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ale it. That's right. The cost of a Tesla could come down 20 to 30% if they put these better batteries in. But that's not all. Takes up a lot less space, and they can make smaller, more efficient factories to make these. Fewer steps, higher density, more range, better for the environment. And of course we're going to need some really good batteries for your robots. If you think your battery keeps…

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And this new one I think gets sort of the end of our list. Once you start getting rid of capitalism entirely, let the criminals out, let the people from other countries flow in, let that fentanyl come in. Come on, fentanyl, let's get that in here. And then the only other thing we can do, oh, besides the fact that you can't get house insurance if you live in California because of the poor management of the forests, but now we're going to have to get rid of capitalism because you know the state is really good at running businesses. Yeah, okay. Yep. California has become like Venezuela, except without the excellent leadership of Maduro.

Elon Musk had apparently an eight-and-a-half-hour interview with Lex Fridman. I don't understand that. I don't know why they did that, but okay. So I guess they get along pretty well because they had a long talk. So here's some things we know now. Neuralink is looking to massively increase the number of e

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lectrodes into the brain, and they're working on a product in the future that would allow maybe blind people to see for the first time. Think how amazing that would be. Imagine if Elon Musk bypassed eyes and just put a little camera on your head that is stuck into your brain, and then blind people could just see. And what about deaf people? Probably deaf people will be able to hear. He also seems…

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