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5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“I think maybe just what they’re trying to say is that you don’t have to have prior experience in the rocket industry to work on Starship.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 5 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…So that’s what I’m getting at. Are things simple or are they complex? I think maybe just what they’re trying to say is that you don’t have to have prior experience in the rocket industry to work on Starship. Somebody just needs to be smart and work hard and be trustworthy and they can work on a rocket. They don’t need prior rocket experience. Starship is the most complicated machine ever made by humans, by a long shot. In what regards?…
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