#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

Elon Musk is CEO of X, xAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(10:25) – War and human nature
(14:51) – Israel-Hamas war
(20:59) – Military-Industrial Complex
(25:16) – War in Ukraine
(29:59) – China
(44:15) – xAI Grok
(55:13) – Aliens
(1:03:13) – God
(1:05:41) – Diablo 4 and video games
(1:14:48) – Dystopian worlds: 1984 and Brave New World
(1:20:59) – AI and useful compute per watt
(1:26:40) – AI regulation
(1:33:32) – Should AI be open-sourced?
(1:40:54) – X algorithm
(1:52:15) – 2024 presidential elections
(2:05:14) – Politics
(2:08:16) – Trust
(2:13:47) – Tesla’s Autopilot and Optimus robot
(2:22:46) – Hardships