Joe Rogan interviews relaxed, joint-smoking Elon Musk [video]
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I felt similarly wired to what I see in the video once, I took a 10 day meditation retreat and whether or not it works doing nothing for over a week was exactly what I needed.
The problem is that it is easy to justify not doing this - an endless series of excuses are available.
Afterwards you'll feel the sharpest and most focused you've ever been and the effect lasts for weeks.
Tesla payed back the loans to the government.
SpaceX is excellently executing on the ISS Cargo contracts and are the furthest ahead in terms of human spaceflight as well.
SpaceX has performed many flights for government and is universally agree on that they have saved the government an absolute shitton of money.
There are actual geniuses and brilliant people working at space X and Tesla. For example the COO of space X who is the one that made the NASA deal yet I doubt anyone here knows her name.
There are many, many people with close relations to him who would call him a genius, but yes, I'm sure you know the 'truth'.
'I think Elon Musk is a genius and I don't use that word lightly. I think he's also one of the boldest men that ever came down the pike. Put me down as saying I've always been afraid of the guy whose IQ is 190 and he thinks it's 250. I like to think there’s a little of that risk with Elon. He is a certified genius.' - Charlie Munger.
But sure, Berkshire Hathaway owns 0 Tesla stock [0].
Not all opinions have secret motives haha.
Huh? Haven't there been like 7 people ever with an IQ of 190?
I think Elon's a smart guy. He has a big part in designing some of the rockets. However, I think his actual brilliance is in marketing. He (clearly) knows how to generate hype/buzz for all of his companies.
But yeah, I find it hilarious that people think he's the only reason why SpaceX and Tesla succeed. Tesla's taking a nosedive and SpaceX isn't largely because of Gwynne Shotwell.
The COO is the person behind the curtain and the CEO is the showman or visionary.
I feel strongly about this because I was trying to explain a possible implication of optogenetics to somebody this morning and suspect I came off sounding like a crazy person :)
What Musk is doing is making the familiar alien, trying to see from an external perspective holistically - which makes for results which are closer to something out of Ghost in the Shell than the everyday banality - and yet the banal world - when all the pieces fit together from a higher perspective really does possess an extraordinary big picture. Like the termites in the hill or Charles Darwin's understanding of how something normal (sex, reproduction rates and selection) really leads to something extraordinary.
Anybody looking through the macroscope will sound maladjusted until their beliefs ignored or become widely accepted. Think of that doctor who tried to get his coworkers to wash their hands. We have a hard time distinguishing between those and Coco the Clown. Our prior is 'if you don't sound like my internal monologue you must not be an ally and so be subject to suspicion'.
The other side to this - groups like Scientology take advantage of anybody who lowers their wards.
A Magician takes the trivial and shrouds it in confusion till one is astonished by the reveal. A scientist deconstructs the reveal into the simple and trivial.
I loath the magician.
The Copernican description of reality is simple and correct and threw away complex but incomplete models.
I'm sure you've noticed that people frequently create complex models for something, but it is only later it gets reduced to something easier to understand.
Probably this is because the elegant model is difficult to reach on the first pass, so the more circuitousness paths are taken first - your thoughts?
Not appreciating the mental scaffolding that takes you to the next point is a serious problem. Developmental economics and artificial intelligence - the scaffolding is neglected.
In developmental economics we only thought we knew how we got rich. Regressive planning (working backwards) failed because we are unaware of most of our past, even the recent past - we had a false consciousness about what actually took place. What we have is a bunch of just-so stories for grown ups and this is normal for humans in everything.
Neuroscientists say this is feature of how our memory works.
AI is similar because of Moravec's Paradox. People have been going around saying that more intelligent machines will come and replace physical labour for some time but the opposite is true. The paradoxical results of Moravec's Paradox occur because again we are unaware of the scaffolding required to replicate an artificial cerebellum system aka a brain/nerves/muscles - a body that knows how to move.
If you watch the most recent videos of walking computers you'll notice we are heavily implying we need very effective computer algorithms and vast quantities of data to produce a robot that can walk across the floor.
There is something wrong with that picture. I wonder if sea slugs brute forced traveling across the ocean floor with their supercomputers (now lost to us!).
He does one tiny hit of a weed/tabaco joint in the whole show.
I thought it was interesting nit-pick to see Musk smoking. I was hoping maybe some other tech/entrepreneurs on the site will open up about their habits. Is smoking weed generally helps programming, managing project? I wouldn't know.
Edit: you welcome to suggest and update.