E69: Elon Musk on Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories, Giga Texas & more
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
All-In Podcast, LLC
4.0 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
0:00 Bestie Guestie Elon Musk joins via Zoom at the All-In Summit!
0:43 Benchmarking Twitter's bot problem, thoughts on slights from the Biden Administration
13:26 Breaking down Tesla's 6+ businesses, comparing them to a traditional car company
21:42 Concerns around the Twitter deal, crypto payments on Twitter
30:19 Building vs. acquiring, early Tesla stories
39:52 SpaceX's grand vision and business model, nuclear fusion vs. solar
56:37 Moving from CA to TX, fixing California, macroeconomic takes
1:10:20 American exceptionalism, a new immigration strategy
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| 0:00.0 | So live from an undisclosed location with the sultry filter on |
| 0:09.0 | Very sultry filter on |
| 0:12.7 | Having a great hair day. Yeah, that is a good hair day for great hair day my pal |
| 0:17.8 | And your favorite CEO and Twitter Mr. Elon Musk. How you doing pal? |
| 0:24.1 | Oh, yeah, I appreciate you coming to the event and coming zooming in. Yeah, what's new in your world? |
| 0:54.3 | Well, let's see. I guess right now I'm sort of debating the number of bots on Twitter |
| 1:03.4 | Pro on Twitter |
| 1:09.0 | Currently I'd like to watch what I'm being told is that the there's just no way to know the number of bots |
| 1:15.2 | It's like as unknowable as the human soul basically |
| 1:30.8 | Like why don't try calling people but I haven't got a response you know like try calling people or something, you know |
| 1:39.4 | No, no, I don't know, but I think like that would be one of the things to do to say like |
| 1:43.5 | Have you tried calling them as opposed to the try to read the tea leaves here? That's like impossible, you know |
| 1:49.3 | Obviously you can have an account that looks exactly like a human account or is being operated where one person is operating a thousand accounts or something |
| 1:57.7 | But that person can only buy one toaster that I'm gonna buy a thousand toasters |
| 2:01.2 | So you care about like number of unique real people that are on the system |
| 2:05.6 | It's extremely fundamental and anyone who uses Twitter is well aware that |
| 2:09.0 | The comment the comment threads are a full of spam scam and and |
| 2:15.8 | Just a lot of you know fake accounts. So it's it seems |
| 2:21.6 | Beyond |
| 2:23.2 | Beyond reasonable for Twitter to claim that the number of |
| 2:28.8 | Essentially the number of real set another way the number of real unique humans |
| 2:33.0 | That you see making comments on a daily base on Twitter is above 95% that is what they're claiming does anyone have that experience? |
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