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Elon Musk Thinking About Aliens. · Elon Musk Thinking

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  The first time we talked, you said you would, which is surreal to
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  think that this discussion was happening, is becoming a reality. I asked you,
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  what question would you ask an AGII system once you create it? And
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  you said, what's outside the simulation is the question? Good question? Yeah,
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  but it seems like with grog you start literally the system's goal is to
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  be able to ask such questions, to answer such questions, and to ask
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  such questions. Where are the aliens? Are the aliens? That's one of
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  the like the Femi paradox question. A lot of people have asked me if
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  I've seen any evidence of aliens, and I haven't, which is kind of
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  concerning because then I think I probably preferred at least have seen some archeological evidence
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  of aliens. To the best of my knowledge, there is no matter if
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  any evidence of aliens out there. They're very subtle. We might just be
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  the only consciousness, at least in the galaxy. And if you look at
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  say the history of Earth, wants to believe the archaeological record Earth is about
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  four and a half billion years old. Civilization as measured from the first writing
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  is only about five thousand years old. We have to give some credit there
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  to the ancient Sumerians who aren't around anymore. I think it was an archaic
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  pre cuneiform. It was the first actual symbolic representation, but only about five
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  thousand years ago. I think that's a good date for when we'd say civilization
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  started. That's one millionth of Earth's existence. So civilization has been around.
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  It's really a flash in the pan so far. And why have we But
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  why did it take so long? For you know, fore a half million
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  years for the vast majority of the time, there was no life, and
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  then there was archaic bacteria for a very long time, and then you know,
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  he had mitochondria get captured, multi cellular life, differentiation into plants and
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  animals, life moving from the oceans to the land, mammals, higher brain
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  functions. And the Sun is expanding slowly, but it will, it will
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  overheat, it will it will heat heat the Earth up at some point in
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  the future, boil the oceans, and Earth will become like Venus, where
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  no life. Life as we know it is impossible. So if we do
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  not become multiplanetary and ultimately go Viana Solar system, annihilation of all life on
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  Earth is a certainty. A certainty, and it could be as little as
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  on the galactic timescale, a half a billion years. You know, it's
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  a long time by human standards, but that's only ten percent longer than Earth
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  has been around at all. So if if if life had taken ten percent
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  longer to evolve on Earth, it wouldn't exist at all. We've got a
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  deadline coming up. Better hurry. But that said, as you said,
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  humans intelligent life on Earth developed a lot of cool stuff very quickly. So
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  yes, it seems like becoming a multiplanetary is almost inevitable. Oh, let's
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  be destroyed. We need to do it. I mean, it's it's not.
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  I mean, I suspect that they're they're If we are able to go
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  out there and explore other star systems that we there's a good chance we find
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  a whole bunch of long dead one planet civilizations. They never made it past
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  their home planet. That's so sad. Yeah, also fascinating. I mean,
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  there are very explanations for the peri paradox, and one is just the
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  sort of there's these great filtures which civilizations don't pass through. And one of
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  those great filtures is do you become a multiplanet civilization or not. And if
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  you don't, it's simply a matter of time before something happens on your planet,
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  you know, either natural man made that causes us to die out.
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  Like the dinosaurs, where are they now? They didn't have spaceships. So
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  I think the more likely thing is because it's just empathize with the aliens that
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  they they found us and they're protecting us and letting us be so Nicelylliams,
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  just like the tribes in the in the Amazon, the don contacted tribes were
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  protecting them. It would be a nice explanation, or you could have like,
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  what was it? I think Andrakapathi said, it's like the ants and
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  the Amazon asking where's everybody? Well, that you're run into a lot of
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  other rands. That's true. And Wars sounds like a good TV show.
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  Yeah, they literally have this big wars between various ants. Yeah, maybe
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  I'm just dismissing all the different diversity of ants. You should listen to that
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  w talking about the jungle. It's really hilarious. Have you heard it?
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  No? I have not. Worn Azag is a way you should play.
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  You should play it for the you know, as an interlude in the it's
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  on YouTube. It's awesome. I love him so much. Great was he
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  the director of Happy People, Life in the Taiga. I think also I
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  did that bear documentary, The Bear thinking about penguins, the depress, the
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  analysis, the psycho analysis. Yeah, the penguin's like headed for like the
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  mountains like that are like seventy miles away and penguin has just headed for doom.
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  Basically, Well, he had a cynical take. I have a he
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  could be just the brave explorer and there will be great stories told about him
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  amongst the penguin population for many centuries to come. What we're talking about?
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  Okay, Yes, I mean I don't know. Look, I think it's
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  the smart move is just you know, this is the first time in the
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  history of Earth that has been possible for life extend beyond Earth. That window
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  is open now. It may be opened for a long time, or it
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  maybe open for a short time, and it may be open now and then
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  never open again. So I think the smart move here is to make life
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  multiplanetary wild it as possible to do. So. We don't want to be
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  one of those lame one planet civilizations. It just dies out lay the self
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  respecting civilization would be one planet. There's not going to be a Wikipedia entry
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  for one in one of those. And the pause. Uh, the SpaceX
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  have an official policy for when we meet aliens. No, that seems irresponsible.
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  I mean, if I see the slightest indication that there are aliens,
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  I will immediately post on the next platform. Yeah anything, I know,
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  it could be the most liked reposted post of all time. Yeah. I
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  mean, look, we have more satellites up there right now than everyone else
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  combined, so you know, we we know if we've got to maneuver around
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  something, and we're not dyna ash maneuver or anything,