Elon Musk: Neuralink will enable you to communicate thousands of times faster than currently possible.
“When you're trying to communicate with somebody else, you're actually trying to model their mind state and then take quite a complex idea that you have, maybe even a complex image or scene or kind of mental video, and try to compress that into a few words or a few keystrokes. It's necessarily going to be very lossy.
Your ability to communicate is very limited by how fast you can talk and how fast you can type. And what we're talking about is unlocking that potential to enable you to communicate thousands, perhaps millions of times faster than is currently possible. This is an incredibly profound breakthrough. This would be a fundamental change to what it means to be a human.”
From: Neuralink presentation, June 27, 2025
Here's Elon Musk back in 2012 predicting Starship:
“In the longer term, perhaps in a 10 to 15 year timeframe, I'm hopeful we'll have a craft that can take people to Mars.”
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Elon Musk: Amazingly, sometimes people have this debate as to which system is better. I'll tell you which system is better: The one that doesn't need to build the wall to keep people in.
"Any given person, if they are doing things in a less efficient organization versus a more efficient organization, their contribution to the economy, their net output of goods and services, will reduce.
You've got a couple of clear examples.
In North Korea, you've got 100% government.
And in South Korea, you've got probably 40% government – it's not zero.
And yet, you've got a standard of living that is probably ten times higher in South Korea, at least.
And then East and West Germany.
In West Germany, you had, just thinking in terms of cars, BMW, Porsche, Audi, Mercedes and East Germany, which is a random line on a map, the only car you could get was a Trabant, which is basically a lawnmower with a shell on it.
And it was extremely unsafe.
There was a 20-year wait.
That's just an interesting example of the same people, different operating systems.
Probably it was half government in West Germany and 100% government in East Germany.
And sometimes people have, amazingly, in this modern era, this debate as to which system is better.
Well, I'll tell you which system is better.
The one that doesn't need to build the wall to keep people in.
That's how you can tell."
Source: The All-In Podcast @theallinpod, September 9, 2024