Max Tegmark

We underestimated the size of our cosmos again and again, realizing that everything we thought existed was just a small part of something grander, right?

A planet, a solar system, a galaxy, clusters of galaxies, universes.

And we now know that the future has just so much more potential than our ancestors could ever have dreamt of.

This cosmos, imagine if all of Earth was completely devoid of life, except for Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Wouldn't it be kind of lame if all we ever aspired to was to stay in Cambridge, Massachusetts forever?

and then go extinct in one week, even though Earth was going to continue on for longer.

That sort of attitude, I think, we have now on the cosmic scale.

Life can flourish on Earth, not for four years, but for billions of years.

I can even tell you about how to move it out of harm's way when the sun gets too hot.

And then we have so much more resources out here, which today, maybe there are a lot of other planets with bacteria or cow-like life on them, but I

Most of this, all this opportunity seems, as far as we can tell, to be largely dead, like the Sahara Desert.

And yet we have the opportunity to help life flourish around this for billions of years.

So let's quit squabbling about whether some little border should be drawn one mile to the left or right.

Look up into the skies and you realize, hey, you know, we can do such incredible things.

That is exactly why Elon Musk is so misunderstood, right?

Misconstrued him as some kind of pessimistic doomsayer.

The reason he cares so much about AI safety is because he more than...

Almost anyone else appreciates these amazing opportunities that will squander if we wipe out here on earth.

We're not just going to wipe out the next generation, but all generations.

And this incredible opportunity that's out there, that would really be a waste.