Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1470 - Elon Musk
Uploaded: 2020-05-07T16:00:21.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1470 - Elon Musk' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-05-07. Transcript available. Elon Musk is a business magnet, entrepreneur and engineer.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1470 - Elon Musk' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-05-07. Transcript available. Elon Musk is a business magnet, entrepreneur and engineer.

Joe Rogan Experience #1470 - Elon Musk

welcome back here we go great to see you and congratulations thank you um you
will never
forget what is going on in the world when you think about when your child was
born you will
know for the rest of this child's life you were born during a weird time that's
for sure that is
for sure the probably the weirdest that i can remember uh yeah yeah um and he
was born on uh
may the fourth and that's hilarious too yeah it's good may the fourth be with
him yeah exactly has to
be i hope i sure hope so perfect yes i mean that was the perfect day for you i'm
and what how do you
say the name well uh is it a placeholder and first of all my partner is the one
that uh actually mostly
came up with the name congratulations to her yeah yeah she's great at names um
so i mean it's just
x the letter x um and then the ae is like pronounced ash um yeah and then uh a12
a12 is my contribution
oh why a12 uh archangel 12 the precursor to the sr-71 coolest plane ever
it's true i i agree with you i don't know i'm not familiar with it i know what
the sr-71 is yeah yeah
yeah i know what that is so the sr-71 came from a cia program uh called called
archangel oh it's the
archangel project oh and then archangel 12 oh wow what a dope looking plane
yeah oh okay i get it yeah
well as a person who's uh very much into uh aerial travel as you are that's uh
perfect it's pretty
great yeah pretty great um so is it does it feel strange to have a child while
this craziness is going
does it feel you've had children before is this any weirder uh it's actually i
think it's better uh
being older and having a kid i appreciate it more yeah um because babies are
awesome they are pretty
awesome they're awesome yeah when i didn't when i didn't have any of my own i
would see other people's
kids and i didn't not like them sure but i wasn't drawn to them sure but now
when i see little people's
kids i'm like oh i think of them like these little love packages yeah the
little love bugs yeah it's
just you you think of them differently when you see them come out and then grow
and then eventually
start talking to you like your whole idea what a baby is is very different yeah
so now as you you
you know get older and get to appreciate it as a mature fully formed adult it
must be really pretty
wonderful yeah wonderful it's great babies are awesome yeah yeah that's uh that's
great um yeah um
i mean also i've i've spent a lot of time on ai and neural nets and so you can
sort of see
the kind of the brain develop which is you know an ai neural neural net is
trying to simulate what a
brain does basically um and you can sort of see the it learning very quickly uh
you know it's just wow
see things five so you're talking about the neural net you're not talking about
an actual baby
i'm talking about actually an actual baby but both of them yes but the word
neural net comes from
the brain it's like a net of neurons so you know it's like the yeah humans are
the you know original
gangster neural net that's a great way to put it yeah so when you're
programming artificial intelligence
or you're working with artificial intelligence art are they specifically trying
to mimic the
developmental process of a human brain in a lot of ways there's some ways that
are different um you
know an analogy that's often used is like you know we we don't make a submarine
swim like a fish
but we take the principles of of how you know what of hydrodynamics and apply
them to a submarine i've
always wondered as a lay person do you try to achieve the same results as a
human brain but through different
methods or do you try to copy the way a human brain achieves results i mean the
essential elements of
an ai neural net are really very very similar to a human brain neural net yeah
it's having the multiple
layers of neurons and um you know back propagation these all these things are
what your brain does you know
it's sort of yeah um you have you have a layer of neurons that goes through a
series of intermediate
steps to ultimately cognition and that and then it'll reverse those steps and
go back and forth and go all
over the place um it's um yeah that's it's interesting very interesting yeah i
would imagine
like the thought of programming something that is eventually going to be
smarter than us that one
day it's going to be like why did you do it that way like when when artificial
intelligence becomes
sentient they're like oh you tried to mimic yourself like this so much better
process cut out all this
nonsense like so there are elements that are the same but just like also like
like an aircraft does not
fly like a bird right yeah it doesn't flap its wings uh but the wings the way
the wings work and generate
lift is the same as bird now you're in the middle of this uh this strange time
where you're selling your
houses you say you don't want any material possessions and i've been seeing all
that and i've been really
excited to talk to you about this yeah because it's an interesting thing to
come from a guy like yourself
like why are you doing that i'm slightly sad about it actually but well if you're
sad about it why are you
doing it i think i think possessions kind of weigh you down then they're kind
of an attack vector
you know if you'll say hey billionaire you got all this stuff like well now i
don't have stuff now
now what what are you going to do attack vector meaning like people targeted
yeah interesting yeah
but you're obviously gonna so you're gonna rent a place yeah okay and get rid
of everything except
clothes no i said like almost everything so it's like keep a couple teslas yeah
sure obviously kind of
have to yeah test product and stuff um yeah those things that have sentimental
value for sure keeping those
you know um yeah so do you feel like what's worse that could happen i mean be
fine yeah you could always
buy more stuff if you don't like it suppose so yeah i mean from the money that
you sell all your stuff you
could buy new stuff but do you you feel like people define you by the fact that
you're you're wealthy
and that they define you in a pejorative way for sure i mean not everyone but
right you know there's uh
for sure in recent like years billionaire has become a purge like it's in a pejorative
so like it's like
that's a bad thing um which i mean i think doesn't make a lot a lot of sense in
most cases if you if
you've done if you basically uh organized a company like so like how to how
does this wealth arise it's
if you organize people in a in a better way to produce products and services
that are better than
what existed before and you have some ownership in that company then that that
essentially gives you
the right to allocate more capital so it is it's there's a conflation of
consumption and capital
allocation so let me say warren buffett for example and to be totally frank i'm
not his biggest fan but
uh you know he he does like capital allocation um and he reads a lot of a lot
of sort of annual
reports of companies and all the accounting and it's pretty boring really um
and he's trying to figure out
what is does coke or pepsi deserve more capital i mean that's i mean it's kind
of a boring job if you
ask me um but uh you know it's still a thing that's important to figure out
like which is a company
deserving of more or less capital should that company grow or expand is it
making products and services that
are better better than others or worse and you know should you know if a
company is making compelling
products and services it should get more capital and if it's not it should get
less we'll go out of
business well there's a big difference too between someone who's making an
incredible amount of money
designing and engineering fantastic products versus someone who's making an
incredible amount of money
by investing in companies or moving money around the stock market or doing
things along those lines
it's it's a different thing and to put them all in the same category seems it's
it's very simple and as
you pointed out it's an attack vector yeah for sure yeah i mean i think it's it's
really i i do think
they're in the in the united states especially there's an over allocation of
talent in finance and law
basically too many smart people go into finance and law um so you know this is
both a compliment and
a criticism uh we should have uh i think fewer people doing law and fewer
people doing finance and more
people making stuff yeah yeah well that would certainly be better for all
involved
if they made better stuff yeah yeah absolutely um and and uh you know
manufacturing used to be
highly valued in in the united states and these days it's not it's it's often
looked down upon which
i think is wrong yeah well i think that people are kind of learning that
particularly because of this
whole pandemic and this relationship that we have with china that it there's a
lot of value into making
things into making things here yes somebody's got to do the the real work yeah
you know and um you know
like making making a car it's an honest days that's an honest day's living that's
for sure you know or
making anything really or providing a valuable service um like providing you
know good entertainment good
information that these are all valuable things to do um you know so yeah there
should be more more of it
did you have a moment where is this something that this idea of getting rid of
your material possessions
is something that built up over time or did you have a moment of realization
where you realized that
yeah i've been thinking about it for a while um you know part of it is like uh
like i have a bunch of
houses but i don't spend a lot of time in most of them and um that doesn't seem
like a good use of
assets like somebody could probably be enjoying those houses and get better use
of them than me so don't
you have gene wilder's house i do that's amazing it's awesome wow yes it's
exactly what you'd expect
did you request that the buyer not it up yeah that's a requirement oh a
requirement that's a good
requirement yeah not in that case in that house yeah it'll probably sell for
less but still i don't care
oh he's a legend he would want his soul he'd want his essence yeah in the
building it's and it's there
that's a real quick is it quirky house yeah what what makes you say it's there
like what do you get
out of it um i mean all the all the cabinets are like hand handmade and they're
like odd shapes and
there's like doors to nowhere and strange like corridors and tunnels and really
odd odd paintings
on the wall and um yeah did you ever live in it it's very quirky i did live in
it briefly yeah
but why do you buy houses like if you own all these houses do you just get
bored and go i think
i'd like to have that well i you know had one house and then the gene wilder
house right across the road
for me from from my main house and it was going to get it was going to get sold
and then torn down and
turned into you know be a big construction zone for three years and i was like
whoa i think i'll
i'll buy it and preserve the spirit of gene wilder and not have a giant
construction zone and then
the you know this i started having like some privacy issues where like people
would like
lots of people just like come to my house and you know start climbing over the
walls and stuff
i'm like man um so then i started like what a house some of the houses around
my house and then
i thought at one point well you know it'd be cool to to build a house so then i
acquired some properties
at the top of samara road uh and which has got a great view and it's like okay
well these
some bunch of sort of small older houses they're gonna get torn down anyway i
was like well you know
if i collect these like little little houses then i can build something you
know i don't know artistic
like a you know dream house type of thing what's a dream house for elon musk
like some tony stark type
shit yeah definitely yeah you gotta have the the dome that opens up with the
stealth helicopter and that
kind of thing 