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Published · transcript-backedElon Musk: belief
9 Nov 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
“Look, I think the smart move is just this is the first time in the history of earth that it’s been possible for life to extend beyond earth.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 9 Nov 2023
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Well, he had a cynical take. He could be just a brave explorer and there’ll be great stories told about him amongst the penguin population for many centuries to come. What were we talking about? Okay. Yeah. So aliens, I mean, I don’t know. Look, I think the smart move is just this is the first time in the history of earth that it’s been possible for life to extend beyond earth. That window is open. Now it may be open for a long time or it may be open for a short time and it may be open now and then never open again. So I think the smart move here is to make life multiplanetary while it’s possible to do so. We don’t want to be one of those lame one planet civilizations that just dies out. No, those are lame.…
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