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Elon Musk : How to Build the Future
A 20-minute Y Combinator interview in which Sam Altman asks Elon Musk how to build the future. Topics include which problems a 22-year-old should work on, such as AI, genetics, and brain interfaces, and general advice for founders.
Why HN readers recommended it
Offered as a more down-to-earth Musk interview with better questions than most, and cited for his stated concerns about concentrated AI power.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Y Combinator
- Topic
- entrepreneurship and technology
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Came here to say the same thing, I was really hoping for some better questions like the ones in the "How to build the future" [1] interview... [1] [VIDEO]
agrafix on Hacker News · 2016-09
In Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]A more down-to-earth video to watch might be this one: "Elon Musk: How to Build the Future" [VIDEO] (of course "down-to-earth" is very relative)
m463 on Hacker News · 2019-04
In The Quest for Room-Temperature SuperconductorsThe anonymous “Interviewer” in the last part of that Reddit post was Sam Altman, excerpted from a 20-minute conversation with Elon Musk in 2016 [1] that I found to be interesting even as a non-fanboy. [1]: [VIDEO]
divbzero on Hacker News · 2022-02
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