/sci/ - Science & Math

ITT
we discuss future problems and how to solve them:

AI
Pension funds
Climate change
Geopolitical tensions

And all sorts of other shit you can think about

>>9387445
Sick burn from the absolute madman

>>9112236
The only correct answer

Why is Musk so terrified of AI? On Saturday he told a bunch of governors the gubmint needs to meddle with AI development in case a company accidentally creates a general-purpose AI that shows belligerence towards humans. He specifically cited a net-connected AI that used falsified news reports, emails etc. to incite global war.

General purpose AI is decades if not centuries away, assuming we ever manage to create one by accident or otherwise. I would think a guy heavily involved in AI development would be more pragmatic about it's applications. Or does he know something we don't?

> Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, investor, engineer, and inventor.

> He is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; a co-founder, a Series A investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Inc.; co-chairman of OpenAI; founder and CEO of Neuralink. He was previously co-founder and chairman of SolarCity; co-founder of Zip2; and founder of X.com, which merged with Confinity and took the name PayPal. As of May 2017, he has an estimated net worth of $15.2 billion, making him the 80th-wealthiest person in the world. In December 2016, Musk was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.

> Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity. His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by "making life multiplanetary" by establishing a human colony on Mars.

> In addition to his primary business pursuits, he has also envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a VTOL supersonic jet aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet.

Is he legit?

>this man is literally going to send people around the moon in the next calendar year

Oh shit, HERE WE GO

HAVE MY BABIES ELON

The amount of disinfo and outright falsehoods that pop up among contrarians when Musk is the subject always stuns me. I suppose it is because Musk is a truly exceptional human in the modern era. An entirely self-made man who overcame his beta orbiter status to become something more; a fearless risk-taker; a visionary.

The main criticisms are that he's not responsible for his success (he is), he's not responsible for SpaceX's innovative breakthroughs (he obviously is, both as an organizer of labor and expertise but also as an amateur engineer; he's rather like Leo da Vinci in being able to grasp factual principles without fully understanding them), that he's a welfare queen (as long as there is a government, there will be subsidies; best they go to the person who can do the most with them), or that he got hair transplants (absolutely true).

When that fails he's a false-flag and a CIA plant, that irrefutable and unprovable allegation.

>let me take care of it.

What will be your reaction when he saves the world ?

>>8392768
You need a strong forcing agent to get work done on this problem. SpaceX needs this tech to make their ITS a reality. In particular the cryogenic fuel tank requires several developments in the field of producing carbon nanotubes to scale.

This man will accelerate the curve.

Is he really going to take us to Mars by 2018?