Elon Musk and Kevin Rose
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN pointed people to it for the original interview and Musk's concise take on first-principles thinking.
What it is
Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk in 2012 about his companies PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla. It includes Musk's short explanation of reasoning from first principles versus by analogy.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2012 to 2014.
What Hacker News said
Recommends startupfounder · 2012-11 · on “Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars”
If you have't already seen it, Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk: [this video] Also, Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about if there was a space race with China the US would be on Mars in 18 months: [LINK] It would be truly amazing if a private company was the first to set foot on another planet.
Cites hastur · 2012-09 · on “Kevin Rose Interviews Elon Musk”
Why does the link lead to AllThingsD ?!?!?!?!? either point to the YouTube video itself [this video] or to the show page at [LINK] Don't give News Corp the traffic it doesn't deserve.
Cites schiffern · 2012-11 · on “Musk's Hyperloop”
That was my leading theory, and "cross between a rail-gun and a Concorde" all but confirms it. Flight path like a Concorde, propulsion like a rail-gun. Exploit the natural vacuum above our heads without expensive tunnels. Let's look at the attributes Elon has described publicly, and see how they compare to a launch loop: [LINK] * could be cheaper than CA high-speed rail? Check (no right-of-way). * "theoretically fastest way" from A-B? Check. * can't crash? Check (w/ well-designed rails). * immune to weather? Check. * twice as fast as a plane? Check. * lower energy cost than a car? Check. * self-powering with solar panels? Check. * stores power w/o batteries? Check. [this video] * requires aerodyn
Cites nnq · 2014-02 · on “AI”
It's funny that most people that are actually working on AGI have stopped even bothering to provide arguments for why they think AGI it's possible to the general public, because they know they're close and that "they'll just prove that it's possible to build it by fucking building it" instead of doing armchair thinking, while AGI detractors don't lose any opportunity to launch pseudo-arguments like missiles :) ...just to bite the bate a bit: > We have no proof that artificial general intelligence can exist. Well, we had no proof that fire can be produced ultil the first paleohumans learned to make fire. We had no proof that mechanized flight was possible until we built the first flying machi