Elon Musk
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Let me see your incorporation documents.
Oh, okay, you're a BRC corp, whatever.
And so I actually much prefer the word engineer than anything else.
The vast majority of what we've done in the future is engineering.
It rounds up to 100%.
Once you understand the fundamental laws of physics, and not that many of them, everything else is engineering.
So then what are we engineering?
We're engineering to make a good mind of the AI debugger to see where it said something, it made a mistake, and trace the origins of that mistake.
so just like you know you can do this obviously with uh heuristic programming if you have like c plus plus whatever you know step through the thing and you can you can jump you can you can jump across into you know whole files or functions what are subroutines and or you can draw eventually drill down right to the exact line where you perhaps did a single equals instead of double equals or something like that yeah figure out where the bug is um so um
It's harder with AI, but it's a solvable problem, I think.
Also, I'm a little worried that there's a tendency...
I have a theory here that if simulation theory is correct, that the most interesting outcome is the most likely because simulations that are not interesting will be terminated.
Just like in this version of reality, on this layer of reality, if a simulation is going in a boring direction, we stop spinning off and on.
We terminate the boring simulation.
Yeah.
Arguably, the most important thing is to keep things interesting enough that whoever's paying the bills on what some cosmic AWS.
Are they going to pay the cosmic AWS bill, whatever the equivalent is that we're running in?
And as long as we're interesting, they'll keep paying the bills.
But there's like, if you consider then say a Darwinian survival applied to a very large number of simulations, only the most interesting simulations will survive, which therefore means that the most interesting outcome is the most likely because only the interesting, like either that or annihilated.
And so they particularly seem to like interesting outcomes that are ironic.