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Are Aliens Real? Latest Interview of Elon Musk! · Elon Musk Thinking

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  My religion, for lack of a better word, is that is one of
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  curiosity, where we want to expand the scope of scale of consciousness on Earth
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  and beyond Earth and ultimately to other star systems. And in order to do
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  that, we need to increase the number of conscious beings, and we need
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  to advance technology such that we can have our self sustaining sitting on Mars,
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  ultimately populate the whole Solar System, and then go beyond our Solar system to
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  other star systems. And therefore we need more humans. So I mean,
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  that's an amazingly different goal than what we've had for the past. Yeah.
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  I propose this as a new philosophy. Yeah, well not new, but
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  maybe niche, but niche but hopefully getting a bit bigger. So you know,
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  with that philosophy in mind. But the purpose of that philosophy is that
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  is that the more we expand the scope a scale of consciousness, the more
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  we are able to understand the reality that we live in the nature of the
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  universe, and and to uh to answer the questions that we have, and
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  perhaps more importantly, to know what questions we are not asking, as Douglas
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  Adams would say, and Hitchhack's got to the galaxy that the answer is the
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  easy part. The question is the hard part. You know, answers forty
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  two. What's the question? So, so, I think that's a pretty
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  optimistic. Positive philosophy also has a lot of room for other beliefs if you
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  want to add them to. You know. But but the fundamental tents of
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  my belief structure are expand the escape, expand the scale of consciousness. I
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  mean, more more people, I guess, more computers to to the agree
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  that they are conscious. Uh, and we want to pass through the uh
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  one of the great filters that to you know, you believe the Pomy paradox
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  and the great filter. Now, okay, So Enrico Fermi, great amazing
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  physicist, posed a very simple question. He said, we're the aliens because
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  we've seen no sign of them. Now, a lot of people think they've
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  seen signs of aliens. I've seen no evidence whatsoever of aliens. So it's
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  a troubling question. Why why not? So one of the answers, perhaps
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  the most likely answer, is that we're it that the tiny that that the
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  tiny candle of consciousness that constitutes humanity. It is all that there is in
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  this vast darkness, and I think we should we should assume that that is
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  the case until we actually firm evidence to the contrary. And we and moreover,
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  human consciousness only arose after four and a half billion years. It took
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  a long time, and if it had taken even ten percent longer, it
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  probably would not have evolved because the Sun is expanding. As a sun expands,
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  it'll start heating Earth, and Earth will the oceans will evaporate, will
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  become more like venus inhospitable to life. So I think we may have made
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  we may have achieved consciousness or consciousness that's capable of developing technology just in time.
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  I find it remarkable that we are at this point in history where we're
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  able for the first time to go beyond Earth, to send people. We
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  send people to the Moon in the early seventies, but not essence, not
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  gone back. But with the Starship rocket that SpaceX is developing, but two
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  test flights will have many more this year. That that vehicle is designed to
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  make life multiplanetary. It's the first vehicle that are just capable of doing that.
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  A permanent base on the Moon and a city on Mars. So I
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  think we want to get that done as soon as possible. The window for
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  the window of opportunity to make life multiplanetary and secure the future of consciousness may
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  be open for a long time, or it may be open for a short
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  time. I think it would be wise to not assume that it'll be opened
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  for a long time. And when we act now, to act now to
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  make life multiplanetary. One thing that's fascinating what you're saying is that it assumes
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  an innate level of belief and and love for human beings. And so I
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  love humanity. So why, I mean, it's it's it's a weird question,
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  but I mean, really kind of why. I mean, we're not
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  that great. I mean we have great we can be angels, we can
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  be devils, obviously, we have the capacity for all of the things in
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  between. What do you think makes, aside from just the qualities that theoretically
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  could be duplicated by AI in the very near future, that makes human beings
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  unique enough. I'll tell you something so that I think that maybe resonates.
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  It's like, I think, actually everyone loves humanity. Now they may not
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  love everyone in humanity, but you say, how many people want to be
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  in solatary confinement. Okay, how many people when I live alone in the
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  forest by themselves, Almost no human beings want to do that. That is
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  actually, in reality, all humans love humanity and want to be part of
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  humanity almost, you know, with the rare exception of someone who's growth spere
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  psychological issues. So that you know, that's why solatry confinement is considered a
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  terrible punishment in prison, because even though other prisoners are probably not the well
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  they're not the finest examples of humans, you still want to hang out with
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  them, you know. So I think it's a natural thing. You know,
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  it's long. As long as it's long, kids aren't towrd to hate
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  back to some of the business conversation that I want to go back to the
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  SpaceX of it when when it comes to business, what do you see as
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  sort of the biggest obstacles to not only the success of your companies, but
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  to success generally because there seems to be this idea abroad that people can't duplicate
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  the path that basically it used to be that people like you could succeed,
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  but now it's totally finished and now you can't get ahead. Is Erica.
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  Nothing's changed in that regard as far as nowhere there are you know, your
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  companies being formed all the time in the US, Well, what do you
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  see as the obstacles to companies being successful increasingly in the West? If there
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  is, if there are obstacles to that, well, I think excess regulation.
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  You know, taxes do ratch op every year, making a little difficult,
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  a little harder every year as taxes rat job. But the regulatory creep
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  is I think a massive danger. So laws of regulations are immortal, but
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  the regulators and the lawmakers make new rules of regulations and laws and regulations every
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  year, and so you have this, so every year you've got this sort
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  of another layer of laws regulations. It'suss getting to the point where everything's legal.
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  You can't get anything done. And you say, well, how do
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  they deal with in the past, Well, the way they don't within the
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  past, would there'd be a war and the war would wash away that the
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  old rules, laws and regulations. That's that's would literally would take a war
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  to change things, you know, like Napoleon, you know, establishing the
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  Napoleonic Code from that overalled the old law systems of the sort of lords and
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  the lords and peasants. And if you know, for all that the bad
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  that Napoleon did, I think it did more good actually, So the evidence
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  isn't in that. I think maybe a third or a half of all countries
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  on Earth still run on the Napoleon Code. So and I would would prefer
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  to have some clean up process for laws and regulations that doesn't require war.
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  That'd be nice, I think. And I think that's something we need to
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  institute, like basically a garbage collection for laws and regulations