What Elon Musk thinks about physics

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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, in their own words. Our reading of what Elon Musk has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 9 Nov 2023

   Our readingAn AI that cannot work out new physics has not equalled human intelligence, let alone surpassed it, because humans have worked out new physics.

   Their wordsIf an AI cannot figure out new physics, it’s clearly not equal to humans, nor has surpassed humans because humans have figured out new physics.

   ↗Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400youtube.com 11th of 23 in this recording

3. 9 Nov 2023

   Our readingPhysics is the only real law and everything else is a recommendation: people break the laws made by man all the time and never break the laws made by physics.

   Their wordsReality is the ultimate judge. Like physics is the law, everything else is a recommendation. I’ve seen plenty of people break the laws made by man, but none break the laws made by physics.

   ↗Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #400youtube.com 12th of 23 in this recording