My Mentality Is That Of A Samurai.

What I'm Trying To Do Is To Maximise The Probability Of The Future Being Better.

In Order For Us To Have A Future That's Exciting And Inspiring, It Has To Be One Where We're A Space-bearing Civilization.

The Idea Of Lying On A Beach As My Main Thing Just Sounds Like The Worst. It Sounds Horrible To Me. I Would Go Bonkers. I Would Have To Be On Serious Drugs. I'd Be Super-duper Bored. I Like High Intensity.

My Background Educationally Is Physics And Economics, And I Grew Up In Sort Of An Engineering Environment - My Father Is An Electromechanical Engineer. And So There Were Lots Of Engineery Things Around Me.

I Think It's Important To Reason From First Principles Rather Than By Analogy. The Normal Way We Conduct Our Lives Is We Reason By Analogy. [with Analogy] We Are Doing This Because It's Like Something Else That Was Done, Or It Is Like What Other People Are Doing. [with First Principles] You Boil Things Down To The Most Fundamental Truths…and Then Reason Up From There.