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☆ These 3 science fiction stories inspired Elon Musk and explain his business choices — but critics say he's missing the point
  + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
These stories' focus on great men and amazing technology defying the rules could explain his business choices. Elon Musk is one of the most divisive tech and business personas of our time, and there is much chatter about what shapes his beliefs and business choices. Beyond these, however, a consistent source of influence from his childhood to today is his self-professed love of science fiction. "That is Musk's guide for living, yet he is using that guide to justify doing the very thing that the story is opposed to," she added. Elon Musk loves "Deus Ex" and its cyberpunk styleElon Musk appears to be a huge fan of the 2000 science fiction video game, "Deus Ex."
Persons: Elon Musk, Isaac Asimov's, Douglas Adams, he's, dystopias, Napoleon, William MacAskill, Walter Isaacson, Musk, xAI Douglas Adams, —, Adams, Jill Lepore, it's, Hari Seldon, Jonny Diamond, takeaways, JC Denton Organizations: SpaceX, Guardian Locations: South Africa
☆ 'If it blows up, it's cool': The far-out philosophy that explains why Elon Musk won't let a few baby sea turtles stop SpaceX's quest to get to Mars
  + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +25 min
In the case of Elon Musk v. Charismatic Megafauna, the agency intends to publish its final report in late April. Musk went on: "Either explicitly or implicitly some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth's surface. Musk is talking about existential risk, the idea that something — an asteroid, a rogue artificial intelligence — might kill every human on Earth. And if you assume that future human minds will "mainly be implemented in computational hardware instead of biological neuronal wetware," as Bostrom does, you end up with a mind-boggling 1054 human lives. Musk has made the defense of "future life" his mission.
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