Elon Musk

And persuading them otherwise is almost impossible.

So anyway, but I think overall...

Those actions, acquiring Twitter, getting Trump elected, even though it makes a lot of people angry, I think those actions were good for civilization.

Well, America needs to be strong enough to last long enough to extend life to other planets and to get, I guess, AI and robotics to the point where we can ensure that the future is good.

Like, on the other hand, if we were to descend into, say, communism or some situation where the state was extremely oppressive, that would...

mean that we might not be able to become multi-planetary.

The state might, you know, stamp out our progress in AI and robotics.

I think probably the biggest danger of AI, or maybe the biggest danger of fail for AI and robotics going wrong is government.

Interesting.

You know?

People who are opposed to corporations or worried about corporations should really worry the most about government because government is just a corporation in the limit.

Government is just the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence.

I always find it a strange dichotomy where people would think corporations are bad but the government is good when the government is simply the biggest and worst corporation.

But people have that dichotomy.

They somehow think at the same time that government can be good, but corporations bad.

And this is not true.

Corporations have better morality than the government.

So I actually think that is the thing to be worried about.

The government could potentially use AI and robotics to suppress the population.

That is a serious concern.