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#264 – Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Space Boring?
The first human setting foot on Mars, that's got to be a crazy global event. I can't imagine it not being maybe you're right. The value of people like Elon Musk and potentially other leaders that hopefully step up is extremely important here. This is just for two reasons. One, life insurance for the species. If you're an alien on some faraway planet and you're rooting against humanity and you win the bet if humanity goes extinct, you do not like SpaceX. You do not want them to have their eggs in two baskets now. It could become this hideous thing where it's all, you know, billionaire, some annoying storyline gets built. So half the people think that
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