Elon Musk

Where each worldview places it
The SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink billionaire who warns about AI while building its infrastructure: the "good cop" to Kurzweil's "bad cop"[1]. In the 2021 book he "serves Cult interests" while occasionally criticising them, and is "Cult to his DNA"[2].
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Answers to / controlled by
Lineage
A co-founder of PayPal[3].
Dates
late 2016 (asks the FCC for 4,425 satellites)[4]
Places
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Key events
  • late 2016: asks to launch 4,425 low-orbit Wi-Fi satellites[4]
  • 2021: Starlink has approval for 12,000 satellites and applications for 30,000 more
  • Neuralink shows a monkey playing Pong through brain chips[2]
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Author's claims · 2
  1. 01He says there is only a one-in-billions chance that we live in base reality[5].
  2. 02Neuralink aims to put chips in human skulls to merge minds with AI; he "should be in jail"[2].

Notes

  1. ↑ Everything You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told (2018), Chapter 16: The Assimilation (part 1).
  2. ↑ a b c Perceptions of a Renegade Mind (2021), Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko (part 1); Postscript.
  3. ↑ Everything You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told (2018), Chapter 3: Log In/Log Out; Chapter 16: The Assimilation (part 1).
  4. ↑ a b Everything You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told (2018), Chapter 17: Synthetic Human (part 1).
  5. ↑ Everything You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told (2018), Chapter 3: Log In/Log Out.