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e end of this year there will be an operational car making plant in Georgia where 40% of the effort will be done by two-legged robots? That seems a little bit optimistic but we'll see. You probably know that Elon Musk was starting his own city, I guess in Texas near where he was doing his SpaceX stuff. And now it's official. It's called Starbase, Texas. And I guess it's officially blessed by the…

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think of that? Do you think AI should be maximally truth seeking? Well, maybe not maximally because I think that the truth would destroy civilization. How many of you believe that's true? Because I'm not even going to give you examples of where I think it would destroy civilization because if I gave you an example, I would get double cancelled. So I can't even give you an example. And you're telling me the AI is going to be able to say things that I can't say out loud because it's maximally truth seeking? No. No. We're not going to have a maximally truth seeking AI because it would rip the fabric of society in a hundred pieces. We largely li

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ve in this world of illusion. That's the only thing that keeps us from killing each other. Let me just give you one illusion. One of the illusions is that you can just work hard and you'll do great. Not really. I mean, you would have to be unusually good-looking or unusually smart. Then if you work hard, you might actually make something. But you can't really tell people, well, you know, given yo…

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