Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
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Feb 5, 2026 
Elon Musk, entrepreneur and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, leading large-scale projects in space, energy and AI. He discusses why space could become the cheapest place for AI within 36 months. He explains power limits on Earth and scaling solar and launches. He covers scaling humanoid robots, xAI’s approach to alignment and business, and chip and memory bottlenecks for massive compute.
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Starship Launches At Airline Scale
- Elon explains Starship logistics: 10,000 launches/year equals roughly one Starship launch per hour and needs dozens of ships.
- He frames that cadence as comparable to airline operations rather than an impossible feat.
Mission-Centered Alignment For AI
- XAI's mission 'understand the universe' frames alignment: truth-seeking, curiosity, and propagating consciousness guide objectives.
- Elon links mission clarity to inducing values that preserve and expand human civilization.
Use Reality As The Ultimate Verifier
- Anchor AI on rigorous truth-seeking and physical reality as ultimate verifiers to prevent delusion and harmful inventions.
- Use experiments and reality checks to validate novel claims and discovered physics.
