#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:

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(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