#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