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Jawwwn @jawwwn_ · 18h: "Peter Thiel: "2024 is the year @elonmusk stopped believing in Mars" "There was a conversation I had with Elon in 2024— if Trump doesn't win, I want to just leave the country." "Elon said, 'there's nowhere to go.'" "In 2024, Elon came to believe that if you went to Mars, the socialist US government, the woke AI, it would follow you to Mars." "It was the @demishassabis meeting— Demis tells Elon, 'I'm working on the most important project in the world— I'm building a superhuman AI.'" "Elon responds, 'I'm working on the most important project in the world— I'm turning us into interplanetary species.'" "Demis said, 'well, you know my AI will be able to follow you to Mars.'" "Then Elon sort of went quiet." Via @nytimes @DouthatNYT" [Embedded video: NYT Opinion clip, Peter Thiel being interviewed outdoors with palm trees, captioned "The future You can't", 2:38 duration. Engagement: 196 comments, 357 reposts, 4K likes, 1.1M views] Below, partially visible reply: Harlan Stewart @HumanHarlan · 4h: "Elon: I'll colonize mars to prevent our
extinction Demis: Won't work! Superintelligent AI, like the one I'm trying to build, could still make us extinct Elon: Damn good point... I guess I will... now also try to build superintelligent AI that might make us extinct? Yeah"
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Peter Thiel recounts (via NYT Opinion interview) an anecdote about Elon Musk losing faith in Mars colonization as an escape from "woke AI" after Demis Hassabis pointed out superhuman AI would reach Mars too. Notable for AI-and-space-colonization discourse and Thiel/Musk/Hassabis dynamics; relevant to broader AGI-race and AI-governance threads in the archive. Full text of the Harlan Stewart reply (cut off in the previous screenshot), a sardonic paraphrase of the Thiel-relayed Musk/Hassabis Mars-vs-AI exchange, mocking the logic that leads Musk toward building AGI himself (xAI) despite extinction concerns. Continues the same thread as the prior screenshot.
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