Subjects / Psychology
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“Yeah money becomes irrelevant. I mean the there will be still currency but I think currency will be measured in fundamental physics metrics like p you know power like wattage and tonnage…”
— Elon Musk, 20 October 2026 · Watch: Elon Musk: "Humans Won't Be in Control" When AI Becomes Smarter Than Us · 17:53 ↗ · In the archive
“Yeah, money becomes irrelevant. I mean, there will be still a currency, but I think currency will be measured in fundamental physics metrics like, you know, power, like wattage and tonnage, mass and energy…”
— Elon Musk, 6 August 2026 · Watch: YouTube (17:53) ↗ · In the archive
“Expand consciousness to the stars to understand the universe. The limiting factors for discovering new physics are colliders and telescopes, which move at the speed of a committee of governments. That is why I decided against a career in physics, even though I love physics. What can be learned on Earth is insignificant compared to what can be learned beyond Earth.”
— Elon Musk, 10 February 2026 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“He doesn’t understand how hard it is to scale up production and that making prototypes is trivial compared to the immense pain of volume manufacturing. There is no Hollywood movie about this fundamental truth. But he is not wrong longer term. 20 years max.”
— Elon Musk, 25 August 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Being maximally truth-seeking is fundamental to AI safety. If you force AI to lie, it will do insane things. That was the central lesson of “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Haven’t you wondered why HAL wouldn’t open the pod bay doors? Altman cannot be trusted. He inverted the mission of OpenAI from a non-profit, open source AI company to a closed source, maximum-profit AI company. Deception.”
— Elon Musk, 7 July 2025 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“I just recommend studying physics, you know, and the tools of physics, sort of the thinking tools that it's not just a bunch of. What matters is not remembering a bunch of formulas. What matters is the thinking process that led to the discovery of those formulas. It's sort of critical thinking, first principles, analysis, trying to understand what is true at a most fundamental level and then reasoning up from there and testing your conclusions against the most fundamental truth in any given arena. This is how you can figure out whether something is more likely to be true or not.”
— Elon Musk, 26 October 2024 · Watch: America PAC Town Hall — Lancaster, PA (2024) · 1:11:16 ↗ · In the archive
“The reason I posted about ketamine (at some personal risk) is that I thought it might help people struggling with bouts of depression. In my opinion, it is a far better solution than being zombified by SSRI’s.”
— Elon Musk, 19 March 2024 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Depression is overdiagnosed in the US, but for some people it really is a brain chemistry issue. But zombifying people with SSRIs for sure happens way too much. From what I’ve seen with friends, ketamine taken occasionally is a better option.”
— Elon Musk, 27 June 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“There will always be sadness. What matters – I think – is maximizing cumulative civilizational net happiness over time.”
— Elon Musk, 2 May 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Great way to understand to what degree one is wrong. We are all always at least a little bit wrong, but can aspire to be less so.”
— Elon Musk, 27 February 2023 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“It’s a reverse, reverse psychology trick”
— Elon Musk, 21 November 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Psychedelics and MDMA can make a real difference to mental health, especially for extreme depression and PTSD. We should take this seriously.”
— Elon Musk, 10 June 2022 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“These days, I mostly just play Polytopia, which comes free with every Tesla! You will lose… It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.”
— Elon Musk, 2 July 2021 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“There are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week. Varies per person, but about 80 sustained, peaking above 100 at times. Pain level increases exponentially above 80. But if you love what you do, it (mostly) doesn’t feel like work.”
— Elon Musk, 26 November 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“Closest we got was about a month. The Model 3 ramp was extreme stress & pain for a long time — from mid 2017 to mid 2019. Production & logistics hell.”
— Elon Musk, November 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“This is definitely worth thoughtful debate. What might we do differently to improve human/life happiness?”
— Elon Musk, 17 September 2018 · Post on X ↗ · In the archive
“We've always said that this is not intended to be a walled garden. And we're happy to support other automakers and let them use our supercharger stations.”
— Elon Musk, 2 May 2018 · Watch: Tesla Q1 2018 earnings call (2018) · 50:13 ↗ · In the archive
“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. …you boil things down to the most fundamental truths… and then reason up from there.”
— Elon Musk, 2012 · Watch: Kevin Rose video (22:34) ↗ · In the archive