What Elon Musk thinks about consciousness
Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008, and later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X. Posts as @elonmusk, which is where almost everything he says publicly now appears.
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2 dated positions, 2023 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Elon Musk has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsExtending consciousness beyond Earth, ultimately to the stars, is a fundamentally good goal
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Their wordswhich is that we don’t know the meaning of life, but the more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, digital and biological, the more we’re able to understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe. So I have a philosophy of curiosity.
↗Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400youtube.com 9th of 23 in this recording