Elon Musk On Clubhouse – Good Time: Read Everything On Here

Elon Musk the world’s wealthiest person was interviewed on Clubhouse about everything from Bitcoin to the Mars. Here’s what you missed

• The Elon Musk main room filled in like 2 seconds.
• There are like 6 overflows listen to rooms & they are also full.
• Elon Musk on Clubhouse – Good Time

You can listen to the full interview with Sriram Krishnan, Aarthi Ramamurthy, Garry Tan, Steven Sinofsky right here, but if you don’t have the time, here are key highlights and takeaways from the conversation.

When are we getting to Mars and what will it take? – Aarthi Ramamurthy

5.5 years to get to Mars from now, need to make Starship get to Mars and back. Need fully reusable rocket and having sustainable life on Mars is most important for preserving the consciousness of life. – Elon Musk 

why is the consciousness of life important to you? – Sriram Krishnan

Reading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy made him think about what life is about and its scope and how the universe is the answer – We have to increase the scope and scale of consciousness to figure out what to ask – Elon Musk

First time in history that we have a chance to make life multi-planetary and have likely a short window of time to make it happen. Have an obligation to ensure that life continues even in the face of calamity on earth. – Elon Musk

How will civilization get set up there? – Aarthi Ramamurthy

Doesn’t care about much how it gets set up, more important right now to be able to get there and back. – One self-sustaining city, along with making Mars itself self-sustainable is the goal. – Elon Musk

How will civilization look 10/20/30 years in Mars? – Aarthi Ramamurthy

Will start with tiny outposts and life will be difficult but will still be an adventure. – Martian civilization would be tougher by necessity. – With travel time, there would be a new group of ppl arriving every 2 yrs – Elon Musk

How do you think we should think about Aliens? – Aarthi Ramamurthy

No conclusive evidence of aliens, but doesn’t mean there aren’t aliens in this universe – Seen no occurrences that can’t be explained by other means, which are much more likely than alien technology

You had a quote, “who controls the memes controls the universe” – explain that? – Aarthi Ramamurthy

Play on words from a line from Dune “who controls the spice controls the universe” – Some truth to it in that a meme is a complex form of communication and can say 10,000 words – Elon Musk

What Elon Musk said about Twitter: –

Left twitter after using it a bit when it first came out – came back to be able to talk to people directly, and “*started* crazy on Twitter.” Made memes and has good “meme dealers”

Why should people be working for Neuralink? – Sriram Krishnan

Need to improve the bandwidth b/w cortex and digital tertiary layer – Neuralink would massively improve communication and speed of it to save space in brain – Neuralink would address brain/spinal injuries Releasing new progress videos w/in a month. Already have a happy monkey that can play video games using the mind, trying to see if they can get monkeys to play mind pong – Early applications will be for ppl with serious brain injuries. – paying attention to implantation removal too – Elon Musk

What is the best way of educating a 5-year-old? – Pmarca

• Youtube and Reddit is what my kids were mostly educated on the given amount of time spent online
• Make education exciting, explain things to kids
• Establish relevance and narrative or else kids have a hard time remembering

Why doesn’t the world have more Elon Musks?? – Sriram Krishnan

Long sections of Elon’s life have been difficult and not sure people would want to do that. “If someone DOES want to be me or do the things I’ve done, I would say most probably you are mistaken” – Elon Musk

What do you think of Crypto and $BTC bitcoin? – Sriram Krishnan

Have to be careful with what he says because it can move markets – Have been encouraged by friends to get involved in bitcoin but was slow on uptake and at this point that’s a good thing. Don’t have strong cryptos, but does joke about Dogecoin. – “Most ironic outcome would be that Dogecoin becomes the currency of Earth in the future” (but joking) – Elon Musk

What do you see for Tesla’s future and all things battery technology? – Sriram Krishnan

• Sustainable energy
• makes a lot of cars and makes them affordable
• Goal to make 20 million cars a year, grow car production ASAP
• Great suppliers but have to produce it ourselves to accelerate
• Tesla has some of the most advanced AI in the world, bringing the day of self-driving sooner
• directly correlating to lives saved
• Have to solve “vision” to really get autonomous vehicles – Elon Musk

What’s a typical workday for Elon Musk? – Sriram Krishnan

• Wake up and see if there are any emergencies on text and email, often are
• Deal with chores (have to do em!)
• Have a bunch of meetings, write
• Enjoy in-person meetings more than email/text, “anything is better than email”

What does your open-time look like? (meetings/workday) – Sriram Krishnan

• Not much open time, lots of meetings that are scheduled and intense on a day to day basis
• Thinking about taking a week off some time!
• Want to write a book of his experiences on Tesla/SpaceX to get it right
• Used to sleep on the floor of the factory.

Do you still sleep on the factory floor? – Sriram Krishnan

Only in crises. “when the team is being asked to work super hard – I gotta be right there with them, and they gotta see it. Seeing is believing” – “If I can take that level of pain, then they’ll do it too”

If you had to start another company or effort, what would you start? – Sriram Krishnan

“No plans on starting other things” – lots going already with open mouth and cold sweat
– Said tunnelling was interesting but no one was pursuing it so starting The Boring Company
– Lots of possibilities there “Digitization of medicine” – create an RNA or DNA sequence. Encapsulate that in a way you can get them multiplied billions of times in a liquid shell. You can literally do anything – “you could probably figure out how to turn someone into a literal butterfly” – Elon Musk

What Elon Musk said about vaccinations for COVID

• Relax requirements on vaccinations, make it first come first serve
• Don’t worry about the second dose, give everyone the first dose
• J&J vaccine is one shot, room temp so that’s good
• NOT ANTI-VAC, take the vaccine!!

View on the future of California? – Sriram Krishnan

Love CA, lived more than half of my life here, and built companies here – Elon Musk

What are you watching on TV? – Sriram Krishnan

Watched “The Last Kingdom” (emotionally accurate live transcription), also seen “Cobra Kai” – Elon Musk