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Elon Musk : How to Build the Future

Y Combinator · 2.5M views · 2016-09-15 · 19:33

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Overview

A 20-minute Y Combinator interview in which Sam Altman asks Elon Musk how to build the future. Topics include which problems a 22-year-old should work on, such as AI, genetics, and brain interfaces, and general advice for founders.

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Offered as a more down-to-earth Musk interview with better questions than most, and cited for his stated concerns about concentrated AI power.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2025

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divbzero · 2022-02 · Recommendation

The anonymous “Interviewer” in the last part of that Reddit post was Sam Altman, excerpted from a 20-minute conversation with Elon Musk in 2016 [1] that I found to be interesting even as a non-fanboy. [1]: [VIDEO]

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m463 · 2019-04 · Recommendation

A more down-to-earth video to watch might be this one: "Elon Musk: How to Build the Future" [VIDEO] (of course "down-to-earth" is very relative)

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agrafix · 2016-09 · Recommendation

Came here to say the same thing, I was really hoping for some better questions like the ones in the "How to build the future" [1] interview... [1] [VIDEO]

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