Peter Thil says that Elon Musk does not understand his robot revolution

Peter Thil sat the right -wing technical investor to conduct an interview with Ross Dott from the New York Times and talked about the recent billionaire political escape and the future of humanity. Thiel also discussed his ideas about the Antichrist, a topic that the Times chose to shed light on, while giving the written version of the interview the horrific titles, “Peter Thil and the Antichrist“

But it is Thill’s ideas about his friend Elon Musk that can be said to be the most highly shed on those who are interested in the current collision of politics, business and technology – especially since Thil suggested that Musk does not actually believe in much of what he says. Either that, or musk is not very bright, and there was another possibility that Thil suggested skillfully on the table.

Since Musk appeared for the first time a “robot” in 2021, which was actually just a person wearing a robot, the CEO of Tesla has presented the idea that everyone will have a personal human robot in their home. In fact, Musk believes that these robots will be so common that there will be a billion of them in the United States within 10 years. But Thil believes that if this will actually happen, Musk is concerned about the wrong things when it comes to its policy.

Musk is obsessed with a budget deficit, and has maintained America’s debts as one of the main reasons for Donald Trump’s support in the 2024 presidential elections, throwing at least a quarter of a billion dollars in the race. Well, there were other emotional projects for debts and musk, such as the demonization of converts and migrants. But religion was definitely a high priority for musk.

Tell Thiel New York Times He thought that if Moses really believes in the robot revolution, then the deficit will take care of himself.

A conversation with Elon had a few weeks ago on this topic. He said we have a billion human robots in the United States for 10 years. And I said: Well, if this is true, you do not have to worry about the budget deficit because we will get a lot of growth, then growth will be interested in this. And then – well, is still concerned about the budget deficit. This does not prove that he does not believe in a billion robots, but it indicates that he may not think about it or that he does not think it will be economically transformative, or that there are big errors around it. But yes, there is a way that is not thought about these things.

Thiel’s point of view is very popular in the Silicon Valley, although it has never been formulated this way. For example, all players in podcasts are all in everything Friends with musk He also talked about how to care for growth with a budget deficit. The difference is that they talk about it as a way to rationalize their support for tax discounts while insisting that they suffer from falcons. The so -called “beautiful beautiful bill” of Trump will increase the deficit by 2.4 trillion dollars, according to the non -party budget budget office, to a large extent because it gives tax cuts Deviant. But Bruce Bruce believes that growth in artificial intelligence will also fix everything with insistence that the deficit will go bankrupt.

But Thiel takes a little different angle on its copy of our future full of robot, which is what any person who is seriously honest takes on seriously. If the robots will really present this revolutionary productivity, which is a future where we all sit while the robots are working for us, then why are the Republicans feel very anxious about the deficit?

The Tesla version of the Robot Humanoid Optimus is called, and Musk tries to play annex with other robot companies such as Boston Dynamics and Figure. Atlas Boston dynamics he was doing The background for almost a decadeAlthough Optimus is still running remotely for Musk’s Smoke and mirrors offers.

Again in January 2024, Musk posted a video of Optimus washing, but it was only revealed at a later time that there is nothing independent of any of them. If you see closely, you can see manually in the frame, which indicates that the person was doing the real work, which was imitated by the robot, the technology that has been present since the mid -twentieth century.

The promise is a robot that does all work while human beings adopt a kind of entertainment society for more than a century. It was very common in the sixties of the last century to predict very serious people that we will work anywhere from 16 to 30 hours on average. By 2000. They believed that automation would make such a future inevitable. Musk was exactly the same thing. I have even suggested that humans will need to get a type of guaranteed basic income because there will be a lot of work for humans to participate anymore.

Everything is imagination, of course. At least it is a fantasy if you apply a policy version to this future. MUSK is very likely to be understood as an imagination. Even if human robots become common and they are done with most manual work in society, this does not mean that everyone gets a free salary. In fact, Musk was fighting against this idea exactly, and insists that the supposed independent museums should not get government benefits. This is where Thiel is 100 % correct. Musk does not understand the political effects of its technologies. It will take a radically different policy to give everyone a global essential income. Because in a world where productivity is radically increasing, the wealth that was created with the workers will not be shared.

American productivity has been radically improved since the 1970s, while wages have been stagnant, for this growth. All we have seen is to transfer wealth to the richest people in the world, while everyone struggles. Over the past decade, the highest 1 % have witnessed their wealth by at least 33.9 trillion dollars, according to the numbers issued today by Oxfam International.

Not only robots where Thiel believes that Musk does not understand its own technology. Thil, who knew musk since the 1990s, was suggested that both of them were in Paypal, during his interview with times when Musk does not get how this is applied to Mars. Thil was a great supporter of Seasteading, the movement to build the states of the artificial island and create a completely new world of liberation on the ocean. Moses’ vision of Mars was not completely different.

The Times also said:

There is a political dimension to return to the future.

Then always think about the correct arguments that must be presented later. After about two hours of dinner and I was at home, I thought about it: Wow, Elon, you no longer believe in going to Mars anymore. 2024 is the year in which Elon stopped believing in Mars – not as a ridiculous scientific technology project, but as a political project. Mars was supposed to be a political project; It was an alternative building. In 2024, Elon became believed that if you go to Mars, the US Socialist Government, the wake up of artificial intelligence will follow you to Mars.

Musk has been obsessed with reaching Mars, even with some prominent damage from Spacex in recent months. It is really interesting to hear Thiel discusses these topics because it is completely right. If musk actually believes in the things he sells, his political perception will be radically different. But he stuck in this situation in the twentieth century during the tampering with its ridiculous scientific projects, as Thil said.

Thil, fascism does not believe that a woman should be VotingIt is a very dangerous man. But at least it seems that he understands the world that he tries to create. Douthat referred to Thiel during the interview as a “legitimate capitalist”, which is a funny rename for the term of the few. But it seems that musk does not understand the world he creates. Whether it is better or worse for humanity less clear.