Elon Musk: belief

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…You think when people just when they see the capabilities, the superhuman capabilities that are possible, and then the safety is demonstrated. Yeah. If it’s extremely safe, and you can have superhuman abilities, and let’s say you can upload your memories, so you wouldn’t lose memories, then I think probably a lot of people would choose to have it. It would supersede the cell phone, for example. I mean, the biggest problem that say, a phone has, is trying to figure out what you want. That’s why you’ve got auto complete, and you’ve got output, which is all the pixels on the screen, but from the perspective of the human, the output is so frigging slow. Desktop or phone is desperately just trying to understand what you want. And there’s an eternity between every keystroke from a computer standpoint. Yeah. Yeah. The computer’s talking to a tree, that slow moving tree that’s trying to swipe.…

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