The rough conversation was Demis telling Elon: I’m working on the most important project in the world. I’m building a superhuman A.I.
And Elon responds to Demis: Well, I’m working on the most important project in the world. I am turning us into interplanetary species.
And then Demis said: Well, you know my A.I. will be able to follow you to Mars.
And then Elon sort of went quiet…
Thiel himself sums up this meeting of the minds: “It was the dumbest meeting with Elon that we sort of brokered.”
Proclamation in the shade
I’m not the only one to raise this question about the Pope’s encyclical, of course.
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