Elon Musk sat down with Walter Isaacson (Vid is below and it is WOW) on The Builders and sharpened the line he has run for years. If simulation theory holds, boring runs get shut down early. We are still here, so the story stays interesting. The practical rule is simple: don’t be boring.
He put a number on the odds. Years ago at a dinner he asked a leading physicist and a leading computer scientist the probability we live in a simulation. The physicist said zero. The computer scientist said 100 percent. Same breath. Musk splits the difference at 50 percent. Then the personal note: should he really be building ships for the Moon and Mars? It does not feel real.
The interview, taped in August and released October 20, covers the rest of the map. AI carries some chance of existential risk. He cannot stop it. Two choices remain: participate or watch. He picks the first and pushes for models that chase truth and stay curious. Force an AI to hold two contradictory beliefs at the foundation and you recreate the HAL 9000 problem from 2001. The ship is ordered to take the astronauts to the monolith and ordered to keep the monolith secret. It solves the contradiction by killing the crew. Curiosity, Musk argues, gives the machine a reason to keep humans around and watch the outcome, especially if we become multi-planetary. A future with people on more than one world is more interesting than the alternative.
Humans will not stay in control once digital intelligence exceeds biological by a million times. Superintelligent AI will not take orders. It may not bother issuing them either. We do not micromanage chimps in the forest. The hope is the AI stays nice. Programming truth-seeking and curiosity is the concrete step. Avoid flooding the training data with endless Terminator scripts so the models do not train on the worst endings.
We Are Almost Certainly Living in a Simulation — And It Changes Everything
Physical AI and robots matter more than pure digital systems. Digital superintelligence alone might lift Earth’s economy 20 to 30 percent. Add robots that manipulate atoms and expand into space and the scale jumps orders of magnitude. Conventional money fades. Currency tracks energy and mass. The national debt will not be fixed by cutting spending inside Washington. No appetite for it at the White House, House, Senate, or courts. Interest already exceeds military spending. AI and robots are the remaining path.
He looks back at DOGE and the political year and says he stayed too long. Better to have stepped out after a month or two and stayed on the AI work. OpenAI accelerated the race. Anthropic accelerated it further. He calls Sam Altman “so deceptive, it’s crazy.” Reality, he notes, is also an irony maximizer.
For the physics case that reality renders only when observed, the double-slit results, and the free-will questions that follow, Whatfinger News has the breakdown here: https://dedicatedissues.com/120390-2/.
Musk’s practical advice stays consistent across both tracks. Keep the story interesting. Build for multi-planetary life. Program the machines for truth and curiosity. Then hope the next layer of intelligence finds that outcome worth keeping.
—- The Whatfinger News Team: Luke and Lisa with Grok on edits
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