
Apologies. What I mean is the interview's context is technology (what you would expect from YC and Elon Musk).

Hence, his answer to the questions would naturally be about technology rather than other important aspects of human civilization.