Steven Bartlett

If you think about things like Neuralink, which Elon's working on, when he first made that company, all of the narrative that he put out there was about us being able to interface with AI, so we'd need like a brain chip computer interface.

More recently, it's been about people that are paraplegic and disabled and helping blind people see.

But I think that's a socially acceptable way to advance the technology.

But in his early work, he said, superintelligence is going to arrive and we're going to need a way to basically keep up where we have better sort of latency with the technology.

And I'm wondering if that's like what we're seeing now.

Yeah, superintelligence is...

What about the chicken?

How bad could it be?

We used to have chickens when we were younger, and I watched my Nigerian mother chase that chicken around the garden, grab it, pull its head off, and cook it.

Wow, okay.

And what do you think is the probability of me getting to another planet in my lifetime?

Okay.

Oh, not far.

I thought you were going to also add to that that even if Elon wanted to do it as a vanity project because he makes all this money and manages to use Starlink as a way to fund it, whatever, that the problem is Elon's going to die.

He's going to die in the next couple of decades, which means the vanity element that comes from his childhood situation where he wanted to get out there and explore the stars because he read that book has got 30 years, 40, 50 years left on it.

What you just listened to was a most replayed moment from a previous episode.

If you want to listen to that full episode, I've linked it down below.

Check the description.

Thank you.

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