"Generally, for quality of life, it's better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong than a pessimist and right."
"We have 9,000 satellites up there and not once have we had to maneuver around an alien spaceship,"
"We need to assume that life and consciousness are extremely rare and it might only be us."
Elon Musk is the richest person on Earth and excels at creating wealth, yet his record predicting the future is inconsistent. Musk has made high-profile, often outlandish forecasts about self-driving cars, space exploration, brain chips, and robotics that have not come to pass. He expresses a general philosophy favoring optimism even when wrong. Musk's companies span autos and robotics (Tesla), space and telecommunications (SpaceX), social media (X), AI (xAI), infrastructure (The Boring Company), and neurotechnology (Neuralink). Public predictions from someone with such industrial reach can move global markets. At Davos, he argued that extraterrestrial life is likely rare and reiterated ambitious timelines for humanoid robots despite development challenges.
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