#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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Elon’s X: https://x.com/elonmusk
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Tesla: https://x.com/tesla
Tesla Optimus: https://x.com/tesla_optimus
Tesla AI: https://x.com/Tesla_AI
SpaceX: https://x.com/spacex
Neuralink: https://x.com/neuralink
The Boring Company: https://x.com/boringcompany

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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)– 2024presidential elections
(2:05:14)– Politics
(2:08:16)– Trust
(2:13:47)– Tesla’s Autopilot and Optimus robot
(2:22:46)– Hardships