SAN FRANCISCO: Entrepreneur Elon Musk sipped whiskey and puffed a bit of weed whilst musing at length late Thursday about artificial intelligence, colonising house, and the want to give love an opportunity.
Musk shared ideas on those topics and more all over a podcast with comic Joe Rogan that lasted greater than two hours and stretched into Friday.
At one level, Musk described the consistent barrage of concepts in his thoughts as being "like a never ending explosion," questioning when he used to be a young boy whether or not he may well be insane because it did not appear to be happening to other people.
Musk's current endeavors include electrical carmaker Tesla; private house exploration endeavor SpaceX; tunnel-drilling Boring Company, and a Neuralink operation working on augmenting human brains with artificial intelligence.
"I don't think you would necessarily want to be me; you wouldn't like it that much," Musk quipped.
"It might be great when it is turned on, but what if it doesn't turn off."
During the course of a wide-ranging chat with Rogan, Musk drank whiskey and attempted a marijuana-and-tobacco cigarette proffered by means of the comic.
"I'm not a regular smoker of weed; almost never," Musk said.
"I don't find that it's very good for productivity. It is sort of like a cup of coffee in reverse."
He maintained that getting things achieved, particularly being useful to others, used to be among his joys.
"A lot of people don't like humanity and think it is a blight, but I don't," Musk said.
"It may sound corny, but love is the answer. Spend more time with your friends and less time on social media."
Musk said that relating to social media he only makes use of Twitter, and that is for its power to get messages out. He contended that he ignores nearly all of unfavourable feedback at Twitter, however has from time to time been drawn in and made errors.
Nearly 90,000 other folks tuned into the podcast Rogan live-streamed with Musk at YouTube.
Musk said he is less nervous about AI than he were, most commonly due to "taking a more fatalistic attitude."
He had long argued that AI would be humanity's undoing, with sentient tool treating other folks, at very best, like house cats.
Musk is now of a thoughts that no matter the way forward for AI, it is out of doors of human keep watch over.
A threat, he famous, is that people will turn AI into a weapon to unleash on one every other. A best-case state of affairs would be the other folks merge with AI, enabling any person to have "super cognition."
Musk looked as if it would get emotional whilst speaking concerning the hurt being carried out to the atmosphere and oceans by means of burning fossil fuels.
"This is crazy," Musk said
"The more carbon we take out of the ground, the more dangerous it is."
Musk, who wore a black t-shirt bearing the words "Occupy Mars" in massive letters, additionally pictured a long term through which people discover and colonize the cosmos in manners depicted in science fiction movies.
"I think the future in where we are a space-faring civilization out there among the stars, that is very exciting," Musk said.
"If we were forever constrained to earth, that would not be a good future."
Musk shared ideas on those topics and more all over a podcast with comic Joe Rogan that lasted greater than two hours and stretched into Friday.
At one level, Musk described the consistent barrage of concepts in his thoughts as being "like a never ending explosion," questioning when he used to be a young boy whether or not he may well be insane because it did not appear to be happening to other people.
Musk's current endeavors include electrical carmaker Tesla; private house exploration endeavor SpaceX; tunnel-drilling Boring Company, and a Neuralink operation working on augmenting human brains with artificial intelligence.
"I don't think you would necessarily want to be me; you wouldn't like it that much," Musk quipped.
"It might be great when it is turned on, but what if it doesn't turn off."
During the course of a wide-ranging chat with Rogan, Musk drank whiskey and attempted a marijuana-and-tobacco cigarette proffered by means of the comic.
"I'm not a regular smoker of weed; almost never," Musk said.
"I don't find that it's very good for productivity. It is sort of like a cup of coffee in reverse."
He maintained that getting things achieved, particularly being useful to others, used to be among his joys.
"A lot of people don't like humanity and think it is a blight, but I don't," Musk said.
"It may sound corny, but love is the answer. Spend more time with your friends and less time on social media."
Musk said that relating to social media he only makes use of Twitter, and that is for its power to get messages out. He contended that he ignores nearly all of unfavourable feedback at Twitter, however has from time to time been drawn in and made errors.
Nearly 90,000 other folks tuned into the podcast Rogan live-streamed with Musk at YouTube.
Musk said he is less nervous about AI than he were, most commonly due to "taking a more fatalistic attitude."
He had long argued that AI would be humanity's undoing, with sentient tool treating other folks, at very best, like house cats.
Musk is now of a thoughts that no matter the way forward for AI, it is out of doors of human keep watch over.
A threat, he famous, is that people will turn AI into a weapon to unleash on one every other. A best-case state of affairs would be the other folks merge with AI, enabling any person to have "super cognition."
Musk looked as if it would get emotional whilst speaking concerning the hurt being carried out to the atmosphere and oceans by means of burning fossil fuels.
"This is crazy," Musk said
"The more carbon we take out of the ground, the more dangerous it is."
Musk, who wore a black t-shirt bearing the words "Occupy Mars" in massive letters, additionally pictured a long term through which people discover and colonize the cosmos in manners depicted in science fiction movies.
"I think the future in where we are a space-faring civilization out there among the stars, that is very exciting," Musk said.
"If we were forever constrained to earth, that would not be a good future."
Over whiskey and weed, Elon Musk talks on love and colonising space
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