Trigger warning: Elon Musk to boycotting advertisers: GFY. Some of you are not gonna like the directness, but I find it marvelously refreshing.
This is one of the most satisfying and interesting interviews I’ve ever seen. Despite the rather irksome obtuseness of the interviewer (he seems
like a nice enough guy, at least
), I have found watching this nearly 1 ½ hour clip to be time very well spent and elucidating.
Simon Ateba on X: "FULL INTERVIEW: Elon Musk tells advertisers trying to boycott X, 'Go # Yourself', says, “What I see all over the place is
people who care about looking good, while doing evil. # them,” says he will not vote for Joe Biden in 2024, says Tesla has done more to help the…
t.co..." / X (twitter.com)
Some key quotes (language warning--Elon drops the F bomb on multiple occasions. Is it wrong that I found this to be part of the charm of this
interview?)
Here is Elon Musk being based:
“What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good
while doing evil. F# them. Okay?”
“Of all the posts I’ve done on the platform, I think there might be 30,000 or something like that, once in a while, I’ll say something…
foolish. And I have.”
If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising blackmail me with money go f# yourself. Go - F# - Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.
Hey Bob! If you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel. Don’t advertise.
Some more interesting ideas Musk fronted (might be slightly paraphrased):
Then I read Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which is a book of philosophy in the form of humor. The point is we don’t actually
know what questions to ask. [...]
This is generally true in physics: at the point in which you can actually form the question, the answer is the easy part.
Consciousness key to understanding the meaning of life
Life has to be more than simply solving one sad problem after another. There have to be reasons to wake up in the morning and be happy to be alive
[..] what gives you hope, and if you aren’t sure, ask your kids.
Nothing any of my companies has been to stifle competition; in fact we have done the opposite at Tesla, we have open-sourced our patents. At SpaceX we
don’t use patents. We’ve done nothing anti-competitive.