#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
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Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 147 minutes
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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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Elon Musk, his fourth time on this, the Lex Friedman podcast. |
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| 0:56.0 | as I speak to you right now, element. |
| 0:58.4 | Electrolyt, drink, mix. |
| 1:01.2 | I'll usually fill a Power rate or getarade bottle. I think it's 28 ounces of water and |
| 1:09.4 | mix it with one element packet. My favorite flavor is watermelon salt. That's the one I'm |
| 1:14.8 | drinking now. That's the one I've been drinking for a long time. I apologize because I'm |
| 1:18.7 | recording these words very late at night. It's been a long day. It's been a long night before that and a long night |
| 1:27.5 | this one. So it's just me in front of a microphone right now. at a 28 ounce bottle of water that |
| 1:36.8 | tastes like watermelon. Just me in the water, happily reunited in the desert of human experience. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm also surrounded by three computer screens that all have a beautiful wallpaper |
| 1:52.0 | looking at me, taunting me with beautiful picturesque scenes of nature. |
| 2:00.3 | And I just, before this, played about 10 minutes of Diablo, where I got to escape to a whole other world that is also picturesque, but not with nature, but filled with the intense intimidating sounds of demons |
| 2:16.8 | attacking you from all sides. |
| 2:20.3 | And all of that is somehow relaxing. |
| 2:26.0 | Anyway, element is not just delicious, it combines this perfect amount of |
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