Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman Podcast


#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity

November 09, 2023

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