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In his computer simulation, legacy humans barely exist<\/h3>\n
Imagine a lefty billionaire telling you the greatest threat to humanity is artificial general intelligence. This out-of-control computer system will be so smart, he says, it\u2019ll outdo our brightest nerds by orders of magnitude. It\u2019ll be here any day now. On the upside, this moneybags has a plan to save humanity.<\/p>\n
On the downside, his salvation means plugging your skull with computer chips, each one strung with a thousand hair-thin wires that slide into your gray matter. The billionaire tells you this dome-jack will augment your puny human intelligence. Otherwise, you risk becoming a house pet to the Super Computer God that he\u2019s trying to develop.<\/p>\n
You joke that you don\u2019t believe in God, and he tells you he doesn\u2019t either, except he\u2019s dead serious. You ask how the world came to be, in all its complexity, and he tells you that we probably live in a\u00a0computer simulation<\/a>\u00a0created by invisible beings. So don\u2019t stress out. Just take the chip.<\/p>\n You tell him you can\u2019t afford a good chip because his automated systems took most of the decent jobs, from manual labor to office work. You used to be a truck driver, you explain, before his autonomous semis took over the highway.<\/p>\n He says don\u2019t stress out. You\u2019ll get a universal basic income. He\u2019ll lobby for it.\u00a0You\u2019ll own nothing, and you\u2019ll be happy<\/a>\u2014on a dying planet. Meanwhile, he\u2019ll be flying to Mars in a penis-shaped rocket.<\/p>\n Any sane person would explode with rage.<\/p>\n Yet no matter how many times Elon Musk says this stuff, lefties only care about his mean tweets. And across the aisle, there are guys who love his tweets so much, they\u2019d implant a Neuralink chip just to \u201clike\u201d them all simultaneously.<\/p>\n Musk\u2019s Megaphone Has an Echo<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to get a read on Elon Musk. When he speaks in public, his demeanor is so awkward, many don\u2019t take him seriously. I think we should take him very seriously. His philosophy may seem foolish, but he\u2019s no fool.<\/p>\n Outside of interviews, Musk\u2019s loudest megaphone is Twitter. The man knows how to fire off a viral tweet. Last week, he got nearly half a million \u201clikes\u201d for tweeting, \u201cCanadian truckers rule<\/a>\u201d\u2014as if they\u2019d still rule after Tesla\u2019s autonomous trucks put them out of a job.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n