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Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space"

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It's actually 0.8. Shut up, assholes. That's what the main comment is going to be about. God damn it. The point is actually in retrospect, We should have started with done steel. In the beginning. It was dumb not to do steel. Okay. But to play this back to you, what I'm hearing is that steel was a riskier, less proven path other than the early US rockets versus carbon fiber was like a worse but more proven out path. (2:04:25–2:04:29)

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Asserts that starting with steel for Starship was the better choice from the beginning.

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