>>13223979more like Elon's the fluke. In the history of species, we've never had an autistic billionaire so driven by his desire to live and die on Mars, that he poured his soul into changing the future to serve his dreams rather than reconfigure his dreams to serve within the limitations of the present. The last time we had an autist like this was literally when Nikola Tesla was alive, except he died destitute and insane.
Elon wants SpaceX, Tesla, Boring, and Neuralink all to succeed because he's running out of time. Eventually he's going to reach a point where he can't run around everywhere and sleep on the factory floor to pull long hours. But if Neuralink succeeds within the next 20 years and BMIs reach deep dive simulation levels of normality, then he can become an old man with a powerful brain and he can 200% it until his body kicks the bucket and do it from Earth or Mars across all his companies simultaneously with minimal effort.
He's gone on record multiple times in saying that talking is literally the most inefficient form of communicating data. Direct thought (aka data) projection is a magnitude order more efficient, and with enough compute and translation capability, you could easily EASILY make any genius with ideas tied to additive systems and some capital, go from nothing into a disruptor in the market for the positive of the species.
Should he succeed with his ventures before he dies, and make the species multiplanetary and give a supposed pathway to the integration of human and AI, then another Elon Musk and another SpaceX cropping up over and over again becomes more common. If he doesn't succeed, and we don't become a multiplanetary species before he kicks the bucket, then the probability of this repeating is like 1 in a trillion against.
Terrible odds.
